Bike, Masks, Smiles, Ron, Saul And Walter

     So this morning, I  had the bike finally vulcanized. Then, I biked around the neighborhood for around thirty minutes. The last time I went biking around our place, first week of March, I think, people still didn’t wear mask and you could still see smiles. Now, everyone has their face covered and the smiles have vanished. You could be walking into the path of some people you owe money from and you wouldn’t recognize them and you'd fail to avoid them. Lol.

     Probably the strangest news you’d encounter today is about Ron Jeremy being charged with three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. Ron Jeremy, just in case you’ve been living inside a strict convent all your life, is a superstar in the porn industry. According to the news, Ron Jeremy has appeared in 1,700 porn films. And according to my friend, who asked not to be named, a porn film usually features at least three women. I have no way of verifying this because I don’t watch porn, I prefer Disney films. So, three women multiply by 1,700, I’ll compute it mentally, ahmm, let’s see, uhmm, *wipes sweat at forehead* where the hell is my calculator? Okay, the answer is 5,100. Darn, he had sex with 5,100 women and still found the time to rape three more? Unbelievable, considering that my male friend here is still a virgin at 65.  It’s like having sex with 14 women every day for the whole year. Ron is now 67 but still active in the industry. Incidentally, the incidents of rape and assault happened just a few years ago (2014, 2017 and 2019).

     “If I were Ron Jeremy,” my friend said, “With all his experience in the sex industry, I’d probably always have the urge to puke just at the sight of a (bleep).”

     It’s like a billionaire being accused of stealing a candy in a supermarket. It’s like the owner of McDonald’s being accused of stealing a hamburger. But, then, stranger things have happened.

     So, I’ve finished watching the series Better Call Saul, a spin-off of Breaking Bad, and the debate raging now among fans is: which is better, Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. Better Call Saul (main character is Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman, quite an upright attorney who turns wicked, defending members of a drug cartel) is brilliant and thoroughly-entertaining, indeed, but, IMO, Breaking Bad (main character is Walter White, a highly-intelligent but taciturn high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking meth (shabu) big time) is ‘brillianter.’ But it’s both exhilarating to watch these two nice characters slowly break bad. Both are on Netflix.

    Breaking Bad, with its 139 wins and 229 nominations, is the most awarded TV show ever and a lot of people consider it the greatest TV show ever.

     If only Game of Thrones didn’t falter, it’d have a very strong claim on the best TV show ever.

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