It is what it is

Recently I've been watching the first season of Walker, Texas Ranger on DVD. While I could blog and blog and blog about each awesome individual episode, I really just want to bring up one thing. So far I've received the first 2 discs of season 1 through Netflix. For the first 4 episodes (disc 1) the show opens with CHUCK NORRIS IS .... WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. I send disc one away in it's little red envelope, watch a few newer releases and then return to the series. I throw in disc 2 and now the opening credits show WALKER, TEXAS RANGER IS ... CHUCK NORRIS. Whoa. Is that, like, Chuck Norris Zen or something?

What happened between episodes 4 and 5 that they decided to change this? That early in the series wasn't "Chuck Norris" more marketable than "Walker"? Actors play charaters (Norris plays Walker). Characters don't play actors (Walker plays Norris). I find this very confusing. It's like I've entered some sort of backwards bizzarro Chuck Norris world, and I imagine people down south seeing Chuck Norris and saying, "That's Walker, Texas Ranger! He's Chuck Norris on TV!" I look forward to viewing disc 3, and hope that they do a split screen where on the left side there's Chuck Norris and it says CHUCK NORRIS, and on the right side there's Walker, Texas Ranger and it says WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, and there's a big equals sign in the middle.

There is no spoon

Right now I have headphones on and am tuned in to whatever Pandora.com is sending my way. Work has been ridiculous lately and I haven't blogged about it because I try not to blog angry. So for today I would like to just calmly share with you what I've been going through.

Let's say it's your job to teach people the rules to "Rock, Paper, Scissors." Let's also say that the people you are teaching this to already know how to play. Your job should be pretty easy, right? You think, hey, I'll go over the rules again and everyone should be good to go.

Then one of your coworkers says, "What about spoon?"

You say, "What? Spoon? What are you talking about?"

They say, "Well, what if they ask about spoon? Shouldn't we show them that?"

And you say, "No. Spoon has no place here. We are talking about rock, paper, scissors. These, and only these items, are what we need to teach them. They cannot use spoon."

"But sometimes they do what they're not supposed to and invent new games and what if they invent a new game with spoon?"

This is essentially what I've been dealing with. I very much want to hit people with "rock". Have a nice Valentine's Day everyone!