The Wee Democracy

a ray of sunshine on an otherwise cloudy day

many of you may remember that a while back i cast dispersions upon the teat from which i suckle most of my televisional entertainment. that is to say, i renounced dating shows. even yesterday, i badmouthed the bachelorette (though i stand by my assertion that that woman needs absolutely no help in finding a man).

but all of that was cast aside as i saw, to my surprise, someone actually do the right thing last night. it was on a broadcast of the fifth wheel. i don't remember everyone's name, save the girl who stood at the center of this incident, lise.

the guy, we'll call him adam, was mackin' on lise from the get go, and she was a take-it-slow kinda gal. respectable, as the french say. she dug his milk and cookies, and was fairly confident that they would end up together by night's end.

the other two inital daters were named mario and marlys. mario was hideous. he had the worst hair i've ever seen on any dating show, and i've seen some funk-ass hair. marlys was cute - a tad promiscuous it seems, but she had a long nose....you know how i feel about those.

the reason i bring up these two supporting characters is to show two things. 1) when mario tried to lay his game on lise, she simply wasn't havin' any of that shit. she was into adam, and was gonna stay into adam. 2) when adam and marlys got together, there was some touching and what not. and later on in the evening, adam kissed marlys. this is not the action of someone who is really into someone else. or maybe is into that person, but certain internal lobbyists reach a quorum and overthrow the better judgment of that person. stupid lobbyists.

then the fifth wheel shows up. this incredibly delusionally self confident j. lo wanna be hoochie mama named mirella. she had more pimples than i do. sick, right? anyways, she tries to get both guys to go after her, and surprise they both do. but not with serious intentions. she was ghastly, i shit you not.

bad news happens. lise sees adam kissing marlys. he tries to apologize, she's kinda hearing it, but suspects bullshit. then, she sees him kissing that hoochie mirella, and throws ice at him! i know!

but, he did something that surprised me. at the end of the night when he was going to make his picks, he chose lise. perhaps as a form of apology, and certainly in the face of an almost insurmountable risk of rejection. well, he did get rejected. lise wasn't havin' none-a that. she cut him loose, and he took it like a man. he said, i knew there was a risk, but i liked her most. so right on.

yes, he made huge mistakes, and yes, he acted like a tool. but at least he didn't choose a hoochie.


i've made shanges to the blog



feeling: young...restless
thinking of: my mind is a blank slate
song of the day: sad songs and waltzes - cake (thanks vince)
it's a good thing that i'm not a star. you don't know how lucky you are. though my record may say it, no one will play it. sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year