The Paradox of Choice

Yeah, I know it’s been two weeks since I last posted. So sue me. This is the point where I should say something to the effect of how I’ve been too busy doing fun and exciting things to be posting on this silly blog. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case. Well, last weekend I did go down to St. George to visit my friends Lindsey, Amber, etc. We went down to Mesquite. We’ll call it the poor man’s Vegas (making Wendover the homeless man’s Vegas). Bingo was fun, but there were some serious people playing and our chatter during the round got us shooshed. Really? (this is when I wish I could go into an Amy Poehler and Seth Myers rant about Bingo, but I’m not cleaver enough). Suffice it to say, if you go to Mesquite for Bingo either plan to be serious about it or plan to get in a fight with a 65 year old couple that are cowboy enough to not back down.

Besides Mesquite I’ve been doing a lot of driving. I now live down in Provo and commute to work in Salt Lake 3 days a week. It’s not as bad as I (and everyone else) thought it would be. I’ve been listening to books and podcasts. Lately I’ve been hooked on the Ricky Gervais podcast. If anyone has ever listened to it please let me know. It is soooooo good and hilarious, but I just know that nobody I know has ever listened to it. There is too much saturation of media. It’s great because there is a ton of choice, but terrible because we don’t have commonality of experiences. Who can I talk to about the Ricky Gervais podcast, the Confederations Cup, United States of Tara, and Chuck Klosterman? Blah. I don’t know who I’m complaining to or really even what about; I’m just ranting.

Ok, so I decided that the best way for me to actually get on here and write is to make some possible running segments for my blog. I doubt that I will feature them every time. It all depends on response; which I don’t necessarily expect to get.

Segment 1:
TV Tidbit
This will be where I give suggestions on good tv shows that I feel like not many people watch or comment on shows that I know my friends do watch.

This time I’ll have to comment on So You Think You Can Dance. Yes, I watch SYTYCD (as is obvious from my last post). It’s fabulous and addicting. I know Kristin, Jenny, and B have all done their nickname posts, so I’m not going encroach on that territory. I’ll just give a few thought from this past week. I was happy Asuka and Jonathan got knocked out, it was time for them to go. PMK needs to go back to just Latin ballroom or whatever it was that she did. She was cute and mildly charming, but her solos were so horrible it was embarrassing. All she did was shake her hips and switch back and forth between smiling and looking poutily at camera/crowd. Archueleta was fine, but he had too much of a lousy Vegas magician quality to him. He do something mildly good and then look at the camera smiling, looking for approval and kind of spreading his arms and sticking his chest out. I won’t miss either of them. Mr Eko and Oldie should go next as far as I’m concerned. However, my prediction is for 5-0 and Laker girl to go next.

Segment 2:
Random Thought
This is self explanatory, but probably more random than you might expect.
This week’s random thought is a mini rant on scenes in movies and tv shows where they show a store front with tvs usually showing a news story that is pertinent to what is going on. I have never in my life seen a store front with televisions in it. Maybe it is commonplace in small town USA or maybe it was big in the 50s. I don’t necessarily want them to stop using this technique, but wouldn’t mind them using some other way to achieve the same effect either.

Crushes
My crush and man-crush of the moment/week/month/year/etc.
Crush: Going back to the SYTYCD well with Jeanine. I don’t like any nicknames given to her so I’m going to give her one myself and go with Nadia. Last night she reminded me of Sidney Bristow’s half sister Nadia. I realize pretty much the only resemblances are race and hair color, but there was a vibe. I think she’s hot and will do really well because she’s got a likable and talented partner that gets cut slack like nobody’s business (I’m not complaining) and she’s got the looks and technique. It’s a good combo.

Man Crush: Tony Reali. Love this kid. For those of you that don’t know, he’s the host of Around the Horn on ESPN. I watch this show religiously along with PTI. I admire the fact that he doesn’t ignore the real world in his show. He makes references to commercials that are on all the time, NES games, HBO shows, etc. He’s way smart. I particularly liked his argument this week about Manny. Two of the sports writers were saying how they didn’t want to go to New Mexico to cover Manny’s recovery/rehab stint because it would lend pub to a rule they disagreed with (namely MLB players being able to play rehab ball in the minors while they are still suspended for steroid use). Tony pointed out that covering a story doesn’t force you to condone something it’s journalism. This is a small insignificant thing, I know, and I’ve written more than deserves to be written about it, but I liked it. He’s also a good twitter poster. Plus, he likes soccer and has good hair.

Whew. That’s two weeks worth of post right there. I’ll try to keep my posts shorter and more frequent. I’m guessing nobody got this far. Peace.