Reality rantings
Hello all! This past week has been one of many interruptions and road blocks thus leading me to neglect my newborn baby, Confessions. Well I’m back on the block and I want to discuss a trend I witnessed on TV this week. Crazytown!?!?!? I think you’re missing some residents.
Let’s begin my week of TV in review
NBA Finals Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers Game 7 - Ron Artest stole the freaking show. As a basketball fan, I recognize that the man put on a damn good athletic show. I applaud that, however Ron Artest makes it in this post purely for comedic reasons. Way back during the first round of the playoffs when the Lakers where playing the Oklahoma City Thunder, I said to myself “Why are his damn pants so short?” Something struck me as off with him, living on another planet off. Boy how right I was. We all know Ron is around 12 blocks short of a full neighborhood, but the truth of the matter is, he’s authentic. I honestly don’t think he “puts on” for the camera like other public figures. The fact that he played a major role in his team winning the highest honor in professional basketball and he thanked “the hood” first. Of course it was obviously hilarious, as was the rest of his post game interview, but more than that his honesty was refreshing. He’s a street guy from Queesnbridge, good or bad, right or wrong. No apologies. And he’s a tax paying resident of Crazytown.
Real Housewives of NY Reunion - Oh where do I begin with this conglomeration of foolishness and fuckery. Jill with her extreme levels of thirst regarding Bethany’s friendship did not only seem disgenuine, it was pathetic. Let me give you the reader’s digest recap of this season of NY.
If you watch RHONY you know for the first 10 weeks, Jill did nothing but trash Bethany and say how much she (B) ruined their friendship by not being a good friend. She told anyone within ear shot that B was “toxic” and she (Jill) made her the success she has blossomed into since the show began. After all those grand stands and announcements of the end of the friendship, Jill suddenly has a change of heart.
Bethany tried to apologize and make up with Jill no less than six time during this season before she finally decided enough was enough. The thing that really stands out to me about this reality riff is that B really had no idea they were in this knock down drag out fight when the season began. How assassinating a feeling it is, to be engaged in something (be it a fight, relationship, danger, etc) and have no idea. B, found success in her career and she embarked on a new relationship. One of those things is enough to occupy your time so imagine engaging in both endeavors simultaneously, you’re busy and the friends you used to spend all your time with naturally fall down the priority chart. With that realization in mind, B attempted to apologize to J for not being around as much as she was and she fell on her sword about how much she loved J and how much their friendship meant to her. J with certainty and disdain in her voice turned her every time, going so far as to say that B was toxicity in her life. So where did the change of heart come from on J’s part.
Well, B somehow kept right on living her life. Her career continued to bloom as did her new relationship, resulting in a preganacy and engagement and guess who missed out. Sourpuss Jill. If you watch closely, when things only got better in B’s life that’s when J began to soften and wonder of a reconciliation. In my opinion that’s the true mark of a snake. Well, J spent the rest of the season trying to make up with B to no avail. She went so far as to crash Ramona’s island vacation she declined the invitation to.
Now to the reunion, if I say Jill apologized once, she apologized a million times. When asked why she was so upset or why she didn’t take the opportunity to make up sooner with B, she never gave a straight, logical answer. Her go to answer of the night was “I don’t know”. She also did a lot of crying and trying to leave the stage she loves so much. Overall I found her behavior the entire 3 part reunion to be obnoxious. She kept telling B how nice she looked and how much she misses her and instead of feeling her pain I just wanted to slap her. For me, it’s too little too late.
The other major event of the three part reunion was the summation of Kelly’s crazy. This lady is what I consider to be living on another planet. The reality she experiences on her planet is nothing like what we have here on good ole planet Earth. They showed a montage of Kelly’s comments and interactions with the ladies and it was astonishing to hear her reaction. Kelly claims she turns people down so sometimes she doesn’t know what the conversation is about. Ok, we all space out sometime but in her case, she stays in outer planet land. Kelly said she supports PETA but she wears fur because they’re not the same thing. She also doesn’t eat processed food but gummy bears are awesome. She doesn’t drink alcohol however Tequila and beer are two of her favorite beverages. She’s a walking, breathing contradiction. Kelly is the type of person that you fight with then in the middle of the ma-lay you realize this person is insane and you’re taking advantage of them by arguing. It’s a little thing I like to call the Kelly Effect. Once you realize the fight’s unaware it must be aborted.
OK readers, I really rambled on way longer than I planned to on this post but the crazies were in full effect on the screen this week. Until next time…
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