January 18, 2005
I have a scented candle and I'm not afraid to use it
Yeah, DCeiver is right, the vanman is seriously pissing me off. I'm glad that the standoff ended without anyone getting hurt, but I'm still ticked that he got as much attention as he did.
Let me explain: My car has a gas tank that holds about 13 gallons of gasoline. Does that mean that if I drive down 15th Street right after a fill-up with a chip on my shoulder (it happens often), will the Secret Service bring me a cell phone on a robot?
Can I keep the robot?
The larger point is that we're defining noteriety down. William Hung can cut an album because he embarassed himself at an audition. People can get the sort of face-time on primetime network TV a political candidate pays hundreds of thousands of dollars for by eating bugs. It used to be that they'd only take threats seriously if they came from someone with some serious firepower. You used to need sketchy connections or some advanced chemistry knowledge to start a stand-off. Now anyone with an Exxon card can shut down major streets.
The gatekeepers of celebrity (TV producers, federal law enforcement) need to tigten up the system. The next time they break out the robots, people had better be in some bigtime peril.
Posted by rj3 at January 18, 2005 9:59 PM
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Holy Jeebus.
Fucking hilarious.
Fucking! Hilarious!
Posted by: DCeiver at January 18, 2005 11:14 PM