MAD TV's 15 minutes seem up

I really liked the last couple seasons of Mad TV. Especially last year. There seemed to be some originality, bravity and just plain funny....I don't know exactly what idiotic decisions were made over last summer, but the first warning sign that things were in the crapper were the first few episodes being "best of" episodes. It seemed desperate, but I thought, ah maybe they just need some time to rewrite some things... and then the 'real' season started...

...I like the acting, but I really miss Nicole Randall Johnson, who I feel was the most talented cast member in years. Ike Berinholtz (spl) definately left a void, and I don't feel the new replacements have successfully replaced them.

Something happened to the vision of the writers, too. It feels closer to the uber-crappy SNL. Infact the whole series feels now like the little brother of SNL. Bad ides that repeat for way too long and a focus on simplistic subjects.

Every episode does draw a few chuckles, but more groans. I also get the sense that the actors know it's crappier, but are professional and will do their jobs as well as one can when there is no more love for their art.

It's too bad, but I guess good things don't last, eh.

Race is Bass

This may sound like a Hitler idea, but imagine if we could execute everyone in the world who hated other people based on their race, religion, sex, sexual preference or language... would there be anyone left? I imagine I'd be left, but I might be wrong.

Prednezone Blues

It's a weird thing to be tickled by depression when you're aware that it is brought on as a side-effect. I'm on lung building steroids after a week in the hospital and they warned that I'd experience irritability and depression along with red spots and more crap. Anyways, I turned down the offer for happy-pills to countedr the roids as I didn't like the notion of adding drugs to handle other drugs.
Anyway I started noticing my thoughts gravitating towards the negative. And a sense of futility hung around me. But intelligently I can figure that these emotions and thoughts are essentially fabrications. Side-effects from the meds Sooo, I'm trying to get through the rest of the week as a Vulcan. Existing logically and ignoring my emotions until the bullshit passes.

Maybe I just need a toke.

NEW LEAF

OK so I just spent a week in the hospital..ICU thank you very much... and have since found a new zest for life. There are so many things undone. So many words unsaid, so many choices which I never bothered to aknowledge. I have been forced into a position in which I am no longer aloud to smoke anything. And I enjoy smoking all of it... Cigarettes were easy to quit. Because it's logical. Having the direct medical excuse gave me a backdor to quit smokes without 'copping out' as most smokers will understand.

Weed was/is a different story. It's such a common, socially acceptable thing (compared to cigs) that the choice to quit seems irrational or atleast unimportant. But it's deceptive. It's too easy to say weed either isn't the problem or that I'm aware it's a problem etc. The fact is weed is one of the problems. there are many and smoking dope every day all day was one. It's not as bad as so many other things... but it's not good

weed makes me passive, insecure, content, relaxed and happy to have weed. It takes the edge off, or more accuratly my edge away...

I do like it though. Alot. And if I didn't have a medical condition that forced me to not smoke, I'd continue doing it, and love doing it all day...
but for now, I'll enjoy the confidant anger that fuels my daily routine

Religious Yahoos

Kinda sick of innocent people, including children, dying daily in the name of various imaginary father figures telling crazy lost souls what to do. Religious extremists resemble Son of Sam to me. He was a serial killer who justified his actions to himself by imagining his dog was telling him to kill happy couples. Israel. Palestine. You freaks are never going to get your revenge on the 'other side'. It was a mistake to place the Jewish settlement there after WW2. Not really concerned which side believes they are in the right. Both sides have their share of maniacs who believe their own self-righteous bullshit. Hey Israel: You're not really the chosen ones. It's true. You're just a buncha people like the rest of us. Believe whatever you will, but not to the point where you kill. Palestine. You're in a rotten pickle, but a show of strength is only going to satisfy you're hunger for revenge. Rocket strikes will only keep pissing everyone off. It will not lift the blockade around you.

Both sides need to forget the past (including the archaic scripts they live by) and stop throwing (explosive) rocks at each other. Actually come to think of it, it seems you are both suckered by the wealthy to keep buing arms off them and attacking each other.
Some wealthy sociopaths are profiting from you're misguided anger.

Please stop before you create more antisemitism and Arab prejudice around the world. I already hate Israel and Palestine is pissing me off lately too.

Is America Weak?

The EU is fining Microsoft for being a corporate jerk. This seems unheard of in America. Hiding behind a cardboard box with "freedom" written on it in marker, many companies get away with an insane amount of perverted nonsense in the States. Not perverted in the way you used the word in elementary school, but in the over-saturated, exploited obvious exposition way. America is useless when pitted against the agendas of the uber-wealthy. They seem unable to stand up for common decency. They are bullied by lawyers and mid-level politicians. They look like cowards.

Maybe they're not... maybe they're just indifferent. But they do seem like a weak lot though. They're like the lanky rich kid. Useless in almost every way imaginable except for touting the fact that he comes from wealth. And the other kids, who think they want wealth, beckon or at least tolerate the brat.

OK so simply because their character seems weak doesn't mean the nation is, right? Sure... but they keep getting their asses handed to them in most wars. WW2 they did well, along with half the world. Their solo affairs lack the same success. Vietnam? Gulf War 1? ok they won the first Gulf War but a whole lotta good that did. Did we win that? They're still fighting Iraq over 15 years later... and they're having a hell of a go at it. Trillions in dollars. Thousands of lives and they can't control a country that doesn't even have an army. Shit... what if Iraq is the new Poland? What if the world united against America like they did against Germany in the 1940s. That's kinda scary.

Anyway I get the sense that Americans are like the parent figure realizing that they don't really have an arsenal against their teenage kid, but they still hope to God the kid doesn't catch on.

The world doesn't need to fear America anymore... we should reign in their leash though...

Day 0.9

Tomorrow when I awake at the crack of noon I hope to apply to college. After highschool I figured it wise to take a decade or two off to get all the 'partying' out of my system before I wasted tuition on something. Deadline's at the end of the week so if I try to do it tomorrow I might have it done by Friday.