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This morning I woke up smiling. Which of course is great, I'm not really a morning person, not that I'm bitchy in the morning or anything, I'm just quiet and a little glum usually, so today was diffrent. I've been kinda happy recently, and that is great, but also a little scary, because I'm a grown up and happiness tends to make us a little suspicious, like something horrible is going to happen at any moment, as if happiness is a punishable offence. I don't think it is but I'm not trusting the feeling, (or myself for that matter) at the moment. But still I'm living it, and not shying away into hiding, so far so good. Moment by moment, a day, an hour, a breath at a time. It might not last but that's a worry for another day, today I intend to be childisly happy and giddy, smiling at memories at strange times, all while listening to the sweetest songs I know.
But of course there's the issue of writing, my best work is done when I'm angry, depressed, disconnected or all of the above. Not when I'm sitting in front of my computer, listening to Green Day's "Time of your life" while grinning. But hey, let's give it a shot anyway.
Today's subject, norwegian newspapers. Two years ago, I was sitting with a group of friends, and in a coffeefuled rage I mouthed off a bit and said that I would not buy another norwegian newspaper until they started putting real news on the front page again. I have bought less than ten newspapers since! For some reason (I blame the marketing department, there's a special circle in hell just for you people...) there's only four types of news that make it to the front page in this strange country nowadays. Sexrelated news. Realitytv/entertainment/clebrity oriented "news". Consumeroriented news. And of course, sports. So the perfect headline would go something like this: "Pornstar joins cast of a soccerreality, how you update to get the best webaction!" Of course they would have to short it down, and add some "fun" puns ("bigger balls..." You get the idea.), but it seems to be the dream nowadays. (Of course violence still sells to, and I find this more acceptable for some strange, morbid reason.)
The perfect story.
So a couple of years ago there was this incident that the media somehow didn't really manage to pick up on, I was browsing the web, hunting down a newsstory that just became stranger the more bits of information I picked up. Here's a short summary. A norwegian soft porn actress/"popstar"(fucking wannabees, they're everywhere...) had been at a bar. Her exboyfriend had arrived, drunk and agitated, this of course is not news, this happens every single day, with a lot of scary concequences, but I havent really gotten to the good bit yet. This particulare exboyfriend happend to be a cop, and this drunk and agitated cop has his police issued gun with him to the bar, loaded, no less. So now we have a big titted blonde porn/pop "star" with a craving for attention, and a loaded cop, waving his also loaded gun, all this is happending in one of the hipper clubs in our capitol. Can you hear the entire newsdesk gasping for air yet? Unfortunatly this happend during summer, and summer is even worse than the rest of the year in the norwegian newsbuisniss, we all have a long summer holiday here, so everything slows down, and nobody put all the bits together. Some papers only got the druk cop angle, som only the pornstar in distress angle. To bad really, the whole story, put together on a front page might have been one of the signs of the appocalypse, but man what fun it would have been.
This, in short, is the reason I have been forced to read all my papers in cafe's lately(they're a drug, I'm addicted, but I'm not paying for the four pages I actually enjoy, no way), the only one I buy is the "le Monde Diplomatique", it comes out once a month, has gruelingly lenghty article, and sports a few pictures of artwork. Granted, it is seriously argues, and it takes a few days to get all the way through, but there's not a pornstar to bee seen and it's filled with forreign news that actually matter. And by the way, newspapersales in Norway are dropping by the day, so there you go. I'm right, they're wrong, and all is right with the world again;)
Miramuffin says: Go out and have some fun, annoy some people and be nice to something small and furry. Love life, live in the moment and don't worry to much, worrying seldom changes anything anyway. Have a great day.
But of course there's the issue of writing, my best work is done when I'm angry, depressed, disconnected or all of the above. Not when I'm sitting in front of my computer, listening to Green Day's "Time of your life" while grinning. But hey, let's give it a shot anyway.
Today's subject, norwegian newspapers. Two years ago, I was sitting with a group of friends, and in a coffeefuled rage I mouthed off a bit and said that I would not buy another norwegian newspaper until they started putting real news on the front page again. I have bought less than ten newspapers since! For some reason (I blame the marketing department, there's a special circle in hell just for you people...) there's only four types of news that make it to the front page in this strange country nowadays. Sexrelated news. Realitytv/entertainment/clebrity oriented "news". Consumeroriented news. And of course, sports. So the perfect headline would go something like this: "Pornstar joins cast of a soccerreality, how you update to get the best webaction!" Of course they would have to short it down, and add some "fun" puns ("bigger balls..." You get the idea.), but it seems to be the dream nowadays. (Of course violence still sells to, and I find this more acceptable for some strange, morbid reason.)
The perfect story.
So a couple of years ago there was this incident that the media somehow didn't really manage to pick up on, I was browsing the web, hunting down a newsstory that just became stranger the more bits of information I picked up. Here's a short summary. A norwegian soft porn actress/"popstar"(fucking wannabees, they're everywhere...) had been at a bar. Her exboyfriend had arrived, drunk and agitated, this of course is not news, this happens every single day, with a lot of scary concequences, but I havent really gotten to the good bit yet. This particulare exboyfriend happend to be a cop, and this drunk and agitated cop has his police issued gun with him to the bar, loaded, no less. So now we have a big titted blonde porn/pop "star" with a craving for attention, and a loaded cop, waving his also loaded gun, all this is happending in one of the hipper clubs in our capitol. Can you hear the entire newsdesk gasping for air yet? Unfortunatly this happend during summer, and summer is even worse than the rest of the year in the norwegian newsbuisniss, we all have a long summer holiday here, so everything slows down, and nobody put all the bits together. Some papers only got the druk cop angle, som only the pornstar in distress angle. To bad really, the whole story, put together on a front page might have been one of the signs of the appocalypse, but man what fun it would have been.
This, in short, is the reason I have been forced to read all my papers in cafe's lately(they're a drug, I'm addicted, but I'm not paying for the four pages I actually enjoy, no way), the only one I buy is the "le Monde Diplomatique", it comes out once a month, has gruelingly lenghty article, and sports a few pictures of artwork. Granted, it is seriously argues, and it takes a few days to get all the way through, but there's not a pornstar to bee seen and it's filled with forreign news that actually matter. And by the way, newspapersales in Norway are dropping by the day, so there you go. I'm right, they're wrong, and all is right with the world again;)
Miramuffin says: Go out and have some fun, annoy some people and be nice to something small and furry. Love life, live in the moment and don't worry to much, worrying seldom changes anything anyway. Have a great day.
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