I wish I could pretend I needed to stop and think about this for even a second — hesitation would give me depth; Kurt a soul; Ram a brain. But get real. I say maybe one in 20 people would say yes to this and half of them are lying. Adults may demur when asked, but a concussed 4-year-old could tell you the truth: being ugly stinks. And being “extremely” ugly stinks shit. People can be cruel and hostile, and they are apt to penalize you for being ugly at work, and what the ugly are selling, they aren’t buying, and while you may have a face only a mother *can* love, she very well *may* not. It’s enough to drive the ugly to crime and — no surprise — it sometimes does! That is, as they say, a lot to deal with. If we were talking many more zeroes, I might consider it, but that sort of abuse hardly seems worth just a million. So no, and no again, to ugly.

P.S. Live Wrong and Prosper will be winding down in the next month or so because of the book coming out and all. We’ve had a good run and I really have to thank all the many awesome Tumblr friends we’ve made. You guys are the shit. I’ll have a link to a new blog in the coming weeks, and I hope you’ll follow me there. Thanks so much, all of you.