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What's annoying me now?!?
I was about to make my second run of oatmeal butterscotch cookies for giving away this weekend. But my vanilla extract seems to have grown feet and run away so as not to become part of my cookie batch. I've look absolutley everywhere and can only conclude that it got thrown away or drank by a visiting alcoholic (kidding! But does anyone remember that Tom Hanks appearance on Family Ties where he drinks the vanilla and punches Alex?).
So I guess I'll go ahead and make some almond pastries because those require almost no ingredients and no time. I was also going to put together some vegan lemon baklava, but I can't do it tonight because I haven't yet thawed the phyllo. Wow, this post is incredibly boring so far.
In better news, here's a delightful article on how the FCC is actually NOT cow towing to puritanical housewives...for a change.
This cracked me up even as it angered me:
The council's primary targets included an episode
of CBS's popular "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" that
included references to abuse of a man's private parts,
as well as profanity during the ABC network's broadcast
of the Live 8 concert that drew attention to poverty in
poor countries.
Do they really think eliminating "naughty words" is more important than helping the poor? And why in hell are children watching CSI in the first damn place? I guess I'm really to the point where whenever I hear of an organization with "parents", "family", "decency" or "traditional values" in their names, I cringe. These words have become synonymous with bigotry, prejudice, and the curtailing of the freedoms that supposedly define our great nation.
Of course, I have never understood the idea that all programs should be modified to suit the tastes of the most vocal viewers. As N would say "if there's not a market for it, it wouldn't exist". How many truly great shows have been taken off TV for not having a large enough audience? And yet popular/good shows (Family Guy, NYPD Blue, etc) are often targted by these groups as "unacceptable".
I know it's a drag how TV caters to the lowest common denominator; but taking out the boobs and the swears is not the way to fix TV. Plenty of fantastic shows have curse words and nudity, and guess what? They are excellent shows...for adults. And the tacit assertion is that a show is "family appropriate" if it doesn't have nudity or swearing is equally appalling. Ten minutes worth of network "reality show" ads should cure anyone of such an assumption. They are not for kids; they are for idiots.
South Park is the one show that every moron on earth should know by now is not for kids. But that didn't stop the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights from blocking the replay of the South Park season finale. Aparently Viacom is leaning toward not releasing the episode on DVD. That is amusing to me, because it doesn't mean fewer people will own the episode, only that fewer people will have actually paid to own it. That said, I have a pretty crisp DVD copy if anyone needs one. ;-} But please, don't let any kids see it.
So I guess I'll go ahead and make some almond pastries because those require almost no ingredients and no time. I was also going to put together some vegan lemon baklava, but I can't do it tonight because I haven't yet thawed the phyllo. Wow, this post is incredibly boring so far.
In better news, here's a delightful article on how the FCC is actually NOT cow towing to puritanical housewives...for a change.
This cracked me up even as it angered me:
of CBS's popular "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" that
included references to abuse of a man's private parts,
as well as profanity during the ABC network's broadcast
of the Live 8 concert that drew attention to poverty in
poor countries.
Do they really think eliminating "naughty words" is more important than helping the poor? And why in hell are children watching CSI in the first damn place? I guess I'm really to the point where whenever I hear of an organization with "parents", "family", "decency" or "traditional values" in their names, I cringe. These words have become synonymous with bigotry, prejudice, and the curtailing of the freedoms that supposedly define our great nation.
Of course, I have never understood the idea that all programs should be modified to suit the tastes of the most vocal viewers. As N would say "if there's not a market for it, it wouldn't exist". How many truly great shows have been taken off TV for not having a large enough audience? And yet popular/good shows (Family Guy, NYPD Blue, etc) are often targted by these groups as "unacceptable".
I know it's a drag how TV caters to the lowest common denominator; but taking out the boobs and the swears is not the way to fix TV. Plenty of fantastic shows have curse words and nudity, and guess what? They are excellent shows...for adults. And the tacit assertion is that a show is "family appropriate" if it doesn't have nudity or swearing is equally appalling. Ten minutes worth of network "reality show" ads should cure anyone of such an assumption. They are not for kids; they are for idiots.
South Park is the one show that every moron on earth should know by now is not for kids. But that didn't stop the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights from blocking the replay of the South Park season finale. Aparently Viacom is leaning toward not releasing the episode on DVD. That is amusing to me, because it doesn't mean fewer people will own the episode, only that fewer people will have actually paid to own it. That said, I have a pretty crisp DVD copy if anyone needs one. ;-} But please, don't let any kids see it.
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Thank you. I didn't think so as a kid, since I had no where near the self esteeme required to be so unusual at such a young age. I didn't really like it until college; after "turning into" the skid of freakiness.
I was named after a TV character, since my mom probably still hasn't read an issue of New Yorker.
Oh, and Psst. Hermione is a book character, silly.
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