I told Deanna that I’d write a funny story for her, but I cannot seem to do this on demand. Funny has to happen on it’s own good time but awkward happens daily, like the sun rising and setting.
I recently discovered Hulu, and am catching up on Arrested Development. I have a huge crush on Portia de Rossi, despite the fact that she is a vegan, and would watch anything she acted in. I realize that Hulu isn’t something new or something that I am breaking to anyone but I don’t watch TV so I wouldn’t have had a need for this site.
It is a huge discovery for me: it is the Tut’s Tomb of Popular Culture. Thankfully, it has limited commercial interruption. This will allow me to catch up with what my peers are talking about at work and social gatherings in a matter of years when before I would have had to hope to catch things in free moments on cable. Now I can do this from work or home and know what’s going on in time to be forty. This in addition to Dale helping me with what he calls my, “Tupac Merit Badge,” will mean that in time I will be significantly less socially inept. I will know what you’re talking about!
Of course the greater danger exists that this will turn out as well as my adolescent literature project where I read everything Madeline L’Engle had written while on a trip to San Diego. I know nothing about San Diego now and all her work is blended into one long story involving time travel and orphans in New England building a boat in the desert.
For now I am glad that growing up I did not do it as George Michael did – with a video camera catching my worst moments. Growing up was hard enough, I’m glad it didn’t include digital cameras, videos in telephones, and social networking on the Internet. The academic in me that hasn’t completely died yet is interested in knowing how kids today do things differently now that they are under the constant threat of electronic surveillance by their peers and their shenanigans could be broadcast over the series of tubes before they get home to log on and see what someone else did. As a teacher I loved it because the kids were too involved in what they were doing to realize that we could see everything they were doing as well, it was a great tool. I never engaged in surveillance but it is a tremendous opportunity for disciplinarians with nothing better to do.
I am not a little disappointed that I do not have a stair car/truck to drive around, George Michael Bluth has everything.
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