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The crazies are coming out of the woodwork everywhere you look.\u00a0 The Left has fired up the bat signal only it\u2019s the bat-crap-crazy signal they\u2019re flashing.\u00a0 Honestly, we need a vacation from this.\u00a0 We need something good to think about instead.\u00a0 In normal times maybe we\u2019d be excited to watch the Super Bowl.\u00a0 But of course, these are not normal times.\u00a0 I read somewhere that the half-time entertainment is someone calling him(?)self Bad Bunny.\u00a0 And not knowing anything one way or another about said bunny I\u2019d say, \u201cOkay, why not?\u201d\u00a0 But then it said that in honor of all the \u201cqueers\u201d he\u2019s going to wear a dress.\u00a0 So that\u2019s the end of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

I guess that means it\u2019s up to me to figure out a way to cheer up normal America.\u00a0 So I looked around and saw an article that said Sydney Sweeney was marketing a line of lingerie by wearing lingerie<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, that sounded hopeful but on further reflection I thought, \u201cYou know, she\u2019s really better off doing the jeans commercials with her clothes on.\u201d\u00a0 Plus, Camera Girl will think I\u2019ve become a dirty old man so that\u2019s not so good.\u00a0 So back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n

So, I turned on the tv.\u00a0 Holy cow.\u00a0 All there was were police shows.\u00a0 There were \u201cCOPS\u201d style reality police shows and cold case shows and then there were tv series about make believe police.\u00a0 Camera Girl watches a couple of these, one of which is Chicago PD.\u00a0 But based on what I could see most of the Chicago police department is made up of women with a few men thrown in for the sake of romance with the few non-lesbian members of the force.\u00a0 After watching a few minutes of this hyper-realistic police drama, I started mocking Camera Girl for watching this show.\u00a0 I said, \u201cDoesn\u2019t it seem odd that five foot nothing women are arresting six foot something men who weigh three times what they do?\u00a0 And how do they manage to keep their hair, make-up and fingernails looking so good during that knock down brawl on the mean streets of Chicago?\u201d\u00a0 Her only rebuttal was a really nasty scowl.\u00a0 So, then tv wasn\u2019t the answer.\u00a0 At least not what\u2019s on today.<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s the clue.\u00a0 We\u2019re currently living in a happiness desert.\u00a0 TV, the movies and books are in awful shape.\u00a0 The only way to find amusement is to carefully curate (what a pretentious word!) your sources of entertainment.\u00a0 Luckily for me, that\u2019s always been something I did.\u00a0 Currently in my movie rotation are a few very unusual films.\u00a0 I have a 1958 movie called the \u201cThe High Cost of Loving\u201d that starred and was directed by Jose Ferrer.\u00a0 It\u2019s about a fellow in middle management at an American company that is simultaneously dealing with his wife having a baby, the company being bought by a larger company and several signs that he\u2019s about to be fired.\u00a0 Small roles for Jim Backus, Edward Platt and Richard Deacon give the whole production a very familiar, late fifties, early sixties tv feel.\u00a0 Watching Ferrer play a very decent man panicking over his comfortable life falling apart is excellent stuff.\u00a0 And to round out my happiness quest I added two other movies I felt like watching; \u201cA Man for All Seasons\u201d and \u201cThis Happy Breed.\u201d\u00a0 These two are both based on English plays and despite the amount of disaster that both stories delve into, both leave me feeling very optimistic about the world.\u00a0 Apparently, the movies don\u2019t have to be upbeat or comedic to make me happy.\u00a0 They need to be about people I can admire or at least relate to.<\/p>\n

And sure enough, after partaking of these movies over the last few days I\u2019ve forced myself into a good mood.\u00a0 This despite the massive quantities of snow removal I\u2019ve been subjected to.\u00a0 So that\u2019s the answer.\u00a0 Find a vision of the world where good people do good things and you feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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