*Netflixoholics** Anonymous
Hello, my name is Karen, and I currently have <gulp> 189 movies in my Netflix queue and another <gulp> 22 movies in the "saved until they're released on DVD" section. I have not watched a Netflix movie in . . . almost 20 hours. I last watched "The Weather Man," in which Nicolas Cage does the unthinkable! He plays an Angsty Guy! (Honestly, I think the world would end if a movie featuring an Angsty Guy got made without Nic. And, yet, I love him. I do.) I really liked this movie, even though parts of it were depressing as hell. Life is just what it is, and you are just what you are, and that's all there is to it. That doesn't have to be bad news. Accept it, live with it, and you'll be happy. Even if you're a weatherman.
**Just because I can't NOT, let me say that I don't like when people append "-oholic" to something they're addicted to, like "chocoholic" or "shopoholic" or "workoholic" or whatever. The original word, "alcoholic," happened to refer to a word ending in "-ohol," so "alcoholic" just has "-ic" appended. That means that those other words should be "chocolatic" and "shopic" and "workic," though, granted, they're not nearly so catchy that way.
so "alcoholic" just has "-ic" appended. That means that those other words should be "chocolatic" and "shopic" and "workic," though, granted, they're not nearly so catchy that way.
Denial isn't just a river in Africa, you know.
Posted by: scott | February 27, 2006 at 07:56 PM
Hey, I don't shop or work hard! (Alcohol and chocolate ignored, for the time being....)
Posted by: Karen | February 27, 2006 at 08:00 PM
Reminds me of a T-shirt I once saw.
"I'm like a chocoholic, only with booze."
Posted by: James | February 27, 2006 at 09:53 PM
I understand the "-oholic" v. "-ic" controversy here, but isn't the stigma connected to the "-ohol" suffix really the driver for all these pop terms? Nobody pretends that there's an upside to being and alcoholic, so by using the common suffix, you similarly attach the stigma to other terms. I'm not sure I've ever heard "chocoholic" used derogatorily (it's usually more tongue in cheek) but it communicates an addictive state, either wanted or unwanted. "Chocolatic" would tend to infer a predeliction toward chocolate, but without the obsessive component.
Maybe I'm just being too clinical about this....
Posted by: Joel | February 27, 2006 at 11:23 PM
189 - are you kidding me!??
Posted by: Brooke | February 28, 2006 at 03:19 PM