Here is some stuff I have been reading that I thought folks might like:
- February 8th – Thoughts on the Misogyny Bowl in advertising (versus a truly uplifting game) – "The way for a man to regain his balls/spine, suggested the ad, was to get a Flo TV so that he could passively-aggressively watch his game while pointedly ignoring his wife on their outing while technically obeying her overbearing feminine demands he’s powerless to resist openly."
- February 8th – Polydora – I saw a thing on a blog the other day saying that poly was becoming more main stream – I guess this is just one example.
- February 4th – The real cost of Coke – Nothing like pointless markup. "They said: “if customers want smaller portions they ought to be willing to pay for them.” Oh."
- February 3rd – Enough is Enough – a very mature PBTH! to you
- February 3rd – “Playback.” – I don't watch this show, but I thought the commentary was really relevant for ANY of the reality dance shows, and I thought the dance clip was really good.
- February 1st – Tank girl …You’re my only hope – This is one of the few "bad" movies that I really enjoy – I'll watch it any time it is on cable. Nice to see I am not the only one who loves it.
So I have to admit that one of the things I like best about having a new fancy Tivo is streaming stuff from Netflix. I especially enjoy streaming seasons of televisions shows that I never got to see when they were on the first time. But now I am finding that Netflix has a trick up its sleeve and I don’t see its purpose. For some of the seasons they are taking single episodes and making them DVD only. So I can see 90% of the episodes of a show, but if I want to see all of them I have to actually get them to send me the DVD. I don’t see how this benefits Netflix, and I don’t see how it benefits the movie/tv companies.
But i can certainly see how it would annoy their customers.
ya know – Fuck wikipedia’s “we don’t warn about spoiler’s policy” . . . I don’t think i shoud have to worry about TV show spoilers when reading an actor’s bio. After dogding Torchwood spoilers for weeks on LJ I got spoiled in 30 seconds reading one of the actor’s bios.
Fuck
I am done with TV associating the sight of a Muslim man praying with doom, terror and fear. If I could recall even one instance of that scene not turning into something that is supposed to scare us maybe i would be less upset. I can’t imagine how much that sucks for someone who is Muslim, for their sacred rituals to be inextricably linked as prequel to death.
rant Rant RANT! Frustration abounds …. This is the nth time this year Evan has been afraid of losing his job …. but yet he still doesn’t see that he doesn’t act like he Wants his job. I can’t get him to study, he doesn’t seem to see that being sick, absent, absent minded from going to work sick … it all affects how his boss sees him *sigh*. Then After he *doesn’t* get fired, he still doesn’t do the studying and things that he is going to need to do to keep his job. It is very frustrating to watch, I don’t know if he hates his job, or is just procrastinating, or ….. and that is the problem I don’t know, and can’t think up things to fill in there …