Dear Poor Lucky Me,
Some of us are wondering if you think you’ll ever go back to giving advice. While I appreciate the intimacy and rawness of your personal posts…I need your wisdom! I have a lot of questions that need answering- like why are there so many shows about cakes on television? I thought we were all eating cupcakes now, but there seem to be about 20 different cake-making shows that would challenge the cupcake’s take over.
Would you consider accepting some questions in addition to writing about your heart break and recovery? Because that would really help a lot of your readers out.
With Sincerity,
One Of Your Many Fans
Dear One Of,
The reason there are so many cake shows on TV is multi-faceted. Although I have only a limited viewing of this type of show, it appears common that the people who order the elaborate cakes are complete assh*les. Since most people who watch TV like to see people spending a lot of money while acting like assh*les- this is a reliable aspect to incorporate into almost any program. Also there are many fat people in America, and fat people like to look at good food as well as eat it. That’s why we watch the Food Network. Food porn is really like any fetish porn: it’s the knowledge that you’ll never get to do that makes it so alluring. It’s pretty rare that most people would ever order and eat a cake in the shape of the whale with Jonah in his stomach, and watching it on television produces an unique emotion that combines furious envy and a socially acceptable voyeuristic fix. This emotion can also be produced by My Super Sweet !6, The Biggest Loser, and American Idol.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I do want to try and go back to giving advice, maybe I could just start with one question a week and build up my confidence. I’m currently obsessed with trying to design my website through iWeb and somehow import all the content, then separate the advice column from the blog. I think this will be a nice feature for people (like myself) who can barely take another sad blog post. If anyone knows how I can do this, please email me- I’m willing to pay!
Thank you to all my readers. You’ve helped me so much, I appreciate you being along for the ride. I want to be there for you again, and I’m going to try. Love,
Poor Lucky Me
Thank goodness. We need you to keep us up to date on what is going on in the world.