Fat Bitch Wednesday

Every week, sometime around the middle, my housemate and I sit down to watch The City and The Hills back to back. Usually, this night takes place on Tuesday--that being the night the shows are posted online--and usually involves hooded sweatshirts and ice cream. Tonight i made twice baked potatoes for everyone. Dean had a apple turnover that his brother sent him.

So let's just get one think straight. The Hills and The City are unequivocally great tv shows. Tonight my housemate--Dean again--wished aloud that he could have bought stock in The Hills at the get go. He also had to wish, later, that you could buy stock in television shows at all, but that's beside the point. The point is that these two shows are great. They are the most fascinating shows i've ever watched. They are dramatic, embarrassing, jaw dropping, disgusting, and completely enjoyable. Outside of sentimentality they have everything you could wish for in a television series. Well, that and likable characters. Neither shows have likable characters. But whatever, who needs sentimentality and likable characters. We'll have plenty of both in a few months when the Winter Olympics role around (who else is watching women ice skating qualifiers. Right!). So yeah, the abovementioned television is chalk full of awfully rich children, rolling, dancing, drinking, and definitely fornicating in New York and Beverly Hills. They're the kind of shows that make you want to punch total strangers and I think that's important.

- The twice baked potatoes were incredible.
- I missed new comic day.
- Devendra Banhart is good, but his style should not be duplicated (see also: kids singing open mic night like goats)
- Australians are still awful people.
- Canadians are push-overs.
- Most women are stronger than me.
- I'm still wearing the Yankee cap.
- My fucking computer doesn't have speakers right now. This is bad for late night tv.
- Dean is growing his beard but shaved under his jaw line. This was a mistake as far as i can tell. His beard, which ought to look like an organic, circumstantial thing, looks like a business model, well thought out and planned for the future. Unfortunately, this is actually the case; Dean in growing a mustache in disguise. I almost want to tell him to shave it and correct it's course from the beginning. I would if not for the inevitable storm of self-consciousness that would then settle in on him and ultimately inspire him to scrap the whole project.

That about wraps it up.

Obviously, word to your mother.

- TW