We Are Losing It

“Whitey Bulger’s rental hideout in high demand”


What in the hell is wrong with us? People are clamoring to rent an apartment where a criminal lived.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/30/national/main20075757.shtml  We have, as a society truly lost our minds. Come on people, we really need to get a grip and I mean now. What could the possible fascination be? You want to have a party and be able to say to your friends “Yup you know Whitey Bulger lived here.” Wow! You must be proud. Or is that you are hoping to find some of the money he stashed there; well wake up they have money sniffing dogs cameras, and sledge hammers, they will find it all. Listen up all you dyslexic buffoons you are doing it wrong. We are not supposed to honor criminals and bad behavior; we are supposed to punish it. We are supposed to punish it harshly with extreme prejudice. It’s ok to be prejudiced against crime because crime is WRONG!

Whatever happened to rewarding good behavior? When did it become wrong for us to tell someone to pick up their trash and throw it in the TRASH can? I’ll tell you when, it happened, when we stopped making it unpleasant to do the wrong thing, and began compromising our principles and then we started making it profitable. I know what you’re thinking (he is going to bring up Reality T.V. again.) Well you are partially right. It did start with the media; the media turns these criminals into celebrities, and if that’s not enough we turn our celebrities into criminals. What’s the statement I am searching for? “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” Oh and this one. “Everyone is famous for fifteen minutes.” Thanks a lot Andy. Thanks to today’s technology some undeserving people are famous for a lot longer than their allotted fifteen minutes. Look at Casey Anthony, she murdered her child (Yeah I know she was acquitted but we all know she did it.) Disclaimer time again. I as in ME, I believe she did it and that is my opinion and I am quite sure after 20 years of service to this country I am entitled to it. She will be released later this month to book offers and interview offers and since she was acquitted she can profit from her story. So the way is paved and believe me people will pay for it. I am here to ask you as a fellow human being who cares about how our society is deteriorating, please; for the sake of our society do not buy into it literally do not buy the book, do not watch the interviews make the networks and publishers pay. Hit them where it counts in their pocketbook’s that is how we get them to listen to us.

WE have the ability to do this; it will take a little effort but we can. There is much better television out there, trust me and there are way better books to read, millions of them! I have a new show for you to watch ABC’s “What Would You Do?” here is a show to make you think about what is right and what is wrong. Watch the show, learn, and get involved. If you see something wrong intervene there are ways to do it properly and they will tell you. Stop turning a blind eye and make a difference before it is too late.

Where Has All the Creativity Gone?

Okay so the networks have decided we are morons who want to watch shows about know -nothing housewives who are in “reality”; just a bunch of crazy women we wouldn’t give the time of day to otherwise. Look if her brain dead husband doesn’t even want to listen to her gripe about her friends why should I?

I’ll tell you why; because when you see these nobodies on television doing and saying all these stupid things, then you feel better about yourself don’t you? This is what it’s come to then; well if they are going to offer themselves up to be made fun of then I am going to oblige them.

So many reality shows, so little time.

Where do I start? Who am I kidding? I know where to start, with the group containing the most amount of human tissue and the least amount of grey matter, yes you guessed right, Jerseylicious.

Who in the world decided that we want to watch a show about a bunch of crazy chicks who do not know how to dress or put on makeup, yet work in a “Beauty” salon? Holy crap people; if I had to spend five minutes in a room with these... Uhhhh, (I don’t even know what I can call them without using a whole lot of special characters on my keyboard, I mean I only have so many after all) I would probably commit Hara-kiri with a spoon so it would hurt more. (Just a side note Hara-kiri is the normally spoken term for Seppuku, which is the Japanese ritual of suicide by disembowelment. I used it as it is the most familiar term to most people. See what you can learn by reading.)

Anyway back to the subject. Who else but their Jersey counterparts would put up with their crap? To be quite honest I’m not even sure they like them. I mean why would they? They have nothing to offer by way of meaningful conversation all they do is pick on each other. Don’t even get me started on Tracey and Olivia. If these two worked in a “real” salon they would have been fired long ago.

I am not unrealistic I know coworkers will have problems; I have been working my entire adult life. But let me tell you if I had been a part of something half as ridiculous as these girls (hey I’m twice their age I can call them girls) get into right in front of the clientele; I would have been fired in a New York minute. Pardon the pun; it’s what I do. I’m “like” a pun master. Yes I misused the word “like”. If you have watched the show for more than a minute you know what that is about. I just watched a video clip of Olivia Blois Sharpe (I know what you’re thinking, me too but I’m not going to go there) at www.writeonnewjersey.com it was her video biography, it was two minutes long and she used the word “like” like 19 times. I did it again, sorry.

Where does it end?

Ok when are we gonna say enough is enough? Have we really gone as far as we can go creatively? All signs seem to point to this. The film industry has remade virtually every cartoon show with live characters or CGI or Computer Generated Images( I know you knew what it meant but just in case the Jerseylicious girls happen to read this)sometimes both. Case in point The Flintstones, The Chipmunks, Yogi Bear just to name a few ( I was going to say Transformers but I really liked those movies) G.I. Joe; yes we’ll use that one instead. They have started remaking old movies at an alarming rate; True Grit, the Mechanic (are you sensing the pattern?) it just kind of creeps up on you like that vine that took over the concrete wall in your back yard. Ok it’s my back yard but the fact is if I’d nipped it in the bud, literally I would only have had to cut a couple of branches every month or so. Now we have a new reality television show every month; the newest being Nail Files. Nail Files, really?

If we do not start reading more we will make the movie Idiocracy the most prophetic movie of our time; and you know what that means. Oww My Balls will be the number one television show.

Still here

      Well it has been a while I have been pretty busy since I got back form Afghanistan, however I have decided to dust off my blogging keyboard and start speaking my mind again. I know there are a lot of you out there just as fed up with "Reality" television as me so I am working on a post about that. I also never really got the word out about the blog much either so consequently there weren't many comments or responses. Well I hope that changes real soon. For now I hope you all have a great 4th of July stay safe and don't forget all our service members who are in harms way right now. Talk to you soon.