So what glowing embers can be stirred up this week?
Let's see, did you hear that Charlie Sheen deployed himself to Libya to help get things straightened up over there? Yep, got that one straight off the WikiLeaks site.
Can't you just visualize that great moment in political ramifications?
So why not dispatch Lindsay Lohan to Egypt to lend them her superb decision-making and organizational skills?
That would be lots of fun too.
Of course this could be an exchange arrangement.
Moammar Gadhafi could be invited to Los Angeles to fill out the remaining eight episodes of Two and A Half Men as a guest celebrity. He's certainly got enough clown costumes and funny pretend military uniforms to make up for Charlie's bowling shirts and short pants. And when he's not busy filming Two and a Half, he can make a couple of guest appearances on Jersey Shore and show those wannabes how a real warped mind rolls on a weekend.
I had the opportunity about two years ago to engage in a discussion with a crew member on a chartered airline that had been hired by Gadhafi for a series of multi-stop flights to various destinations. The schedule meant that several crew members ended up spending over a week with this screwball leader.
"He was one strange dude," was the response to an innocent query as to what made Moammar spin. And about those Russian nurses he insists on having on-call?
All true, it seems.
So what else can we find to disturb the rest of your week?
Well, we understand that there is a new specialty channel launched as of this week that will put the old Christmas fire log on the back burner if you'll pardon the cheap pun.
It seems there is now the all chicken rotisserie channel that is up and operating for your viewing pleasure. I kid you not.
First we're invited to watch logs being burned ad nauseum, and there was the fish channel yep, a chance to look at an aquarium for endless hours if you so wished and now, believe it or not, you can tune in and watch a dead chicken being burned on a rotating spit. I don't know if it will be like the breath-taking log burning episodes when you see an actual arm enter the picture to place another log on the fire on occasion.
In this case, the arm might hold a barbecue sauce brush, just to add drama to an already fixating event.
All I can say to any of these is, My gawd, how far can we sink?
If this is the going forward commentary on our society, I fear for the next generation.
In our wonderful world of apps and ops, multi-tasking and the go-go computer generation and "I'm too busy to talk with you in a normal way, text me instead because I have to watch the dead chicken turn brown and black," this tells me I should be scared.
So how much of our computer/cellphone/iPad and Pod/Blackberry and chokecherry time is used for work and how much is used for socializing and entertainment as opposed to work? I have to believe that someone has done the research into that question by now, but be darned if I know what site to visit to get the answer.
Maybe WikiLeaks can ride in to reveal that too.
Forget about military subterfuge, I need to know how much time I should spend Facebooking, texting and watching chicken burn during a typical 48 hour cycle. Apparently these things are important.
I wonder if the rotisserie flame is adjustable? That would be one chicken burning episode I'd have to watch for sure you know, the flame adjustment half hour! Wow!
