thursday morning, trolling the void.

"trolling the void v. attempting to piece together a blackout by posing seemingly casual questions to friends who were possibly more cognizant at the time." ~Frank Kelly Rich

While trolling the trends this morning I discovered a few things:

• There's a woman named "Bethenny". 
• "Skinnygirl Cocktails" are low calorie alternatives marketed simply for the ladies.
• "Reality Television" is a huge and lumbering cash cow with unlimited udders to suck on.

Now I will review what this means to "us":

publicly shaming a child

Dog the Bounty Hunter was cancelled, finally. He was one "collar" away from getting killed anyways and now he can retire from that dangerous bounty hunting game and re-evaluate his life. This is a good thing for America and reality television, specifically. No longer are the bail jumpers of our country going to fear the mullet haired fellow tailing them and no longer will I fear flipping the station to A&E. 

Reality television is something that's caught on by storm. Writer's strike? Writing malaise? Impending idiocracy? These are all possible reasons that reality television is so endemic in our culture but they don't get to the heart of the matter. You see, deep down, every one of you lousy people out there love to watch "the fall". You want to see triumph and success, followed by failure. Rinse, repeat. It's heart warming to see a "real" story play out by "real" people, but it's downright television gold to have a trainwreck in front of a camera that's just waiting to film what happens.