{"id":45,"date":"2004-04-09T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-04-25T01:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:50:22","slug":"the-perfect-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/font> (11:33:11 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I was thinking I might take Taylor with me when I travel, and make sure he’s in every shot.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:33:33 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Who’s Taylor?<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:33:38 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>My sock monkey.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:33:42 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Excellent.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:33:46 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>He usually resides in the middle theater seat.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:33:51 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Sock monkeys are and underserved theme, for sure.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:35:30 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I daresay.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:35:53 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>There was a photographer in the 80s who used a red couch.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:00 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Unwieldy. Stick to the sock monkey.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:13 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Well, yeah.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:17 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Of course, if you could find that guy and his couch, a good picture would be the sock monkey on the couch.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:34 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>But the great thing about this guy was that his photos were all landscapes of remote, inaccessible locations.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:46 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>But the couch would be there in the middle of it all.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:50 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>How did he access them?<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:37:55 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>If they were inaccessible?<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:38:00 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Aircraft, I think.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:38:06 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Ah.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:38:11 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>And the couch was helicoptered in.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:38:36 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I think you should helicopter your sock money in somewhere. <\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:38:48 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Just so you can say "I’m waiting for my sock monkey to be helicoptered in."<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:39:02 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>That’s your answer to everything.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:39:22 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>"Why isn’t this project done yet, Mr. Lucas?"<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:39:40 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I’m waiting for my sock monkey to be helicoptered in, sir.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:40:02 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>And there’s no argument that can rebut that.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:40:10 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>No, there isn’t.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:40:20 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>I may never do a lick of work again.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:40:31 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Because, let’s face it, that sock monkey is NEVER going to be helicoptered in.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:41:47 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>True dat.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:42:01 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>They don’t even make the harness that would carry him.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:42:47 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>And you need a good harness, because, dear god, what if he fell.<\/font>
<\/span><\/font> (11:46:29 AM)<\/b><\/font>:<\/font> <\/font>Nations would fall with him, I tell you what!<\/font>
<\/span><\/p>\n

So, take note folks. The perfect excuse is “I’m waiting for my sock monkey to be helicoptered in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(11:33:11 AM): I was thinking I might take Taylor with me when I travel, and make sure he’s in every shot. (11:33:33 AM): Who’s Taylor? (11:33:38 AM): My sock monkey. (11:33:42 AM): Excellent. (11:33:46 AM): He usually resides in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-in-the-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}