lately I get the idea more and more that there is just a huge, huge amount of money floating around in the world that gets spent on completely idiotic things, and I can't figure out how to get any of it. It's really frustrating. Here is an example: I read the newspaper's crappy TV Guide insert today, and the cover story was on that miniseries, Dinotopia. If you aren't familiar with Dinotopia, it's okay because I am now, so allow me to explain: It's a 6 hour miniseries about a world where dinosaurs live in harmony with humans. Not normal dinosaurs though, these are dinos that say sardonic things in british accents apparently, althought it's not really a comedy at all. The miniseries cost 85 MILLION dollars to make, and to top this off, the article had a fucking picture of a dinosaur playing ping-pong. This makes me go crazy in so many ways, and here are a few in handy point form:
- Someone thought it'd be a great idea to make a tv miniseries about sarcastic british dinosaurs living with humans, and made a lot of money.
- Someone with a good job at a TV network thought it'd be a great idea to buy that story and pay 85 million dollars to produce it.
- A whole bunch of other money has now passed hands in some deal that is going to make this an ongoing tv series next year, because there are people in control of a lot of money out there who think that this could possibly be a huge hit and isn't the most retarded idea ever.
- Some animation company somewhere made millions of dollars for, in part, making it look like a dinosaur was playing ping-pong.
How does the world keep turning, I don't get it. Maybe I'm totally crackers and this show is actually really super amazing and the best thing ever and the ads for it are just the worst parts, and maybe one day when the series of it is the biggest show ever and people talk about it the way they talk about the Simpsons or the Cosby Show or whatever now, I will look back and realize I was a bitter idiot when i wrote this, but I don't think so. More likely thought, maybe the only way I'll be able to deal with this if I keep thinking of it much longer is to embrace the show as the greatest and most retarded thing ever, in order to not go totally batshit over how unfair the world is (cf. my position on Bruce Vilanch).
8:49 p.m. - May. 13, 2002