As I write this, I am watching this disgusting christmas episode of the oprah winfrey show that is just psychotic. She's standing behind this infomercialesque counter and giving away, and I may have heard this wrong but it looks like I didn't, 1.5 million dollars of stuff from her sponsors to her audience, who are shrieking like rabid hyenas whenever she shows them something they're getting or especially when she announces the price of the item. I didn't really think that a crowd of soccer moms needed, or would get excited over, a Blackberry pager, but when Oprah announced that it cost 400 bucks they went nuts. Some lady cried and I guess almost fainted (which Oprah made a big deal of, to emphasize to everyone what a big deal this is) because they got some fancy jewelry. Cried because of jewelry!!! This thing is so crazy, it's like a really overdone parody of american commercialism in some terrible Robin Williams movie.
I never used to care about Oprah, but the more I see of her, the more I am convinced she is a genuinely terrible influence on the world. I am positive that in 10 years we'll be able to draw a straight line from all the bad things in the world directly to Oprah, just like you can with Florida right now. Who pioneered sticking ads (for a TV show!) on the cover(!) of books? Oprah. Who devoted an hour of her show during the California recall to a softball interview of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but no time for the non-molesters running against him? Oprah. Who is today pushing and promoting Nike products to her audience but still somehow manages to make people think she's one of the good guys in the world? Oprah. I'm pretty sure that the first human clone will be of Oprah (and it'll be genetically engineered to smell like gingerbread cookies).
Anyway, sorry for this lame entry, but it's just driving me crazy that I have to watch this and make all my mean, catty comments to myself, I wish you could all hear my angry, unfunny things I am saying to the screen every few minutes, they're really mean and unfunny!
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On another mean and unfunny note, the following 2 things about christmas stink: A) Those stupid white outdoor lights on houses. They looked cool the first time I saw them on a single house, but now that something like 75% of houses I see have them, they really look really bad. B) Also, that stupid CD of jazz christmas carols that every store plays, so annoying. Again, it was okay for a while, but come on already, give it a rest America.
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P.S. The final show-ending gift that Oprah gave to her audience was the current issue of O magazine and then... a whole year's subscription! Haha, that was pretty good, it was like she was just intentionally just going: 'fuck you audience, you were expecting something good weren't you!'
4:27 p.m. - Nov. 24, 2003