foucauldian

the disappearance of public executions therefore marks the decline of the spectacle.

we have no spectacles anymore in this culture.

everything is mediamediamedia.

i write this as i take advantage of my blog.

the sub-par facebook social media replacement.

yep.

Oh The Dramz

Did you hear? I'm sure you have seeing as how it's been all-over the entertainment news since this morning, but being that I haven't posted about my ultimate favorite reality show recently, I thought I would post this little tidbit.

David Hernandez, a current contestant on American Idol, was a stripper in Phoenix, AZ. He danced for three years in an all-male revue at a club with a largely gay male clientele. An all-naked, all-male revue at that. Suh-weet.

What good is another season of American Idol without a scandal?

This Is AWESOME

Stopping Time At Grand Central Station

For the back story, go here.

I Have A Confession To Make

On Sunday night I watched the Oscars just so I could write down all the movies I missed in the theatres during 2007 and still want to see; Because I could then add them to my Netflix queue.

Super Skinny Me

While most people were watching the Super Bowl yesterday, I was watching this: Super Skinny Me

Thank you for making this short documentary, BBC. Thank you.

It's a pretty insightful piece. Especially considering that the two journalists involved were of "sound mind" when they opted to participate in the experiment.

Overall, I found it bittersweet and think it is a pretty enlightening piece for the general public/audiences.

Many people I know and talk with regularly think this ED stuff primarily happens to younger women - adolescents in their teenage years.

And they find it to be a hard pill to swallow when they learn that women my age struggle with ED - or that it never went away from previous years of abuse.

And harder still to swallow when people discover women older than myself struggle with it.

The ignorance makes me want to scream sometimes.

Cherry Chocolate Nasty

Are you as repulsed by this as I am? Why, god, why?!

Bad TV Gene

Last night one of my buddies told me that I have what he calls the Bad TV Gene. The BTVG is part of your genetic makeup. This gene compels you to shamelessly watch reeeally bad television.

What can I say? Guilty as charged.

Here are the top five current shows shamelessly viewed by yours truly. These shows might make others cringe, but by golly, they roxor my soxors if you know what I mean. Anywho:

1. Degrassi: The Next Generation
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Intervention
5. American Idol

I am willing to bet I am not alone in my viewings. I'm just more willing to admit it than a lot of people.

Ooo Whoa Ooo Whoa Ooo

Tonight I will be watching the second episode of this season's American Idol. I have a not-so-secret secret love affair with this show. I should probably be ashamed to watch, because the after effects of the show leave you with that "not so clean feeling." But I am so NOT ashamed. I am unabashedly unashamed. Oh man, I can't wait!

Have You Seen This?

The Vice Guide To Travel

Very interesting documentarian vignettes. Watch it. You'll thank me later.

Hate Crimes Bill Dropped. LAME.

Yes. Let's set the Civil Rights Act back several years. WTF?!

U.S. Congress Drops Hate Crimes Bill

This Just In...

According to many of the holiday commercials going on this year, I, as an aesthetically pleasing female, will apparently love you forever and kiss you until death do us part if you buy me some diamonds from Zales.

Yes, apparently love can be bought. Love is a commodity to be purchased, traded, and/or bargained for during the holiday season of 2007. Or has the concept of LOVE AS COMMODITY always been around - dating back to paleolithic times? Yes, I do think it goes as far back as that.

Shhh...

This is interesting:
shut up, just shut up, shut up.

uhm yeah.

on this whole turner broadcasting paying two million dollars for the greater boston area being asses and misunderstanding an effing aqua teen hunger force lite brite billboard. uhm yeah.

how about firing the people in our government who perpetuate this whole terrorist scarorist mania? uhm yeah.

wait, what? i can't wait until the day that i am told that i am suddenly considered a terrorist because i SO enjoy dancing and singing like a maniac to the gap band's, "you dropped a bomb on me"?!?!?!?

what the hell are we coming to, people?