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Jun. 11th, 2008 04:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kjpepperYeah. Still awake, and have pretty much accepted that it's gonna be one of those nights/days where I'm going to be sucking down coffee every four hours just to keep myself functioning. (Goddamn it, NOS, why must you contain ginseng?) Dishes have been vanquished finally, so I suppose that's something.
In between rounds of dishes I thoroughly horrified myself for an hour with a VH1 special on kiddie beauty pageants. My gut reaction on them is always OMG EEEK train wreck can't look away, but I also recognize that some little girls actually do enjoy that and acknowledge that I probably would have been into it when I was around 5-6ish myself had I even realized there was such a thing as a kiddie pageant. But yeah. Mostly OMG EEEK. The skewed messages it sends to the little girls in the pageant circuit have been discussed to death, so I'm not going to go there... I guess mostly my objection is more of a recognizing that stage parents are a lot like purebred show dog/cat owners, which is a little scary when the object they're showing is a sentient being at the age where it's learning but hasn't quite gotten the hang of reasoning for itself.
I seriously thought the AT&T commercial with the dad knocking on a whole bunch of car windows at the local Inspiration Point looking for his daughter held the top spot for my favorite ad so far this summer, but it's been edged out by this one:
ahahahahaha ballooning AARP nudists. Possibly even funnier than the ad is the flamewar conducted in the comments to this YouTube where one person's all ZOMG PERPECHOOATING NUDISM STARIOTAIPE OHNOES and the rest of them are all like "um...dude? STFD&STFU."
Is it possible to feel ansty and apathetic at once? I feel like I want to do something productive, but I'm sort of failing about giving a damn about anything I could conceivably be doing right now. It's not a fun feeling cause then I'm all full of restless energy and have nowhere to put it.
Hmm. 4:13. I could probably grab a couple of hours of shuteye maybe. Here's to trying.
In between rounds of dishes I thoroughly horrified myself for an hour with a VH1 special on kiddie beauty pageants. My gut reaction on them is always OMG EEEK train wreck can't look away, but I also recognize that some little girls actually do enjoy that and acknowledge that I probably would have been into it when I was around 5-6ish myself had I even realized there was such a thing as a kiddie pageant. But yeah. Mostly OMG EEEK. The skewed messages it sends to the little girls in the pageant circuit have been discussed to death, so I'm not going to go there... I guess mostly my objection is more of a recognizing that stage parents are a lot like purebred show dog/cat owners, which is a little scary when the object they're showing is a sentient being at the age where it's learning but hasn't quite gotten the hang of reasoning for itself.
I seriously thought the AT&T commercial with the dad knocking on a whole bunch of car windows at the local Inspiration Point looking for his daughter held the top spot for my favorite ad so far this summer, but it's been edged out by this one:
ahahahahaha ballooning AARP nudists. Possibly even funnier than the ad is the flamewar conducted in the comments to this YouTube where one person's all ZOMG PERPECHOOATING NUDISM STARIOTAIPE OHNOES and the rest of them are all like "um...dude? STFD&STFU."
Is it possible to feel ansty and apathetic at once? I feel like I want to do something productive, but I'm sort of failing about giving a damn about anything I could conceivably be doing right now. It's not a fun feeling cause then I'm all full of restless energy and have nowhere to put it.
Hmm. 4:13. I could probably grab a couple of hours of shuteye maybe. Here's to trying.
