When Mary Poppins sang "just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down," she meant a spoonful of "comedy."
This is why The Daily Show and A Daily Show are needed: so we can digest the factual medicine that tastes so damn bad. Jon Stewart is more a chaser* than the actual shot of whiskey [I mean medicine (I mean facts**)].
You may say: "K8, facts are boring," or
"the only facts I need are the prices of a quarter of the good stuff and an ounce of schwag" or
"facts are scary."
Well, in my language those translate to:
"facts bore the shit out of me,"
"facts distract the shit out of me" and
"facts scare the shit out of me."
Obviously, this is the explanation for the "shits" you may be suffering after watching CNN. Not being a doctor, I feel I cannot even speculate on the tragic state of the human existence after watching C-SPAN.
While most TV news programs cause this severe side effect of diarrhea, the others rapidly shove suppositories up our asses. Jon and his writers soothe the nation as we "come to" in a daze wondering why our asses hurt.
I salute not only Jon, but his predecessors such as the brilliant anchors of "Weekly Update" on Saturday Night Live that I grew up watching. And what the hell, the not-so-brilliant ones, too. (You didn't think I was going to mention Kilborn, did you?) (Well I'm not.) (I mean I didn't.) (I will have not.)
(I like the parenthetical thing***.)
Here you go, fellow Americans: a blog by an employed 24 year old pothead chick who watches The Daily Show and VOTES****.
I will tell you that I have dreams for this blog. Great big American Dreams. I believe the American Dream is different for each of us, but Eddie Izzard came close to summing it up in Dress to Kill when he said "You have the American Dream; the dream is to be born in the gutter, and raise, and grow up and get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go ( blows raspberry )"*****
No, really...
I have a question: Is all of this really that much more important than my current personal problem?
Current Personal Problem: I am tired.
Answer: NO!
Reasoning: While I would love to go into the actual mission that drove me to my computer in the middle of the night, leading me to post a blog 12 hours later, I am really just too tired. I can't type if I am falling asleep on the keyboard, and my guts are telling me that I have accomplished my first blog post already- without the mumbo-jumbo history lesson. "The American Dream SMASHED" will need to be explained later.
Sincerely (maybe),
-K8-
-Enjoy my footnotes: I do!-
*My chaser of choice was always Dr. Pepper. Unless I was pregnant- then it was unsweet ice tea.
**In reference to those who postulate that young people get their news from Stewart: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/02/apontv.stewarts.stature.ap/
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/4159.html
***"Way too Much. The parenthetical thing's gettin' old." -Jon Stewart from http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/pics_ae/esquire/jon1.jpg
****http://www.cafepress.com/buy/daily+show/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_14945238/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
*****http://thedougler.podomatic.com/******
******I like asterisks, too.
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- K8
- I am developing my American Dream and learning about the possible Presidential Candidates. In the process I'm letting everyone read the facts I have found about candidates on my blog, and the comedy I have found to help me deal with the state of the Union. I do a lot of: hanging out talking and listening, watch TV, write and smoke. Sincerely (mostly), -K8-
SMASHED
The American Dream SMASHED
Mission: To provide FACTS about Presidential Candidates along with a little comedy to help the facts get digested.
I am here to tell you to keep your American Dream alive! You must do this internally, and I feel that participating in the 2008 election will help you to connect yourself to something bigger than yourself. Work to get your hopes and dreams realized in the executive office. Remember- the President should speak for what WE want. So I ask you: What do YOU want?
I am not saying that everyone's American Dream has been "smashed." Hell, you could take it to mean that you are drunk as you reach for your dreams... However my experience has been different. It is not the fault of anyone other than myself that my original "American Dream" failed when I was 21 years old. When the time was right I revisited what my American Dream could be. I had a hard time getting over my old ideas when it came to me that I must SMASH those old dreams to create a new one from scratch.
I am still working on that dream. As it develops I find myself growing. I feel that who we have in the White House affects each of us and our American Dream. Most days young people, like me, in their teens and twenties feel that what happens in the White House does not effect our daily lives. May I just say that what happens regarding Iraq affects us all, whether we like it or not. It is effecting our economy and our spirit. I am not saying you should listen to me about how to view the war- other than the fact that it is a part of our daily lives and is an issue in this election. I ask you to find out what you think is best for this country (your neighbors), and then put your vote where your mouth is. If our spirit is dampened, our dreams are dismissed as unnecessary.
July 4th, 1776 the words in a preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence provided us with the ultimate American FACTS:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -
Mission: To provide FACTS about Presidential Candidates along with a little comedy to help the facts get digested.
I am here to tell you to keep your American Dream alive! You must do this internally, and I feel that participating in the 2008 election will help you to connect yourself to something bigger than yourself. Work to get your hopes and dreams realized in the executive office. Remember- the President should speak for what WE want. So I ask you: What do YOU want?
I am not saying that everyone's American Dream has been "smashed." Hell, you could take it to mean that you are drunk as you reach for your dreams... However my experience has been different. It is not the fault of anyone other than myself that my original "American Dream" failed when I was 21 years old. When the time was right I revisited what my American Dream could be. I had a hard time getting over my old ideas when it came to me that I must SMASH those old dreams to create a new one from scratch.
I am still working on that dream. As it develops I find myself growing. I feel that who we have in the White House affects each of us and our American Dream. Most days young people, like me, in their teens and twenties feel that what happens in the White House does not effect our daily lives. May I just say that what happens regarding Iraq affects us all, whether we like it or not. It is effecting our economy and our spirit. I am not saying you should listen to me about how to view the war- other than the fact that it is a part of our daily lives and is an issue in this election. I ask you to find out what you think is best for this country (your neighbors), and then put your vote where your mouth is. If our spirit is dampened, our dreams are dismissed as unnecessary.
July 4th, 1776 the words in a preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence provided us with the ultimate American FACTS:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -
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