Thursday morning randomness
I've been staying up way too late at night. I don't know what it is about me. I love sleep. Really. I love dreaming. There are days when I would just like to lay in bed, sleeping and dreaming and never get up. And yet, when it comes to bedtime, I'm always very reluctant to go. Last night, I was playing a computer game, and I kept saying to myself, 'just one more level'. And then it was midnight, and I finally dragged myself up to bed where I read until 1:00, and then woke up at 1:45 to pee. And then I had to get up about 7:00. Ugh.
So, out of curiosity I watched Fox's new reality show, The Secret Millionaire, last night. I thought the concept sounded interesting: really rich people pretend to be poor and try to find poor people/people helping the poor who are worthy of their largess. Concept? interesting. Execution? Very, very poor. I thought it would be a hidden camera style show. But as far as I could tell these two guys had a cameraman right there with them. So, yeah, they were like totally normal, down-on-their-luck guys, just don't pay any attention to the man behind the camera. *eyeroll* I think we were supposed to be touched by the plight of the people they met. And I would have been if I'd gotten to see the real people, and not just those who put on their party manners for the camera. The show was on for two hours, but I turned it off after the first hour, and I'll never watch it again.
I'm never one to leave negative feedback on a story, but sometimes I read something that has so many problems that I really have to back away from the keyboard to keep from commenting on them. First off, again we have a concept that was interesting, but very poorly executed. The characters are supposed to be finding the protagonist's plight amusing, but in doing so, they just appear callus and OOC. There's a very simple solution to one aspect of the problem, but it's never brought up. Then, from out of nowhere and with no build-up, there's a bit of drama, more OOCness from the supporting characters, and by the time I got to the next scene which involved the middle-aged male character acting liked an emo teenaged girl I just couldn't take in anymore and had to quit reading. Plots that are 'nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll eat a worm', can be really good, but it takes a deft hand to do it right. This poor author, a newbie, I think, has a long way to go to be able to pull it off.
When I got my newspaper from the front door this morning I saw that the local Catholic high school had left a large plastic bag hooked to my door. They're doing their Christmas food drive for Catholic Charities which they'll pick up on Saturday. Which means, I'll need to stop at the grocery store tonight after work because I'm going to the Christmas dinner tomorrow night, and I know I won't be in the mood to shop after that. I have a few things at home I can donate, but not enough to fill that bag. *g*
So, out of curiosity I watched Fox's new reality show, The Secret Millionaire, last night. I thought the concept sounded interesting: really rich people pretend to be poor and try to find poor people/people helping the poor who are worthy of their largess. Concept? interesting. Execution? Very, very poor. I thought it would be a hidden camera style show. But as far as I could tell these two guys had a cameraman right there with them. So, yeah, they were like totally normal, down-on-their-luck guys, just don't pay any attention to the man behind the camera. *eyeroll* I think we were supposed to be touched by the plight of the people they met. And I would have been if I'd gotten to see the real people, and not just those who put on their party manners for the camera. The show was on for two hours, but I turned it off after the first hour, and I'll never watch it again.
I'm never one to leave negative feedback on a story, but sometimes I read something that has so many problems that I really have to back away from the keyboard to keep from commenting on them. First off, again we have a concept that was interesting, but very poorly executed. The characters are supposed to be finding the protagonist's plight amusing, but in doing so, they just appear callus and OOC. There's a very simple solution to one aspect of the problem, but it's never brought up. Then, from out of nowhere and with no build-up, there's a bit of drama, more OOCness from the supporting characters, and by the time I got to the next scene which involved the middle-aged male character acting liked an emo teenaged girl I just couldn't take in anymore and had to quit reading. Plots that are 'nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll eat a worm', can be really good, but it takes a deft hand to do it right. This poor author, a newbie, I think, has a long way to go to be able to pull it off.
When I got my newspaper from the front door this morning I saw that the local Catholic high school had left a large plastic bag hooked to my door. They're doing their Christmas food drive for Catholic Charities which they'll pick up on Saturday. Which means, I'll need to stop at the grocery store tonight after work because I'm going to the Christmas dinner tomorrow night, and I know I won't be in the mood to shop after that. I have a few things at home I can donate, but not enough to fill that bag. *g*