"Pumpkin Boy"

Today was rather uneventful. I can hardly believe how fast this week seems to be going by. My weekend starts on Friday, ya see. Soon that schedule will change, but that's how it is now.

Tonight I did get to watch a new show called Lost. I thought the first episode was quite intriguing and made me want to keep watching. Tonight’s episode also revealed a little more but not too much (or too little for that matter). Creating a TV show like that is kind of like a good video game in that there must be just enough reward with each experience to entire the audience to continue. And lost has it down just about perfect. And hey, that hobbit is not so bad of an actor really. I think I will try to keep watching it. I can only imagine how I'll remember back to these early episodes and look at them with such disgust and impatience by the time they get to season three. At least that's the way it went with 24 and Alias.

Lately I've been having some weird recurring dreams. I should start to say I don't think I've ever driven as much as consistently as I have these last 6 or 7 weeks. At least an hour one way. Before that I could go a week not driving more than 10 miles. So only make sense such a regular activity suddenly introduced into my regular routine should make it to my dreams. The dreams are me driving but in the wrong lane, complete with cars driving at me. Not really nightmares as I don't recall any fear or other emotion involved. Just felt really weird.

Lastly I guess I'll talk about the presidential debate. For the record I'm writing this on Wednesday, the 29th of September, 2004: the day before the first presidential debate between Bush and Kerry. So sure I could be wrong, I won't know for 24+ hours. My prediction is Bush will do about as well as he did at his convention: not spectacular but better than merely mediocre or adequate. Kerry, on the other hand, will walk that delicate tight rope appealing to many different audiences at once and come off as a bit of a mess. In fact Kerry will probably do something weird. And I don't mean just the looking like a pumpkin either. I can't say what this as of yet act of weirdness could be, but I think it'll be there. As for who will win the media coverage will say what they always say: that Kerry won, that'll be irregardless of how Kerry actually does. Kerry doesn't even have to show up and CNN will say he won (a courageous decision! Wins by default!) while the public will know for themselves.

I have to say though I do think there is an ever enlarging gap between reality and the way the elite media types think. Just watch one of those "media talk's media" type shows on cable to see what I mean. You'd think that whole governor recall we had in California would be slightly indicative of this to even the dimmest of "analyst" but I guess it isn't obvious. And it'll get ever worse too.

Hope you enjoyed this entry.

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