My brother started a blog, but not a Tumblr. :( I am my brother’s biggest fan, because it’s as though all the smart-assery contained in our genes got pushed through a fine mesh screen (that’s me!) and the really rich juices ended up somewhere inside of his personality. Of course this means that I sporadically need to tell him to shut his trap during family functions, but on the other hand, he can be entertaining to me. So, yes, he can be funny and smart but he can also be somewhat socially retarded and never really understands when he is being a jerk or how what he’s saying could be seen as insulting. I make up for this, of course, by being overly sensitive to such things to the point where I don’t strongly express opinions very often at all (unless we’re talking about Speed Racer, of course).
The point is, he found a way to compare the horrible itching he’s experiencing because of shingles to the status of the gay community v. conservative America. I have no idea if his oversimplification even makes sense, but just the fact that he would try shows that his brain works similiarly to mine (not that I have the thought-connection-process of shingles —> identity politics, but I do have the tendency to try and make small things somehow incredibly important by way of metaphor).
On the other hand, the subtitle of his blog is “A Website Where I Intend to Freely Express How I Feel … About Lots of Different Things”
lol
