Well I’m back like the clap! You were more than two months clean, and I here come to wreak havoc on the coming holiday season.
So after more than 2 months of blissful unemployment I have at last succumbed to my desire for income and have returned to the workforce- this time in temp form. Having worked as a temp for my first year and half in New York it’s amazing how soon all of the contempt comes flooding back. It’s like being a substitute teacher- except you’re place is in the command of the petulant children who keep on yelling at you for not doing it the way that Mrs. Montgomery does it, therefore I must be an idiot.
All day long I just want to yell, “I’m not stupid- I just DON’T CARE!”
I know, I know- this isn’t funny- just cranky. And that’s no way to ask those of you – if there are in fact any left- who may still be reading this blog. And as I can no longer offer any delightful Anferny stories your patience with me is presumably already spread thin.
So unemployment has been a lot of fun. I’ve been gorging myself on a steady diet of truly reprehensible television. I honestly believe- deep down in my heart of hearts, that VH1 is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse. Almost every show is an ouroboros. Perhaps it’s a step beyond that- it like the snake eating itself gagged on it’s own partially digested body throwing it up, only to dine on the vomit that was once it’s own flesh. Here’s an example of what I mean. Currently I have been watching
I love New York 2- the second season of
I Love New York. Now for those of you who don’t know- New York is not the city, but one of the contestants from
Flavor of Love named Tiffany. "New York" is the nickname she was given on the first season of
Flavor of Love by Flavor Flav. There were 2 seasons of
Flavor of love as well. "New York" was on both of them.
Flavor of Love was developed as a spin off from the show
Strange Love- starring Bridgitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav, and featuring their all too brief affaire. They met on VH1’s show
The Surreal Life season 3.
Flavor of Love and
I Love New York are all based on
The Bachelor format where each episode ends with an elimination where one of the contestants is sent home while the protagonist continues their search for true love through reality television.
The Surreal Life is of course VH1’s version of
The Real World with has been celebrities. What’s it like to watch Tammy Fay Baker, Ron Jeremy, and Vanilla Ice all live in the same house. Throw a season of
Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School and you have 8 seasons of programming based on the fact that Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen got along well on one season of their
Real World parody.
Yeah- it’s a bit f’ed that I know all of that off the top of my ahead- and yes I am a little ashamed of myself for that. But when I sit down to watch one of these programs I some how find it comforting. Maybe the polar ice caps are melting, and maybe the bees are all dying, and yes, maybe this ship is going down- but when I watch VH1’s “Celeb-reality”: I think to myself, “And maybe it should.” If what comes of all of our technological advancements is you can now watch I
Love New York 2 on your Ipod on the subway on your way to work, maybe it is time to shake the proverbial etch-a-sketch of civilization and start over again. So pop some popcorn and see what happen when Buddha moves back in- and what crazy antics Taylor Made is up to this week Monday at 9. VH1 brings you the end of the world in HD on your plasma screen to watch from the comfort of you home.
Labels: Flavor of Love, I Love New York, Reality TV, Temping