Murder Cycle

Every so often... social circles need to be revised.

This is not done cavalierly.

If you cut one person out of a larger social circle, it affects a lot of other people. There is a blast radius. You have to be prepared to not see a lot of other people—people who you like, people who have not wronged you—as often as you might like. Cutting out more than one person in the same social circle just compounds the blast radius. You have to be really certain that it's worth the casualties.

You are not drawing a line in the sand and telling your friends, "It's THEM or ME!"

You are simply saying, "I choose not to be around these individuals. And they know why. And you know why."

You actually get kind of a bum deal out of the situation because the scumbags will probably keep going to the parties you're no longer going to.

Why would you do this, then?

Because forgiveness is fucking overrated.

I've got a great deal of patience but when I've run out, it's over.

You piss on my generosity, you disrespect me, you're on my permanent fucking shitlist.

Here's to what turned out to be the shittiest New Year's Eve party I ever helped organize. We had some laughs along the way, I guess. I've given you a lot, haven't I? And now I just don't need you in my fucking life.


2011. We start over. We try something new.

(P.S. Happy birthday to Nick Gaffney today!!! Nick's not on my shitlist! Happy birthday, buddy!)