FUN
REALLY — When’s the last time you had some fun. Real fun! Wild, unconstrained, giggly FUN and I don’t mean a day without news spent entirely in Meta’s cyberspace. I mean real, human-to-human fun.
Given the pandemic has challenged us to rise to a new style and level of interaction, and that we’ve completely failed to take advantage of the COVID-shot-across-the-bow to update our future infrastructure (or almost any infrastructure at all), instead returning to the state of things that set us up for it. Given that despite a 60-year commitment to the United Nations and world peace (except for the Trump years), we’re oddly back in the 1918’s, facing another rise in dictatorial expansion. Given that the protective global economy and mutually-assured-destruction are no longer mediating influences on world governmental behavior. Given that out nation remains run by gambler-“investors” more intent on Wall Street than our nation and it’s citizens. Okay, enough of that. I mean, “Where’s the fun?”
What is fun, anyway? After almost three years of pandemic, I not infrequently find myself trying to recall what fun is and what it feels like. According to Oxford Languages, fun is “enjoyment, amusement, or lighthearted pleasure.” The key word here is pleasure, which, according to the same source, is “a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment,” interestingly qualified as “entertainment rather than business.” For me, enjoying partner-and-friend time, cruising and social dancing have constituted my best, all-time fun. As there have been no cruises or community dances, I have relegated my “fun” to partner-and-friend-time, writing, acting and studio dancing, having authored THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859; and acted in the movies “Static (2021)” — https://ksmediagroupinc.com/the-stati..., “The Maltese Collection (2023)” — https://ksmediagroupinc.com/maltese-c... and “The Perfect Illusion (2023)” — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill.... My dance life and dance partner, Setsuko Tsuchiya and I enjoy dancing for joy three or four times a week together at our local gym studio. Now that the pandemic restrictions appear to be lifting, Setsuko and I would like to dance in another movie like we did in FANTASY ISLAND 1998 – Episode 4 – “Dying to Dance” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYAE..., but this time as featured dancers. Call us Fred and Ginger, it’s our latest idea for some post pandemic fun.
Given the pandemic has challenged us to rise to a new style and level of interaction, and that we’ve completely failed to take advantage of the COVID-shot-across-the-bow to update our future infrastructure (or almost any infrastructure at all), instead returning to the state of things that set us up for it. Given that despite a 60-year commitment to the United Nations and world peace (except for the Trump years), we’re oddly back in the 1918’s, facing another rise in dictatorial expansion. Given that the protective global economy and mutually-assured-destruction are no longer mediating influences on world governmental behavior. Given that out nation remains run by gambler-“investors” more intent on Wall Street than our nation and it’s citizens. Okay, enough of that. I mean, “Where’s the fun?”
What is fun, anyway? After almost three years of pandemic, I not infrequently find myself trying to recall what fun is and what it feels like. According to Oxford Languages, fun is “enjoyment, amusement, or lighthearted pleasure.” The key word here is pleasure, which, according to the same source, is “a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment,” interestingly qualified as “entertainment rather than business.” For me, enjoying partner-and-friend time, cruising and social dancing have constituted my best, all-time fun. As there have been no cruises or community dances, I have relegated my “fun” to partner-and-friend-time, writing, acting and studio dancing, having authored THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859; and acted in the movies “Static (2021)” — https://ksmediagroupinc.com/the-stati..., “The Maltese Collection (2023)” — https://ksmediagroupinc.com/maltese-c... and “The Perfect Illusion (2023)” — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill.... My dance life and dance partner, Setsuko Tsuchiya and I enjoy dancing for joy three or four times a week together at our local gym studio. Now that the pandemic restrictions appear to be lifting, Setsuko and I would like to dance in another movie like we did in FANTASY ISLAND 1998 – Episode 4 – “Dying to Dance” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYAE..., but this time as featured dancers. Call us Fred and Ginger, it’s our latest idea for some post pandemic fun.
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