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| I hate to say this but I would really like to watch "Celebrity Apprentice". Gary Busey, Meatloaf, LaToya Jackson, & Others!! The level of crazy and ego on that show is going to be of hilarious proportion. | | |
| The best idea for a TV show that I have heard, perhaps ever. Courtesy of Tom Robbins.
Fungi for the Straight Guy
Give a boring middle aged man a heroic dose of magic mushrooms and have a camera crew follow him around for six hours.
Hilarious, and cheap to produce! I usually foster a deep hatred for reality TV because 1.) It's not real 2.) It's reducing the number of jobs for writers 3.) The participants usually seem like they were scraped from bottom of the US's barrel
This isn't necessarily any more real than any other reality TV shows but I think that its good for people to have experiences that change their perceptions. And personally I would like to watch it, although probably not all six hours of it. Editing would be necessary to hold the audience.
Maybe I'll suggest this to my friend Leah who wants to work in the TV/movie industry. I think it could be a breakout hit. She would of course have to split the profits with Tom Robbins, its only fair.
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| Finals week is still going in full force. I had a long chat with the security guard(who I know from my year working at the cafe) at the campus library today about the stress of finals week. Apparently they have to call the paramedics an average of six times during each finals week because someone passes out in the library from stress/lack of food/lack of sleep. He also told me that he feels more like a counselor than a security guard during finals since he often takes stressed out students into his office to calm them down or call their parents to calm them down. He also dispensed this pearl of wisdom that he says got him through a lot of hard times, including Vietnam: Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
It looks trite and dumb when its just typed out. But when you hear it from Dan with his long white ponytail and matching fu manchu, black leather fringed vest, slightly troll-like face, and clear goodwill it seems like something you should put into practice.
Next he went and chatted with a frazzled-looking kid wearing plaid pajama pants, a MN Twins windbreaker, moccasins, and a yacht captains hat. I immediately wanted to call him Captain and Twinnille, and was dissapointed that there wasn't anyone I could tell.
(Please someone get this joke. Laura, I think you're my best shot)
Finally, they brought in therapy dogs from 3-7 for stressed-out students to pet. There were so many people clustered around the dogs that you could hardly get through the main floor of the library. It was really the best situation for everybody; the dogs got petted and scratched to their hearts content and everyone who had petted a dog was clearly much happier afterwards.
Is it a proven fact now that something about the presence of animals makes people feel better? I think that there are studies on this.
If it was a little quirkier, this post sounds like something that Wes Anderson would direct. Jason Schwartzman would play me and he would be listening to the Kinks on his ipod. He would be able to cite the studies relating animals and human happiness.
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| Anthony Bourdain and Bill Murray were just together at a restaurant on TV. Be still my heart.
I am so sick of researching folkloric figures. I'm writing two papers on two different folklore characters and now know a lot about two very narrow topics. They're both really interesting, but its weird to spend a whole semester learning pretty much only one thing in depth for a class.
I got a sunburn last Monday and the next Thursday it snowed, but I'm still really happy that spring is here despite the jolts to my system.
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| I don't think that Oprah's voice has enough gravity to narrate a nature show. Although that's not reason enough to keep me from watching "Life" for hours tonight. I love nature programs!! And its spring break so I don't have any homework tying me down, hooooooray!
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