| Not
too long ago I saw a “teaser” of a news story on the premiere of the
most recent Star Trek movie. I was not surprised to see they made sure
to get shots of underweight and way overweight fans dressed in Star
Trek uniform shirts. Oh please!Why is it that every time a Star Trek or
Star Wars movie comes out I have to be assaulted with images of
costumed crazies carrying on outside the
theatre? |
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every fan of Sci-Fi thinks that ANY day can be Halloween. Some of us
who like these types of movies dress normally (if you will) and do NOT
call in sick to work for God knows how long just to wait in line for a
movie that could be and all too often is a little disappointing. (Some
of us know the Cardinal Rule of Costuming Oneself: Spandex is a
PRIVILEGE and not a right! But, I digress. . .)While I’m at it, let me
ask a few more questions about the questioners. Did you ever notice
that whenever the television news reporters go out to cover certain
stories they almost always find the worst examples of humanity to
interview? Here in California when they interview people on the street
I am pleasantly surprised if the people can at least speak English
without a strong foreign accent let alone speak without using slang or
grammatically incorrect English. | The
mother of my one son—Jared— asked me: Why do they always find people
who are inappropriately dressed for TV? (“Look at me, Ma! I’m on TV and
you can practically see my boobies!” "Look, mom! You can see
my hairy
belly button! Ain’tcha proud?”)I can almost understand the dress issue.
This is California—“the land of fruits and nuts.” Hope springs eternal
here. People leave the house in the morning wearing tank tops and
shorts during the coldest (for California) weather thinking that it
will get warmer later. After all, as the classic song says: “It never
rains in Southern California.”Another question I have heard but I could
not answer is: Do the people in the news media go out and LOOK for the
ugliest people they can find before they turn on the cameras or what? I
laughed then and I will admit to laughing again now.However, people who
have followed my column and/or seen my pictures elsewhere on this site
know what I look like so I will simply keep my mouth shut for now. (Not
everyone likes men who look a bit like a younger Malcolm
McDowell.)Maybe we just need to remember that most of us aren’t one of
“the beautiful people”. Maybe we just need to remember that sometimes
the world is just an ugly
place.
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My name is
Phoenix and . . . that's the bottom line.
