Stupid ass commercials

I hate people in jewelry commercials.

The wives, husbands, even the sleeping children; why don't they all just shut the hell up and rethink their cultivated existences. Get over yourselves! Then go to hell!

The manipulative tone of expectation and praise for choosing a particular store or stone is offensive. The woman's reaction is nothing short of Pavlovian in these scenes. Teary eyed and sentimental, she seems to have reached some sort of goal she set long ago. Life is finally paying off for her, and she repays her husband's "expression of love" with physical affection. You know, like a prostitute.

The notion of a husband giving his wife an expensive piece of jewelry is equivalent to a bribe. Through out the year, most commercials depicting husbands and wives illustrate an intellectually imbalanced relationship, strained by children, responsibility, incompetence, irrational spending or obsessions with sports or technology; never expressions of true compatibility! Are there commercials featuring men and women that doesn't exploit ideas of their personal conflict and miseries? Isn't that the precedent set in these "types" of advertisements? Then WHY during the Christmas season are things so great between husbands and wives? All of the crap of the year seems to fade along with the smelly socks, the chainsaw snore, the "know it all" looks of disapproval; are consumers supposed to just forget all that stuff? All those grilling accidents? Those credit card shopping sprees and broken 52 inch plasma screen TVs cause you did it wrong? Forgetting to pick up the kids? That 30 pounds gained? That nagging depression? That humiliating erectile dysfunction?

Now that it's Christmas we are supposed to believe that we are happy after all, deserving of expensive trinkets made of minerals extracted from illegitimate governments, mined by displaced children. We are suddenly happy with our mates during this season, compelled to reward them with these tokens, knowing that if we continue faking the smile, we will either get one or get some. That's what love is, right?

I really, really hate those bastardly commercials. And almost all others, too. The day that I see myself in one of those "wife" characters is the day I sign up for the Deepak Chopra workshop tour and throw the TV in the sinkhole. I don't want to do that because I really like the new Fox show, Fringe, but it would be worth it.

11/4/2008 Modern Love Hard Living

While I was hanging the laundry out to dry my neighbor, Lee came over and visited me today. He told me about why I didn't see him yesterday and it was a pretty good story.

He said he awoke when someone knocked on his door at 10:30am. It was his friend, Craig's wife who wanted to ask a favor. Craig was in jail. She needed Lee to accompany her to pick him up.

Lee asked why the hell she didn't just go down there herself seeing as it was so early in the morning and he hadn't had his coffee yet. She said that

1. they wouldn't accept her bail seeing that he was in jail due to a domestic abuse charge by her, PLUS she already had a restraining order against him. and

2. in order to pick up a person from jail you had to have a valid drivers license. She did not. But she drove up in a car. Lee has no car, but has a valid drivers license.

He agreed and went to the police station and filled out the necessary paperwork to release Craig. Four hours later he was released on bail.

After they left they they went to some bar in town that gives you free wings as long as you are drinking beer, and they stayed there till the place closed. They ate chicken wings for almost nine hours!

I was so jealous.

Ohyeah. This weekend our friends were clearing out their storage stuff and in it was a round rug that said 'Oval Office' on and looked something like the emblem in the center of this

He really liked it and he hung it on his front door. I will definitely take a picture of it.