adele dazeem and chris gaines present: episode 2

we accept the flops we think we deserve / blogmas day 10

when i finally gave into peer pressure from my friend to start a substack three years ago, i never planned on it being read by anyone i had not forced to watch about time while i stared at them to make sure they were enjoying it as much as they should be. i think that overwhelms me mostly, especially because i have mostly lost interest in my lifelong passion of minding the business of the sometimes rich and fleetingly famous.

i grew up in about as deep south as it gets, where the bible belt was fastened to the tightest peg. in college, one of the pastors who goes around knocking people out told me that i have the gift of david. my boyfriend at the time told me that i should take a music class. not sure the history of rock’n’roll or continuing dragging my friends to karaoke twice a week was what either of them had in my mind. nevertheless! even charlatans know that i love music. in a deeper and different way than most people, even…