Some Random Musings

Weeds is one of the many shows I watch. The show's funny, subversive, and has the un-reasonably attractive Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role. Not only is she a very adept actress, but she re-defines the term MILF. It seems that every season she has gotten more and more naked with the show always teasing us with a topless shot. But alas, she was always covered...until now.
This season, though, it finally happened....we got a topless shot of Mary-Louise Parker! Words cannot describe the awesomeness of this moment. After the years of wait it was totally worth it. To say it was earth shattering and life altering is a massive understatement. I once again have faith in god. So thank you Weeds. And thank you Mary-Louise Parker. You are a bastion of hotness in an otherwise dark world.

So this story about the Eagles firing an employee who expressed his anger at the team getting rid of Brian Dawkins on his facebook page has become national news. Suffice it to say, this shows just how out-of-touch the birds are with their fan base. This is a blue-collar, fairly liberal town. We like our athletes to be frank, honest, and emotional, which it seems is exactly what this fan was doing. He was only saying the same thing that every other Eagles fan was thinking. Now I get that you can't openly disparage your employer, but isn't this a little too far? Maybe just give the guy a warning, especially in an economy like this one. But even if we forget the personal harm this does to the employee, do the Eagles not think about what they do? I mean seriously guys, how hard would it be to hire a good public relations guy? You get rid of Dawkins and Tra Thomas among a ton of other free agents, you haven't really spent any money in free agency (when we still need a god damned wide receiver!!) and now you fire an employee for slightly criticizing the team? Give me a fucking break. What a joke of an organization. This makes the team, and the city by association, look like crap. You've always had the stigma among fans that you're a fairly cold-hearted organization that won't re-sign aging players, no matter how much they've given to the team. And okay, you may have been right in many of the circumstances (Hugh Douglas, Troy Vincent, Bobby Taylor), but at some point don't you have to cater to the fans at least somewhat? Does your opinion in the eyes of the fanbase, the people who give you money, seriosuly mean that little? Eagles management have managed to turn a beloved franchise into the big, bad, callous corporation. No one likes the big, bad, callous corporation, especially not in a town like Philadelphia. It would be like being in a casino and cheering for the dealer to demolish some poor guy playing blackjack. The fans are not happy. The Eagles want my money? Well they better fucking earn it. I was planning on buying myself a Dawkins jersey before the season started....guess I can hold off on that. At some point even the greatest of kings has to placate the masses if he wants to avoid a rebellion. Well, the townsfolk are carrying torches and crossing the draw-bridge. Might be time for the Eagles to take a step back and think about what their next move is gonna be. Apologizing to this guy and giving him his job back would be a good start.

That brings me to my next point: this guy got fired due to his status on facebook. How ridiculous is that? Is privacy as we know it now dead? And the other things that bothers me, what happened to not tattling on people? I highly doubt that Jeff Lurie, Andy Reid or someone high up on the Eagles totem pole saw his status. That means some lowly, jack-ass fuck in middle management saw it, told his supervisor, and then they decided to fire the poor guy. Really? You couldn't keep your fucking mouth shut? Or if you're his boss you can't politely tell him to change his facebook status? When did the Eagles become the communist party? You say one damning thing and 'poof', you're gone, never to be seen again. I love the internet. It's an un-filtered way for people to express their opinions. And though I may not agree with most of what's on the web, I respect people's rights to say what they want. This whole thing will hopefully bring to light a problem we will eventually have to face as a society: how do you blend someone's internet persona with reality? There has to be a cut off. Once we start monitoring and censoring the internet, then the greatest equalizer of all time has suddenly become null and void. And that would be a damned shame.

The economy sucks right now. We all know this and many have been affected (I've had a shit time finding a job). But maybe one good thing has come out of this: fast food places are doing anything they can to sell food. I hardly eat fast food, but every now and then I get a craving for something that's truly awful for me, and that artery clogging awfulness has now become cheaper. Taco Bell has 3 different types of nachos all for under $1, the fantastic Sonic has a dollar menu, and KFC's jumped into the fray with their own value menu. This is great news for fast food enthusiasts (um, not so much for nutritionists). It'll still kill you...but at least you can now die for cheap!