It's Enough to Give You the Blues

2008-03-01T21:51:00.007-05:00

Even Blue Men Get the Babes.... (Blue Men Vs. Men Who Are Really Blue.....)

Did anyone see the Oprah show with the Blue Man? This is a man that ingested so much silver nitrate (was that the substance? or too much blue icing on birthday cake?) that he turned himself blue from the inside out. Dr. Oz said it was like he tattoed his body from inside out. Over time, given that he drank this chemical solution (for No Reason At All That I Could Discern, mind you, I missed the intro to the show) this guy just turned blue. Not like pale or gray around the gills but blue. Like...indigo- like..blue jeans. Like the Blue Man Group but no performance and entertainment. Just the skin tone. And also no group - just one blue man.

But here's the thing (if you can forget the part about how there was no real incentive to take this stuff in the first place -like who does things like that even if it does get you on Oprah?) - in the audience, was the Blue Man's fiance.
His fiance - the woman he will marry.

She met him as he was in the last shades of major blue and still went out with him. "Oh yes, she said, I had heard from his sister he was blue'.

Did it bother her?

Apparently not.

(Which also made me think that "List' I keep on the man of my dreams - are my standard too high wanting someone in an earth tone? Or conversely maybe I should write on the list: And make him a normal colour- no mauve or fushia men.)

Now they are engaged.

It made me think: even the Blue Man has a date for goodness sake. And he is getting married. Maybe the wedding will be on Oprah. And that "something borrowed, something blue" wedding refrain? I think he gets an official 'by' with the latter. It's covered.

But the thing is, even Blue Man has an active romantic life.

The strangest thing I do lately is drink pulp free orange juice with Omega 3 and extra calcium. Now that - is neither going to get me on Oprah nor a fiance. Although, happily, I don't think I will be a vivid orange, too soon, either.

I have to say it: how can you not notice yourself turning blue!!!!!? I notice when the arch of my left eyebrow is a bit askew. Even Dr. Oz ran out of small talk. Not to mention, there are real people, with real stuff they didn't ask for, that maybe we could spend 60 minutes with and Dr. Oz could take a look-see. I mean, I'm just saying.

This is my 9th month of having no TV. (I gave the TV to my sons). So I have to borrow TV minutes here or there and truthfully, it's not really a sacrifice. In that time, I've read all of Jane Austen, figured out how to use my digital camera, and launched a few blogs. But you should know it is mildly impossible to wrestle 30 minutes, to watch Oprah, when you live with three young men in the house and it is near hockey play-offs and you like, live in Canada where people are born with Bauers on their feet. So I hate to complain but I was a little jarred to tune in to that 21 minute TV oasis I happened to get, and saw the Blue Man. And he was nice. Don't get me wrong. It's just that...

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It's Enough to Give You the Blues