At What Effort for Slimness?

Have you ever waken up in the early morning when it's still several hours away from dawn and turned on your television set? I have and it's kind of messed up and depressing. I say depressing because there's nothing on worth watching except for celebrities selling trashy jewelry, skin creams, cooking products, weight loss equipment, and supplements that "burn of those unwanted pounds in weeks"! If it weren't for my expensive movie channels and the news there wouldn't be any reason to even turn on the set until after sun-up. Scanning the major channels I've encountered wrist and ankle weight therapy, a hcg weight loss program, a revamped Suzanne Summers Thigh Master with a new and improved name which I've already forgotten, and the usual assortment of treadmills and steppers. I won't even start on the stretching and aerobic jumping shows intended to get your blood pumping at 3 a.m.! My thumb got the exercise as I pushed the power button and went back to sleep knowing that the new and improved Thigh Master was smitten from my home once again!

Power At Any Cost!

Not as ominous as it may sound in these days of political wrangling. I'm referring to portable electric power. The lithium, nickel and cadiums are all in the forefront while the lowly dry cell batteries live on peg hooks near the registers in the retail stores waiting for the need of a flashlight replacement or a radio to power during it's short but useful lifespan. Today we have 9 volt rechargeable's , D cells, C cells, AAA cells, and the ever so dominant and most heavily relied upon battery probably of all time, the AA rechargeable batteries. The AA battery has become the workhorse of a new age where smaller is better, unless it's for watching movies on a portable screen such as an ipad or kindle, to name but two. The new breed of cellphone is exempt from these rules as they need a different version of the rechargeable. They need a longer lasting battery that will not last that long due to regular use. That's interesting, a long lasting battery that doesn't last long! We have become a cell slave civilization. We can't get along, let alone exist, without our communication connections. Remember the cell phones give cancer stories? Not now, I have to make a call!

It's Awards Time Again, But for What?

That's right, it's time for more awards to be handed out to the people who get paid to pretend and to those that don't. The Emmy Awards are an annual pat on the back to the performers of television who think they've made a positive impact on our society by keeping us in front of our televisions sets instead of getting out and enjoying life, as we know it. On the other hand we have the AVN Awards sponsored by the Adult Video News. These awards are for more, shall I say, athletic performances. The Emmys feature lots and lots of shallow people parading around in fishnet stockings trying to act like they did something great but don't want to appear anxious for an award, which invariably translates into a bigger paycheck. The AVN performers conversely will parade around in fishnet tops while their performances leave nothing to the imagination, except how much they really acted! The bottom line is that they're both stocked with the same performers, except one set have much fewer inhibitions than the other. Given the option of working when there's no work on TV anymore you'd see the AVN awards swell with new talent looking for new recognition. Once an actor always an actor!