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03:07:2005 Entry: "Ann : Pop Culturally Illiterate"
Pop Culturally Illiterate
My TV viewing is pretty minimal and segregated and comes down to two categories: Reruns (Seinfeld on weekdays and Gunsmoke and Bonanza on weekends) and Informational/Educational shows. The Seinfeld reruns require no apologies on my part. The Westerns, however, are a bit of a guilty pleasure. I do think Gunsmoke was a good show, even though looking back in retrospect with more sophistication, parts were cheesey. It had an eerieness about it, and a starkness of the main characters that I find a bit refreshing. Bonanza is like one of those things you really don't love, but you watch it as comic relief even though it wasn't intended as comedy. It's a pure cheesefest. Informational/Educational viewings are local nightly news where the anchors are always "off" tonight...assorted History Channel shows...Wild West Tech; Discovery Channel...Mythbusters; Animal Planet...Emergency Vets...Animal Cops; Home and Garden...House Hunters, Amazing Vacation Homes...anything about history and architecture where you get to see the inside of a house, but I hate the bimbo decorating shows; A&E...Dog the Bounty Hunter (ok, maybe that's an embarrassing guilty pleasure that I discovered by accident, and maybe it's sort of what the Osbournes were to the early 2000s, this is to the mid-2000s, and it's really annoying when you get the damn theme song stuck in your head like a McDonald's jingle, but I still get a kick out of it), Cold Case Files; Discovery Health...Dr. G Medical Examiner and various shows where they remove 400 lb. tumors from people that live to tell about it. I must have very odd taste to the average TV viewer. I know nothing about network tv, current dramas or sitcoms. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. It's a bit ironic that I have a perennial freelance gig involved in putting together a flyer for a certain charity organization that some celebrities are involved in. Here I am assembling these photographs of people on current tv shows that have fans, and I don't even know their names and who they are. When I'm directed to "put Joe in a more prominent spot because he's a big fan favorite" I don't know who Joe is, so I'm glad that this time the photograph files were labelled with names. A few years ago, I received a finished flyer for my portfolio. I was explaining to Stan that it was for a charity, and that I think they do work with developmentally disabled kids. And here's the really embarrassing part. In some of the pictures, I don't know if it is a celebrity or a developmentally disabled person.
3 Comments
I watch the dog and I feel no shame!
Posted by Stan @ 02:17:2005:07:23 PM CST
You don't even feel shame when you get the dang theme song stuck in your head? I guess guys have no shame.
Posted by Ann @ 02:17:2005:08:14 PM CST
What?
Posted by Stan @ 02:17:2005:08:15 PM CST
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