Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Coveting thy neighbor's newly hot wife

Let me set the stage for you: Ann and I are chilling out in the living room... I'm studying for a quiz tomorrow, she's watching TV. The show she's watching is called What Not To Wear -- if you've never seen it, the premise is that a gay guy and a fashionista woman find some poor, misguided girl who dresses... well, like me, really, that is to say like a homeless person who went completely blind in 1987, and then they point out her fashion sins in minute detail in front of full length mirrors. Afterward they make up for completely dismantling her self esteem by giving her money to buy better clothes and throwing in a badly needed makeover. So, whatever... at the end of the show they always have the victim return home to a party thrown by her friends and family so they can gawk over how tragic she no longer is. Like I said, I'm studying, but I happen to look up and notice that in this episode, one of the people being interviewed, right after the woman's husband, is the pastor of the church she attends. He comments -- to be fair, in a nice rather than a creepy way -- that now they'll have no problem filling the pews every Sunday, thanks to how good she looks.

So my question is, do you think this man ever looks at the nine commandments and thinks, You know, it just feels like something's missing? Or is he good?

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