Yep, ThePete, here--I'm still sick. My voice is back--kind of--but I'm still flegmy as hell and feeling kind of lightheaded. I don't know what kind of virus I've got, but going out with TheFam Friday night to my show and then to DuPar's Saturday morning for pancakes probably weren't good ideas. I was feeling pretty decent on Friday, but by Saturday I was feeling pretty lousy. Soon as TheFam left, I was asleep on the couch again. That's pretty much right where I've stayed since then. I did go grocery shopping Saturday night for a couple hours--that probably didn't help my health, either--though eating food is nice.
So, no one's getting any happy Halloween wishes out of me. I'm not a big fan of the day, myself. I think it says something about our lifestyles when, as grown adults, we need permission to climb out of our skins and into someone else's. I think we should dress up as whatever we want whenever we want instead of waiting for the one day that it's "cool" to have fun with what you wear.
I just hope that as I'm lying here by myself tonight, caughing up loogies, I don't get any stupid college kids knocking on my door asking for candy. Forget yelling "trick or treat" outside my door--the yell had better be "free oral sex" if it's anything.
I'd just like to get better, thank you very much. Of course, I hardly ever get sick so when I do, it's just a tremendous drag-and-a-half since I'm just not used to it. I'm fine with losing a day or two, but I've been on my back since Wednesday. This suuuuuucks... :)
And can I just say how much TV sucks? I actually found myself enjoying
Desperate Housewives and
Grey's Anatomy (while the chick playing Grey was lousy) and I also blew many hours watching
I Love the 80s 3D. However, I must return to my age-old rant that TV COMMERCIALS SUCK.
They promise these absurd things that obviously could never happen--like one car commercial that suggests you can leap from rooftop to rooftop in it just like friggen' Speed Racer. Other car commercials tell us how fun it is to drive these conservative, boring, luxury boxes-on-wheels. Prescription drug ads tell us how our lives will change once we start using their drugs. Of course, they also mention that use of their drugs could also result in nausea, diarrhea, and other things that are often worse than the symptoms of whatever we were taking the drug to combat. Oh yeah and I love how those "penile disfunction" drug ads equate extreme happiness with sex.
So, this guy is a run-of-the-mill boring white guy who has a job, a wife, and a suburban home, but his life sucks. But now he takes a drug that gives him rock-solid hard-0ns and now he's got this dumb-ass grin on his face all the time--so, the moral of the story is: Crappy job? Hate your life? Don't get a new job, or try to live life to the fullest with a hobby or by getting involved in your world more--just have more sex and all will be well!
Sex=all you need to worrry about!
And of course, the thing that really bugs me about commercials is that they are repeated so often. I watched three hours of
I Love the 80s 3D and if I ever see another promo for that stupid show
But Can They Sing, I'll pop a blood vessel. What a dumb idea for a show--get a bunch of cut-rate, do-anything-for-a-paycheck, actors together for a singing contest.
Morgan Fairchild? That Gotti kid? WTF?? Who told these people they were even celebrities?? Fairchild, I can sort of see, but somebody from one of the thousands of reality shows out there? There are other celebs involved, but most of them are people even I have never heard of and I've watched a lot of movies and TV in my time alive.
Back to commercials for a second--there's this one TV ad for these chocolates. The damn thing is so psychadelic, it looks like something you'd see on Japanese TV. There's virtually no substance to the ad whatsoever. It's all shots of the chocolates in weird/artsy situations--like on a chess board, or they're all giant with women dancing around them. There's one shot of liquid chocolate being poured into a champagne glass. The chocolate then turns into a woman inside the glass wearing a slinky, chocolate-colored dress. So, buy these chocolates so you can eat the pieces you win when playing chess? Buy these chocolates because they're so huge you could never afford to buy them? Eat this chocolate because it's like drinking a sexy, but tiny woman from a champagne glass? Every time I see it I'm just baffled as to what I'm supposed to think.
In fact, that's generally what I get from most TV and especially commercials, in general. They all seem to be geared toward the most basic, banal needs and interests of the audience. I wonder when TV will be replaced with helmets we can wear that simply jam needles into our brains to tell us what we want and how to feel.
Forget actually entertainment, let's just force the audience to think precisely what we want them to think.
Oh and then Fox News reports on "No 'Fitz'-mas" for leftwingers. Apparently someone at Fox thinks that only lefties would want to see Rove indicted, so they say no Fitz-mas (like no Christmas--get it?) for the lefties. Of course, they make no mention of Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's comment that Rove hasn't been indicted
yet. For the record, anyone interested in a truly untrustworthy person being kicked out of the White House should be interested in seeing Rove indicted.
So, there's my rant. It's like a big flegm glob. Thank's for letting me cough it up. :)
I hope I'm feeling better tomorrow...