It Ain't Me, Babe...
"It ain't me, babe
Naw, naw, naw - it ain't me, babe
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe..."
-- It Ain't Me, by Bob Dylan
So we've been watching the first season of the series
Lost, about a bunch
of folks who are cast away on a desert island. There's the First Mate and
the Skipper, and a millionaire and his wife - a movie star - no, wait, Wrong
show
(although I'd give big bucks if, just once, they were walking through
the jungle and came up on Mary Anne and the Professor making out. THAT
would be "Must See TV" :)
Anyway, the most interesting thing about these characters is the fact that
almost everybody who survived the plane crash, and who actually has a name,
is extremely photogenic. Of course, there are a lot of non-photogenic types,
but most of 'em don't have names - they just wander around as unpaid extras.
There are some other exceptions - notably Hurley, the token fat, jovial dude.
But mostly one will note that all of these good-looking folks were chosen to
survive the plane crash, and they didn't even mess up their hair (one thing
to note is that the series has been going on for months, but everybody in
the show still has the same great haircuts they they landed on the island
with - how come their hair doesn't grow?)
Anyway, some of the characters aren't as...warm and fuzzy as others. We
were watching a few weeks ago, and Ethel allowed as to how she thought
that Sawyer was cute. Now, I don't know what makes guys cute or uncute,
but Sawyer is (at least being presented as) a lowlife scuzzbucket sleaze; it
bothered me to think of Ethel being attracted to lowlife scuzzbucket sleazes,
and so I objected to the very notion.
Ethel has since gone off her meds or something, as she has since proclaimed
just about every male on the island as being quite the hunkasaurus. Now, I'm
just as insecure as the next guy, so finally I got irritated, and said "C'mon,
dear - tell me, is there anybody (except Hurley) who you DON'T think is cute?"
Ethel answered immediately - she said (so quickly that it was as though she
had had the answer on tap, waiting to be asked the question) - "Locke".
Locke, you see, is the guy pictured above.
Locke is the forty-to-fiftyish, bald, slightly muscular, outdoorsey type.
You know. Like ME!
Silas, bless his heart (in Alabama, you can pronounce any sort of damnation
upon anyone at all, as long as you preface the statement with "bless his
heart") really thought that it was funny that Ethel thought that everybody
on the TV show is attractive except for the one most like her husband.
I haven't quite reached the point where I think that it is funny yet. But
maybe my divorce attorney will be able to help me see the humor in it :)
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