Thursday, July 03, 2008
O is for "overboard"
If I had any doubts about "The Bachelorette"'s popularity, they were put to rest once I looked at my web stats today. My entry about the show was getting tons of hits, thanks to people searching on keywords like "bachelorette deanna engaged jason," "jesse deanna wedding" (I guess people are trolling the web looking for spoilers -- well, you won't find them here!), and "the bachelor successful relationship" (the answer to that would be "no"). The key phrases people use to find interbridge.com are so much duller than the ones Rog writes about almost every day; due to my hugely popular lineups page, my top 100 search terms tend to be along the lines of "late night tv guests," "late show tv," "talk show guests," "late show guests," etc. etc. However, I did unearth this gem: "japan train sex truth problem."

My friend Neal comments: "It's kind of funny that I find these shows completely unwatchable and even insulting, but I always enjoy reading your write-up's of them!" I think there's a certain moral high ground claimed by those of us who watch "classy" (and I use that term very, very loosely) series like "The Bachelorette" and "The Amazing Race," which is my fave "unscripted" show; we can sneer at the folks who watch, for instance, "A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila" and say, "At least I'd never watch that!" But when it comes down to it, whether you're watching "The Wire" or "Jerry Springer," it's all just TV, isn't it?

Next month, millions of people will be glued to their TV sets watching the Olympics. I don't get the Olympics at all. I can see why they're such a big deal to the people who participate in them, but I don't understand why, every four years, folks who normally watch baseball and football all of a sudden get wrapped up in, oh, fencing and water polo, and then promptly forget about them until the Games roll around again. I find the Olympics excruciatingly commercialized, and it annoys me that anytime I watch a show on NBC, whether it's two months or two years 'til the next Games, the interlocking-rings logo is on the screen the entire time. To me, it's as though my calendar had a Santa Claus image on every single month's grid to remind me that Christmas is coming -- eventually.

Plus, I don't get the mentality of Olympic athletes. You basically give up having a normal childhood or adolescence so you can train for something that, unless you are a top gymnast, swimmer or ice skater, is extremely unlikely to bring you any significant remuneration, and then if you happen to fall and break your ankle the week before the Games, it's all been for naught and your dreams have been shattered.

Don't even get me started on the cities that compete to spend billions of dollars preparing for a two-week event. I was relieved when San Francisco's Olympic bid fell through.
posted by 125records @ 4:00 PM  
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