Okay, he hasn't been the president since I was two years old. He died December 26th. It's January 2nd; someone wanna explain to me why the fuck mail ain't running until tomorrow?
I got a movie order, an ebay order, and some books I ordered from Books-a-Million online due any day now, except Gerald Ford went and died seven fucking days ago, so he's gotta go on Presidential Funeral Tour '07, meaning his rapidly decaying body now has to touch ground on every solemn site that Ford touched when he was alive. Damn, they didn't shut down the world when Reagan died, or Nixon, for Christ's sake. It was just Gerald Ford, the relief pitcher of presidential acclaim.
I mean, I'm not saying that Ford's life is less important than that copy of "My Tank Is Fight" I'm waiting on. I'm just surprised that the death of the president is handled the way it is, like a national tragedy, while they still haven't found who killed Tupac & Biggie. Fucking Gerald Ford can't rap!
This is why I'm getting cremated; you get put in the flames, crackle-crackle-crackle, which is a bit of a shock if you aren't quite dead, but it's quick.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
How Gerald Ford fucked with me today
3 comments:
I agree. I expected the usual overwrought media coverage, but shutting the postal service down for the day is just extravagant, unneccessary and inexplicable. I can see if the current president dies having federal services closed for a day, but it's not like every postal worker in the country is making a pilgrimage to D.C. to pay their last respects.
Also, I sent you a second email. Let me know if you got it.
Yes, I certainly did. Thanks for that.
June 11, 2004 was the national day of mourning for Ronald Reagan. They have had national days of mourning for every president to die since JFK, so it isn't unprecedented.
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