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May 27, 2010 · 12:05 am

Project 365 5-23-2010 LOST

As you’ve probably noticed these blogs are REALLY late.  I’m going to pretend that I’m writing on Sunday.

Tonight was the series finale of LOST and Rene and I watched it with our friend and LOST enthusiast Dean.  To help celebrate the night Dean made a dinner of salmon and roasted potatoes and Rene and I brought salad.  The food was really good!  I really enjoy the making of and enjoying good, homemade food.  The conversation in the kitchen, the combination of flavors and then the actual eating of everything is one of life’s simple pleasures and we don’t do it nearly often enough.

We watched the show and, in order to keep the arguments to a minimum, I’ll simply say that I enjoyed it and I’m thinking that we’ll see a LOST TV movie or mini-series sometime in the next three years, but don’t quote me on that.

After the show we left, it was a school night, and as we were pulling out I caught this picture:

I thought it looked cool.

See you tomorrow!

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May 12, 2009 · 5:04 am

Random Randomness


Originally I wanted to write a blog about the TV shows that I wouldn’t be watching. I wanted to write this because Rene and I saw a whole lot of previews for new shows coming this summer that appeal to the worst parts of humanity. Now I’m not trying to claim that I am above this kind of television, I mean I am, after all, the same man who relished Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels, but some of these shows…

Ugh!

In the end I realized that I don’t really want to talk about these shows. As much as I would love to keep you from watching these programs I also don’t want to give these shows any kind of publicity whatsoever. None! There are people related to these shows that are just disgusting. If we are of like mind then you know EXACTLY who and what shows I’m talking about in which case we can share our distaste and ire privately and at the new “water cooler” called Facebook. If you don’t know then you might be one of the people who will watch these shows and it’s better that we don’t ever talk about it. Like never mentioning religion or politics in mixed company.

Now that all of that is out of the way I feel better. I’m going to return to my chips & salsa and fix packets and listen to the episode of Medium that’s on in the background.

See you tomorrow!

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May 9, 2009 · 6:00 pm

The Tyra Show

When you work from home you get the opportunity to have the television on as you work. I used to turn it off, but I found that I lost track of the time so much easier when I didn’t half-hour/hour long shows to show me how time was passing. I’d listen to podcasts or Pandora and suddenly three or four hours would pass and I wouldn’t have nearly as much done as I hoped. I find that bad daytime TV, especially shows like Maury and Cheaters, are great as time monitors and, occasionally, you get some great mid-work moments like when Maury pulls out the DNA test and neither of the men that the girl brought on the show as the father of her child ends up being the father of that child. It’s horrible, but I’m not above schadenfreude.

However, when I work from Rene’s house, as I do from time to time, she does not have cable and I just leave the TV on one channel. Most of the day this is fine as background, until the Tyra show comes on.

I’m not a fan.

I don’t understand why this woman has this show. She is condescending, judgmental and regularly tries to force her opinions on her guests. Sometimes it feels like she brings people on her show just to point her finger and laugh.

I’m also not real big on how Tyra, a super-model and has been a super-model for most of her life, likes to try and play the “I’m a regular person” card. That is very frustrating. She makes broad moral judgements without any regard for her guests circumstances. I don’t like that. I can deal with, and used to really enjoy, hosts like Jerry Springer. They openly mocked their guests, but all of their stories were so extreme that even the guests could laugh at themselves, but Tyra takes on some very serious subjects and then applies only her myopic view on them. That’s just trashy television.

And the worst part is that her show is AMAZINGLY popular with teen girls. Very impressionable teen girls. At least for the most part Tyra rides her moral high horse, but when it comes to body issues and weight she sends two very different messages. On her talk show she is all about loving your body and being comfortable in your skin and “kiss my fat ass” but then you see her other show, America’s Next Top Model, and all they talk about is how fat a size 2 girl is and how a size 6 is a plus size model. How are these two messages supposed to jive?!?

Rene does a much better compare/contrast in her blog, but I saw Tyra’s show on teen pregnancy today and it just infuriated me. Now I feel better.

See you tomorrow!

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