The way we Like things now
While I was checking out facebook, twitter, tumblr and google reader, the usual sites I check out every day and get the majority of my information and news from, two recent bits of news kept popping up.
Nike getting ready to release the Back to the Future II shoe
Ben & Jerry’s releasing Schweddy Balls Ice Cream
If you check the internets with any sort of regularity, you have seen these stories too. These two items are things that should have made me very happy.
And yet, I’m sick of hearing about them and people talk about them, have opinions about it, link to it on their facebook page, retweet it, reblog, etc. They have been in the news for about three days at the most and I’m already sick of them.
Before it sounds like it’s just someone hating on something that a lot of people are talking about, Schweddy Balls skit on SNL is one of my favorite things the show has ever done. It paved the way for Colonel Angus (another of my favorite things SNL has ever done) and is basically my favorite kind of humor and how my mind operates. I will try and have tried to make a double-entendre out of almost everything. If I have leftovers, I giggle when a waiter asks if I would like a box. I am a juvenile. Oh, and I also really enjoy ice cream.
I have wanted the Back to the Future II sneakers since 1989. With the exception of one pair of Reebok’s I got at a going out of business sale, I have worn only Nike’s my entire life. I have talked with strangers about sneakers. I have searched to the ends of the earth (internet) for old Nike basketball commercials. And I don’t think I really need to get into how awesome Back to the Future is.
So ice cream and sneakers about two things that I really fucking enjoy and are almost tailor made to what makes me tick…and I don’t want to hear about them any more and don’t care.
And the reasons I am sick of them are because of the people, I actually choose to follow on twitter, choose to be friends with on facebook, etc. This isn’t one channel on and I can’t get news from anywhere else. People who I want to hear what they have to say have ruined two things I should be very excited about.
This is the part of post where I realize I am adding to the clutter and noise and don’t have any solutions besides living in a cave.
ps - Nike, I am a size 12.
