life in television

[threeplusfire]

Sitting here with my glass of Smirnoff and lemonade, I'm all done with my homework for tonight. Tomorrow is culture day in Czech so perhaps Professor P. will teach us a song.

All I want to do is bake potatos and bread. Though I should be working on that pesky resume so I can find another job and go back to working like a good little American. Bah.

Rumors abound that the government might televize the federal execution of McVeigh. I wanted to cry when I heard that. How hideous. Like that will deter anyone. All it will do is make McVeigh a matyr and continue desensitizing people to violence and death. Nothing is real in the country of the television.

Maybe I will just go sit in the bath tub, read the Chronicle and eat oranges. Nabokov used to write in the tub, eating little oranges all day when he and Vera were poor in Germany.

Comments

[asilvahalo.livejournal.com]

god. i can't believe they're seriously considering televising the mcveigh execution. that's terrible. and really, when you're nutty enough to kill someone, are you really thinking "i could be killed for this"? how good of a deterrent is capital punishment anyway?

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I don't have stats to hand you, but if I remember correctly it doesn't hold up as a deterrent. Especially if you're out of your mind on chemicals or mentally ill, as were some of our executed prisoners.

It's utterly abhorrent to me that we'd put an execution on. Is it going to run after Temptation Island? Before Survior and Dateline? Jeez.

[chrispina.livejournal.com]

just think of how much money the government would save if they could get commercial sponsors for executions! then they could afford to spend more on saving the bunnies and other things that liberals think are important.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Hmmm maybe Nike wants to make it into a commercial? Or Microsoft? ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Hehe, I can just imagine you sitting in the tub eating oranges!

(I got yr package. Oh, thankyou so much my love. It's made me happy and feeling special and I will be sure to get off my ass and get together some things for you..)

Smirnoff and lemonade sounds extra good right now.

xo

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oh I am so glad it made it safely! Hurray! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)