Ya Know What I Was Thinking?

Is There Anything Good On Tonight?

I'm watching Game of Thrones. I don't like it, but there's nothing else on. It's not my turn to have the TV, so no Snapped for me. More's the pity.

I'm not a huge fan of GoT— too much politics. Boring. And with everybody in bed with everybody else, the family trees look about like those five rings I recently wrote about. Nope, not a fan. But you know what's weird? It's really not that much different than Snapped! Only in this, everybody snaps. It's similar because, in both shows, they find the most creative and sadistic ways to treat each other and murder each other. Sure, every now and then there's a nice clean throat-cutting. But they're usually getting their heads popped like a grape or incinerated by dragons, stabbed to death by ice skeletors. All kinds of weird shit.

But what about the wife who decides she's bored of being married so she puts that anti-moisture powder they put in the pill bottles into his morning coffee— you know, that stuff that says "Do Not Eat?" Or the girlfriend who's tired of being a side-piece so she stirs ground up powderized glass into his beef stew?? Or the mother who has been a "dutiful wife and mother," then one day listens to some still small voice that tells her to calmly and quietly drown her children in the pond at the local park.

Truth is always stranger than fiction. Scarier, too. I guess it's because we write fiction based only on what we know and think. But people actually sometimes do the unthinkable. We're always training for the last war we fought, and we're surprised by the tactics of the new one. Just so, we're always on the lookout for the evil we've come to know, and are shocked by the newer, stranger darknesses we see on the evening news.

Game of Thrones? Nah, not a fan. But it's what's on, so I guess I'll watch it— and watch it quietly and hold my tongue. There's far too many chemicals, sharp things, and little packets of silica (why is she keeping all those packets?!) laying around. I'm not looking to be the next episode of my favorite show. So, I guess, "Go Johnny "The Crow" Snow!