FRIDAY- I recently moved from the cityburbs to the countryburbs and thought that life and driving were going to calm down. But instead of getting cut-off and tailgated by scapers and donks, my roads are now dominated by enormous vehicles. On Friday afternoon, a humungus truck in front of me was covered in decals and phrases that were all in praise of America to the utmost degree. "THANK YOU" was written (it might have been painted) in huge yellow letters on the tailgate, and surrounding that were the initials of various government agencies and departments such as the NYFD, CIA, FBI, NEA, USMC, and so on. Another sticker read, "Gun control means using two hands." I can't recall, but I'm pretty sure Calvin was urinating on something. Of course there were a few American flag stickers and there was even an actual American flag inside the cab. (I tried to take a cell phone picture, but decided to drive instead.) Don't get me wrong, I love my country. But this is too much for me. For the rest of the ride home I thought about why this truck annoyed me so much. Why would someone's excessive praise of my country bother me? I came to the conclusion that it is its excess that bothers me. It's as if the truck was saying, "this is the best country in the world, and anyone who disagrees with that even a little bit is a commie and should move to France and eat Freedom Fries." Using your car for excessive praise is annoying in general, but when its about one's country, it's even more irritating. Remember what happened in Lord of the Flies? When Jack says, "We're English and the English are the best at everything"? Not good.
SATURDAY- I saw "Sweeney Todd" and really liked it, even if it is a musical.
SUNDAY - I didn't watch either playoff game because I was at the racetrack. I won 80 dollars on a horse named, "I AM THOR". The odds of him winning were 14 to 1, so when he did actually win at the last second, the crowd was pretty quiet...except me. I threw up my hands, clenched my fists and roared, "I AM THOR!!!" like I was a pro wrestler. I'm sorry, but I was excited.
That night I watched the first two episodes of "Big Love" and learned that polygamy is like communism...both sort of sound good in theory, but are disastrous when exercised. Good show.
MONDAY - Watched CNN's Democratic Debate. Even though this one was actually a debate, there was too much bickering between Obama and Clinton. Because of this, I thought John Edwards "won". However, it didn't really help my indecision about who to vote for on Super Tuesday.
After the debates, I made the mistake of watching Amy Winehouse smoke crack on the internet. It was pretty depressing. She is the only pop artist I can honestly say that I like. And I just got word that Heath Ledger died!?! At the track my brother and I were talking about how excited we are about his performance as The Joker. What the hell is going on? Sad, sad, sad.
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