Who are "they" and why should we listen to them?

Have you ever caught yourself saying, "Well, people say..." or "they say..." or even "I've heard..." I do it all the time though I try not to. But who are they anyway? Where do they come from and why do they feel the need to stick their nose in my affairs all the time?

Apparently they know everything. They dress nicer, have more self control, slimmer waistlines and are experts in the field of psychology and finance. Modesty is not one of their strong suits as we talk about them all the time. People rarely challenge the they. We follow blindly feeling like we're smarter than others, like we've gotten a hot tip. We think of it as inside information only the privileged few have. I know something you don't know because I heard it from a supposed reliable source.

If all you're going to do is criticize than just leave my life alone. Go spend time with the rest of the sheep and see if I even notice. I'm tired of listening to them. I have enough to deal with without worrying about impressing the anonymous collective. They'll probably hate me for it. They always do.

I could be a they and you'd never even know it.

See movies in real 3D without the bluish/redish tint. Your eyes will thank you for it.

I feel like a little kid today. I went to see the Jonas Brothers today. The show was very well done. I've always been a fan of the concept of 3D, but it's hard to find good 3D. They had a couple of the shows at Disney World that were really well done. I especially liked the Muppet show with the two old guys int he balcony. "We would've left along time ago, but our butts are bolted to the seat! Ha ha ha!"

But when you go and see a movie are are drooling when the previews are running it's a good sign. I'm glad that Real D uses clear glasses instead of the red and blue lenses. Watching the explosions and the words coming right at you just makes you go "ooh." The movie itself was better than I thought it was going to be. They mixed up the music with very humorous behind the scenes information. It really did feel like you were on stage with them because of the 3D effect. I look forward to seeing some of the full length movies that are coming up in that kind of 3D as it doesn't make your head hurt. When you can watch the opening credits of the Jonas Brothers movie and be in awe, it makes you feel young again. I think it's funny when people walk out of the 3D movie with their glasses still on. It's like they want to see the world in 3D or something.

I know why it's not busy. They were charging $15 a ticket, but I only went because it was free. People don't want to pay $45 for a family of three to see a concert that's probably for their kid anyway. And in these rough economic times, people are looking for ways to trim expenses, not create more.

How can they allow such violence on tv? Oh, it's just the news!

You know the last time I watched the news was when I was on it. I was in the same newscast as Arnold Schwarzenegger (I think that's right), presidential candidates McCain & Obama, and a Kindergartner class's mauled pet pony (the pony didn't make it). The news is quite absurd when you think about it and very outdated since the popularity of the Internet has boomed.

The job of the news is like any other television show, ratings. Only the news is never going to get canceled. People will never stop committing crimes. Disasters will continue. There is apparently so much news that the half hour show from my childhood could not contain everything that's happened.

There is also a multitude of newscasts throughout the day. They have morning news, evening news and nightly news. I once saw the news on at noon. I thought, it's been three hours what could I possibly need to know about. There's also entire channels devoted to the news and weather. If there's anything more exciting than watching the weather channel, I haven't found it. We even have entire shows dedicated to making a parady of the news. There's apparently so much information floating around that we don't know what to do with it.

But we have all these news shows, and what do they talk about? The news always presents, it's most exciting stories at the beginning, advertising what they'll be talking about later. You sit and wade through the gunk just to get to the five minute topic that you thought sounded kind of interesting. All the news has on it is crime. Death, murder, fires and crooked politics. Happiness is apparently not news worthy. If you only watched the news, out world looks like it's on the brink of destruction, like we might not even survive until the morning. It's just so depressing.

And the format of the news is actually quite interesting when you stop to think about it. The news tries to make every story and every "angle" more exciting than it actually is. How many voiceovers or live "on the scene" interviews to they need in one broadcast? They do it because it draws attention. You can tell the exact same story, but if you present it like it's important for us to pay attention to, we're more likely to do so.

This is the anonymous idiot reporting out in the cold and sleet, that nothing new has happened on the scene for the last three hours. Thanks and have a great night!