Slacker Ratings-Obsessed Media Ruins Nation

Hardly a news flash, but:

Last week I was talking to my Mom and I mentioned something about Dodd being awesome again, and she said, “That’s nice, but how am I supposed to know anything about him?”  WHAT?!?  “You can go to his very informative website, read, and watch videos!!!”  I couldn’t believe it.  “But nobody knows who he is!”  “SO READ HIS SITE.  Then you can tell your friends that you’re really impressed and tell THEM to read the site.”

The media so completely destroys the politically competent because people are too busy with their own obvious concerns.  Politics should be an obvious concern, but it barely registers for most people, or I think Dodd would be doing much better.  Fighting the republicans is hard as hell even when they serve up their own disaster on a platter, but fighting for a media that does what it’s supposed to do looks even harder.  We watch CNN every morning just so we can see how even non-FOX mainstream distorts everything, and generally ignores the most important stories.  We leave the house fuming every day.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman out on DVD!

I used to watch this when it first came out and never knew how over-my-head it was until I saw a repeat of the last episode of season one when Mary has a nervous breakdown. I was riveted. It was the saddest, bleakest, least funny moment of any “sitcom” I’d ever seen.
Cheap, cheesy, brilliantly satirical, rent it on Netflix as soon a you can. (Sorry: not due until 3/27/07) You youngsters need to watch this.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman finally out on DVD

On IMDB : Read the comments of diehard fans.

I am so embarrassed.

I’ve lived around Boston my whole life, and worked in the city for several years, and I haven’t seen such a disappointing show of stupidity since we elected Romney (though we have the whole state to blame for that) because:

1. If you see a dude climb a bridge in broad daylight and hang a brightly lit cartoon character in a very obvious place, it’s not a terrorist. Don’t you think a terrorist would plant a bomb where it WOULDN’T be found, under cover of night, so they could actually claim some casualties? Think about that for more than two seconds. Sure, kudos for trying to save the world, but try the common sense filter next time.
2. I love Boston. It’s a beautiful city and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, but face facts! We JUST figured out how to get a major highway to the airport. We are not a world class city yet, so we don’t get to have terrorists. Look for drama elsewhere.
3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a damn funny show. If we weren’t living in such a cultural backwater, we might have gotten through the day without ruining everyones’ commutes! Ten other cities in the US have had these same “suspicious devices” up for TWO WEEKS and no one got their knickers in a twist over it.

Now I hear they arrested the local dude who put the signs up. He was hired by a PR firm to do it. Not like arrests are warranted in this case, but at least go after the PR firm first. City officials are all pissed off because they grossly overreacted to a non-threat, and all disruption and fear could have been avoided with about one minute of common sense, a small clue about pop-culture, and a timely phone call to a network, but they screwed up, so instead they’re trying to deflect blame and ruin the life of a guy trying to make a living.

C’mon Boston, grow a pair and a sense of humor. You’ll live longer.