Slip me some skin

I missed yet another money-making investment: backing doctors who specialize in skin reduction surgery. The concept's been around for decades but with the dazzling success of GLP-1, there are thousands of people with extra, saggy, skin.

In fact, there used to be a TV reality series about doctors in Texas, I think it was, who did skin reductions for previously obese people. Biggest problem for those patients: health insurance refused to pay for the surgery, which is infinitely expensive, claiming the saggy stuff was not a health risk.

TV's inundated with commercials for weight-loss drugs, which never explain how somebody who lost 45 pounds now looks not just slim but covered in teenage-tight skin. Likewise the people, all genders apparently, who dropped 100 pounds.

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Warp speed

 

Still watching too much television. Hey, you try walking on my knees, sport.

Finished the final season of Star Trek Lower Decks. Excellent, hilarious, brilliant and stupid in the same instant.

Finished the 14th series of Doctor Who. What a slog. The 15th doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, has good moves, but the stories ... oh the stories. Babies in space, for heaven's sake. A mysterious origin for the Doctor's Companion, Ruby, turned out not mysterious at all. Best new enemies: shape-shifting avian humanoids, the Chuldur. Best new buddy: a mysterious bounty hunter named Rogue who sacrifices himself to save Ruby.

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Product marketing, aka selling, reached Peak Pushing over the holidays, what with a half-dozen sprays and solids pitched for smelly bodies. Indicates just how scared some people are in the Time of Trump and Terrorism. They cannot control the madness but they can control how their "privates" smell.

But the funniest ad was for a shower head. The pitchman sincerely declared how wonderful using his shower head makes the bather feel. I hope whomever wrote that ad moves on to movies; the writer's a genius.

Did not miss at all TV ads for Jared jewelry ... but there were plenty of others hawking hideous shiny items.

Will not miss perfume ads, but the images of gorgeous bodies barely clad ... already missing them.

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