Scumdog Million hairs
The "Age of Irresponsibility" is over, according to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It's time to stop "shameful" behavior and have some "discipline" according to President Barack Obama. With all this talk of unemployment, depression and apocalypse there is a renewed passion in the game of "Let's name and shame" well-off celebrities, on top of the usual evil Senators and CEOs of major corporations. It all began last October, with "Sachsgate" when Jonathan Ross and Russel Brand were scapegoated for taking the piss out of Andrew Sachs on BBC Radio 2, when what seemed like a harmless joke about this mediocre actor's granddaughter opened a flood of more than 100,000 complaints within a week.
Of course, on this side of the Atlantic, in the country that virtually invented the "naming and shaming" of celebrities, the latest "victim", (if you can call him that) is none other than the late Governor Rod Blagojevich, or "Scumdog Million hairs". The disgraced Illinois Governor comes from a long line of scandalous Illinois politicians (of whom Barack Obama has miraculously escaped) and has been purged for trying to buy his way into the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. In trying desperately to plead his innocence with people Blagojevich has appeared in numerous daytime TV talk shows to show off his HAIR (on such things as The View ).
Unknown to him, the people who had voted and supported Blagojevich previously have probably become unemployed and lost all meaning in their lives since. His disapproval voter ratings have been as high as 80% since October 2008, when he did NOT endorse Obama's election campaign. Those newly unemployed citizens watching him on so many daytime TV shows now see him as a narcissistic hair loving oaf on top of lying, cheating, money laundering and probably raping their kids out of their of their tax payer money. Then again, I think the same could be said for Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross, and all hairy cheating celebrities alike since the global recession has turned the unemployed masses into celebrity-eating TV/radio talk show zombies, even worse than during the boom years.
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This week, Lost in Americana struggles see the point of going to work when he cannot acquire any mice. Yes - his work now depends on mice and mice = money and time. Suddenly, with all that extra free time not doing experiments, he realizes how few friends he can actually chat up during idle hours and is reminded of how difficult it is to make friends without a car (or in fact do anything) in car-dominated America. In addition, his swimming pool has now been broken for 3 weeks and in the face of lack of exercise his cortisol levels are going through the roof. He decides to throw a few chairs across the room in his apartment just to let out some rage and to fill the void. Next week, when the deliveries finally come, Lost in Americana will be eating live bloody mice in the corner of the street, sulking away. 24 hour public transport overrun with pests and hungry foreign beggars i.e. New York City is now a VERY VERY appealing place to be because that would give him the freedom to travel, get involved and meet more people and maybe find some mice to work with.
This subsequently ignited the BBC and caused them to suspend the overpaid, long-haired Jonathan Ross and boot out the equally hairy and self-loving Russel Brand. It's all very well, that A-list celebrities should be behaving better, but in the past years of economic boom, would those 100,000 people who complained into the BBC really have given a flying toss about Andrew Sachs when they were happily employed, busy working and earning their own salary?
Of course, on this side of the Atlantic, in the country that virtually invented the "naming and shaming" of celebrities, the latest "victim", (if you can call him that) is none other than the late Governor Rod Blagojevich, or "Scumdog Million hairs". The disgraced Illinois Governor comes from a long line of scandalous Illinois politicians (of whom Barack Obama has miraculously escaped) and has been purged for trying to buy his way into the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. In trying desperately to plead his innocence with people Blagojevich has appeared in numerous daytime TV talk shows to show off his HAIR (on such things as The View ).
Unknown to him, the people who had voted and supported Blagojevich previously have probably become unemployed and lost all meaning in their lives since. His disapproval voter ratings have been as high as 80% since October 2008, when he did NOT endorse Obama's election campaign. Those newly unemployed citizens watching him on so many daytime TV shows now see him as a narcissistic hair loving oaf on top of lying, cheating, money laundering and probably raping their kids out of their of their tax payer money. Then again, I think the same could be said for Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross, and all hairy cheating celebrities alike since the global recession has turned the unemployed masses into celebrity-eating TV/radio talk show zombies, even worse than during the boom years.
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This week, Lost in Americana struggles see the point of going to work when he cannot acquire any mice. Yes - his work now depends on mice and mice = money and time. Suddenly, with all that extra free time not doing experiments, he realizes how few friends he can actually chat up during idle hours and is reminded of how difficult it is to make friends without a car (or in fact do anything) in car-dominated America. In addition, his swimming pool has now been broken for 3 weeks and in the face of lack of exercise his cortisol levels are going through the roof. He decides to throw a few chairs across the room in his apartment just to let out some rage and to fill the void. Next week, when the deliveries finally come, Lost in Americana will be eating live bloody mice in the corner of the street, sulking away. 24 hour public transport overrun with pests and hungry foreign beggars i.e. New York City is now a VERY VERY appealing place to be because that would give him the freedom to travel, get involved and meet more people and maybe find some mice to work with.
posted by Lost in Americana at 4:47 pm
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