My Meerkat Moment

So tonight I’m watching ABC World News and their cutesy tag story at the end is about the cult obsession with this Animal Planet show called “Meerkat Manor.” It’s a reality show about a community of meerkats. I’ve got to admit, I’ve never seen it before. Never even heard of it. But the news shows all these people geeking out over the meerkats. They’re having house parties, decorating meerkat cakes, playing meerkat trivia games, the whole thing. Apparently last year one of the really important meerkats died from a snake bite and there were all these You Tube videos commemorating this apparently famous meerkat (“I will remember you, will you remember me?” and so on).

So I’m watching this thing and I’m yelling at the TV like Elvis used to. What is this? Who are these people? What’s the big deal with these rat/cat things?

And then I realized. This is what John McCain feels like when he watches TV. Or when he hears stories about the tubes these kids are playing with.

I tell you, that can’t be easy. I felt a little out of place right then. A little like I wanted a prolonged military occupation of a hot, politically unstable region. Just so that this crazy world could make more sense.

Man, I’ve got to keep up on these meerkats.

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