Keeping Your Penis Erect And The Shotgun Out Of Your Mouth

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a very good friend named Tivo. One of the advantages of having Tivo is that I am able to skip commercials if I am watching a previously recorded show (unfortunately there is no way to fast forward during live television). Since I've had a Tivo there are two things that I've noticed while watching shows on a Tivo-less TV: 1) there are a shit load of commercials on TV-- a normal half hour show is reduced to 20-21 minutes of content while an hour long show has about 40-43 minutes and 2) there are a lot of commercials for pills that cater to all types of needs. The most common pill commercials are selling a future without erectile disfunction, herpes outbreaks or crippling depression. One thing that all of these commercials have in common is that the characters are almost always seen walking (or biking, running or frolicking) through a field or some type of wooded area. In the case of commercials for Cialis, one of the many boner pills advertised, characters will sometimes appear in matching bathtubs with their spouse as they watch the sun set in a field. We Americans live in a capitalist society and we are also compulsive consumers. We are constantly bombarded by advertisements. There are ads in our newspapers, magazines, web pages, TV shows, movies, radio broadcasts, in our sky and along the road. We are always being told what to buy and that these products will make us happy and improve our lives. We keep buying bullshit items that don't satisfy us so we have to find the next great product to make our lives complete. This country is one big commercial cesspool and you have to wonder when and where it will all end for us. I like to be able to share my own thoughts, but George Carlin said it best so I'll let him speak: "I think we're already 'circling the drain' as a species, and I'd love to see the circles get a little faster and a little shorter." Call me paranoid, but I can forsee a future in which advertisements are catered to the individual and wherever you turn another company is trying to sell their product to you and they address you by name. This future is not unlike the one presented in "Minortiy Report", and I only hope that I'm not around to see it. This post was meant to be a short one, and I ended up with a rambling and incoherent entry. I never claimed to be a good writer and I am hopeful that future posts will be better. Good night nurse.