johnnyfive

only in america...
a new cable tv movie depicts the events unfolding after the DC sniper attacks last year. the suspects have yet to be tried and convicted, yet there is a full length film to bring the terror right into each american living room. this is proof that we have become desensitized to the violence and mayham our culture promotes. having the actual sniper catastrophe happen in our country wasn't enough... all of the headlines and news flashes wasn't enough...the body count of innocent victims just wasn't enough. no. we have to have a movie to help us understand, or do we? i think it's the same sick fetish that makes us love nascar and hockey and the war in iraq: the pleasure of being a shadenfreunde; the excitement we get from watching horrible events over and over. how many times did you see that second plane hit the world trade center? did you lean in closer to the tv when they showed the surveilence footage of the columbine incident? i just don't get it. we have the real thing, but prefer a hollywood rendering of the events. no wonder our news has become so sensational, it has to compete with hollywood monguls trying to make a buck off our perversions and desire to be couch-potato-casualty-vampires.
did anyone ever see the "monkees" xmas episode? i don't know why, but i love it. it could be the way that mike nesmith wears his green toboggin, or maybe the way they bring out the production crew during the credits to wish everyone a happy holiday...but i think it's the very special hebrew song they sing at the end: riu chiu.
so what are you going to be for halloween?
halloween joke: why don't witches get pregnant? (all of their boyfriends have hollow-weenies!)