Crap That I'm Sick of
Because there's crap...then there's crap that I'm sick of
1. Made for TV melodrama: When I first saw the ad for "Saving Jessica Lynch" I didn't do a double take or spew venom (the Missus was fighting mad, though!). I had to process how long it has really been since Lynch was rescued and came up with a figure of about 7 months off the top of my head. Turning around a TV docudrama based on real events so quickly can only be to capitalize on Pfc. Lynch's proverbial fifteen minutes of fame. If they had waited a year, the public might have thought: "Jessica who?" "Saving Jessica Lynch," coupled with "The Elizabeth Smart Story," (you know, the Utah girl abducted by a throwback Mormon), makes me glad I do not depend on TV for my social life.
2. Black Hawk Down: Six more soldiers died as a Blackhawk helicopter was shot down near Tikrit. Couple that with the missing WoMD and the alleged last minute deal making attempt by Baghdad and your bellicose President looks like someone just itching for a fight and not a solution.
3. "Well, we're Anthrax and we take not S**T:" Remember when Anthrax was just a heavy-metal band? Two years ago Anthrax became all the rage when it became the shipment du jour for some sick mind. Anthrax crept back into the news yesterday when 11 DC mail centers were closed down. It was nice to have a short break from the Anthrax and the white powder hoaxes that followed.
4. "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job:" Know anyone looking to hire a marketing professional with experience in developing promotional copy, newsletters, magazine articles, and this fabulous blog? I'm working at it. This week were the outplacement sessions. One outplacement session featured a guy (a fellow searcher) who looked and acted like the guy that Drew Barrymore is engaged to in "The Wedding Singer." You know the guy who didn't get why "Julia Goulia" was funny? Not only did this guy look like Glen Goulia, he acted like him, as well. Scary. The Glen Goulia look-alike didn't return from the lunch break. I think we were all much happier.
5. Confederate Flag Redux: Political debates ought to have instant reply rules, like they do in football. That way, Howard Dean, could reply the many instances of courting the Confederate Flag voters that he was so excoriated for the other night. If I am to understand what Dean was trying to say it is that Democrats need to convince even the White Southern Males that the Bush economic agenda needs its own derogatory brand like "Reaganomics" or "Voo-Doo Economics." Why don't we just call it "Smoke-and-mirror-nomics?" Ahhhh, but then there are signs of recovery... Anyway, this whole Confederate Flag flap reminds me of the one and only time I was in New Orleans. There was some big High School football rally and one of the teams was the Rebels and they were decked out in full Confederate Flag regalia.
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Because there's crap...then there's crap that I'm sick of
1. Made for TV melodrama: When I first saw the ad for "Saving Jessica Lynch" I didn't do a double take or spew venom (the Missus was fighting mad, though!). I had to process how long it has really been since Lynch was rescued and came up with a figure of about 7 months off the top of my head. Turning around a TV docudrama based on real events so quickly can only be to capitalize on Pfc. Lynch's proverbial fifteen minutes of fame. If they had waited a year, the public might have thought: "Jessica who?" "Saving Jessica Lynch," coupled with "The Elizabeth Smart Story," (you know, the Utah girl abducted by a throwback Mormon), makes me glad I do not depend on TV for my social life.
2. Black Hawk Down: Six more soldiers died as a Blackhawk helicopter was shot down near Tikrit. Couple that with the missing WoMD and the alleged last minute deal making attempt by Baghdad and your bellicose President looks like someone just itching for a fight and not a solution.
3. "Well, we're Anthrax and we take not S**T:" Remember when Anthrax was just a heavy-metal band? Two years ago Anthrax became all the rage when it became the shipment du jour for some sick mind. Anthrax crept back into the news yesterday when 11 DC mail centers were closed down. It was nice to have a short break from the Anthrax and the white powder hoaxes that followed.
4. "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job:" Know anyone looking to hire a marketing professional with experience in developing promotional copy, newsletters, magazine articles, and this fabulous blog? I'm working at it. This week were the outplacement sessions. One outplacement session featured a guy (a fellow searcher) who looked and acted like the guy that Drew Barrymore is engaged to in "The Wedding Singer." You know the guy who didn't get why "Julia Goulia" was funny? Not only did this guy look like Glen Goulia, he acted like him, as well. Scary. The Glen Goulia look-alike didn't return from the lunch break. I think we were all much happier.
5. Confederate Flag Redux: Political debates ought to have instant reply rules, like they do in football. That way, Howard Dean, could reply the many instances of courting the Confederate Flag voters that he was so excoriated for the other night. If I am to understand what Dean was trying to say it is that Democrats need to convince even the White Southern Males that the Bush economic agenda needs its own derogatory brand like "Reaganomics" or "Voo-Doo Economics." Why don't we just call it "Smoke-and-mirror-nomics?" Ahhhh, but then there are signs of recovery... Anyway, this whole Confederate Flag flap reminds me of the one and only time I was in New Orleans. There was some big High School football rally and one of the teams was the Rebels and they were decked out in full Confederate Flag regalia.
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