{"id":2850,"date":"2005-04-22T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2010-07-12T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:24:38","slug":"a-string-of-shameful-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"A string of confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.  Since I got television, I have discovered this horrible WONDERFUL reality show called <i>The Surreal Life<\/i>.  This is the first embarrassing confession, and really &#8211; all other confessions come back to this one.  Like:  WHY ARE YOU WATCHING THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?  Well, frankly, because I find it feckin&#8217; FAScinating, in an awful toe-curlingly-embarrassing way.<\/p>\n<p>2.  It&#8217;s half an hour long, and it appears to be on some kind of never-ending loop on VH1.  It&#8217;s always on.  So I have been able to do quite a bit of catching up &#8211; so much so that I actually saw one episode twice.<\/p>\n<p>3.  You guys, does anyone else watch this show???  There are things that happen on it that &#8230; I actually can barely believe my eyes.  Like, even though it&#8217;s right in front of me, I cannot get enough of it.   Mini Me getting WASTED is an example.  I didn&#8217;t know whether to laugh or run screaming from the room when I watched that episode.  I remember my friend Alex telling me about it, a while back &#8211; like: &#8220;WAIT until you see Mini Me &#8211; so drunk he&#8217;s pissing in the corner &#8230;&#8221;  Now I understand what she was talking about.  You watch this show and your jaw literally drops &#8230; Shrieks of laughter are held back in your throat, because &#8230; it&#8217;s all just too weird.<\/p>\n<p>4.  And lastly: the most shameful confession of all:  I have kind of a huge crush on Christopher Knight (aka Peter Brady).  He&#8217;s grown up to be quite handsome, washboard stomach, and has a well-developed sense of the absurd.  For example: a trashed Mini Me will perambulate by drunkenly on his scooter &#8211; Christopher Knight will watch him go by, and then he will glance at the camera, kind of stunned &#8211; but you can SEE the laughter in his eyes&#8230; He&#8217;s like: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but where the hell am I right now?&#8221;  He&#8217;s very cute.  I like his peronality.  Am I actually saying this?<\/p>\n<p>Season finale coming up next week sometime, I believe.  Honestly.  I am counting the minutes.<\/p>\n<p>That China Doll person is one of the funniest weirdest characters I have ever seen.  Saying to Sally Jessy Raphael of all people &#8211; in her overly dramatic self-important incoherent way:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No.  I did not learn <i>from <\/i>this.  I was <i>rewarded<\/i> from this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh?  China?  What?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all <i>so<\/i> entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Since I got television, I have discovered this horrible WONDERFUL reality show called The Surreal Life. This is the first embarrassing confession, and really &#8211; all other confessions come back to this one. Like: WHY ARE YOU WATCHING THAT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2850\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18602,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/18602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}