Blogger extraordinaire Stealth of No Middle Ground Here fame has tagged me with a meme for “3 things you haven’t let go”.  For those of you that are uninformed (such as myself a couple of hours ago) a meme is defined by Webster as:

an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture

So I guess it’s kinda like a virus or super strain of the chain-letter (minus the “your arms will melt off and your cat will be raped if you don’t pass this on to 100 of your friends in 3 days” shit).  I wracked my brain for some time to come up with the magical three… could it be my heightened sense of self-aware awesomeness?  Probably not.  Or maybe my ability to sniff out bull-shit without sensing my own?  Nah.  Oh I know, my ability to piss off people in stellar moods?  Nope.  Possibly my ability to imbibe 78 beers without taking a piss?  Not a chance.  I guess I will have to settle for these three:

1. My Family.  Ok, I know this is pretty fucking lame but I tried to figure out a way to not include them, but it wasn’t happening.  When I talk about my family, I don’t just mean in the traditional nuclear sense of my immediate family or the family I grew up with.  Although they’re the most important of course, and I would walk through fire, a gauntlet of smelly unwashed euro-types, and watch ice-skating for them (ok maybe not ice-skating).  I also mean my family of close friends I’ve collected over the years, even if they do look a bit like a Howard Stern “wack-pack” group photo sometimes.
2. Movies.  I can build a cathedral with all of the DVD’s we own.  In our blood-lust for all things movie and DVD’s I’ve even found a couple of the fuckers that are still shrink-wrapped in the bottom of a box of hundreds of em.  Sometimes I think the old copies of Navy Seals and Porky’s Revengeare gettin it on in our storage closet and make all sorts of DVD babies (like when I find Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Sound of Music, I say “did I buy this shit?, and what’s with the goo?”).  The obsession doesn’t end with DVD’s, it extends to all the cable movie channels and movies in the theater.  Nearly all of our “Date-nights” have a movie involved.
3. My stubborn streak.  I’m too stubborn to be stubborn, Stubborn is billymac.  I don’t give a shit if you’re right or not, I’m not budging unless its my idea.  I CAN be manipulated, just ask my wife or kids or mom or neighbors or small squirrels or vagrants, but I will sure as shit not move until they convince me that I came up with the bright idea.  I’m also too stubborn to admit I’m stubborn, so this isn’t really me typing, it’s some sort of good-looking impostor.

Now in the tradition of the virus… er meme, I will now tag 3 unsuspecting and I’m sure ungrateful folks.  Let’s see, how about these three, because I know it will probably piss them off the most:

1. sadcox
2. hungry mother
3. mimzie

Good luck suckers…. and don’t let your cat get raped or your arms melt off!

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