Jericho blows....
Okay, when I first heard about Jericho, I soo much wanted to like it. Not many post-apocalyptic genre t.v. dramas and I thought it might be fun to follow...but the show is really frustrating me now. Why? Besides the idiotic short-sightedness displayed by nearly everyone in this fricken town, the acting is terribly forced. Also, I don't mind the archetypes (however cliche)....nor do I mind the mysterious characters, but the whole teenage subplot comes across like some moronic studio exec's behind the scenes decision to garner more viewers from the 14-25 demographic. The directing for nearly every one of these scenes appear cursory at best,...and while I'm at it, the teen characters are completely UN-likable and cliche...and the whole drama about the outcast kid is soo played-out and completely uninteresting....I mean the real question is why the boy would find anything likeable about the girl??
And WHY is the WHOLE TOWN IN DENIAL!! ANY competent leader posed with this scenario would enact a plan founded in the principle "Hope for the best, Plan for the worst". The entire moral/psychological opposition to enacting plan "Fortress Jericho" is wearing thin. The idea that people would continue to use money, or continue to drink beer in a bar, or NOT ration, or use batteries, etc.etc. because they "HOPE" that things aren't as bad as it seems and that "everything is going to be okay" is getting really old. And the way that line of thinking (Fortress Jericho) is couched in terms of some morality play about "not loosing our sense of humanity" is totally absurd.
Anywayz, enough of that. As for my week, well my body is nearly destroyed. Yard work is literally back-breaking. I've pulled up a small tree and transplanted it into a 6 cubic foot pot (3/4 barrel)....and my hamstrings are still quivering from the effort. My wife and I finished moving 50 wheelbarrows full of rock and next weekend I'll be hand tilling (with one fricken pick!) some 90 cubic feet of amendment...my lumbar is really looking forward to that day. And we seem to have a wildlife highway for a backyard. Every night we usually observe a family of racoon, a skunk couple, and/or 3-4 local cats crapping or rummaging around our lawn. I've started to bury chicken wire under our fence and started to replace parts of our fence in an effort to disuade these creatures from using our yard as a toilet.
Well thats if for now....I'll blog latter.
And WHY is the WHOLE TOWN IN DENIAL!! ANY competent leader posed with this scenario would enact a plan founded in the principle "Hope for the best, Plan for the worst". The entire moral/psychological opposition to enacting plan "Fortress Jericho" is wearing thin. The idea that people would continue to use money, or continue to drink beer in a bar, or NOT ration, or use batteries, etc.etc. because they "HOPE" that things aren't as bad as it seems and that "everything is going to be okay" is getting really old. And the way that line of thinking (Fortress Jericho) is couched in terms of some morality play about "not loosing our sense of humanity" is totally absurd.
Anywayz, enough of that. As for my week, well my body is nearly destroyed. Yard work is literally back-breaking. I've pulled up a small tree and transplanted it into a 6 cubic foot pot (3/4 barrel)....and my hamstrings are still quivering from the effort. My wife and I finished moving 50 wheelbarrows full of rock and next weekend I'll be hand tilling (with one fricken pick!) some 90 cubic feet of amendment...my lumbar is really looking forward to that day. And we seem to have a wildlife highway for a backyard. Every night we usually observe a family of racoon, a skunk couple, and/or 3-4 local cats crapping or rummaging around our lawn. I've started to bury chicken wire under our fence and started to replace parts of our fence in an effort to disuade these creatures from using our yard as a toilet.
Well thats if for now....I'll blog latter.
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