No party in these here pants.

MUSIC: Sonny Sharrock

So there's all kindsa ads on tv now that start with a really attractive person sitting there saying "I have genital herpes". And the first thing I, and probably most folks think when hearing a statement like this is of course: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!". After that, I wonder...does this dude really have the penile pox? Is he just an actor? An actor with the crotch rot? Whatever the case, I wonder if they've lost any potential phone numbers because of these commercials? Dude's at a bar, chatting someone up, there's a game on TV, their potential mate turns to go to the jukebox and sees the other person on the screen...and they say "I have genital herpes". Odds are, that person is bolting. If they don't, then they are probly crawling with the stuff themselves...and if that's the case, Mr. Am-I-Acting-or-Not should be the one bolting...because his life is going to be rough enough once word gets out.
And they have to have the attractive people do the commercials...because if you get someone what looks like Kevin Federline or Fred Durst sitting there saying "I have herpes", people would think "yeah, that sounds about right", then change the channel. Then no one would know which herpes meds have the fewest scary side effects.

On a completely different and more pleasant topic...I just saw Kennedy on TV...and she's still hott.