Christmas break has afforded me more time to loaf and laze than is humanly unproductive.During the last few weeks I've been the unfortunate witness to numerous Top (insert number here) Countdowns of 2006. Ok. The first time they were moderately entertaining. In a mere hour I got caught up on every trivial thing I didn't care to pay attention to in the last year.
What? Britney's an unfit mother because she is self-proclaimed "country" and clumsy when she tries to double fist a baby and a beverage, and she and K-fed are headed for divorce faster than you can say "Brangelina" while reading People magazine!? Say it ain't so! Timm Gunn's having the Best Year Ever!? Ok, I'm guilty. I thoroughly enjoyed that one because I heart Project Runway. In other news, a bunch of celebrities had babies, Mel Gibson is alcoholic anti-Semite, and Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears have been overexposed in a double entendre sort of way.
Wow, really? That's all you want to spend the week before 2007 talking about? That's all people want to see? These are the conversations you want to be having as we decide the best course of action for the future and huddle under a cozy blanket to scribble down our New Year's resolutions on the back of a soiled In Touch magazine? (1. Lose more weight so that I can look more like Lindsay Lohan. 2. Get plastic surgery (make sure it's extreme. 3. Make more money so I can live the "Simple Life" like Paris 4. Get a record contract....etc.) Awesome.
Give me a few hours of programming that mean something for me in the coming year. I promise, there are plenty of captivating stories to talk about. Less celebrity and more humanity. I could give you a decent top ten. What about poverty, Katrina relief, global warming, Darfur, and AIDS? I'm sorry to bring you all down before you guzzle down champagne then make-out with near strangers as the ball drops, but come on. Shouldn't this be a time of reflection AND celebration. Without that, we'll be watching the same insignificant countdowns in a year where nothing happened, nothing changed because people did just that...nothing.




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