Please go tell CBS to get their freaking shit together. I had a compelling post written about their duty to fulfill the public trust, democracy isn't real without informed citizens, blah blah, and then I lost it. Thanks to EV, Jason, my mom, and most other people in the world for this news that I'm sure you have heard already, but seriously, go sign the petition if you like the concept of the United States and all.
Ugh. Is it 1962? What the fuck? I'm waiting to see the complementary appliance, a vacuum cleaner adorned with footballs and penises which also opens beers and scratches your balls for you. Good grief.
The latest show I am not allowed to watch: Animal Cops. My heart is in my throat here, and I keep involutarily making that girly high-pitched oh-how-sad "oooooooh!" sound. I understand that animal hoarding is a psychological disorder and all, and I feel for those people to an extent. But how can you be mean to the cute furry animals? How can you leave your dog ON THE PORCH when it has been hit by a car, let your horses starve to death, abandon bears?!? Wouldn't it be more satisfying to be mean to the humans? Especially after seeing this shit? I keep having to go on little jogs around the apartment in order to avoid a breakdown.
I just remembered something important (to me, at least), due to my recent dental adventures. I believe that I first became aware of my pointy things phobia as a child, while at the dentist. There was a rack of dental tools on a flexible arm thingy near my head, and the dentist kept moving it around to get at things, and the shiny shiny points of the scrapers and needles and who-knows-what-just suddenly made me want to run screaming. Interesting.
Related question: is it possible to have a mild phobia? Or is this one of those either/or things, like the brain doctors would tell me that I do not have a phobia at all, like you can't really claim to have a touch of the paranoid schizophrenia. I wonder if the brain doctors know what it feels like to have even a mild case of "my eyes are trying to crawl into my head."
Posted by hilatron at January 29, 2004 10:57 PM | TrackBackI think it is possible to have a mild phobia. I'm scared shitless when I fly in an airplane, sweating and drinking copiously and all that, but my need to see people and do things has me flying quite a lot. With a real real phobia, I wouldn't fly.
Posted by: EV at January 30, 2004 09:30 AMi saw an animal cops that was just fucking killed me...... i think that was the night i ended up puking up xmas-colored rice crispies at 6 am. was it the soy milk? was it me worrying about eloise? was it animal cops? the world may never know.
Posted by: jenni at January 30, 2004 03:57 PMmild phobia? well, that depends on whether you think of the term phobia as just a way to describe something you're scared of or as a way to describe something you're deathly afraid of. i guess it could be seen as a relative term. but think of it this way... do people who have mild cases of agoraphobia only hover in their doorways because they're only midly scared to death of going outside? i guess you could call it mild if the fright doesn't possess you all the time.
Posted by: dirty grrl at February 2, 2004 04:49 PM