Today's Word: Tossed
Rejected or relieved, depending on the cultural antenna. The act of blurring the ingredients of a salad into one equally disturbed mass. Being jostled around as the airplane crashes.
Speaking of tossed, I'm out last night zapping pixels and I nearly vomited during a racing simulation when the faux-Indy car I was in bounced and skidded around on its X, Y and Z axes. I have no idea of auto racing is that queasy and bumpy, but it felt verging on cartoonish as my avatarmobile flipped end over end, landing Blues Brothers-style on its four tires only to keep slamming forward. What I was doing was irrelevant to reality, a virtual hero quest in the form of simulations and pixels rushing by to infer great speed. None of it mattered, but the illusion felt right, including the dull ache of losing (still possibly being seasick from the jostle of go-go racing action, but the results were clear: I got trounced).
Minor flashforward to Iraqi elections, with another virtual reality already in progress, thanks to American media. People didn't die in vast numbers, so there you go. Success. Despite no real idea of who is really winning. It's just the kabuki itself that counts. Purple fingers and the same news footage of the jubilant Iraqi woman waving an orange book. BBC news this morning querying if the turnout and voting meant a vindication for Bush and Blair. And I'm thinking, yeah, it does. A false war based on false information about a false threat spread by fakers who call themselves journalists. Deception maintained across the board. Here is the end justifying all the means. Tens of thousands of Iraqis dead. A cracked infrastructure. Nearly 1,400 dead American soldiers. Shattered international relations. It's all better now. Well, maybe. Who knows? It's the tsunami effect: We won't know the outcome until the water recedes. But it makes good virtual closure for the Americans watching on TV, that pesky Iraq is all better now. And just in time for the Michael Jackson trial to start. End one TV show, start another.
And, speaking of madness and entertainment, here's something to give those American radio wacky DJ "Morning Zoos" a run for their money.
3 comments:
rallye racing is very queasy and bumpy. i rode with my hubby several times before when he used to race just to give him my thumbs up support. it is supposed to be safe because of the rollbars and all but it's scary. good thing i was not with him those times he had accidents. eeeeew.
to watch the iraqi election returns feels like watching a rerun of the janet jackson wardrobe malfunction at the superbowl which was on our tv this morning. it is something i did not want to see and had no stomach for. these jacksons are coming to be a bit of bad news relievers lately.
Eek.
Just so you know, I was talking about video game racing. 8 pods in the shape of 1/3 scale Indy cars, all synched together.
Never meant to imply I was on actual pavement, holding my body in with roll bars. Your hubby is a braver man than me.
i know i know :)
what i'm saying is that that is a very good simulated ride because that is how it feels in reality. you kind of get a glimpse. i think that simulated is more dizzying though.
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