Official… I have spent too much time on my own and in my flat talking to no one. even the normal recluses chance of interaction with humans has been taken away by Sainsbury’s self servie checkout. I think I have actually possibly not said a word out loud for two days.
This is too much I think, as sat in this afternoon watching EXTREME MAKEOVER… a hideous american import programme where ‘lucky’ people get to have their dream face lift/plastic surgey/lazer eye/lipo suction/botox until they look as different as Michael Knight between the start and end of the Knight Rider pilot episode. That was considered a bad thing then.
Today’s was about a brother and sister who both seemed ok, but a bit sad looking. He, a gruff man who lived on a farm with his partner (in American programmes they can’t say gay lover, or boyfriend). He had big bear, big brow and big belly.
The sister had frumpiosity (technical jargon).
They went to a special resort place where their faces were chiselled by experts and they lay around in bandages.
It was all getting cheesy emotional as they told each other they loved each other and explained the hard times they had, and when they got seperate for the final reveal I found myself getting moved… actually feeling for them.
He had a wig put on and a shave and they got revealed. He’d gone from Grizzly Adams to John Boy Walton. All white teeth and hair and thin body. His partner looked scared, and rightly so, a 40 yr old man with a new lease of life like this wanst going to want to stay on the farm with his gruff boyfriend… he’ll want to go to hollywood, or at leastsome more fashionable place with gay bars. But the progamme didn’t seem to think so and just finished.
In the ensuing ad break, still a bit moved there was an advert for sponsoradog.org.uk and I got moved again and the sad tale of dogs. So I went online to sponsor one… you get to chose your dog for £1 a week.
So I chose spike… here he is… he’s my new friend, and when I get bored and lonely and emotional at cable telly I will talk to his photo…
