You haven’t really lived until you find yourself smoking a pack of cigarettes in Hell’s Kitchen alley way off of 9th avenue while crying like a bitch about the aloof bitch that brutally broke your heart with a smile.
No matter how tough or smart or cool or good-looking or rich or interesting…
If You Do This, I Will NOT Buy Your Products
If I have to reduce the volume of your commercial you have lost my purchase. I don’t know what lame brained ass hat thought it would be a good idea to crank it up to 11 to get me to pay attention. I’m not going to. What I do is change the channel. I have now gotten to the point, (at the dismay of my wife) of changing the channel whenever there are commercials on. I roughly watch two shows at once. Or at least one and a half shows. The trick is to find something random, like How It’s Made, and have that be the secondary show. That way it doesn’t matter what you miss, and you can get back to whatever it was you were watching before the volume went crazy.
Last night I noticed that the marketing genius of the blaring commercial concept has made it’s way to online video as well. Hulu now has cranked up the volume of their commercials as well. Yay.
I want to know what happened to this. I know we have more important things to do with our governments time, but seriously. Does this even need more than five minutes of their time to take care of? Just say “Yeah” and we’re all good.
It’s Gone, and I Don’t Expect it Back
A post on Dear Meat got me thinking about this….
What the fuck happened to MTV and when? The transition was so slow and methodical it was like the old music filled station never existed. The modification of a channel so dedicated to music and the industry is at this point I feel a disgrace to what it originally stood for.
The only thing I can think is that the addition of the Real World all those many years ago started this shit storm. The inception of this reality show world we are now sitting in. So interested in the uninteresting worlds of other people, we neglect, forget the people that are around us. So in tune with the famous for being famous people. The people that have no reason to be famous at all. Gone are the days of the real stars.
This incessant need for information about people who are in reality no more interesting than ourselves is concerning at least. I am as guilty as the rest. My internet perusing taking me across pages filled with new breaking news on so and so, and the uninteresting thing Miss Famous had to say today.
I want my MTV. I want my music back. More so I want this reality show this that or the other thing to fade away. For the sake of humanity.
This story coming out of Rochester, NY has be a bit befuddled with the hypocrisy of an older generation. We are growing up in a generation (I’m 28 by the way), where the older generation behind us continuously makes comments about their disbelief of some of the things kids do these days. Now granted I’m sure the same thing happened when they were kids as well, but it doesn’t make it right. Sit down with your parents sometime and listen to the stories they tell. They did just as many stupid things as we did, and as the generation below us do now. So I don’t understand why they don’t understand, and to sit and act all “We never did things like this when we were kids…” is bullshit. My parents, aunts, uncles, older friends, etc, etc…. all have stories of them driving while drinking, running their cars through someone else’s cornfields, using fireworks to blow shit up.
This isn’t to say that I think that it’s OK what these kids did, I’m just saying don’t be a hypocrite about it. If you did dumb dangerous things, take the time to talk with your kids about it, explain the danger. Don’t just sit there and play the “I thought my kid would be smarter than that” card. They aren’t, they’re kids, they do stupid things, and it’s called learning. I learned how to climb trees mostly by falling out of them. I scraped my knees going to fast down a hill on my bike. However I learned from these experiences and had parents around to guide me through it and assist in the teaching. They didn’t shield me from all danger, and they explained the dangers in plain English. That’s the best you can do, because you’ll never be able to stop them from doing everything that’s dangerous, and if that’s the goal, then they shouldn’t be driving in the first place.
Take some time today, (not a lot of time, but some) and go over to AmericaSpeakingOut.com and read. Read up on what your fellow Americans are looking for our govt. to do. I think you’ll be pretty amazed at the ideas floating around out there. Things such as this…
Require all Muslims in the U.S. to wear ankle bracelet transponders so we know where the terrorists are at all times.
Really? That’s your idea…. Perhaps this one is better….
End the LIBERAL mith of EVOLUSION. My gran-dady aint no monkey
Nope…not really.
Grammatical errors aside, a lot of the ideas floating on this site now are completely insane. Now I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and we have a “freedom of speech” thing here in the states, but some people should not be allowed to speak.
I want to make a new rule. It’s real simple. If you want to open your mouth and speak about political based ideas/arguments, you need sources. I want web addresses, book titles, magazine articles, so on and so forth. Give me something to look at and I’ll say, “Geez, that’s a good point. I’ll take this into consideration while forming my opinion.” Otherwise I honestly don’t want to hear it. Not from the common man, and not from politicians. It’s all some terribly put together version of the telephone game, and it’s getting worse with the amount of information streaming in. Kathleen Parker over at the Washington Post put together this op ed on the topic T.M.I.
TMI may indeed be the despot’s friend. Keep citizens so overwhelmed with data that they can’t tell what’s important and eventually become incapable of responding to what is. Our brains simply aren’t wired to receive and process so much information in such a compressed period.
That’s something I can agree with… Not that I’ll listen though…
Nighthawks At The Diner
Of Emma’s 49er, There’s A Rendezvous
Of Strangers Around The Coffee Urn Tonight
All The Gypsy Hacks, The Insomniacs
Now The Paper’s Been Read
Now The Waitress SaidEggs And Sausage And A Side Of Toast
Coffee And A Roll, Hash Browns Over Easy
Chile In A Bowl With Burgers And Fries
What Kind Of Pie?In A Graveyard Charade, A Late Shift Masquerade
2 For A Quarter, Dime For A Dance
With Woolworth Rhinestone Diamond
Earrings, And A Sideway’s Glance
And Now The Register Rings
And Now The Waitress Sings(Chorus)
The Classified Section Offered No Direction
It’s A Cold Caffeine In A Nicotine Cloud
Now The Touch Of Your Fingers
Lingers Burning In My Memory
I’ve Been 86ed From Your Scheme
I’m In A Melodramatic Nocturnal Scene
I’m A Refugee From A Disconcerted Affair
As The Lead Pipe Morning Falls
And The Waitress Calls(Chorus)
Tom Waits
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
There’s a whole string of these, and all of them make me chuckle.
Nothing to See Here People… Move Along
According to 10% of Americans polled, this magical plume of black gold is the handiwork of malicious environmentalists who are trying to prove a point. The ludicrousness of this idea is painful at best.
On a side note, Boston.com’s pictorials are absolutely fantastic. I don’t know where they get they’re helpers from but they should be paid handsomely for their work…
