The Strange Concept of Reality

I believe that VH-1 has created the worst-ever piece of reality television. That is, there’s a show that features people singing along (badly) with the radio — in their cars. The catch is that they don’t know a hidden camera is filming this behavior, along with an audio track of the background music and their singing. The result? Thoroughly anti-climactic programming.

Two weeks ago, had someone asked me to describe watching paint dry to you, I couldn’t have given them a fitting point of reference. But after having seen this show, I think that I’ve found one.

Net, I Barely Know Ye!

I’ve just realized that spam is really, fucking annoying, but not for the reasons that you may think. Sure, there’s a volume of spam to have (or be had). And sure, there’s really no good way to escape from spam, in particular because much of it seems to be crafted and distributed from overseas. To wit, I’m suggesting that all of the (domestic) anti-spam legislation won’t make a bit of difference.

Further, spam really irritates me because its products make less and less sense to me. On one hand, there’s all of the drug-related spam. Fine, drugs are expensive here. Some nights, you need that extra oomph! from Viagra or Cialis, and don’t want to spend the cash at your local Rx — so, instead you choose to spend $4.95 online to get a month’s supply from Bucharest or Istanbul. On the other hand, there’s the spam that I keep receiving in my weblog comments for… online poker.

Online poker?!

Is there a market for online poker?

What’s the incentive of playing online poker over spending your hard-earned money on Cialis?

Are you kidding me?

This has been going on for months… months, I tell you. Am I in the wrong business? Should I drop everything and get into the lucrative, volume business of online poker?

So, I won’t be allowing comments for a bit. It’s kind of irritating that I have to keep blocking/combating comment spam for these online poker-types of joints. Maybe if I pass enough 500 errors, all of this blind, stupid, online poking will stop. Or maybe not. It’s hard to say.