2001:May:29
2001
I'm probably going to miss the first five minutes of "Hercules" (and this is the one where I think they introduce Ioalus as they've already reached the series finale on SciFi and are going back to the beginning - I LOVE when this happens to a show I start watching in the middle on syndication and like already) because I had to right of this weird irony. I had the channel set to NBC because I had watched Oprah as I had a particularly hard time changes gears to secretary today. So, after getting stoned with Greg, I come back to watch "Hercules". I see the last bits about "three word slogans" and notice that it's Deborah Norville (famous for being from the Univeristy of Georgia in Athens most famous graduate from the same journalism school as me. This was when she was America's bitch for hurting some aging morning news anchor) (Kim Basinger was our other really famous Athens former resident. She was another of the not-as-obvious-as-R.E.M.-celebrities). So I catch them saying something about "think three word slogans can't be catchy enough?) They go to movie clips (this is just after the WHOLE REASON I went to Greg's house was because I got the Time Magazine today that I think I signed up for for free trail issues which because I wasn't aware of having to cancel is being charged to my boss' AOL account - I found this out because I actually read the terms closely when I clicked on "Want free three issues of People Magazine") so I was at Greg's talking about how amazine that is was that we were finally getting token consideration for hating Bush - Thank you Jeffords - a man of honor? Can this BE BELIEVED in today's politics? I had gone to Greg's after writing a secretly impassioned letter to the editor of which said something like "I'm glad I'm not going crazy and I'm the only one going WHAT's GOING ON WITH THIS PRESiDENT SCAM? I'm beginning to think the major networks are owned by big, soulless Cheny businessmen". My friends and I always wonder who these idiots who vote for Bush and don't understand what's going on - Walmart shopping middle American Freaks. So, I'm watching a major network. Deborah Norville is the anchor saying good bye to us with this cute human interest wrap up. They show clips of other "three word" slogans: "I'll be back", "Make My Day", "Here's Lookin Atchooo", etc. Then the narrator for this clip says "Folks you can rent all of these videos at home. They are all available at Blockbuster. That might be better, you can watch it in the comfort of your own home". We immediately see Dorothy from the wizard of Us chanting in her pink princess, Judy Garland drug addict self "There's no Place like home. There's no place like home. There's NO PLACE LIKE HOME.". It was if the network had finally come clean and admitted it owns us all like "Brave new World". Deborah laughed. I thought it was the funniest, most true, honest thing I'd ever seen (I mean this on top of Jeffords). Then I realized, she probably doesn't get the irony. ............ pause............... pause. Well, that's it folks. I'm really sorry for my stoned spelling errors. I've now lost fourteen precious minutes of Hercules to tell you this.
