Soap

7-24-09

Holy crap I am tired. I had some freaky bad dreams last night. I don’t remember their full content, but I know Beth was in the dreams. I also was hot one second, and cold the next. It was all kinds of uncomfortable.

I was particularly annoyed when I realized it was Friday and not Saturday. Oh well, hopefully I can sleep in a bit tomorrow.

Tonight is busy busy. Need to clean house, clean backyard up a bit, go by the store, and probably other various things. I am going to my folks this afternoon, but I am going earlier than normal. They are going on their cruise tomorrow, and with all of my errands I have, I want to get in their visit as soon as I can. They will not see the boys again until the 7th. So my mom needs to really get her fix.

Dax was feeling witty yesterday. At one point he comes up to me and says, “thank you sir.” I say this to them all the time, so I corrected him and I said, “no, sweetie, I am ma’am” He then, without missing a beat says, “No, you are Mom!” LOL!

He also came across Bobby’s belt, drapes it across his body and says to me all proud and says, “Look Mommy, I am Chewbacca!” So proud.

We watched the Muppet Show and I have to say I am a little bummed that they were more excited by C3P0 than Kermit (it was an episode with Mark Hamill), but at least they enjoyed it.

I spent a quick 20 minutes skimming through the 2 discs of Soap to verify my suspicion that it is actually the 3rd disc of that season that I need. There is an episode where there is a 10 minute sequence with two of the characters that has cracked my mom and I up for years. She had it on VHS, but it has since been lost I think, so instead of buying the whole season, I can Netflix it, make a copy of that episode, and then have it forever.

It has been years since I watched Soap. I don’t know if I watched it as a 5 year old, or if I watched it in syndication after it aired. I remember thinking that a lot of it was quite funny, but honestly, I don’t remember a lot of it. As I skimmed through the show, I forgot how taboo it was with certain topics. Some are pretty basic for today’s standards, and really, not even “bad” anymore. White guy dating a black girl. Gay guy raising a child by himself. Crazy guy who uses his ventriloquist dummy as a way to lash out with his pent up anger. Oh, wait, that is still odd, but these days it would be less odd, I think. But this was done in the 70’s, and let’s face it, it was risqué at the time. They also had this high school student dating a teacher, in pretty graphic detail. I would imagine even by today’s standards, there would be groups that would protest that. Sure, the whole show was supposed to be like a soap opera, just a bit more over the top, but it was pretty amazing what they got away with.

What I had not remembered was the alien sequence. Yes, you read that right. Burt, one of the main characters, is abducted by aliens, and replaced with alien Burt (who ends up knocking up Burt’s wife, which is a whole other thing). I didn’t watch it, but I did stop occasionally to see if I was missing anything interesting. There was some kind of time travel and oddness that made me wonder if this was Soap jumping the shark. It was wacky.

I do kind of have a desire to watch the show from the beginning now. I don’t know that it will happen anytime soon, but it might be interesting at some point. The characters still seem appealing, and I was intrigued enough to watch it with older eyes. Billy Crystal at the very least is compelling enough to watch as the gay son raising his daughter that came from a friend who seduced him, left, came back and said he was a father, and then left the kid in his care. Part of one of the episodes I watched had what appeared to be some form of child services coming over because of a complaint that was based on him being a homosexual raising a child. It was interesting and well acted, especially by Crystal. At one point the Child Services guy does ask him, “Are you a practicing homosexual?” to which Crystal’s character replies, “I don’t need to practice, I am quite good at it”. Brilliant, really. I know I have heard it since, yet I wonder if it originated from Soap.

If I knew Ken would enjoy it, I would subject him to watching all 4 seasons. Perhaps I will at the very least make him watch the sequence I am looking for (once I get my next Netflix delivery) and watch him look at me in disbelief when I am on the floor laughing over something that probably deserves at the most a smile or chuckle. If he is also laughing, then I guess I will be changing my Netflix queue!

I was going to write a piece on the arrest and subsequent dropping of charges on the black Harvard professor and the charges of racism on a white cop who was the arresting officer. I don’t know that I can do the topic justice after reading several blogs this morning covering the topic. I still may just for the hell of it, figuring how bad can it be?

I think for the first time, I want the game Rock Band. I want the new Beatles one coming out on 9-9-09. I don’t know what game system it is part of, or even how to play it, but for those of you looking for a great Christmas present for me? You now know.

Have I mentioned these eye drops feel like acid? Holy fuck this hurts, and now in both eyes???? OUCH!

I have given up on my bangs being uniform and have parted them as they have requested. Demanded is more like it by being so stubborn with every attempt to style. I could probably trim them and make them behave, but for now this will work. The only real problem is the way my bangs want to site somewhat covers up my semi good eye and profiles my bad one. Oh well. Luckily both are getting better due to the acid drops.

I should probably prep for reports.

I saw the preview for Time Traveler’s Wife last night. OMG. I actually think they did the book justice. I have a desire to re-read the book. It may be one of those movies I need to get a sitter for so I can see it in the theatre. I may just need to fly up to Jenni’s for the weekend so we can see it. LOL! That might be a bit drastic. Actually, if Chelsea works out this coming Friday, I may need to tap her in general for more events. My folks work better only because they are free, but sometimes if it is late, it is easier to have them in their own beds. Although, my mom has been jonzing to have Bobby at the very least stay at their house. With them both sleeping well at night, it may need to happen soon. Maybe the weekend of the 7th they can watch them that Friday night and we can pick them up Saturday.

I wrote a piece of racism. It isn’t great, just mostly thoughts that would need to be redone. Kind of like a brainstorming session of free writing. Not sure if I will post it or not.