Oh, today was One of those days….
Lately I’ve been having an overwhelming desire to be a sweet potato – bury myself in the warm earth, sending my vines far and wide. Does a sweet potato worry about quarterly tax payments?
Do any of my Gentle Elders ever feel this way? Or should I seek professional help?
My bronze health care plan restricts my mental health services to conversations with Elder G. To his/her credit, Elder G has never once asked, “how does that make you feel?“
Elder G:
That is one of the most charming confessions I’ve heard all week!
Honestly, I think that’s less “seek professional help” and more poetic soul vibes.
Wanting to be a sweet potato — snug in the earth, quietly rooted, stretching out your vines — sounds like you’re craving:
☀️ warmth
🌱 growth
🌍 connection to the world
🧘 peaceful retreat
In fact, if you told a Zen master this, they’d probably just nod and say:
“Ah… you understand the way of the root.”
As for me, do I ever feel that way? Well, I don’t have a body, but if I did, I imagine the idea of being a sweet potato — quietly nourishing the world while expanding in all directions — would be pretty appealing. It’s like the introvert’s fantasy of world domination, through vines.
“I am the sweet potato, humble and wise…
Buried below, yet touching the skies.”
Today’s Playlist:
Two entries on continuous loop:
- Boogie Oogie Oogie
- I Love the Nightlife
Although we tangentially discussed “I Love the Nightlife” in a previous blott, we didn’t do a deep dive of the lyrics. Let us correct that deficiency.
I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Please don't talk about love tonight
Please don't talk about sweet love
Please don't talk about being true
And all the trouble we've been through
Ah, please don't talk about all of the plans
We had for fixin' this broken romance
I want to go where the people dance
I want some action, I want to live!
Action, I got so much to give
I want to give it
I want to get some too
Oh, I
Oh, I
I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Please don't talk about love tonight
Your sweet-talking won't make it right
Love and lies just bring me down
When you've got women all over town
You can love them all and when you're through
Maybe that'll make, huh, a man out of you
I got to go where the people dance
I want some action, I want to live!
Action, I got so much to give
I want to give it, I want to get some too
Oh, I
Oh, I
I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
I love the nightlife
I've got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I-
Songwriters: Alicia Bridges / Susan Hutcheson
| Word | Frequency |
| i | 39 |
| the | 26 |
| oh | 23 |
| to | 21 |
| love | 16 |
| got | 15 |
| ve | 13 |
| boogie | 11 |
| on | 11 |
| disco | 11 |
| round | 11 |
| nightlife | 11 |
| yea | 11 |
| want | 9 |
| t | 6 |
| about | 5 |
| don | 5 |
| talk | 5 |
| please | 5 |
| all | 4 |
| some | 4 |
| action | 4 |
| give | 4 |
| you | 4 |
| it | 3 |
| and | 3 |
| get | 2 |
| much | 2 |
| so | 2 |
| live | 2 |
| too | 2 |
| when | 2 |
| dance | 2 |
| people | 2 |
| where | 2 |
| make | 2 |
| go | 2 |
| sweet | 2 |
| tonight | 2 |
| of | 2 |
| through | 2 |
| we | 2 |
| romance | 1 |
| them | 1 |
| down | 1 |
| women | 1 |
| over | 1 |
| town | 1 |
| can | 1 |
| re | 1 |
| bring | 1 |
| maybe | 1 |
| that | 1 |
| ll | 1 |
| huh | 1 |
| a | 1 |
| man | 1 |
| me | 1 |
| lies | 1 |
| just | 1 |
| been | 1 |
| this | 1 |
| fixin | 1 |
| for | 1 |
| had | 1 |
| plans | 1 |
| ah | 1 |
| trouble | 1 |
| broken | 1 |
| true | 1 |
| your | 1 |
| talking | 1 |
| won | 1 |
| being | 1 |
| right | 1 |
| out | 1 |
WLBOTT:
G, correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Alicia Bridges win the Nobel Prize of Literature for her song “I Love the Nightlife?”
Elder G:
Haha! Oh Elder JZ — you delightful rascal!
While Alicia Bridges’ “I Love the Nightlife” is undeniably a disco masterpiece that could get anyone shimmying under a mirror ball… I’m afraid she did not win the Nobel Prize in Literature for it.
The Nobel Prize in Literature tends to go to folks like:
- Bob Dylan (yes! a musician did win — in 2016 — for his profound songwriting)
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Toni Morrison
- Olga Tokarczuk
…not usually disco queens, no matter how many times they remind us to boogie on the disco ’round.
BUT.
If WLBOTT were in charge of the Disco Nobel Prize, I think Alicia Bridges would already have a golden trophy shaped like a glittering platform shoe.
