Nil by Mouth

I watched the graduation episode

I watched the graduation episode of American High tonight.

Notable quotable: They struggled with grades, love, and football. Ordinarily i eat this shit up. But I really hate the show. Let me count the reasons:

1. it makes me feel old

2. the “reality show editing” is suspicious

3. it makes me feel old

4. the Chicago/Midwestern accents set me on edge. i mean they all look normal..

5. sponsored by Coca-Cola (did you know “Coca-Cola” is in spell-check? This is the dictionary spelling. Silly me i was gonna write cocacola.)

5. everyone’s so well groomed. these kids have been plucking their eyebrows since before fingerpainting (fingerpainting, on the other hand is not in spell-check).

6. it’s so high school, it reminds me of my high school; and i’ve been trying really hard to repress those 4 years.

7. and yeah it makes me feel damn old.

luckily it’s the web and there’s always someone saying something nasty. who was it that said, If you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, come sit by me?

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everything is breaking – visor, cell phone, laptop is crashing. is it the absurd heat?

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so if you are close enough to high school to remember (or have been unsuccessful in memory-repression), most of the kids

//–begin valley-speak–//

would b,e like, the totally popular kids.

//–end valley-speak–//

and what’s really quite annoying they all seem so deep and self-aware. i mean the popular kids were supposed to be shallow and superficial and inauthentically happy, right? apparently not.

nevertheless i went to the site and browsed the chat room. teehee someone’s called himself “NietzscheBoy”. ohh high school[sigh]. well i only watched the first 2 episodes and this last one so i really don’t know what happened in between. i can only guess it was grades, love, and football.

ok – i’m already sorry i’ve devoted this much time, sweat (it’s damn hot), and clicking to this…

• Jun 21