Week Of the Crazy

I’ve figured it out. In order to succeed in this world of escalating technological marvels, one must be absolutely out of one’s mind and, at the same time, have enough of a mind left to utilize all communication outlets to gain mass attention. Aside from a mega TV and radio interview blitz, Tiger Blood Adonis Hero Charlie Sheen set a Twitter record that made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Wow! Hey Charlie, if you’re rolling on your adrenaline without help, then you bee’s a winnin’ kind of guy despite your intense crazed eyes.

In 25 hours, and 17 seconds, his Tweety-bird followers flew into cyber Charlie Space at the rate of 1,287,825 (as of last count via The Huffington Post ) on Thursday evening PST. I’m beginning to think this weird freak is onto something temporarily neat. But, that’s this week. We shall see how it tweets in the future’s reality sutures. Meanwhile, horrendous death threats/suggestions of violence toward both mothers of his children continue to make it into the noise of TV, internet and actual paper-based headlines.

Brrr. Kinda creepy stuff. But never fear, he remains a figure of fascination for those who can’t get enough of his madness. Sirius/XM Satellite radio will launch a Charlie Sheen Channel for this weekend – only. It will be a quickie, just like one might imagine an actual carnal encounter would be like with someone who can’t see straight.

A full summation of the week is, well – weak, in my opinion. I can only submit a brief overview of the serious news. Mother Nature decided to sit back and let the tides ebb and flow as they do without sending thousands to their graves or into caves of sanctuary from ill winds and unruly gyrations on terra firma. She looked down at Libya and must have decided that the earth had been sullied enough by her bad moods and chose to leave it to Gaddafi and fiends to play out her dark side. And Gaddafi is doing a bang-up job of it as he allows more citizens to feel the brunt of bombs.

Writing of bombs, the Academy Awards were roundly dissed for its increasing banality with the exception of the Bob Hope moment and Billy Crystal’s emergence from behind the curtain of the scared-snared-bared-bored past/present hosts. I did applaud the set and Anne Hathaway, and I will stand by those opinions. Nevertheless, one element/aspect I didn’t mention is how I miss the way it “used to be” when I was a child and the “Oscars” were oozing of glamour and coy mystique (no matter how false it was in reality, the illusion was grand).

I ask those who are not aware of how “it used to be” to view any footage you can find of the days when the Red Carpet was not overrun by hoards of press foaming at the mic’s for a moment of $$$$ - and when being a movie star did not necessarily equate with becoming a wax museum artifact posing every two seconds for yet another camera. It was Army Archerd of Variety holding court with the stars, asking questions about films, not designers.

Gowns and tux’s are lovely to see, but when did fashion become the ever-focused passion of a program devoted to those who excel in films  – not runway frills. Who are you wearing? Yawn. Wouldn’t you love it if someone answered truthfully? Hey, I’m wearing my faux smile until I can get the hell out of here and go home and get out of this harness, for &*^%$’s sake!

Something positive ripped from the sidelines happened: the week brought the attack on teachers in America into stronger focus as various news outlets began to question the hypocrisy of the GOPer’s who do not consider an income of over $250,000 to be “rich” enough to be hit with tax increases, whereas the very same people believe that an average income of $40-50,000 with benefits is more than enough for those who teach children how to function in the world. In fact, according to those who are advocating educational cuts, teachers must be slackers because they work only 9 months out of the year.

In line with yesterday’s post regarding how the U.S. news media lacks in-depth reporting, I find the fact that Jon Stewart, a comedienne, appears to be leading the charge to defend teachers’ rights far more than any other popular TV host. I learned more about how teacher’s have been shafted based on an insightful interview with former Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch who was a guest on his program last night. When it falls to the shoulders of The Daily Show to bring this important debate into focus, I want to send Jon a kiss and mail a dead fish to everyone else.

I could go on…but the week is not over - thus, I’ll back away from further flogs and let the Universe do the talking…after Mike Huckabee stops blasting the engaged Natalie Portman for being pregnant “out of wedlock” when it was only a short while ago when he praised a 16-year-old for having her baby rather than an abortion.