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Puttin' the FUN in dys-FUN-ctional!!

It's the holidays! Time for Ding Fries Are Done!

Thursday, Mar. 24, 2005
Paula Abdul and Terri Schiavo


Have to give a big Thank You to KROQ radio station in Los Angeles for sending so many people to my site. Kevin & Bean are Gracie's new best friends.

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So American Idol fucked up. Displayed the wrong phone numbers and ended up tossing out all of last night's votes and started over tonight. You KNOW someone got their ass chewed out over that one. I loved the sign an audience member waved during tonight's show: "Please don't fire the phone numbers guy!" Heh. I'm actually glad this happened because I, too, screwed up last night. I usually wait to call in my votes until about an hour after the show so that I don't have to deal with so many busy signals. Last night...I got busy doing something else and ended up forgetting to vote. So yay!

Disclaimer of sorts: I typed these thoughts while watching tonight's show:

Paula Abdul is a total freakin' hypocrite. Carrie Underwood's performance of Alone was incredible. Such a pure, amazing voice. And Simon, rightfully so, praised the hell out of her...something he rarely does for anyone, but when he does, he means it and he's usually dead-on. But of course Ms. Whiner Paula had to complain about his praise, all "it's too eeeearrrlyyyy in the competition to saaaay that...it's nyot faaaay-urrrr to the other conteeeeestants!" oh shut up bitch. I mean really, how many times has she said (to the boys in the competition since she apparently has an overwhelming need to make male children love her) "It's your competition to lose! You are the BEST!" She just falls all OVER herself praising everyone else, especially if they're non-white (taking a page out of Randy Jackson's book.) And why? WHY the white-bias?? What else could it be? Because Paula says the same damned thing to HER favorites on a weekly basis, but suddenly when it's someone Simon astutely recognizes as superior, NOW it's too early to call someone a winner? But when Simon DOESN'T praise her favorites, he's a mean old hard-ass. Gah. I am SICK of it. The last 2 years of this show have resulted in African-American winners, and that's all well and good...at least it WOULD be if the runners up hadn't had MUCH better voices (Clay...Diana...)...but they DID, and it pisses me off. I would just like to see MY peeps represented, yo.

(Gracie needs a life, doesn't she??)

Oh Christ, here she goes again. "America is falling in lyuuuuuv with you!" Shut. UP. Idiot. You say that to at LEAST 4 people a week (except, of course, Carrie Underwood...the best voice in the competition.)

Vonzell prayed about her shoes, y'all. She prayed. About her SHOES. Good grief.

ohhhh lucky me...I get to see Constantine warble and hold his mic backward again.

Aaaand there's the mohawk. shudder. Though tonight I was less stunned by the mohawk and was able to watch her performance a little more closely and her smack-my-hip-to-the-beat-slash-frown-snarl-to-denote-I-am-a-passionate-arteeeest just grates on my ohhhh, wait, wait a minute! Dude...did she....she just tapped to the beat of the music on her HEAD...wow. She's not well, is she?

What the hell is up with Ryan Seacrest suddenly taking on the role of Mr. Contestant Advocate?? Sweets? You're the host...the mouthpiece. Hush.

um paula? MY bedroom did NOT have a David Cassidy poster anywhere within those walls. He was and STILL IS an arrogant asshead who -- no shit -- thinks he was bigger than Beatles. Idiot. You know, the more I watch this show, the more I am convinced that Simon is much too good for Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul and really needs to move on.

Nice. Why can't they just refer to Scott Savol as Scott Savol? Why does EVERY media personality have to refer to anyone heavier than they are as "Big Guy" or "Chief" or "Scott 'The Body' Savol? It's so rude.

Heh. I'm happy now. Ryan Seacrest's voice is cracking. Let's rename him, shall we? Since he's so fond of nicknaming others by their flaws: Ryan 'Peter Brady' Seacrest.

Ha. Hahaha. Snort. Heheheheeeeeee. Nikko Smith just walked out in his pimp outfit! How did I miss this last night!?! Isn't it cute? He's wearing his daddy's clothes! Oh and stripping. Oh make it stop.

Mikalah needs to GO. That was the worst, most off-pitch song since Nikki McKibbin. Even Peter Seacrest knew it sucked ass and tried to get her to admit it, and she refused. Instead she said "Hey! I'm not Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey! This is American Idol and that's what this is! It's learning from our mistakes and growing!" Nooooo, it's discovering new talent and a competition between that new talent to weed out the suckitude and, ultimately, to present the best of the best with a recording contract. Also, it's to gleefully watch Mikalah continue to forget that she started the show with an over-the-top accent and watch her periodically remember to fake it. Please don't vote for her. It airs after her bedtime. Let her sleep.

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It's time to piss some people off. Feel free to write and tell me why you've decided to hate me from this point forward...how I'm no longer funny because we happen to disagree, but before you expend that energy, you need to understand that you are NOT going to change my mind. Having said that, I will make a deal with you: if you agree to calmly read through my entire 'speech' below, and really consider it, I will give you the same courtesy if you write to me.

I have to talk about Terri Schiavo. I am really getting tired of these whiners talking about "You're muuuurderrrrring an innocent giiiiirl! Just because she can't FEEEEED herself, you want to KIIIIILL her!" Listen to me, and listen well: A) It's not murder because B) IT WAS HER CHOICE. The fact that her parents were too selfish to honor her wishes are the reason this has been dragged out for a decade and it's despicable. Even more appalling is how many politicians are using this as a platform for themselves, along with the Pro-Life nazis exploiting this woman and the tragedy of her situation (that her rights are being ignored) to further their own causes. It's shameful.

The people trying to break into the hospice to bring Terri bread and water are, quite simply, ignorant idiots. IDIOTS. She's fed with a tube, jackass. She can't take any nourishment or liquids through her mouth, yet you're going to choke her with bread and water? Just to get on television and to force YOUR opinions and beliefs on her body? Seriously...Idiots. The people protesting outside the hospice, throwing themselves to the ground and wailing and fiercely praying? Lordy. Do you really think that your God won't have mercy on her regardless? That your God doesn't 'get' that her husband has spent the last decade simply trying to carry out the fervent wishes of his WIFE? Whether you agree with it or not, the fact remains that her husband truly believes he is doing the right thing for her. Someday you will have to realize that YOUR way isn't EVERYONE's way, and that doesn't make them wrong, or evil, or murderers. It simply makes them different than you. You don't see him barging into YOUR lives to force YOU to live according to his beliefs, yet all these people have no problem doing just that to him and his wife.

THINK!

Her mother has the nerve to beg "Stop this cruelty" Hypocrite! Cruelty is being selfish and controlling and ignoring your daughter's wishes and allowing her to live like this for a decade. Merciful is what it would have been called had you honored her wish and let her go at the beginning. They have dragged this out for far too long, causing such a painful end.

I have to be honest here and say that a big part of the reason this issue bothers me is that my husband feels the same way Terri Schiavo felt. He has said -- at least a thousand times BEFORE Terri Schiavo's case was ever broadcast -- "Do NOT let me live like a vegetable. Do NOT resuscitate me. That is NOT living, and don't you dare let anyone do that to me." The problem is that we haven't had (or made, let's be real here) the time to put it in writing. We could very easily be in that same situation. And George's mother is Catholic and comPLETELY against things like pulling the plug and cremation. So I could be in the same fight, heartbroken and agonizing over having to see my husband being kept alive by machines and tubes, brain dead and trapped in a useless body, knowing that he would never EVER want to 'live' like that, but having to fight for years and years because we didn't write it down, because let's face it: we all think we have plenty of time to write that stuff down.

I can't imagine the difficulty of actually having to say the words "do not save him...pull the plug" but I would do that for him because I love him and it's his WISH. And I cannot believe how many people conveniently forget the legality of a Do Not Resuscitate order, as well as the PERSONAL choices of people who may not think or believe the things YOU believe, but that does not give you the right to impose your thoughts on my husband's body or life. And when, exactly, do our lives become our own and tied to and with our spouse's? It offends me that Terri Schiavo is in her thirties and her parents have just charged in and ignored her wishes and have selfishly imposed their beliefs on her life. I would hope our parents would never do that. That they would know how we felt and what we wished and, as difficult and torturous as it would be, that they would make the decision we chose.

It's not about murdering an innocent person who doesn't want to die; it's not about your religious fanaticism; it's not about the media or politics or how ticked off you are that ten years after his wife's brain died, he is involved with someone else, it's about personal choice. Plain and simple. You may not agree with that choice, but you know what? It's legal to make that choice, and if you don't like it, don't make that choice for yourself, but don't you dare take that choice away from me or my husband.

*Steps back down off her soap box*

I intend to use this space to make people giggle, to rant about life in general, to post my observations about the silliness of the human condition, but sometimes I just have to let it out.

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Someone Arrived Here Searching For: my ass hurts easter card -- Gracie's Comment: [gives a whoooole new meaning to 'what would jesus do' now doesn't it??]

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