I swear I was cool once. Honest. I wouldn’t lie about something like that. I really was cool once. I’m not exactly sure what caused my eventual decline from “Joe Cool” to “Joe Shmoe,” but somewhere along the line I seem to have dropped a few levels on the veritable guitar amp of coolness.

Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten older. Or maybe it’s because cartoons seemingly aren’t as cool in my current demographic as they once were in an earlier and simpler time.  Or maybe I’m still every bit as cool as I used to be and YOU’RE the one that’s changed. Yeah. That must be it. What happened man? You used to be cool. You’ve changed, man. You’ve changed.

Regardless, I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that I am just not as cool as I used to be. It isn’t so bad really. I can still sport awesome shoes and a perfectly quaffed head of hair. I can still woo the ladies with my eloquent charm. I can still invoke the coolness of the Fonz by wearing leather jackets and going “heeeeeeeeeeey!” I can certainly still win “Guess Who?” board game tournaments year after year. And hey, if that isn’t cool, I don’t know what is.

So maybe I’m not as cool as I used to be. Maybe my amps no longer play at 11. But they still play, man. They still play.

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