Misadventures of the 10lees

News Worthy

The problem with life right now is that there is so little to report. So here is the week in review as well as what I am looking forward to in coming week:

Grey's Anatomy: I don't know why I am so addicted, but I am. The season opener was great, but I have to say the death of Denny lost some of it's sting in the long summer break. Although I probably shouldn't admit to how hard I did cry when he died, it was a pretty pathetic to a TV show. Also, just so everybody is aware, the story line was completely improbable, the bubonic plague is only spread person to person during widespread epidemics and pandemics. In fact it wasn't until 1994 that the plague was even believed to spread person to person despite evidence in the historical record that it had. What proved it was the 1994 outbreak in India where the plague mutated and did spread person to person; otherwise, however, it only spreads if and when you come in contact with an infected flea. The flea jumps from the animal it is inhabiting, tries to bite you, evacuates the contents of it's stomach as it disengages from you body, hence infecting you with the plague. Yum! Of course you can always look it up on Wikipedia. Other than that completely improbable storyline, it was great.

I find that I need to plug a show coming up. I did see an add for it on TV and I thought it looked very interesting, so I would like everybody to tune in for the show Ugly Betty, it is a rather The Devil Wears Prada story (although it predates that), but without the main character giving up herself in pursuit of something "better". Instead, she loves and accepts herself the way she is, I am just happy for a damn good role model. Hopefully the show will live up to it's potential and it will stay on the air!

SEAHAWKS are playing as I write this and are currently up 14-0 with two false starts against the Giants. This past week has created a firestorm of controversy after the Giants alleged that we somehow pipe noise to make our crowd louder. Read about it here, of course the common Seattle response, be louder than ever. Hopefully we will scream our lungs out at them this time, and then the Giants will rack up more than their last 11 false starts they had last time they played at Qwest field.

In other news, supposedly Bin Laden is dead (we wish), and Clinton went off on Fox News Sunday about his handling of Bin Laden. I haven't seen the whole show (I think it comes out officially today, but it's been out on YouTube). Sounds interesting, but I think it is something we shouldn't be focusing on. Who cares about who is to blame, what we need to focus on is what to do next. It just reminds me of the South Park episode making fun of Katrina, poor Kyle asks his parents 'Isn't anybody going to help those people?' and his parents, who are washing dishes, say 'First we have to figure out who is to blame.' Seriously people, if you all you want is a scapegoat just find one, because the truth is all of us are to blame, whatever your political belief is. We just didn't focus on it until 'critical mass', and now we are trying to patch a cracked dam. Focus on fixing it and historians can worry about who's fault it is 100 years from now (or at least 60), and then we all won't give a damn.

On the plus side, one of my coworkers asked me about Marie Antoniette and whether she was a horrible person, and then I came up with an amazing analogy. Marie Antoniette wasn't horrible and mean spirited, she was under-educated (dumb) and selfish. She was the Paris Hilton of the age, except that she was also the Queen, which was a slight problem. Marie's most famous quote was 'Let them eat cake', when asked how to solve the Parisians food problem. Basically it's like putting Paris Hilton in charge of a third world country and then asking her how to solve their hunger problem: her response would be 'Uh, duh, they can just go to Wendy's and order of the .99 cent menu right." I thought it was quite brillant.

I hope you are having a great week, and I apologize for being so long winded.

Posted by 10lees at September 24, 2006 01:48 PM