well, well, well

turns out ALL of my content is still up via the handy archives to the left. this is helpful for me as i sift through and read pieces i like and other pieces that help me out in the head.

i will say i am one moody bitch.

so don't waste your time tripping through the archives (circa 2002). i'll pull together some kind of best of post with links to all of it. the ultimate self-back pat. but what the hell, this IS a blog. as i often say to a friend of mine, blogs come in second only to mirrors as top vanity tools.

in summary: I rock. long live blog. you look thin in a blog. you have friends in a blog. and after the friends finale, that's saying a lot.

rant segue: FUCK Friends. they jumped the shark moons ago. sadly, the only sitcom that went out before it started to suck technically was Family Ties. or at least I thought this when they went off the air. in hindsight, Family Ties sucks balls after the likes of MASH, Seinfeld and Cheers. But in comparison to these sitcoms, there is no comparison.

NBC is using the whip on the Friends gravy train horse until the fucker collapses in a heap. the price for a :30 second spot rivals the Super Bowl commercials. yet they already predict the finale will have like half as many viewers as when MASH went off the air. there is a whole other post about our changing media habits to explain this, but in the meantime i will just assert that MASH shits higher quality tv than Friends can even aspire to.

the whole finale buildup has been one big general foods international coffee pussy rub (read JEAN LUC). i feel like i should have on a pink cashmere sweater every time i see the pablum ads for it.

thankfully i will miss it completely. i will be at a church retreat meeting. so i can high road the shit out of you on this and keep my argument clean and simple.

Friends sucks. I will not watch it's final episode. but it reminds me of an interesting pheomenon i fall into. not everything, but somethings get popular in a way that i wind up disliking whatever it is because of the fan worship bullshit that follows it.

case in point: UK basketball. talented kids. college basketball is a sport that actually keeps my attention and is a real game (note: pro sports salary rant seed planted HERE). the fucking fans make me want to pave over the whole state. i was seriously waiting for the kid growing up with the Wildcats tatoo on their forehead from the overzealous parent that wanted to give the team that extra edge this season.

anyway, what the fuck was i talking about? oh yeah, fans of Friends make me loathe the show. used to watch it. used to enjoy it. the female characters took turns being hot. Chandler was funny until his one joke finally got old. or at least his one mode of delivery. and after all of this sunk in, the finale fuck fest kicked in and was salt in the wound of an exhausted TV viewer.

sigh.