Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Neuroses, Ho!

I am walking around one big goddamn regret after another. I just spent all of this time looking back at old posts because a new friend, Sway, is going to look at my blog and maybe she'll discover what an ass I am. I started a new job and people seem to think I am intelligent over there. Well now my cover's blown! Plus: maybe I should have exercised a bit over the past twenty years. Or even this morning, I could have read the paper more carefully so I would be more politically attuned. I truly obsess over all of the millions of things I could have done or said. Another friend said 'shoulda coulda woulda,' as if I should just forget it all. But my regrets are like a map of my neuroses and without my neuroses, well, would I be the same gal?

There is no way I could be as pseudo-anxious as Ally McBeal, who I loved to hate, except when I was hating the other people on the show. Remember when Peter McNichol was on that Family show in the seventies with his actual sister Kristie who turned out to be a cute lesbian with frosted hair but no tv career? Then there's the mom on Malcolm in the Middle - love her! She's like the best Queen Bitch you ever dreamed you'd be. But I'm more like Leah Remini, the wife on King of Queens, with the UPS guy and Jerry Stiller. She worries about the stupidest crap and what people said and why they said it and whether her ass has gone bad. That's me right there. Except in real life she's a Scientologist and in real life I am prejudiced against Scientology because it seems like Tom Cruise is a freak. Not a good freak - a bad icky freak. Plus, regarding Leah, I would never marry Kevin James. He's too I'm-a-big-hunka-stupidity. I wouldn't mind being related to Jerry Stiller. Maybe I am related to Jerry Stiller. Or maybe I just look like Leah Remini?

5 comments:

  1. A new friend? How very enterprising of you! And you do not look like Leah Remini, though you're allowed to hope (does one want to look like Leah Remini? she strikes me a bit like that woman in NY who had all the plastic surgery and looked like a cat, except not quite).

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  2. FYI: Sway finds your ramblings highly entertaining and insightful.
    Not to mention BRAVE. Which The Point of the goddamn blog, yes?
    Regret? Hell no. An ass? No, no.
    Neurosis? Please keep them in check.

    ...and just what IS Kristy McNichol up to these days, when not frosting her hair?

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  3. The mom on Malcom, love her, but she kind of freaks me out, it's like ... ohmygod, is that my life? Is she talking about me? No, wait, I got rid of my idiot ex ... ok, that's not my life. Whew.

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  4. Sway-

    I'm not sure about Kristy, but I am definitely curious.

    Cowbell-

    As for the Malcolm mom, I think she just has too many boys, including the husband, whom I adore.

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  5. Oh, Becca:

    Yes, one does want to look like Leah but only the early Leah. Here she looks like an android, I know.

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