RANDOM THOUGHTS:
I have a Facebook page, and have been using it since January of 2010. Most of the time that I've used Facebook have been for no purpose other than to write some Random Thoughts-esque statuses that ranged from serious to snarky and maybe share some interesting links or two. That's pretty much it, actually. I hardly post pictures, I never post any videos or poke people, and I only occasionally like others' statuses. Basically, I just treat Facebook as Twitter but with 290 extra characters left to type.
However, there are some among my Facebook friends that don't use it so infrequently and discretely. Others just end up going as far as using their Facebook page as their own diary, posting pictures and statuses that are basically too much more information than it should be. This type of usage of Facebook culminated this past week when, at Wednesday around 10:30 a.m./CST, one of my 230 or so virtual friends (that I've known since elementary school, no less), posted this quick, simple status, one that stunned me when it was first posted:
"I just took a shit."
That's it; no more, no less. Basically, a one sentence statement posted in a free, public website that 482 or his friends could read in an instant, saying that he took a dump. Now, it's been nearly a week since that status and I still have no idea what to think of it. Either this is one of the darkest moments in social media history, one in which a person thought it was so damn important to tell the world of his f@cking bowel movement of all things and just basically reflected this sense of deep narcissism that it stereotypical or my fellow generation-Y mates OR one of the secretly greatest things that I've ever seen on the social networking site, a perfect one-sentence unintentional satire (because I'm sure this person never intended it to be an actual satire) of how far and how open social networking has come. I mean, as someone who has joked with others in the past of how open with releasing information some people are on Facebook, to actually see a status like this...it's like seeing Mike Tyson bite off Holyfield's ear after months about joking of his craziness.
Anyways, moving on, here are the fresh new set of random thoughts, all prepped and ready to go. The following were on my mind between Monday, June 6th and Monday, June 13th:
- I'm not sure which united the country more: Osama Bin Laden's assassination, or Lebron James and the Miami Heat officially losing the NBA Finals to the Mavericks last night.
- I love it when you watch an old episode of a TV show and you see some now famous actor in a relatively minor role. Makes you feel better of yourselves knowing what audiences in, say, 1998 didn't know when they saw a then unknown Hugh Laurie play a really small role on an episode of "Friends," or those in 2005 who saw Jack McBrayer of now "30 Rock" fame play a waiter with two lines on "Arrested Development."
-It's okay for a comedian to say offensive and inappropriate stuff on stage as long as it's funny or at least trying to be funny. Tracy Morgan's now infamous rant in Nashville was neither one of those, but rather an inappropriate, unfunny bashing of homosexuals, which is why I was pretty angry of this story.
-Apparently, Family Radio leader/two-time false prophet Harold Camping suffered a stroke Thursday night, almost a full month since May 21st came and went. Guess that means that at least one person is experiencing the rapture after al1!
- If there's a single statement last night that by Lebron James that basically reinforced everything that people hate on him, it's this:
"All the people that was rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today," James said. "They have the same personal problems they had today."
In other words, I'm not gonna stress about the haters because I know that, deep down, they're just hating on me because I'm better than them (according to Worthington's law, that is). See, because I am a gentleman that has been bestowed with God-given athletic abilities, have been considered one of the best players in basketball since my arrival to the league, have made around $500 million in earnings in the 8 years since I've graduated and am one of the biggest names in sports while those people that consistently criticize me are not like me, one must assume that it's because they're envious of my awesomeness, that they're doing so to escape the reality that they're all miserable and wanting of a better life (though that's not true). I mean, what else can it possibly be? I mean, come on!
In all seriousness, if you want to know why people can possibly hate James more than say, a player who is also a convicted felon or made some stupid, offensive comments in the past, look at that statement over again. It has all: the arrogance of James that many saw during "The Decision," the self-centerdness, the feeling of his that he's the best since sliced bread (even though he has yet to win a single title in his lifetime as of this date), and the complete lack of self-awareness of how many people view them. Look, the guy is a great player (one that just about any team would want to have), and his reputation will get better once he starts to win a few Larry O'Brien trophy, but God damn it's really hard to say positive things about this guy's character whenever he keeps spewing asshole statements like these (not to mention his poor sportsmanship following any playoff defeat)!
- What a brilliant midseason finale by "South Park"! Not only was the episode itself both gut-bustingly hilarious (at least in this viewer's opinion) and poignant (a rare combination for the show these days), but the final three minutes was one of the biggest game changers in the show's history (possibly the biggest since Kenny remained dead for an extended period of time). By many people's guess, it was a clear sign by Parker and Stone that the show was either going to wrap up soon (something that I never even thought about until then), whether it's this fall or in 2013 during the end of the "Teen Wave" movement as described in this episode, or a sign that there was going to be the becoming of many fresh storylines to come (most notably Randy as a single man or Kyle and Cartman spending more time together). Either way, I loved it, and can't wait to see what "You're Getting Old" will have in the future.
- Damn you, Don Carter! How dare you accept the Larry O'Brien Trophy following the end of game six and come in-between David Stern giving a trophy to Mark Cuban, the NBA's version of Pete Rozell giving the Vince Lombardi trophy to Al Davis! I wanted awkwardness, dammit!
- If there's anything that I've learned from the AV Club's 4-part interview with Dan Harmon it's that I should be even more critical of the show once season three comes along. After all, if Harmon's insecurity and overthinking of the show after reading the online criticism of every episode lead to the great second half of season two, than who knows how great the show will be once more people decide to become more negative thoughts on the show for the cause!
More RTs to arrive to this site next Monday. Until then, enjoy the rest of your Lebron H8rade Christmas!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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