PROFANITY* (*as the title of this blog suggests, the subject is the use of curse words as adjectives. if you are offended by curse words, quit reading now.)

Things have been sort of dreary lately, so I thought I would lighten things up with my take on the use of curse words. I really always feel bad when I write a bad word. I guess maybe it looks worse than it sounds. Because, apparently, I cuss a lot. So, hearing words fly from my own mouth doesn't seem to bother me.

I went to get Boy#3 out of bed this morning and he had his blanket and pacifier (yeah, I know. I'll ditch the pacifier when I ditch it), and he looked at me and said, "I'm pissed off at you." Well, Good Morning! I mean, do I pick him up out of bed and put him straight into time out? Where the Hell did he hear that? Oh, right. Me. I'm not going to blame it on tv or another adult or another kid. Yeah. Pissed off sounds like something I probably said yesterday.

On the way to get my medicine this morning, I had my mom's car. It has Sirius radio. I like the channel Lithium. Yes, the irony is not lost on me that the music that "defines my youth" is on a station called lithium. I get it. hahahahaha

First, I heard Rage Against the Machine. I mean, fuck is the main word of that song. And, singing along felt pretty cathartic. They kind of stylistically build up to this crescendo of "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me"s. It felt pretty good to sing along. Mother Fucker.

Then, Pearl Jam's Jeremy came on. Which led me to think about the very best time I've ever had while hearing the word "fuck" being said. I went to Lollapalooza about a million years ago and saw Pearl Jam. Oh, I was waiting for it! Eddie Vedder comes out and starts with Jeremy. He knows we know about Jeremy. He was bullied right down the street from us. And, we know it and we know he killed himself and Eddie Vedder knows it... So, he starts singing. And, he comes to the verse I'm waiting for:

Clearly I remember
Pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little censored
But we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth
And bit the recess lady's breast

He gets to the line "Seemed a harmless little.... FUCK". Because, you know, the word was really sort of just starting to be used consistently in music and I was waiting to hear it! Yeah. Best time ever hearing the word fuck.

Oh, btw. Bullying has been a problem for lots of years. I mean, this was a pretty long time ago and you had a kid offing himself in class because he'd been picked on too much. Seems like we should be catching on by now...