hello.
it's wednesday night, and i'm resurrecting my nearly lost tradition of downing a few beers on a wednesday playing some games, and watching bad tv. that's right, it's almost time for 'the o.c.' many of you have already heard me rant about this show and how ridiculously badgood it is, but have i mentioned that it's wicked good. have i also mentioned that i'm on beer #4? i might also point out that the harpoon ipa i purchased came in a brown paper bag marked 'super beer bag.' a nice added bonus, and i think perhaps i will wear it on my head at some point.
so, uh, where is this headed? nowhere good, i'm sure. first of all, there's 'the cat in the hat'. in a given hour of tv (well, tv on fox) you can actually see, by my count, 5 separate product tie-ins to that steaming pile of shit. mike myers is bad enough, but the mutant plastic thing 1 and thing 2 are giving me nightmares. they all have the same half-cat half-pig faces that the characters in 'the grinch' seemed to have, and it's just terrifying. i'm sure it would give me nightmares if i wasn't 1.5 sheets to the wind right now.
and hooray for the massachusetts supreme judicial court for pissing off conservatives nationwide, and oh by the way, doing a good thing to boot. for all those people who are against gay marriage, look at it this way. someone said that some 1,042 benefits are available to married couples that aren't available to unmarried couples. straight people pay taxes that pay for those benefits. so do gay people, but they've no chance of ever benefiting from that aspect of the public pool into which they pay their money. sounds wrong to me. nevertheless, the idiots on the radio were foaming at the mouth over it this morning, which surprises me not. the flip side to this is the possibility that this gets used as a wedge issue in the upcoming presidential election. and that's kind of an ugly thing. given the unprecedented amount that the mainstream media has kowtowed to right-wing interests of late, who the hell knows what's going to happen? part of me is inclined to fear even good things in politics these days. though the court decision is great, who's to say that it isn't a blessing in disguise for them? who's to say they won't bang this drum, so as to make the red states forget about their boys being shot at in iraq, and worry instead about homosexuals taking over the country. vote for bush, he's against sin! you see, it's not like i'm wearing a tinfoil hat, but at the same time, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find them behind anything.
in other news, i'm tempted to dump one of my bottles of harpoon on the curb tonight. props to fallen TSEs.
oh, and another thing. the show 'fraternity life' on mtv is sooo depressing. even the fraternities at rpi that seemed really rough and ugly seemed to treat their pledges better than this. at the very least, i think they'd have at least tried to stop their pledges from de-pledging, and given a damn if they did. it's a real pity that kids these days are being given this impression of greek life.
remember, if none of this makes sense--i'm drunk.
It's funny that you mentioned 'fraternity life'. I was channel surfing last night and it was on MTV. (Un)fortunately, it was the hell week episode. I don't know what kind of shit they did to their pledges before hell week, but they seemed pretty callous in their hazing. I can't believe that they let MTV tape them doing half that shit - if they don't lose their charter for the hazing I have lost a little more faith in the Greek system. What scares me is the shit they did to them during hell night (sans cameras) was probably much worse than anything done on camera. I felt sorry for those kids.
How about a tin-foil-super-beer-bag- hat? You could wear it while mashing potatoes. :)
Interesting quote in The Globe today: "If marriage is so sacred, why not outlaw divorce?"