Enough Already


I find myself in an odd frame of mind. It's like when you've left the house and you can't remember if you've turned the coffee pot or iron off. You're already too far away to turn around and go back without being late to work, so you continue driving and going through your day hoping and praying that the house will not burn down while you are away. It's just that tiny nagging feeling that won't let up.

ALERT! ATTENTION ALL NEWS MEDIA AND MANIC DEPRESSIVES! ACCIDENTS HAPPEN! They're not necessarily contrived, planned, scheduled, anticipated or even malicious preconceived. They just ARE. It's part of the universe of "shit happens".

Point in case:

1. He accidentially shot the son of a bitch. They were hunting, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and he splayed him with buckshot pellets. He didn't mean for it to happen, he didn't plan for it to happen - IT JUST DID.

2. She fell coming over the top of the snow bunker.....she had the gold medal but she fell and instead she won silver. She wasn't "show-boating", arrogant nor had she lost focus. She didn't mean for it to happen, she didn't plan for it to happen - IT JUST DID.

3. She just wanted to get the hell out of there. She grabbed the baby and took off in the car without thinking. She wasn't intentionally going out of her way to be irresponsible; she was just panicked and over-reacted. She didn't mean for it to happen, she didn't plan for it to happen - IT JUST DID.

4. He just wanted a little affection......someone who was on his level of thinking and feeling. He didn't mean to do anything inappropriate with minor children; he just needed some friends. He didn't mean for it happen, he didn't plan for it to happen - IT JUST DID.

5. She was just tired. It's hard being a pop-princess; show after show. Sometimes you just need a little help. She didn't mean to fool everyone by lipsyncing the lyrics; she just needed a break. She didn't mean for it to happen, she didn't plan for it to happen (okay, well maybe in this instance she did plan ahead) - IT JUST DID.

Yep, that's right folks. Accidents happen and it's time we explained this to our media people so they can really start work on reporting the really important things instead of the everyday accidents and occurances that happen as a human being living in the year of our Lord, 2006, on the planet Earth.

I just read in this month's issue of Vogue that the spring "look" for 2006 is very little make-up, especially eyes with only a touch of lipstick. Now this my friends, is NO accident!