Back In The Saddle Again
Ooops, took kind of an extended holiday hiatus there. Keep in mind that I had to do the whole family thing, and then I got sick because while doing the family thing I got coughed on by a lot of sick kids. There's something to be said for a two-year old that coughs in your face... none of which can be repeated here because it's not really politically correct to curse at kids. Just kidding. It doesn't really bother me when kids cough on me, they don't realize that their seemingly innocuous actions have unleashed a flood of germs into an immune system already weakened by this infernal cold weather. Yeah, yeah. I know true East Coasters are saying "It's actually not that cold for this time of year." Bite me. I'm fucking cold. Incidentally, I found this article about "Words of the Year" fairly interesting. Someone coined the phrase "dialarhoea," to describe "inadvertent dialing of a cell phone in a pocket or handbag." How absolutely stupid. They should just coin a simple phrase for it, like "Idiot: Try Keyguard." Actually I'm full of shit, I used to forget to lock my phone all the time. Once it called one of my friends while I was bitching out some recruiter in New York ("Maybe if your I.Q. was higher than your age you wouldn't be stuck in some low-end job trying to force people into jobs they don't want so that you can get your $4 commission. The job of the "recruiter" has to be the most overpaid-for-no-reason job resulting from the idiocies of the tech bubble.") My friend enjoyed that. By the time I picked up my phone and saw that he was on he was already munching on popcorn. But I digress. My point about the "Word of the Year" awards is that if I were in charge of it every year the winner would be some type of curse word or phrase. "Ass-demon" would have won for 2002.
It's been kind of a weird set of Wild Card games hasn't it? (Mike, you can gripe now.)
Okay I have to go. I want to go watch the one reality TV show they've ever had that actually sounds interesting: Joe Millionaire. Basically they put 20 desperate chics in a castle in France and told them this guy has $50 million and is looking for a wife. So they all backstab each other while competing for him, then after he makes his choice everyone finds out he's really some construction guy who makes $19,000 a year. FUNNY AS HELL. Whoever thought of this idea deserves an Emmy.
10:17 p.m. edit: Oh man that show wasn't disappointing at all. I must have laughed out loud everytime someone said something. The contestants were even crying over it. I have one bone to pick though. It disgusts me to see that the ugly-Asian-chic-tokenism which prevails in magazines is also in full evidence on TV. It's bad enough that the Asian chics on The Real World were all ugly as hell (and pretty fucking stupid). Now the Asian chics on Joe Millionaire are ugly AND mercenary. Will there never be an end? Contrary to popular television producer belief, tokenism doesn't appease the "people of color" masses. I'd rather see a sea of white faces than the token "minority" face thrown in for comedic or contrast purposes. Fox 5 news did a segment on Joe Millionaire after the show. They asked women viewers "How do you make sure what happened on Joe Millionaire never happens to you" then brought in some experts to show how to tell when men are lying. They should have just said "stop being such a gold-digging ho and it won't matter so much."
CONGRATS to my sorority little sis Rose and her man Chris, who got engaged last Christmas day on a morning flight from SF-LA. They should take their celebratory engagement trip to New York if you ask me.
Merry Belated Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!! Hope you guys got exactly what you wanted for Christmas, which means ugly sweaters and crap you don't need but can't throw it away because your friends who gave it to you will notice. By the way, Mike got me a Prada wallet, which means I've trained him well for the day he finally decides to get crackin and get himself a girlfriend.
