Day 1345 – Dancing with The Semi-Luminous

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Every season of Dancing With The Stars I say I’m not going to watch, and then … I do the same with football, and something else – I forget what.

The problem I have with DWTS is I don’t know most of these supposedly famous people. I guess if you said Dancing With Some Flash-in-The-Pans or Who Dats it would not have the same amount of glamour. It’s early in the season and we have the usual lineup. Some young women who were either child Disney stars or on the Bachelorette, a few stiff older male actors, the fading rose, the NFL player, the NBA player, two Olympians (one male, one female), a controversial figure (a convicted female felon), and a swimsuit model. I probably missed a few, but that’s the line up – in general. This often elicits a conversation of “Who’s this?” and “Why are they famous?”

Most of the contestants I don’t know. A few I know as “You know that person who did such and such.” I can say I knew three, wait – maybe four. Danny Amendola the NFL guy, Dwight Howard the NBA guy, the Olympic pummel horse guy, and what’s her name the daughter of the well known producer of thirty years ago who got gigs as an actress – Sorkin? No, that’s not it, but it’s close.

At this point in the competition you are seeing who has any ability to dance and those that have little to none. The bottom of the barrel has at least four if not more candidates: the two stiff older actors, horse faced Sorkin, and the felon.

Let’s start with the felon. I forget exactly what she did but it was fraud. Somehow she passed herself off as a princess and got people to give her money, a lot of money. Then she got caught and was convicted of her crimes. She still has to wear an ankle bracelet. The staff did a nice job of doctoring it, but it’s a box on her ankle, just to remind her and you of her recent crimes. Okay, she cute. She’s annoyingly giggly, which she’s past the age where that is acceptable, and she tried to say she hoped people would forgive her and see another side of her. We did see another side. She’s annoying, petulant, and lacking much if any personality. At the end of the second show when they eliminated two contestants (no one was eliminated after the first show) she got eliminated. She was asked what she was going to take away from this experience. “Nothing,” she replied. Truer words were never said. In the first episode she made a slight attempt at dancing, in the second show she did not. I’d say it was petulant child mode and she displayed less interest or emotion than the pretty girl a few seasons ago who had a reality TV show where she went shopping with her mother in New York. 

There were two surprises for me. Dwight Howard is graceful. He’s huge and paired with the tiniest dancer they have. She won last season with a tall NBA player, but Dwight? He’s huge. I mean compared to that guy he’s got like another 5 or 6 inches. His partner comes up to – hum, his sternum? It’s hard to describe he’s so big and tall. But man can he move – gracefully. The other surprise was the female Olympian. She’s a rugby player. She’s not a small woman. She and her partner did a routine where he lifted her. That was quite a feat, but then she lifted him! I mean, she lifted him like he was a piece of tissue paper. It was hysterical. They lifted each other twice. Great stuff.

Then there was the people whom I thought did a good job that got low scores and the people that did terribly that got the same scores. I think the judging is all over the place right now. There are two, maybe three people who can dance. 

Okay, moving on. Do you think that Kamala calling Donald “The Biggest Loser” (when it comes to American manufacturing jobs he lost) will bother him? Nah. Kamala also spoke of strengthening the apprentice trades programs, “skills not degrees.” I wonder how that will go over? I liked the commentator who said Kamala actually understands what an apprentice program is as opposed to a game show host who had a program with that word in the title. BTW did you know that the creator of The Apprentice had thought they could use the conference room at Trump Tower for their show, but it was seedy, moldy, and it stunk. He had to build a set.

I was going to do a piece on the guy in Florida who was caught outside of Trump’s golf course. I mean he’s just a patriot with a gun. Am I right? He didn’t shoot anyone so how can they say he was going to assassinate someone? I mean, what happened to the second amendment and free speech? Well, yeah, he did write a note saying he wanted to assassinate someone, but isn’t that free speech? He might have been joking or “being sarcastic.” Isn’t that what Trump calls it when he’s caught saying something terrible?

But I’m not going to write that piece. Okay, I already wrote it but I’m not going to release it. Well, what would I call the paragraph above if it’s not the article? A summary of the article. 

OMG. Rolling Stone did a report on what Tucker Carlson is up to. He’s got a road show. People pay to hear the guy that pushed the Pizzagate story. And they go crazy for Alex Jones who now claims the globalist elites are growing organs in cows or cow human crossbreeds or something like that to be used by aforementioned globalist elites to repopulate Earth with a super race. I mean – really? Why isn’t Jones in jail? He has a $1.4 billion dollar judgement against him and it is said that after Sandy Hook he made $165M pushing that awful disgusting nonsense that he knew was not true. The dregs of his empire are being auctioned off. Too bad. So Sad.

I have to say, “what did he learn from his experience?”

I think the ankle bracelet girl said it best, “Nothing.”