May 6, 2008
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The Daily News
1 So the exhaustion from the past few weeks is beginning to wane, and the fog and filthy air seems to be clearing.
2 I was running out of cutesy things to say, and my only solace has been sports. It was a vicious circle.
3 I keep coming home and collapsing, but that's par for the course in early May. We teachers move along famously until state testing, and then our entire universes change; the students get irritated, the heat outside turns unbearable, the Seniors completely exist inside themselves, and it becomes a cranky, tired old clock.
4 I had just exited what felt like running a wedding every week for around three months, and wound up out in the heat, finally culminating in shakiness and the coffee jits.
5 On top of that, I've had another prom, graduation, and around a hundred awards banquets to attend.
6 So having one of the most amazing sporting events in bay area history take place the other night made for some serious hallucinating yesterday.
7 Those of you who didn't know, the San Jose Sharks went into a quadruple overtime sudden-death game in which they and the Dallas Stars fought toe-to toe for over five straight hours, completely intense the entire time. Anybody who saw that game saw the real deal, whether you are a sports' fan or not.
8 I have seldom seen a game that was played with so much heart and guts on the part of both teams.
9 The Sharks wound up losing, but just seeing that sort of genuine human effort made every "reality" show turn embarrassingly forced and pale. Ah, I guess Dancing With the Stars and Am Idol show some "no guts, no glory" but most of the others stand hopelessly contrived.
10 Teevee is becoming hopelessly idiotic.
11 And all day I was trying to think of some interesting items to drop into the DN, but the only thing that even remotely interested me was when someone on a talk show told me that Playboy billionaire Hugh Hefner showed up at the Kentucky Derby wearing pajamas.
12 The image struck me as totally DN, so I rushed home to see if there were any good pictures, but alas! Looks like I was mistaken.
13 Here's a pic of Hugh and his three wives, or girlfriends, or whatever. He looks a little too much like Mary Poppins, or Bert, one or the other. In any case, looks like he wasn't in pajamas, but seemed to be having a jolly holiday all around.
14 Must be love.
15 Hey, at least with Hef, it's pretty obvious that it's a lark.
16 The Bachelor had its last show last night. Talk about idiotic.
17 That's the show where they get some gajillionaire knucklehead and then a bunch of wimminz to compete for his heart.
18 Every single week I sit, watch, and finally yell, "WHO WATCHES THIS CRAP????!!!"
19 And then I'm always outraged at the outcome, and just how stupid all these wimminz are, and completely astounded at how plain stupid the entire thing is.
20 I wound up watching the entire season, even though I was its number one critic. Every single week I watched every single minute, never understanding how anything so absolutely imbecilic can remain on the air.
21 I absolutely LOVE being a hypocrite.
22 It's SO un-allowed. People have zero tolerance for hypocrites.
23 I used to love when Steve Martin would be accused of things like that. He would always look right out at the audience and say, "Well ex-CUUUUUUUUUUSE me!"
24 I'm convinced that the reason people get SO upset at hypocrites is that we all have that in us.
25 Someday I'm going to write a play about it. Actually, someday I'm gonna write three or four HUNDRED plays about it. Yeah, fo sho.
26 So yeah, I hate reality teevee with a passion.
27 I can say that because I never miss a show.
28 Raise a graceful glass to hypocrisy.
29 Have a wonderful Tuesday everybody. Take none of this seriously.
30 Enjoy the day. It's amazingly Springtime out there.
31 Peace.
~H~
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