Trouble Comes in Threes
Readers of the blog, this has been a truly awful week. Horrible week. Why? Well, this week has led to the confluence of three things in the media that if we hear any more about we might disconnect the cable and Internet and go all Thoreau-y – Sara Palin’s Biography, Twilight and Zack Grienke getting Cy Young.
We’ll start from the bottom:
- Zack’s Cy Young: Listen. I’m a huge Grienke fan. I watched him all summer and he was nasty and the ONLY choice for the Cy Young. But. Have you ever watched an interview with him? It’s creepy. It makes me feel weird. His rambling, mouth-not-opening-all-the-way style of talk, his dead serial killer eyes – I can’t take it. Not to mention that with him there is only one story line that will get talked about. He freaked out a couple years ago and had to be treated for anxiety. So he HATES the spotlight. Wow. Isn’t he unique! A player who hates attention! Man! Sooooooo refreshing. Well. I’m sick of hearing about it. I was the one who was following that story as it happened. I’ve been with him from the beginning of his pro career – I guess I just don’t like to share.
- Twilight: This craze makes us sick. Sick! It doesn’t make any goddamn sense! 1) How many vampires and werewolves tales does there have to be? There are like 5,000 movies and TV shows about this shit. How much more do people need! There isn’t any new ground to cover… unless 2) It breaks the rules! Vampires can’t be out in the sunlight. That’s how it works. I don’t give a shit how much cloud cover there is in Washington, doesn’t matter. It’s the UV (or something in the wave) not the actual fucking light. Somehow there’s enough sunlight for a lush forest to photosynthesize and grow and continue to grow – EVEN WITH THE CLOUD COVER. Any other excuse is stupid. Have you ever gotten a cloud burn? You go out side and hangout then the next day you’re still all sunburnt. But it was cloudy! Doesn’t matter. The UV still got through and burnt your shit. Just as it would with vampires. Even worse, I have to sit through all the “Team Edward” and “Team (is it Jacob?)” that’s all over the place. I can only handle so many teenage girls screaming and holding signs shots in a day.
- Sarah Palin Bio: She is like some awful disease that keeps coming back. She had kind of gone away then she put out this horrible cookie-cutter book and hit the media circuit in preparation for 2012. I like her because it’s cool to know I’m smarter and classier than a big time politician (the smarter comment is not because she’s a woman, it’s because she’s an idiot). But she represents everything wrong with the country as a downside. Below is a clip from the Daily Show that pretty much sums it up (also, please realize, we don’t get our news and/or opinion from the Daily Show, but sometimes they do a pretty good job of putting things in context).
So. All in all a horrible week for those of us who don’t like over-coverage Twilight/Sarah Palin/National Coverage of Zack Grienke. But. Good week for those in the media who have been going nuts for all this stuff.
“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”
– Sarah raises a good point
It’s going to be hard because I feel like I have so much to learn from Sarah Palin, but I’m going to hold myself back from reading this book in one night. Hopefully, if I’m slow enough, I’ll finish it on March 8, 2010, the day before Karl Rove’s memoir is released. Perfect.