My Effin' Life

Look, I can be magnanimous. But I can also be petty. Today I'm petty.

This is a very good memoir that is thorough and well written and at times poignant. But I have one major gripe that I recognize is extremely pedantic, unfortunately it bothered me and I cannot be anything other than what I am.

Geddy named this book My EFFIN' Life. Ya know, fuckin. And throughout the whole book, he keeps saying “that would be EFFIN cool” and “I'm not EFFING playing” and “it was seriously EFFIN weird” etc etc etc. This already bothered me, you're a fully grown man who is talking about doing cocaine and being mean to your wife and all sorts of actual flaws a person could have but you can't say fuck, that's going too far!!! I'll just say the hooked-on-phonics version of this swear so you know what I mean but I still look squeaky clean (but here's my chapter about cocaine addiction!). But sure whatever.

BUT THEN. After a very emotional segment about Neil Peart's diagnosis and death, covid happening, his mother's dementia, his mother's death, and Taylor Hawkin's death, he FINALLY says fucking. But for any of these emotional topics? No. “I would have to mess around with a fucking song sometimes”. That's when he uses it. So whyyyyyyyyyyy do I have to listen to you act like a six year old on a playground whose mommy is gonna get willy willy mad at him if he says a naughty poopoo word for the rest of the book?

Anyways the book actually was very good. Any Geddy Lee or Rush or just rock fans should read it. This will not bother you, because you are normal. Or maybe you're not normal, but you'll still not be bothered by this. I'm the only person. I will bear my pedantic, ridiculous burden, and dock a star from this very good memoir over its lack of swearing.