DOLLARS AND NO SENSE

Suggestion On What A Knucklehead Is

This came from Jamal in Dallas: "How about a knucklehead goes on a sports talk show in the middle of a playoff series and proclaims he smokes marijuana during the off-season. So much for that summer basketball school for kids he runs."

I couldn't agree more Jamal, I couldn't agree more...

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I've got a few things that puzzle me about the state of Colorado and the world in general these days and maybe somebody could help me understand:

--The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) recently called a televised press conference to announce that they had
raised the speed limit on a certain stretch of I-25 in Central Denver from 55 to 60 miles per hour. My question--why not just send out a press release and avoid the non-spectacle of some boring government functionary telling everyone what they would find out anyway once they get on the highway?

--I work for a local television station and I notice that we run television commercials for something called the Denver
Regional Council of Government (DRCOG). In the commercial, there's a part where the copy reads, "We're DRCOG, an
essential part of making the metro area better." If DRCOG is so essential, shouldn't everyone here know what it is without
a commercial? Do my tax dollars pay for that advertising budget?

--I've been holding back, but I have to say something about THE HILLS...this television show has got to be the most mind-numbingly diabolical example of the collapse of modern popular culture since the dawn of the Reality TV age. This week, the
four whores--er, I mean STARS of THE HILLS are cavorting across the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Heidi apparently is
releasing an album. Audrina and one of the other blondes (hey, I don't watch the show and this blog isn't journalism) have budding fashion lines. What is going on here? Why do they get to be rich and famous? Because Heidi was on another MTV "reality" show, LAGUNA BEACH? Because they're all around 20, reasonably attractive and incredibly vapid? Because compared to Heidi's tool of a boyfriend Spencer, the girls come off as reasonably agreeable? I will never understand it.
Here's the reality show I'd like to see: the gals of THE HILLS get fired from their (MTV-secured) jobs and have to try
to find new jobs in this depressed economy. They move out of their fancy West Hollywood digs and are forced to share an overpriced three-bedroom, two-bathroom fixer-upper in Echo Park. The four of them get $200 in grocery money for the month, they're not allowed to contact their parents for cash and they have to do the one thing they never do currently on THE HILLS--acknowledge the fact that they are on TV. I might actually watch that show! Or, maybe not...

Happy to have a job for another day and my wife for the rest of my life, for now I bid you good night.

Peace.