Ten Years Gone


Public service announcements by [name]:

If Reality TV was 'real', I would have to assume an average show depicting many of the average citizens of North America would present itself like this: You wake up. You drink coffee. You watch TV or read the newspaper. Talk about the weather. You go to work. You log onto a computer and look at it all day. You talk on the phone. You go home and watch TV. You sleep - sometimes it's easier to sleep than on other nights. Repeat 4 more times weekly. Then on the weekend you go to the supermarket. You might let loose and spend your hard earned money by going to see a movie, which of course is on another big screen. Now, if we could only have camera's following around this excitement. I would watch that show! My public service announcement is simply this: fill in the blanks.

Speaking of media, I am looking for a radio station or internet radio station that will be broadcasting the new Pearl Jam album which is due out next week. I've heard five of the new tracks and I'm looking very forward to picking it up. Speaking of radio, I'll never forget the first time I heard Revolution 9 by The Beatles. I was around 16 years old and in a parking lot listening to the car radio as I was picking up my Mom from the grocery store. I thought my head was playing tricks on me. I heard weird noises and someone repeating "number nine" through the speakers and I thought someone was playing a prank on me. I looked around the parking lot and saw nothing to be suspicious of and then I thought it was just the record skipping. Then it got even more inaudible. I don't even consider it a song, but it definitely was a work of science, not art. Listen to it and you'll know what I mean. I didn't know what was going on. It was quite mesmerizing and messed with my head. In my lifetime, I've karaoked three times perhaps, and I don't care to do that sort of thing, but if that song is ever on a playlist, I will gladly sing it.

You say I need a doctor? Well, you know, it's getting more difficult to find one up here: "Fifteen per cent of Canadians — 4.5 million people — had trouble finding a family doctor in 2001, a study released Thursday by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) says."

Fill in your blanks. Vaya con Dios.