happy friday!

sorry for the lack of actual postage this week. busy at work and life was hard and busy at the same time, so the blog took a hit. i want to officially welcome natron and ker bear to the commenting :O) it's so much fun!

so i was watching the today show the other day. now i'm pretty incoherent in the morning, but i do catch some stuff. so matt lauer is interviewing a guy who had been on a bike ride with his dogs and while he was on his bike ride he was attacked by a bear (!) now of course, he's still in a sling and whatnot and is on morning tv talking about his experience which brings up tons of questions about the celebrity culture we participate in and the voyeurism or exploitation that exists in our country. no the first thing we'll note is the interview. so matt lauer is talking about what happened, you know like 'ok so you're biking through the woods. now what' type stuff. and apparently this guy who was attacked tried to use his bike to get the bear to go away. so this guy. HAS HIS ARM IN A SLING and matt lauer says 'now can you show me what you did.' are you freaking kidding me? he's still not even recovered, he only has use of ONE ARM and you feel the need to ask him to demonstrate how he used his bike as a weapon to fend off an effing bear!?! what the fuck! it's bad enough that we feel the need to exploit this guy and put him on the today show just so we can stare at him and go wow. you almost died. scary. but why do we as a culture put up with shit like that? i mean, why not have a ranger on to talk about survival skills? why have the actual guy on and ask him to use his ONE ARM to show you how he got the bear away? what good is that doing? i mean honesty, if you're riding your bike in the woods and you see a bear, are you going to remember how this guy used his bike to hit it?no. i mean hell yes you'd hit the bear with the bike, but the one armed man's technique will probably elude you in the heat of the moment.
why do we need to put these people on tv? it's the same thing that happens when there's a tragedy, and people go on morning tv shows or oprah or dr phil or whatever. and they're on tv like the day after something happens and the anchors just exploit their pain and suffering for ratings. and it's not all tv's fault. i mean, what are we as a culture saying if we're watching this shit? i mean, we encourage people to do this, we made a culture that makes it hard to say no. we love people simply for being famous, for allowing us to see their lives. and if they make a spectacle of themselves, even better. we as a culture encourage them to go on the tv shows, to break down on the today show, to share their pain and suffering. and then we drop them about 10 minutes after the segment is over. and the next great thing is profiled. it's sad really. and there is so much more to say. but for now i'll stop ranting, my last client of the week just showed up, so time to wrap up this very long and very busy week of work.
have a great weekend! i'll be drinking in a field :O) i love central pennsylvania!