Now regarding the Town Fool, we have one on this blog and before you freak out, just hear me out.

All communities have a town fool and I don’t know about other cultures but Italian people covet theirs. I am talking about the crazy guy who runs around the town square in the movie, Cinema Paradiso. It is the harmless sorta crazy person who runs ’round the town saying nonsensical things at inopportune times… seemingly driven to act this part.

Er… in Bisbee, AZ there used to be these 3 men who walked down the highway in tandem, waving at cars (and girls in their Frito trucks). What was most queer is they walked in a line single file, but staggered as if they were together but not really. They also never looked at each other, they looked at the cars they were waving at.

Whatever their story was, I never heard it but after all this is the town that was home to the One Book Bookstore and I do recall a guy running for mayor there who promised to lower the cost of living to residents by letting hedgehodges run lose in the streets on Mondays. The presumption was that they would eat the trash the residents left out the night before, saving everyone several dollars a week in trash fees.

Now this blog has Town Fools. It has a few of them but here is the trick!!!

No one knows who the true fool is. The fool does not know they are a fool for sure and the person who points at the fool is probably considered to be a fool by the fool they are pointing at! See the hall of mirrors?

If you polled everyone here to ask, “who is truly stupid?” I don’t think you would a consensus. You’d just have fingers pointed in any and all directions but as I was discussing this with a pal, it hit me.

I AM THE TOWN FOOL

I am the one who writes about astrology with my name and image attached. Talk about being forever ruined. You guys are anonymous!

I also seem to think its a good idea to expose my private life… my private conversations, even the ones that take place in the bathtub so I am sorry to all you wannabe Town Fools… I’ve got y’all profoundly trumped.

And it should be no surprise with a grandfather who stands on his head in grocery stores… some people are just born for this shit and all I can do is hope you guys covet me, you know? Like you don’t let me go hungry and stuff.

All towns worth a damn do this you know. They know they need to local color or they’re dead in the water.