It feels like ages since I've blogged.. and in reality it's been like, what, a week. I've just been pretty much working and living. Boringly so. I've been reading Sarah Silverman's book "The Bedwetter" and even though I'm an actual fan of Silverman's, I find it brilliant for a first writing effort. I think it would make anyone piss themselves of laughter. While some, or most, people think Sarah Silverman is nothing but a vile, vulgar, disgusting person, I think she's a breath of fresh air. I don't think that anything she has ever said has been particularly shocking, it's only shocking to those who live in a bubble. A bubble that floats on top of reality and looks down on it as though it's a dream. All she ever jokes about is every day life things, all truth. So how can people go around saying she's vile? Life itself is vile then. But it didn't take a genius to figure out that disgusting things do exist in this life. While writing a skit for her latest season of the Sarah Silverman Program (which recently has been cancelled) she had a fight with the Standards & Practices people, because they would not allow her to say "labia" on television. She responded with something like, "we said balls 18 times in our last episode, and you're not gonna let me say labia?" It's funny because apparently labia is gross-er than balls, but really? Balls are disgusting beings unto themselves. You can call someone a dick more times than you can remember in one day, and it will make people laugh, but the minute you call someone a vagina it's like "ew.. why did you go there?" And it's funny because even when the person in question is a woman, referring to body parts that she herself has, it's considered gross. Sarah Silverman is only considered "shocking" because she has a vagina. And that to me is pretty shocking... it's not like it's 1950, you don't have to cup your hand over your mouth in disbelief that a young woman is "misbehaving".
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