‘TV’ Category

  1. no! not cartoon ass! how horrible!

    January 17, 2005 :: 9:55 pm

    another fine example of American Hypocritical Values

    Jan 17, 6:01 PM EST 

    Fox Blurs Cartoon Rear End on FCC Worries

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fox says it covered up the naked rear end of a cartoon character recently because of nervousness over what the Federal Communications Commission will find objectionable.

    The latest example of TV network self-censorship because of FCC concerns came a few weeks ago during a rerun of a “Family Guy” cartoon. Fox electronically blurred a character’s posterior, even though the image was seen five years ago when the episode originally aired….

    Fox hadn’t gotten any complaints about the cartoon. But the move follows the FCC’s decision in October to fine 169 Fox stations $7,000 each for airing an episode of “Married By America” that showed people licking whipped cream from strippers’ bodies and a man in his underwear being spanked by strippers.

    so… they’ll gladly show insane amounts of violence (professional sports being a prime example of that), people manipulating each other in horrible ways (all reality television), people being paid to cheat on their significant others (temptation island).. but they freak out over a drawing of a cartoon butt?

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  2. i reject your reality, and substitute my own!

    January 1, 2005 :: 3:38 pm

    i had what i thought was a great idea when i half woke up in the middle of the night. i thought it would be a fabulous idea to start an urban legend that attic fans could create a vacuum in your house and you could die if you didn’t open the windows first. and then jamie and adam could debunk the myth.

    this sounded hilarious at 4 a.m.

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  3. random thoughts on politics, holidays, and the moon

    October 27, 2004 :: 9:27 pm

    we voted early last weekend. not that it matters one way or the other, seeing as how we live in a giant red state. however, something interesting has been happening: i’ve been seeing pro-bush, anti-kerry ads on tv. here. in texas.

    why?

    you’d think that if they thought they had the state wrapped up, they wouldn’t bother spending the money on unnecessary ads.

    unless they’re not unnecessary.

    ha-HA!

    oh, hell, i know it’s a pipe dream. but i can dream, can’t i??

    in other news…
    chris hamilton, a friend who is a photographer, came over and took a bunch of pictures of our cats for a business he’s starting. they turned out great! i don’t think that i can really post any in a public forum (they are his pictures, after all). our halloween party is this coming saturday. on friday, in our new building at work, we are having little preschool kids coming through to trick-or-treat. our office’s theme is “black and white” (even though we just moved and are still settling in, and have had no time to think of holiday decor, the whole building is apparently expecting great things from “the creative group,” so we brainstormed the other day and came up with something). anyway, i’m going to wear my black and white stripey stockings and my short black supermodel wig. man, any excuse to wear alternate hair!!

    the moon eclipsed tonight. we saw it for a few minutes through a break in the clouds. it was pretty cool; it turned this nice rusty red color. actually it’s still going on, but it’s awfully cloudy outside. in fact, the weather has just been horrible lately: incredibly sticky and very very warm. i want my cool dry crips autumn days, goddammit!

    Team America: World Police is freakin’ hilarious!! I highly recommend it, as long as you are over the age of 16 or so. America, FUCK YEAH!

    jon stewart was on crossfire last week, i think — the lesson learned here is, do not fuck with jon stewart; he will make you look like an idiot. he called that bowtied freak tucker carlson a dick! my favorite line, when carlson was poking at him about the quality of the questions he asked john kerry during his daily show appearance: “wait a minute, you are on CNN. you know what show leads into mine? puppets making crank phone calls.”

    Some fun links…
    Give Bush a Brain!
    iFilm political short films & clips (freakin’ awesome site!)
    the U2 iPod

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  4. i DON’T have lip fungus!!

    August 23, 2004 :: 7:52 pm

    There’s this new commercial for a cell phone — Kyocera I think (which took an embarrasingly long time for me to figure out how to pronounce… I’d heard commercials for a phone called “Kia-Sarah” but it never quite connected in my brain that the two were the same thing) — anyway, this snooty girl in a nightclub is showing off her snazzy new cell phone and its voice dictation feature, and she tells it “Text to Mike: I had fun last night” and the phone repeats back to her “I have lip fungus.” It keeps telling her she has lip fungus, over and over, as she gets more and more upset. You’re supposed to deduce that the phone is not as cool as it seems, and that the Kyocera is a better choice. But the thing that sticks with me is the girl shouting “I DON’T have LIP fungus!!” and the club suddenly goes silent. Har!

    By the way, googling the term “lip fungus” gets you all sorts of interesting results:

    • “The Rock is to acting what lip fungus is to kissing.” (can’t argue with that)
    • “This particular specimen of lip fungus had been growing untrimmed for 16 months.” (question: wouldn’t you notice after, say, a week? And maybe have someone, say, trim it?)
    • “You might want to take a raincheck on that one Clark; he got a lip fungus they ain’t identified yet.” (how many lip fungi HAVE they identified?)

    Awww…. rats. Googlism does not have any results for “lip fungus.” But “fungus” by itself gets you:

    • fungus is a moldy plan
    • fungus is risky
    • fungus is among us
    • fungus is extremely purrrroud to have received his first award
    • fungus is not going to appear on the label anywhere

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  5. why doesn’t cathy eat breakfast?

    March 16, 2004 :: 11:12 pm

    Cathy's Mean MomWhy doesn’t Cathy eat breakfast? Well, would YOU eat runny soft-boiled eggs if they were served to you every morning by this mean woman? “Cathy, I cook and clean, and work all day to make you a nice meal. And now you won’t eat it? You ungrateful little bitch! I’m going to get that pink plastic hairbrush off your dresser and teach you a lesson!” And what is up with the vaseline around the edges of the lens? Was this truly the height of 1960s technology??

    Does anyone know? Does anyone have any THEORIES as to why Cathy won’t eat breakfast? Because “Stop projector, discuss film” just isn’t cutting it!!

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  6. Your fifteen minutes of fame, at the cost of your dignity

    July 25, 2003 :: 9:40 pm

    Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: I recorded it. I watched it later. Aaaaaand… I couldn’t sit through a full episode. I got bored, I guess. Here are some of my thoughts about it:

    • The queer guys are mean, rude, and unashamed in their vicious put-downs of anything not meeting their standards.
    • I feel sorry for the straight guys (kind of). The Queers degrade, insult, humiliate, and make fun of them, and treat them like they are stupid and utterly inept. And (as our lovely society dictates) they are just supposed to suck it up and take it, being men and all.
    • At the same time, though, they did agree to be on the show in some quest for minor fame.
    • The Queers are just reinforcing the stereotype that gay men are shallow, flamboyant, and obsessed with dick. I personally know a couple of dozen gay men, only one of whom fits that stereotype. Gay people have the full range of personalities and habits — just as straight people do.
    • And that Carson guy… would he please Just Stop. Just stop. Really. Shut the cakehole every two or three minutes. Tone it down tenfold. Quit being A Complete Bitch! And shut up every once in a while!

    Here’s the other thing: This show is being broadcast on Bravo. I have always thought of Bravo as a channel that shows more artsy and independent type films, shows, and projects. To wit: Inside the Actor’s Studio, The Awful Truth, Fishing with John. Now they are showing QEFTSG, which, with all its faults and annoyances, is pretty interesting… but they also have this new show called Boy Meets Boy, which is a dating show that looks just as vapid and ridiculous as any other modern “dating reality show,” except that this time it’s with all guys! And some of them are gay and some of them are straight! That’s the wacky twist! It looks as bad as something that FOX would show, and it’s on Bravo? Well, Doc tells me that Bravo is owned by NBC. So it would seem that a gay dating show is too controversial for network TV, so NBC loads it off onto Bravo instead… where it completely doesn’t fit.

    Maybe we need The Reality Channel on cable. You could even have two or three of them, kind of like HBO2 and HBO3 (or whatever they are called). That is where we could put aaaaaaaallllll the reality tv, and we could get back to showing quality programs on the other channels (note that “showing quality programs” is not equivalent to “cancelling quality programs,” which is what usually happens because Americans apparently just cannot get enough fucking reality programming).

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  7. bad bad bad bad scary bad day

    July 9, 2003 :: 10:27 pm

    In regards to yesterday’s entry, I got e-mail from a friend who said she now feels ashamed to admit that she ate dinner at Burger King yesterday evening. (And was convinced to do so by radio marketing). In light of this, I feel that I must explain that I most certainly eat fast food from time to time, definitely more often than I should. Sometimes I get a craving for those little McDonald’s hamburgers, the kind with the minced onion. I can’t help it.

    It’s not like I’m immune to the effects of marketing, either. For instance, we ate at McDonald’s the other night because of a TV show we were watching. PBS had some show about hot dog stands around the U.S. Now, I don’t even like hot dogs, but after watching this show about hot dogs, chili dogs, slaw dogs, sausage dogs, reindeer dogs, 1/2 pound dogs, and sauerkraut dogs, something fast and hot and salty and bad for us sounded reeeeeally good. By the time it was over, it was 9 p.m. and we hadn’t had dinner, so we went to McDonald’s because it was fast, easy, and convenient.

    I was bombarded by images of nutritionally devoid high-fat high-chemical foods… and I succumbed. And this was on PBS for Pete’s sake, under the guise of culinary documentary! Oi.

    Today was a really really bad day. I found out that I have a pre-cancerous cervical condition. They did a biopsy immediately, and I won’t know how bad (or not) it is for a week. This does not mean I have cancer; it means that there is something weird going on, and they don’t know what it is. Left untreated, it could definitely turn bad. The tests were quite unpleasant, and I think there’s probably going to be a lot more of them. I won’t know anything until next week, so I have a full seven or more days to imagine the worst. I don’t want to mention anything to my mom yet, because she would just worry herself to death and it may not even be anything that bad. So I don’t think I will say anything until I get the test results back. But I am pretty scared.

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