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\u201cHey! I threw up in my mouth!\u201d (Christopher Walken in The Good Guys<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep America green. Plant oregano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My dermatologist said I needed to exfoliate my skin. I have a friend who is a crop duster who defoliates crops. I thought, \u201cHey. There\u2019s only one letter difference between the two,\u201d so I got nekkid, stood out in a cotton field and he defoliated my skin. Now I don\u2019t have any boll weevils in my body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn\u2019t do nothin\u2019 this morning but b*ng my girl and eat some Cocoa Puffs. (NYPD Blue<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do whatever it takes to get you through\uff0dGod, a Snicker\u2019s bar, or whatever will get you through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Herefur: \u201cI am here for her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you let evil into your home it brings the rest of its family along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When silence becomes a family inheritance\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christian war mongers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Astral. Ass trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.\u201d J. Paul Getty<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m selectively codependent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lord of the bad knees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lies we tell Dracula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I could stand to raise my cholesterol a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where do you put your hate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tongue has no bones, but it crushes just the same. (The Forgiven<\/em>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n My heart\u2019s in bad shape. They tell me I have to have a triple overpass. (Hill St. Blues) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Unjudge someone yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My DNA is written in Comic Sans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do people know when you\u2019re texting them from the toilet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n My face is an invitation to rejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your teeth look like they\u2019re going through a divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m somewhere between hope and despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026and that\u2019s the View Beyond The Balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board Certified Telemental Health Provider, Certified Shamanic Life Coach, ordained minister, singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. He gets a real kick out of wordplay, so much so that sometimes his friends have to say, \u201cNo mas! No mas!\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For those of you who haven\u2019t followed this series over the past eight years (shame on you!), what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":155624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11902],"tags":[5,19614,4,10286,3,33770,753],"class_list":["post-164607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-randy-weeks","tag-mississippi","tag-notes-in-my-phone","tag-oxford","tag-randy-weeks","tag-the-local-voice","tag-the-view-beyond-the-balcony","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-RandyWeeks-BeyondtheBalcony-1200.jpg?fit=1200%2C670&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164609,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164607\/revisions\/164609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"