Lay down with dogs, catch a FLEA
An idiotic rock-star tweet gets my goat. Either I have a point or I'm exceedingly uptight. Or both.
You know those signs on people’s lawns that have a drawing of a dog squatting, with a circle and a line through them? Every time I walk by one of those, I feel like the person who owns the lawn ended up basically doing the same thing to my thoughts as what they’re asking people with dogs not to do to their lawn. So, I hate to do this to you, but by sharing the tweet above from Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, I feel like the person who puts the lawn sign up and subjects every passerby to the mental image of a dog shitting. Sorry!
Before I share my response to the tweet, let me say:
That first reply up-top is pretty priceless.
I know, I know: I’m ASKING for someone to respond with “looks like someone needs to loosen THEIR butthole!”
I don’t blame you if you’re thinking Only an unhappy person would bother to give a silly tweet like that any attention but I swear I’m having a fantastic day — not just enjoyable, but profoundly fulfilling on multiple levels.
Well, why not just unfollow or mute? At first I was like “How the hell did this tweet even end up on my feed?” And then I realized I was following Flea. Management regrets the error.
It’s a bit unfair because Flea is a bit of an easy/soft target. I would never use this tone to address any number of public figures who’d snap my neck in half for saying something like this to them. Still, it needed to be said. (I still think Blood Sugar Sex Magik is a classic.)
Seriously, STOP indulging musicians and artists. It’s bad for them and bad for us all. If you know an artist, DO YOUR PART TO KEEP THEM TETHERED TO THE EARTH — I mean, I don’t necessarily it serves anyone to keep creative people’s feet on the ground by keeping them anchored to our mire of “practical” concerns, but it isn’t good to allow them to go floating off into space either.
UPDATE: maybe keeping each other “tethered” means we nudge people not to respond to rock-star tweets!
<3 SRK