What isn’t real reality is what everyone else is forcing you to believe is reality, or at the very least, real.  Reality shows are far from so far from reality that it’s sometimes easy to think of them as really being sort of real.  The producers know that you know that what you are seeing isn’t what Ordinary Joe and Jane are doing, seeing, buying, driving, watching, vacationing, or living.  But it might be close enough to reality that you might actually believe that you could be there on that screen.  Yeah, right.  And two rights make a wrong.

No, real reality is what we really have to do, see, buy, drive, watch, and whatever else.  The thing about reality shows is that they need to hook you into believing that you’d rather be there.  The thing about reality is that it really isn’t all that bad a place to be anyway.  Might as well rather be here.

We’ll show you the fun stuff that really real people do.  And we’ll do it for pennies on the dollar compared to the reality show versions of fun.  We’ll also show you the things real people think about and how “They” (you know “They,” first cousin to “Them”) need you to believe that They know better than you and you will believe everything They tell you to believe because you’re stupid, They told you.

We probably have a better idea but we probably won’t ever get it patented or marketed or out to the world to make life easier for you.  But we’ll try to tell you what it is and how we got to it.  If the best we can do is to get you to think of some better ideas too, that’s not such a bad thing.

What we aren’t is a rant.  We also aren’t political, religious, theatrical, bleeding hearts, or heartless clods.  We’ll talk about religions and politics, we’ll get a little dramatic, we have our favorite charities and we’ll acknowledge others.  Sometimes we’ll get a little excited, almost passionate, but we try to be at least a little bit more constructive than just ranting about things. 

We also aren’t politically correct.  If you get all bent out of shape because we aren’t using this week’s watchword when addressing this month’s favorite minority, get over it.  We don’t take ourselves so seriously that we’re convinced that whatever we say will change thousands of years of oppression, confirm millions of years of persecution, ease hundreds of years of harassment, or be remembered for more than a handful of minutes.  Oh yeah, we don’t take you seriously either.

If things go well we’ll do this a couple times a week.  If you find yourself really interested in the things we put out there, let us know.  We don’t know what we’ll do with it but we’ll tuck away that somebody out there liked something. 

Oh yeah, who are we?  We’re us.  A couple who’ve been around the block, been to a few rodeos, aren’t at our first circus, been there done that, and done it – umm, do it with a little extra … just because.

Now, that’s what, or who, or both, we are.  Really.  How ‘bout you?