What I Did While I Had COVID

Quarantine, headaches, chills, and binge watching

8/23/2022 - Tim

America is synonymous with COVID at this point.  I got it after years of avoiding it, and because I was vaccinated and had an omicron variant, it wasn’t as bad as what full force would’ve been.  Don’t get me wrong, it still sucked, I don't recommend it.

I didn’t want to pass it to my wife and kids because I’m not a maniac, but I failed in that because they did eventually get it once I was negative.  That being said, I did all the things in trying to avoid passing it to them.  I stayed locked away in a room and binge watched TV while eating advil like it was candy to try and alleviate the pounding headache that came with this crappy illness.

So what masterpieces did I watch?  Most notably, Stranger Things… Season whatever… The nostalgic shit is dumb.  It’s absolutely everywhere and it’s patronizing bullshit.  The people who know, know Kate Bush was good, I can’t believe that show made her chart again - it really speaks to the state of the music business.  Furthermore I can tell you all the movies they’re referencing, and frankly people should watch those instead.  To the folks who are really into this show and are too young to know the references, this is the equivalent of thinking you’re into the blues because you listened to Led Zepplin or the Rolling Stones or something.  Go to the original.  I did like the nod to Altered States.  That’s about it.

Then I went on a sports kick and watched ESPN’s 30 for 30 about the 1986 Mets - they won the world series that year.  Now some of you might be like “ew sports, no jock talk please” but hear me out.  This was a ragtag team of degenerates in the mid 80s in NYC who loved to party and should not have been winning but they did!  Keith Hernandez even testified to congress or some shit about having done blow.  It was amazing.  These guys were animals, as hedonistic as you can get.  I mean at one point in the documentary they announce that some of the players had been arrested at a fine Long Island establishment called… “Cooters”.  Now, call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure that’s not going to be the upper echelon of nightlife in New York, and I would even go so far as to say, without knowing the place, that they were probably pretty permissive at Cooters.  So just imagine what kind of insanity you have to be getting into to not only get thrown out, but to get arrested at that fine establishment.  This brings me to another point. Think about the kind of greaseball guinea scumbag only found in New York that buys a nightclub and says “I know what to call this joint… Cooters”.  You got that guy in your mind? Yeah, these are the idiots I grew up around.  Meanwhile, in the documentary the Mets then won the 1986 world series.

So those are the things I occupied my time thinking about and watching while quarantining with COVID.