In my opinion, it began a couple days ago when I made some kids and their parents laugh while signing Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” song at Lowe’s. But as per the Midwest tradition, Memorial Day weekend is the kickoff. School is usually over at every level. The pools open even though it’s still too cold in the mornings. Movie theaters bring back matinees. No worries about truant officers at the arcades!
Popular media has been promoting some silliness about hot girl or hot boy or whatever Summer. Given how cooped up everybody was last Summer, I’m not surprised there’s a lot of horndog attitudes. I was young several decades ago too. I was lucky enough to not get stuck in a pandemic, just lived with constant fear of a nuclear holocaust because a senile, crappy actor could press the button.
The hard part is dealing with all the anti-vaxxers who are even worse than they were last year. I knew I could always count on the GOP to fuel their idiocy. The’ve always been the party of rich people and bullies since the Gilded Age; Eisenhower only gave them a brief respite of rationality for eight years. So I’m planning on a few shows getting derailed by these MAGAts causing a couple CV-19 outbreaks in Texas; Science? Not on my god! The state motto devised by local comedian Mac Blake. Still, this Summer will be a thousand times better than 2020!