Thursday, February 20, 2003
I have this recurring train of thought when I lay with my arms around my sweetie pie. Everything is perfect and if the world is going to end, it's in a moment like this one that I would like it to happen. Wouldn't it be nice to just fall asleep and wake up in the exact same position having the same feeling of wholeness? It never happens that way. An arm starts to feel a bit stiff, then a shoulder starts to hurt, then the neck gets a kink in it. What the soul has made one, the body rends asunder.
This bears more than a passing, metaphorical similarity to the Fall of Man. What would heaven be like? Would it be to experience this completeness teasing us in intimate moments without the baggage of a physical body? It's experiences like this that make me think [or hope] that there is really more to our existence than what we can quantify temporally.
11:41:27 PM
Watching the finale of Joe Millionaire (good God, don't ask me why) I was wondering why the hell they call that tripe 'Reality TV'. Honestly - we've got a hulking oaf living in a castle with a butler taking women on dates all around the world and they call this reality TV? We take a bunch of prima donnas who have never even been on a camping trip and we put them in the middle of the amazon rain forests and make them eat bugs and they call this reality TV? They show us anything that has to do with Michael Jackson or Ozzy Ozbourne and they call it reality TV? How stupid do they think we are to claim that what they parade in front of us represents any kind of reality? Next thing you know, they'll be calling that crap they air at 10:00 'news'. Sheesh.
11:24:29 PM
Theater Companies sued over commercials. The practice of showing commercials before the start of movies defrauds the public and should be stopped, according to lawsuits filed against two movie theater chains.
Now there's a lawsuit that I can get behind. It's one thing to show some trailers before the movie. That's all good, but some theaters go totally overboard and show ten trailers before the movie. But the commercials. That chaps my hide. It's one thing to watch programming that I do not pay for, like broadcast TV and have commercials. I can understand that. But I pay for that freaking programming. It's bad enough to sit through the slideshow before the previews.
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