Picture taken by Luminous Me at a local hardware store - gee, look at the creepy thing! Would you really want THAT right by your door or on your porch or occupying all of your balcony DURING THE ENTIRE HOLIDAY SEASON? Sheesh!
It sure is not only ludicrous and ridiculous but it is downright silly to perpetuate the MYTH of a bearded "burglar in reverse" all clad in red whose assistants are midgets and deer! IS THE TRUE REASON FOR THE SEASON THAT BORING TO YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO SEEK "REFUGE" IN THE SILLIEST FORM OF MAKE-BELIEVE THIS SIDE OF "NEVER NEVER LAND" FOLKS?!?
Two aberrations in the world of sports - although one is really "sports entertainment" to be specific... Two distasteful and disgraceful displays that really left me gasping for CLEAN AIR...
On Monday night, there was, as per usual, an NFL game - this one opposed the New Orleans Saints versus the lowly Atlanta Falcons (lowly in many ways, as it is...)
The Falcons lost that one big time (34-13 or something) and it was well-deserved too! Why? Because these low-lives were found wearing a hand-made BADGE during this game, see? And what it was, was a crude symbolic gesture to remind all that their erstwhile teammate, Michael Vick, was not with them (LOSING on the field, as it was...) Now, these gestures are usually to honor the memory of a good player who just PASSED AWAY - like the Redskins just did with Sean Taylor's initials and number. Vick's initials and number are, hitherto and de facto, a SHAMEFUL MEMORY for the NFL. Why is it not the same for the Falcons' players and organization? Shame on them for wearing any reference to Vick - on the day that he had been rightfully convicted of all the charges that laid against him! I hope he gets a very rough 23 months in jail - and if there really was any justice, they would tie his arms and legs and throw him into a dungeon with a pack of vicious rottweilers!
Opposite this sorry excuse for a Monday nighter, on the USA Network, there was the usual offering of WWE circus-like hi-jinks... Although, this time, it wasn't so run-of-the-mill as in the past, oh, 156 weeks? No - for this was the 15th anniversary of the crappy show 'Monday Night RAW', indeed! Many old "stars" were invited back (although it is still pretty ridiculous to call some of those guys "stars", much less "superstars" - sic) but the ones who were NOT there are the most flabbergasting ones, to my mind... No Brock Lesnar or Chyna (although they were briefly seen in clips from past shows) and no artists formerly known as "Big Daddy Cool Diesel" and "Razor Ramon" either... Even more mind-boggling, no Sable or Rocky Maivia (although, again, both were seen in flashbacks too) and no Big Show! Why, he was such a BIG DEAL when he was pried away from the rival WCW, just a few years ago...?!? Many, many absentees, yes... (Max Moon - how could they fail to bring HIM back, if only for just ONE NIGHT...!?) But, aside from the many no-shows (they were either in bad terms with the BOSS or, well, dead.) the most disgusting thing was, once again, the HUMOR displayed by the so-called writing staff... On top of the show, Vinnie Mac himself (Vince McMahon) was confronted by some mistakes he made in the past - when he let go the original "diva" (another huge misnomer) Tammy Fytch aka 'Sunny'... Although the alleged mistake was a dalliance with her. Likewise with current so-called "diva" Melina... And then, the sickest of all "rumors", his drunken tryst with at-least-eighty-years-old Mae Young at 'The Fabulous Moolah's very real FUNERAL, two months ago. It does not get any sicker than this, folks. Adding to the sideshow circus-like freakshow here was the ending - when the father figure is beaten and ridiculed by all the "kids" who are using, in fact, what the father figure OWNS AND PAYS FOR, of course... Never mind that said "father figure" here is the aforementioned low-life Vinnie Mac again... Wasn't it bad enough that he allowed his own son to slap him and thump all over him in wrestling matches... That he allowed his once very real/now bogus rival Eric Bischoff to make out with his WIFE, the CEO of this sorry excuse for a company, Linda McMahon, as part of a "skit" again? That he wrestled his own DAUGHTER too? No - he has to give the bad example over and over again, doesn't he... Anything for a buck. Sheesh.
And this man frowns upon the poor tragic ending of a hard worker like Chris Benoit? A man he exploited, like he did countless others...
I'm not sure where Benoit will wind up in the afterlife. Same goes for many other wrestling tragedies. But Vinnie Mac - I know where he's headed.
And I could hazard a guess about Michael Vick and his cronies as well.
Born in the Age of Aquarius, destined to seek out truths in many an art form, trained as a historian and a journalist but truly a prose-lover... Luciano is out to dispel any clichés and reinvent them all both to the tune of a little something called the truth as also to his own image - and being old-fashioned, he does not mind that distinction one infinitesimal tiny bit at all...! "There are two ways to spread the light; be the candle... or the mirror that reflects It." I have chosen to be the latter... okay? ~*~
"To be not only a seeker of light... but a dream weaver of light" ~*~ For as surely as the moon reflects the light from the sun, you and I can reflect the Light from Above - and be, indeed, the light of this world! ~*~*~*~ NOTE: THERE ARE COOKIES ~ from at least three parties~ ON ALL OF MY BLOGS! ~*~ accept it!
