OK, everyone exhale... It's officially September 12th throughout the US of A. Not out of fear, but out of some strange sort of morbid respect or superstition I did not want to leave the house today. We didn't watch much "real" TV today either, just the CBS evening news and Cops and part of AMW on Fox. Then I did computer stuff for a few hours and came back in and watched TLC Clean Sweep another messy couple's house. Why do people sign up for this show if they aren't willing to get rid of anything??
Sparky's been very depressed with the latest Kerry vs. Dubya polls, but he watches that crap all day on TV. I keep trying to tell him polls are bullshit (have you eve been polled? I haven't, I've been a registered voter since 1980), and most of the news he watches is biased, but he can't see past the haze of helplessness and despair that is being projected. (Cue up the loudspeakers on the streets, "Don't think, obey blindly or die...", rinse and repeat till braindead) He's trying to force himself not to watch as much and has been watching things like MST3K videos instead. The TV in the den has actually been turned OFF some during the last few days (it's never off, this is really very eerie).
We both watched some of Al Franken's show since they've been airing it on the Sundance channel this week. We don't have satellite radio and he doesn't do computers, but I actually streamed it one night after he had gone to bed and ended up catching it and Randi Rhodes, who blew me away. I'm not sure I can handle that much excitement at 5 am. I'm not a good listener, I really dislike things like books on tape and talk radio usually, but she managed to keep my attention. Honestly? I believe I have something called Central Auditory Processing Disorder, I've never been good at listening to speeches, I still think that's the reason I did so badly in college. Suddenly school consisted of sitting in huge auditoriums listening to speeches... zzzzzzz.... Reading I have no problem with, I can read for hours, as long as it's not something I have zero interest in, zzzzzz...
I can't distinguish what people are saying in large crowds, I'm the one that sit and nods blankly at people, I've always gotten song lyrics wrong, I'm really easily distracted by people talking while I'm trying to concentrate on typing, etc. I sleep better with white noise in the background (I grew up with the air conditioner humming against my bedroom wall). I used to have to be really careful when I worked nights and was driving around to keep my car radio either up where I could hear it clearly or off so I wasn't lulled into dozing off. About the only talk radio I used to listen to was Larry King back in the 80's, he actually managed to keep me awake. But I don't like to talk on the phone, I'd rather email people or see them in person. And I have severe tinnitus, which doesn't help.
But I love music. I'd go insane without it, it works better than Prozac. It plays in my head 24/7 whether I want it to or not. But more to follow on the musical subject...
Damn, I just went to Air America to get links and what's on right now? The Best of Randi Rhodes, I'm listening now... so I'll be all fired up again tonight, glad I got my Ambien refilled.
But, regarding terrorist attacks, I'm not sure why we're uneasy anymore, Cheney actually told us the other day that THEY are the ones in charge of whether we get attacked or not, so I guess we can all rest easy until November 2nd. He knows when they'll be coming for us, he can make it happen. Cheney would really look like an idiot if something happened before the election now that's he's declared that we're basically safe until afterwards (but only if they win). So why are we afraid? Ummm.. because our own government is threatening us with a terrorist attack if we don't vote Republican? OK, yeah, that's a good reason to be scared. The corporate mafia is running our country and we're all running out of payoff money to keep them from hurting us...
I told you I can't type and listen at the same time, so I think I'll go play with Photoshop while I listen, I know I can do that safely...
P.S. Just heard this comment about how we're all getting rich on eBay. As an eBay Powerseller I can officially say - NOT!!! But at least I'm not working for someone else anymore, they're trying to take people's overtime pay away too.