Tuesday, September 06, 2005
(12:07 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Tuesday Hatred 16 (Formerly "Fear Factor")
[UPDATE: The following paragraph wasn't really worth a whole post, but since I do really hate the show Fear Factor, I am going to colonize the former wasted post and transform it into the latest installment of Tuesday Hatred:] I am of the opinion that Fear Factor is the worst television show ever to be aired, on every possible level. Any rational set of "decency standards" for television would exclude it on the basis of its unrelenting and innovative sadism.[/end original post]
I hate seasonal allergies. I hate that on Sunday afternoon, I was really suffering with allergies and wondered what else I could even do, since I had taken the almighty Claritin D -- then I realized that I hadn't actually taken one, just thought about it. The placebo effect doesn't work, apparently, unless you actually take some kind of physical pill.
I hate that I am increasingly repeating stories in blog posts that I've told to two or more people in person already. I hate blog-spats that are based on the gap between authorial intent and authorial achievement (i.e., all of them).
I hate feeling like I have to get up early so that my "theme-day" posts are up before 9:00 Eastern time -- and that's why I'm posting this now, shortly after midnight, "technically" Tuesday. (Has there been much philosophical work done on the concept of "technically," as used in the previous sentence?)
UPDATE: I hate how messed up my coffee tasted this morning -- I feel almost like my tongue has been numbed in preparation for some kind of oral surgery. Could it be the almighty Claritin D? I once took it for about a month straight, every day, and I began coughing up blood (because my throat was so dry and irritated).
I hate having no groceries.
I hate it when I am in too detail-oriented a mood. I once heard a general principle that if you have a bunch of little tasks that will only take a short time and that there is no particular "right time" to do, you should just do them immediately to get them out of the way, because otherwise they tend to linger for the rest of your life. If you take that too far, you end up doing absolutely nothing but little things.
Man, this tongue thing is weird.
