Red Monday

I was walking through this miracle of advertising today, as usual, at lunch, so much advertising it disappears like all the people. The odd thing is that I noticed a billboard for a show called "The Mentalist" which I'd never heard of (I probably haven't heard of 99% of the TV shows). I think I noticed it because it was black and white and simple and seemed like it was really out of place. I guess it looked like it could be an ad for a movie from 40 years ago. It got my attention-- I guess this is what you'd call "effective advertising"-- at least if your target was me, which, I don't know why it would be. Anyway, I made mental note of it, but then quickly forgot about it. Later, I remembered the billboard and wanted to look up the show, but I couldn't remember the name of it. I should have made a mental note that it was a "mental" note-- that might have worked. It eventually took me a half hour of browsing over TV schedules to find the name of the show and look it up. I guess it was on last season-- though I never heard of it-- and this is its second year. I looked up a listing of episodes and ALL of them have the word red in the title. It pains me a little that while I was working in this crummy mailroom minimum wage job for the past year, I could have been sitting around thinking up episode titles that use the word red. When I thought about it a little more, I was glad I wasn't sitting around thinking of episode titles, though I won't go as far as to say I savor my memories of the mailroom. Anyway, I considered maybe watching the show, so I looked up something about it, and it's about police and heinous criminals. Can't watch it. There's a serial killer at the center of it all, or maybe not the center, but certainly driving that whole "red" business. Apparently, he's an "unseen" killer, at least thus far, which means there is still an opportunity to land that roll... I mean as an actor. But then, no. I have to be able to live with myself. Plus, I've already given this whole ugly world way too much of my thought.