#makeitfinewith49

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why 49

"Make It Fine with Forty Nine"

Uhh Yeah Dude is a comedy podcast produced by Seth Romatelli and Jonathan Laroquette. It is a weekly round-up of relevant topics in the news and media. It is a loving and sardonic dip into the American zeitgeist. Seth and Jon live and work in the metro-Los Angeles area, and their podcast saved my life.

This is not a post about UYD. The number "49" came to this author initially while listening to UYD in 2009. One of Seth and Jon's earliest campaigns involved a reverse-secession from Florida. Sever the gangrenous appendage that this state has come to represent. Mebbe even jamming Puerto Rico up in where we extricated Florida. The "Make It Fine with Forty Nine" push was best supported by a regular segment , "This Week in Florida", during which Seth would give the listeners the finest Florida's news week had to offer. It was crazy-town.

That is partial inspiration for the blog. This writer has music/art blog called Fine With Five. The thought there is to strip Connecticut of its New England status. It's a whole thing. Simply put, Connecticut does not maintain enough of the character or soul that this writer demands of his New England states.

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At their core, most blogs devolve into the evaluation of things. List it, rate it, trash it, rave on it, share it, like it. There is a throbbing review-culture that has sprouted alongside the internet. We all have very important opinions, and as it happens, some of them are almost worth the energy expended in broadcasting them. This blog is most likely going to slip in there somewhere.

Like Seth and Jonathan, I am wildly in love with America: the land, the people, the culture, the arts, the food, the history. Surely each generation looks around and marvels as to where they are at, especially compared to their predecessors. Being an American now, here, with the blessings to indulge in as many facets as possible: un-fucking-believable. I want to write about that. I think I want to write a lot. Inconsolable gratitude.

So, perhaps 51 would make an equally apropos title. The digits are crummy though. 49. 49 is good. It leaves you wanting more, just one more.