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Jan. 14th, 2004
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Jan. 14th, 2004 09:40 amIt's about twenty degrees out right now. Today, I was on the bus with a girl who was wearing high-heeled strappy open-toed sandals on bare feet.
How come nobody told me blackened with frostbite was the new pink?
How come nobody told me blackened with frostbite was the new pink?
Ang Lee is making a movie starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal about gay cowboys. So, let's see ... homosexual sex between two hot guys, the suggestive movement of riding horseback, long lonely nights on the range, excess rope, leather chaps ...
To completely bastardize one of my favorite Buffy quotes, I didn't jump to porn. I took a tiny step, and there porn was.
To completely bastardize one of my favorite Buffy quotes, I didn't jump to porn. I took a tiny step, and there porn was.
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Jan. 14th, 2004 11:41 pmI sincerely wish the media would quit it with the five thousand news stories about how upset the cast of 'Friends' is going to be when the series ends this year. Why would I want to know this, exactly? Am I expected to send a card or some flowers or a Strip-o-Gram or something? 'Cause trust me, consoling the cast of 'Friends' because NBC isn't financially desperate enough for another go-'round is not high on my to-do list.
See, 'Friends' is a prime example in my mind of what will turn me off a show that I once loved and watched obsessively. Every single annoying plot contrivance and cliche that I loathe and that disgust me a viewer happened to 'Friends'. For example ...
1. Stunt casting -- Winona Ryder! Brad Pitt! Reese Witherspoon! *yawn* Wake me up when Circus of the Stars is over.
2. True love -- You know, I've realized that the concept of two characters on a TV show being destined to be together doesn't annoy me half as much as the same expectation for those characters way, waaaaaaay after it makes any sense. I still maintain that if Rachel were my best friend, and she were still even remotely interested in Ross, every mention of his name would be followed by a smack upside her head with a two-by-four.
3. Losing the element of surprise -- Joey is Emma's father. Now, that would have been surprising, interesting, sweet, and cool. Ross is Emma's father? Blech. (Remember when Monica popped up in Chandler's bed in London way back when? Now that, I loved. I don't expect stories like that anymore on there, and that's why I don't watch.)
4. The spinoff attempt that bored me -- It happened with Highlander. It happened, although I liked it for a while, with Angel. And now Matt LeBlanc gets his own sitcom. Watch as I care. Watch as I care deeply.
I just want this over with already. No more press, no more Very Special Guest Stars, let Jennifer and Matthew Perry and maybe Courtney get on with their film careers and let Matt LeBlanc get his little spinoff and let David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow ... I don't know, wait on cars at Sonic or something.
See, 'Friends' is a prime example in my mind of what will turn me off a show that I once loved and watched obsessively. Every single annoying plot contrivance and cliche that I loathe and that disgust me a viewer happened to 'Friends'. For example ...
1. Stunt casting -- Winona Ryder! Brad Pitt! Reese Witherspoon! *yawn* Wake me up when Circus of the Stars is over.
2. True love -- You know, I've realized that the concept of two characters on a TV show being destined to be together doesn't annoy me half as much as the same expectation for those characters way, waaaaaaay after it makes any sense. I still maintain that if Rachel were my best friend, and she were still even remotely interested in Ross, every mention of his name would be followed by a smack upside her head with a two-by-four.
3. Losing the element of surprise -- Joey is Emma's father. Now, that would have been surprising, interesting, sweet, and cool. Ross is Emma's father? Blech. (Remember when Monica popped up in Chandler's bed in London way back when? Now that, I loved. I don't expect stories like that anymore on there, and that's why I don't watch.)
4. The spinoff attempt that bored me -- It happened with Highlander. It happened, although I liked it for a while, with Angel. And now Matt LeBlanc gets his own sitcom. Watch as I care. Watch as I care deeply.
I just want this over with already. No more press, no more Very Special Guest Stars, let Jennifer and Matthew Perry and maybe Courtney get on with their film careers and let Matt LeBlanc get his little spinoff and let David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow ... I don't know, wait on cars at Sonic or something.
