Compartmentalizations

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Why I Com-part·men·tal·ize

/kəmˌpärtˈmen(t)lˌīz/

verb

1. divide into sections or categories.

   "he had the ability to compartmentalize his life"

2. "The male brain tends to be more efficient to lateralize and compartmentalize, which has the advantage of making him more task-focused. The female brain has more [nerve] connections and constantly cross-signals and takes in more, so it tends to see and feel more than the male brain," Gurian says. Gurian is a dick, says every women he ever dated, except the one who got away.

3. Little boxes on the hillside
   Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
   Little boxes
   Little boxes all the same

   There's a green one and a pink one
   And a blue one and a yellow one
   And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
   And they all look just the same

   And the people in the houses all go to the university
   And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same
   And there's doctors and there's lawyers
   And business executives

   And they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same

   And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
   And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
   And the children go to summer camp
   And then to the university

   And they all get put in boxes, and they all come out the same
   And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family

   And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same
   There's a green one, and a pink one
   And a blue one and a yellow one
   And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
   And they all look just the same. So sayeth Pete Seeger, while eating Chinese takeout, old school Chinese takeout, with fried shrimp rice, chow main, deep fried prawns covered in nuclear red dye pineapple sauce. It came in funny little white boxes with the handles. File under Memories from 1970.

   

4. I was a little too tall, could've used a few pounds
   Tight pants points, hardly renowned
   She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
   And points of her own, sittin' way up high.

   Bob Seger had a self assured smirk, a beard and long hair. Night Moves catalogued his loss of virginity. My loss of virginity happened one night at the house of the one girl I wanted desperately to have sex with, but who was with another guy, so she fixed me up with her lesbian girlfriend, who I kissed and petted all night long, she was wetter than wet. When it finally happened, and looking back it never should have happened, certainly not unprotected, but when it did, it was all over in about 5 seconds. A- for foreplay. F- for sustainability.

5. Two broken Tigers on fire in the night
   Flicker their souls to the wind
   We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
   It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
   At home it will almost be spring
   The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
   Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
   The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down
   And all that I ever was able to see

   the eyes of the city are opening
   Now it's the end of the dream. Al Stewart was not speaking about the current Ukraine Russia proxy war, but an earlier war. It tells the story of the German invasion of Russia during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a Russian soldier. I’ve always remarked on the vocal similarities between Al Stewart and Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys, and longed for a disco backed PSB cover of if this classic.

6. Box to box

   Flipping Dials

   Locks on locks

   All lined up for the Moscow Trials,

   opined a young dense milt in the latter half of his first band AKA’s short scream filled “career suicide,” circa 1980.

7. "Feelings are what women have; they come from their ovaries" -Stan Smith. Stan also said “God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.” Stan Smith is a cartoon Dad, not a white running shoe from Adidas, which is a German athletic shoe company that is not an acronym for All Day I Dream About Sex. Stan Smith, the tennis player, for whom the archetypal white and green show are named for was known for his calendars, and how knees are not very sexy.

   

8. Boys love their lists. It’s just the way the male mind works. We compartmentalize and we make lists. It helps us get through the day.

   I remember an episode of King of the Hill. Hank Hill is Everyman. He works as assistant manager at Strickland Propane. He lives in a ranch-style house with his wife Peggy, his son Bobby, his niece Luanne, and his pet bloodhound Lady Bird. Hank's neighbors are his longtime friends Bill Dauterive, a divorced, bald, overweight military barber and former high school football star; Dale Gribble, a paranoid, pro-gun, anti-government pest exterminator; and Jeff Boomhauer, a charismatic, soft-spoken, often unintelligible bachelor. There was an early episode where Hank talked about his feelings, and how as a man, he dealt with these emotions. He also spoke openly about his narrow urethra.

HANK: Luanne, sometimes life throws you a curve ball. Now there's two ways you can deal with it. You can cry -- and that's the path you've chosen -- or you can not cry.
LUANNE: How do you not cry?
HANK: Well, instead of letting it out, try holding it in. Every time you have a feeling, just stick it into a little pit inside your stomach and never let it out.
LUANNE (trying it): Are you supposed to have a pain under your rib?
HANK: Yes. That's natural. The body doesn't want to swallow its emotions. But now you go ahead and put that pain inside your stomach too.

9. This is sometimes called the “ostrich” syndrome, which is trying to avoid a problem, or deny that it may exist out of fear. One theory suggests that people with repressive personalities, who look calm but hold in a cauldron of painful emotions, are more prone to develop cancer.

   Who knows that OSTRICh is an acronym for OSTRiCh (Optimizing the Surgical Treatment of Rectal Cancer)? OK, let’s unpack that grenade. First, what is the “i”and the “h” standing for? This is just crazy talk. It’s like saying that you will develop heart disease because you hate yourself and think life is a crock of lies made up by a pack of vipers, a convenient conspiracy stacked up against your door, literally coming in the windows…why you’re soaking in it! It’s floating like fluff in the air we breathe. Or we could blame everything on Chinese balloons, Donald Trump, and bad haircuts.

10. Sam: Well, you know what I always say, there are no bad boys, just boys with bad haircuts. Sam being Sam Malone, famous toupee’d Bartender from Cheers.

Can you name this character? Fuck yeah!

THIS IS NOT MUSIC! Is generously funded by 4 very kind people who have paid subscriptions. I thank them for realizing this thing doesn’t write itself. No, there are small children who write this. Small children who live in my cramped mind. Cranking out comic gems. Hey- it’s better than living in a cage at the border.