I walked through Annenberg this morning on my way to a meeting, and I glanced at the wall of televisions to catch a glimpse of some political meeting on CNN. Joe Biden was in attendance, and I couldn't help but notice he had a smudge of black shit on his forehead. During the meeting.
I did a double-take. Did nobody else see this? Who let the vice president out like that? He's conducting a meeting with shit all over his face. It looked like he just crawled back to the office after getting jumped in the alley. And nobody was mentioning it.
As I continued walking to my meeting, I passed a real live human being who also had black shit smeared on her forehead. Am I in the twilight zone? Is today National Mine-Your-Own-Coal Day?
After my meeting, I saw another person with black shit on his face -- except this time the black shit was in the shape of a cross. And then I finally got it. Ash Wednesday.
Which brings me to my point: this is the fucking dumbest custom I have ever seen. There are a lot of things about religion that I deem ridiculous, but the Ash Wednesday tradition of smearing shit on your face takes the sugar-free cake (because you gave up sweets for Lent). Do you have any idea how silly Joe Biden looked, dressed nicely in his suit, attending a meeting with government leaders and covered in black paint? He looked like a fucking chimney sweep. He might as well have been wearing clown make-up and squirting the Cabinet with his flower lapel.
There isn't really a point to this rant, except I haven't posted anything in a while and people were beginning to complain at me. So hopefully you weren't looking for something interesting to read, and instead were hoping to just kill some time. If so, mission accomplished. Good job, Max!
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