Saturday, March 26, 2022

HOH Magazine: New Year 2022 Issue

Cover of HOH - The David Magazine. David's face -- wearing glasses and sporting an unkempt beard and whisked mustache -- is photoshopped onto Oprah's head -- hair tied up in a ponytail -- in this O Magazine parody for the January 2017 cover; standing arms wide against the backdrop of the Grand Canyon. Big font on either side of the hips reads LIVE BIG! Under that on the left side is "(Within the confines of your continuing quarantine...)" Up top a headline reads "How the CDC finally became dumber than me - PG. 100" and beneath that, another: "THE GRAND CANYON - Once the weather warms up going outside will feel good" and on a colored square in the lower right corner is "Two years and counting! Fuck all y'all, I'll coop up until YOU fix this mess"

Same year, new me! It's been two years to the Day (St. Patrick's that is) that I started officially quarantining. That's much, much more than eight weeks guys, come on, what's up?

So it's still 2020, and still 2016 as well. I don't make the rules of arrested development, I just serve my time. A lazy, knee-jerk inclination to alter that opening quip to say "same me" was escorted quickly out of my head, because I am still pushing against the ceilings of evermore chrysalis-tine chapels within me, trying slowly but surely to grow and change. Even if the world emphatically doesn't want me to. You will get your David's worth even if you have to choke on it.