I don't watch the news. Not ever, unless there is something breaking, like 9/11 or Michael Jackson. The only way I know it's breaking is if someone calls me or it comes up on my Twitter feed.
I don't get the paper. I find out about all the current events I want to know about from Entertainment and Us Weeklies. If I remember, the Daily Show.
Confession: I didn't see images of Katrina until about three weeks into the coverage. I had heard there was some something going on. And then one day I was like "oh, yeah. I meant to look that up."
Horribly uninformed, you say? Yup. Did I give money anyway? Yup. (Do I still give money to Louis, the hobo outside of Costco who has a sign that says he is from Katrina? Yup.)
On the internet, I use extreme discretion in my blog reading. I employ my Google reader like crazy. And I ditch blogs all the time.
I ditch them when:
- Their politics differ from mine and they can't keep civil about it
- Their religious beliefs differ from mine and they can't keep civil about it
- They refer to our president without using his title
- They speak ill of people and things that are sacred to me
- They are mean to others
- They post pictures of EVERY FREAKING STEP OF THE RECIPE, for Pete's sake, I know what baking soda is and can measure it myself without having to look at an artistic shot of it in the teaspoon you are killing me
- Their blog focus evolves to a focus that no longer interests me
- They post too many Twilight-themed events
- I meet them in real life and it turns out I don't like them at all
Judgmental, you say? Definitely.
I will let you in on a little secret:
I get to judge. I get to be as awful and hateful and judgey as I want.
When I leave my home I strive with a strive that is more than a strive to be kind and tolerant and loving to everyone I meet. I give the benefit of the doubt to complete jackholes, listen to incredibly uninformed rants from strangers, love the unlovable, and do my best to leave everyone a little happier than when I found them.
But not in my house.
I don't have to listen to any crap I don't want to hear.
I don't have to read any crap I don't want to read.
I don't have to be informed or know about anything that takes the peace from my soul.
I just don't.
I built this bubble, dagnabit (bodaggit) and I protect the monkey out of it.
Here's the other little secret:
YOU don't have to read things that make you angry.
How can you tell if they make you angry?
You feel like you have to leave a hurtful comment anonymously.
Build your own bubble.
I totally give you permission. Turn off the news, change the channel, unfollow.
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Is that the clip you play for Buster to get him to fall asleep?
I never watch the news and prefer to stay pleasantly uninformed. Plus, I live in Utah so...bubble, bubble, bubble.
I like to read your blog, I've never commented but I really like this post and just wanted to say that I agree.
On a related note, I didn't discover Arrested Development until about one year ago. Probably because the bubble usually doesn't include Fox TV. Anyway, THAT is the best show ever created, thanks for reminding me!
so, is this your way of saying you're breaking up with me?
j/k. love you. and i agree. don't like it? fine. then don't read/watch/listen to it. got something nasty to say? either keep a lid on it or put a name on it.
Hear Hear. I esp. love the comment about the recipe- SERIOUSLY PEOPLE!
Nicely said.
I've stopped watching the news. And I love being in that bubble.
Amen
and Arrested Development is one of the best shows ever made!
Precisely! i could NOT have said it better myself. Thanks for posting this.
I live in a bubble to, like so much so that I didn't even know the world was mad at Boyd K. Packer. I LOVED his talk so much, i watched it twic on conference Sunday. Then, I read on some blog that everyone hates him now. WHAT? WIERD!
Anyway...judge away my friend, judge away...I totally believe in it. haha
Just had to de-lurk myself and say that based on the last two clips you posted I think I love you! :D
That last scene on the Arrested Development montage just might be my all-time favorite Bluth family moment. Classic!
Well said!
I've never understood why people can't just STOP reading a blog instead of saying hurtful things in the comments.
I love bubbles and the chicken dance.
And A-freakin'-men! Suck it trolls. Now I'm doing my own version of the chicken dance.
Love my bubble too. It makes the world less scary.
Oh and yeah, don't like it, don't read it. I also follow Thumper's mom's sage words of "if you can't say something nice, don't say it at all"
I used to read this blog of someone I knew which drove me crazy. Every time I read it, I got irritated. Then one day I realized I would be much more happy around her if I didn't read her innermost (crazy) thoughts. Life has been easier ever since and I then dropped 1/3 of all the blogs I read at the time.
Love this. I too drop blogs that drive me nuts. But now I'm wondering if I've made your cut? ;)
Michelle, I'm sure you've made her cut. She'd like for the two of you to dress like matching Sailors and go to MotherBoy.
Eye <3 ewe.
Agreed. But cept sometimes I read blogs I hate just to kill time. Other than that--Totes agree.
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