Well, it’s true. I don’t want to give y’all any spoilers or anything, but none of us are getting out alive. So, is the title sensational? Sure, but it is true.
We’re seeing a lot of this these days. Sensational titles. It used to be just tabloids. Not anymore.
OMG a mother didn’t take her child to daycare. The FATHER did. Let’s vilify Chelsea Clinton! Get the torches and the marshmallows!
Randy and I went out for dinner tonight and, while I couldn’t hear the TV dialogue, the video clip and the subtitles told me all I needed to know. It was a video of Stephen Colbert and Allen Iverson playing paper ball. Colbert spanked Iverson and they kept showing the part where they shared an awkward hug. It wasn’t the most awkward hug ever. It pretty much looked like every hug I’ve ever given. They kept showing that hug and displaying “Should A.I. be embarrassed?” And then this whole panel of men discussed it. A lot.
Fucking really?
What a great time in history this is for the pearl clutchers. We’re being told every day why we should be outraged.
This behavior gains us nothing. I want to stop reading all news. Or at least until news is written by kittens. I don’t think they want us to all be butthurt all the time.
Anyway, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend.
I had another article on Vibrant Nation. It’s an argument between me and menopause in which I am being reasonable and menopause is being a dick. I wrote it at 2:47 AM. Because menopause is an asshole.
We can’t forget Dude. Damn, Dude is popular. It cracks me up. Randy has been taking these pictures and telling me little stories as a way to remind me he’s thinking of me and in the hopes that it makes me happy for a few minutes and that I can step away from my anxiety. He’s so sweet.
I haven’t watched ‘real’ TV in so long.
I wish the news was written by kittens, too.
LOVED your Vibrant Nation article!!
I don’t watch real TV either..unless we’re out somewhere and it’s forced upon me.
I recently read an article somewhere that postulated that tabloid type internet headlines are nothing new – its been done for literally hundreds of years. Having said that, I do (usually) like Stephen Colbert but this one skit he did called Baby Bird (I won’t even describe it to you because it is so gross, except think about how mother birds feed their babies, and that is what he did to a contestant at a fundraiser) was way over the top. And having said that, what a great blog post headline!
I am not familiar with that skit and I won’t be looking it up because ew. And thank you!
I guess we have had tabloid headlines forever, but we haven’t had the internet forever, so maybe it’s just the volume forced into our brains.
I was on to your title before I read your explanation so I’m patting myself on the back. Pretty slick title!
We watch TV a lot. All of the time. My PC is setup with the monitor facing the TV. I can put my feet up, lean back in my outrageously expensive (to me) office chair where I can flip off news and personalities, as necessary, in comfort.
Some news is terrible for my anxiety. Too much to say. I did see a dude jump the Snake River canyon. That was cool.
Meds. kicking in. B-) Too mellow now to type. Have an anxiety free day. Everything will be alright in the end. If it’s not alright, it’s not the end.
Thank you for that! I needed that this morning.
“Everything will be alright in the end. If it’s not alright, it’s not the end.”
OhemGEE I love this.
But…I had my pitchfork all sharp and everything…
We’ll find another use for it!
Is menopause a dick or an asshole? Those don’t go together. I guess they could but that might not be the same message about menopause…..
It depends if it’s causing insomnia or sweat
You need to watch “Team America” to understand the real difference between dicks and assholes, and how, really, they do go together.
And further, menopause must be a dick because assholes don’t really create any “heat”.
I TRIED to watch it..I did. I thought it was boring and couldn’t get through it. I guess I will have to remain ignorant about dicks and assholes. haha.
Never seen it. Not sure I want to know.
Yep, we’re all definitely gunna die & time is precious, all we have is now. I find not watching the news, not reading the paper & staying away from arseholes is really helping my Peri Menopausal symptoms. I mean, the News is all bullshit & spin put together by people who want to manipulate our thinking. Bollocks to all that. I am trying to be friendly towards impending Menopause though. Calling it names seems to make it angry..
I don’t think it matters. It’s angry no matter what.
I have called menopause a dick and an asshole and various other body parts.
Whenever I come across a headline I feel I have to click, I end up on one of those sites that makes you click 50 slow-loading pages for your list of “50 things that xxxx”. I never finish and then I am mad at me for falling for it again.
OMG that is so frustrating. Yet I still get pulled in.
Just been thinking. Did my need to stop following tabloids & the news coincide with the realisation that my family was dysfunctional & Narcissistic? Truth now means so very much to me & I guess when you can see how people can manipulate with such cunning & cleverness that are supposed to love you, unconditionally, if gives you like this bullshit detector super power. Just a thought…x
Interesting. The truth is also very important to me. And I also have a very robust bullshit detector.
Oh, shit, yeah……between reading about the “Chicken Little” headlines and the article you wrote about menopause, that’s what I kept repeating to myself. “Oh…shit…YEAH!!!” Haha! I hate when you’re warm, then cold, then you have that feeling of total discomfort, where you cannot get comfortable to save your life and keep fidgeting. It drives you insane! But, your menopause is WAY cooler than my menopause! I have not heard about nor thought about Steve Forbert in YEARS! I remember him from back in the early days of MTV, when it was actually an amazingly hip and relevant music channel and not the reality-TV garbage disposal it’s now become. One funny fact: I just thought the woman referred to in his song lyrics was from the South! Does that make me naive or stupid? 😀
Neither. You’re lovable and cuddly 🙂
Even when you’re hot and sweaty!!
😉
That could very well be what it means. My mind just went to blow job.
We need to contact Steve Forbert and find the answer to this mystery!!!
Lisa, this is why I love you so. Of course, all my fur gets matted down when those sweats come! Haha! There’s an image! 🙂
I’ve been watching C-Span a lot. No commentary or headlines. You just see things as they’re happening. I’m not into sticking my head in the sand, but the news is getting ridiculous lately. It’s all about the spin, no matter what the consequences.
exactly!!
I don’t know much about menopause, maybe because I’m male and you can only learn so much about health conditions by reading about them, but several women I know are experiencing it. Like last night, our friend Brenda was in town for a visit to tell Briana and myself that she’s taking us to see Neko Case at the Fox theater for our birthdays. I made everyone a salad, and halfway through hers Brenda got up and went outside because she was having a hot flash.
The fact that we’re all gonna die should motivate us to make the best of the time we have here, the way I see it. Some days I do better than others in that respect.
The broken nature of our “fourth estate” is a serious deal right now, but luckily one can still obtain good information on the internet with a little effort and common sense.
How fun! How was the show?
It hasn’t happened yet. It’s in November, I think.
lol. oh yeah? Well if you wrote this, it is likely YOU’RE gonna die.
So we are in this together, sista!
We are! I’m going to put off the dying for as long as I can.
Me too. Me too – I am aiming for 105!
I was not made for these times. Whole days go by when I am not outraged at all. I don’t even have an opinion on everything I see.
Looking forward to reading your piece.
That would be easier. I’ve been avoiding today. It’s easier.
“They” tell you it only lasts a “while”. “They”LIE. I went through menopause 17 years ago and I still get the hot and cold sweats. So, don’t ever expect another normal night’s sleep unaided (yay Xanax) again. Not to bring you down or anything.
Yeah, I need the sleep aid, that’s for sure.
Woke up feeling grumpy and unloved, and I thought, “Who can I whine to?”
You were my first thought.
So, the main disadvantage of Facebook to me is seeing pictures of stuff my friends do together, without inviting me.
Main advantage: Rubber Shoes in Hell memes.
YAY!!! I am so glad!
Okay, that chocolate and bubble wrap thing is hilarious and I’m imagining myself trying to do that. Oy. Totally with you on the sensational headlines. The problem is too many people just read headlines now so any irony is lost on them.
Oh, I know. I’ve been shredded in comments before when it was obvious the person shredding had only read the headline.
Knowing my luck I’ll keel over the day I win the lottery!
Yep, I haven’t watched the news for a long time apart from when it is forced on me when I’m out too. I’m trying to avoid it at all costs at the moment as I’m actually feeling a rare bout of happiness and it would only spoil it.
Hahah..wouldn’t that be the luck?
Thus why I refuse to own a TV, and get my news mostly via twitter. Still hard to escape sometimes.
Kittens for president!
We only have netflix or amazon streaming..no commercials. Unless we watch youtube..at least there is a skip option after a few seconds.
I read your perimenopause article and I feel your pain. Whether it is the power of suggestion, hoodoo voodoo, or science based, I have been experiencing better sleep and virtually non existent night sweats/ hot flashes since I started having reflexology treatments once every three weeks. Hang in there – they tell me this too shall pass. 🙂
that is awesome! Who cares why it works..as long as it works. 🙂 Thank you!