Friday, June 10, 2005
Hilfiger
~ Unkindest cut ~
Well, I watched the Hilfiger show, and it's even worse than I predicted . Alas for all these johnny-cum-lately 'reality'-type shows, Trump has screwed their pitch by setting the standard and format to ape - including the chimpanzee-visaged Hilfiger. The Cut is a disaster. It opens with an angst-ridden voice-over by TH, explaining who he is and the rough road he's traveled to wherever he is now (still a mystery to me). After which, enter the 'candidates' - as dull and ham-fisted an assembly as one could scoop off the street - whom TH addresses in thoroughly unconvincing fashion, complete with halting delivery and nervous tics to complete the farce. One needs watch no more: the show defines the televisual insults currently numbing our senses.
Prompted by an anonymous comment a week or so back. I've been rethinking my thoughts on this genial pastime of blogging.
The comment suggested I blog more about Bainbridge and things local. Even as I read the words, I felt any desire to post further drain from me.
I don't know why this should have cut so deep except that, personally, I wouldn't presume to suggest style or substance to my teenage *daughter*, let alone some complete stranger - no matter *how* characterless and wishy-washy I felt their blog to be and or urgent their need to be pointed in any direction by *me*.
Just the thought of being perceived as a sort of 'juke blog' for readers' requests was too galling, hence the total evaporation of ideas and inspiration.
Plus, of course, the sobering realisation that I attract the sort of reader who'll go public with such a suggestion. Finally, the humiliating possibility of one day posting on a subject that also meets the wishlist.
Hence the hiatus.
Seriously. I go to other sites because they're Bainbridge. That's why I went to yours initially. Now I come back because your site is so fun to read. A break is good once in a while. Hope you come back.