Random Musings At Midnight

I wonder if twenty years from now people will develop a severe form of arthritis in their hands from holding iPhones for too long.

Also rerun of Seinfeld reminded me of how we actually used to call moviephone to look up show times. Sigh. Nostalgia.

Speaking of Seinfeld, Hello Ladies is hands down the best comedy on television right now. If you're not watching you're missing out. 

This random musing was brought to you by an espresso at 4pm.

Lena Dunham's Buttcheek

I can't get the image of Lena Dunham's buttcheek out of my head. Keep in mind that as I write this I am laying in bed with a 102 degree fever. So don't blame me if this sounds delirious. Blame the Internet propaganda that forced me to believe getting a flu shot would paralyze me or make me talk backwards like that odd scene in Twin Peaks that everyone knows, even if they've never watched it. Clearly I've never watched it.

Anyway, back to Lena and her cheeky issues. When I first watched Girls last year I hated it, with a capital H. But then, as the episodes piled up on my DVR, I decided to give it one last chance. The episode where Hannah goes home to visit her parents had me hooked immediately. I continued to watch gleefully this season, until this week. The episode in which Hannah must remove a giant splinter from her ass had me so ridiculously uncomfortable I had to close my eyes. Don't get me wrong, like so many detractors it's not her body that made cringe, I don't mind her constant nudity. What I did mind was having to watch, as she painfully removed the splinter and then subsequently decided to lance her eardrum with a Q-tip. And don't even get me started on the Adam and his new gal pal sex scene. We all knew the other shoe had to drop, but Jebus.

The entire episode made me wonder, as I have in the past with some really heinous Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes, is discomfort really a valid form of entertainment? Obviously the bit worked. Ms. Dunham and her giant splinter made me feel as uncomfortable as Hannah must have been feeling. But is there a point to making your audience uncomfortable?

At first I thought, no, and I was about ready to write-off this show again. But then in my flu induced fog I had an epiphany. I was not watching Modern Family. This is HBO after all. The channel that made me weep for Nate Fisher and get a little queasy over any of a thousand Game of Thrones beheadings. And still I loved those shows. Even Curb remains one of my favorites, because no matter the emotion these shows leave you with, they leave you with something. And they make you think. Food for thought is just as important as a laugh.

So the answer, my friends, is ...blowing in the wind... Damn you fever! No, but seriously, just want to say thanks to Lena Dunham and her envelope pushing ass.



Ps. Yes, I realize I haven't posted in months and suddenly this, that's what a fever does for you.

Year of Reading Wirelessly 3

Another year gone by, it's hard to remember reading the books I read at the start of the year. Finishing Cryptonomicon was a huge undertaking and one of those reads that was hard to let go of since it was such a long journey. So of course I followed it up with the Hunger Games trilogy, one of the fastest reads ever. I could hardly stop and stayed up many late nights.

My reading has slowed lately though, less time and energy I guess. So despite the fact that I beat last year's number of books read with eleven in total read in 2012, I am scaling back my goal for 2013. I hope to squeeze in at least 10 books this year but I am adding one caveat, at least one of those ten has to be non-fiction. I've never really been drawn to the genre until now and am excited to try something new.

Here is my complete list of reads for 2012. Once again all read "wirelessly" on my Kindle for iPhone app:

1. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
4. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
7. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
8. Wool by Hugh Howey
9. Wool 2:Proper Gauge by Hugh Howey
10. Wool 3: Casting Off by Hugh Howey
11. Wool 4: The Unraveling by Hugh Howey