Wow
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Jan 16, 2009 7:08:17 pm PST #1686 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Trudy Booth - Jan 16, 2009 7:10:07 pm PST #1687 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Dude. Which half?
Hil R. - Jan 16, 2009 7:12:10 pm PST #1688 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Was it here that people were talking about the sitcom documentary? I'm watching it now, and just got to the part where Bill Cosby was talking about All In The Family. In addition to saying that Archie Bunker never apologized for anything, he also said that he doesn't think anyone ever learned anything from that show. To begin with, I think he's wrong about that, but also, is "Do people learn from it?" really the measure of sitcoms?
erikaj - Jan 16, 2009 7:13:52 pm PST #1689 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe at one time, but not since "Seinfeld".
brenda m - Jan 16, 2009 7:14:44 pm PST #1690 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My dad was married right out of high school and had three kids, but aside from meeting them once or twice - literally once or twice - there was never really any contact. I know their names and virtually nothing else about them. Did not see that coming.
Trudy Booth - Jan 16, 2009 7:19:34 pm PST #1691 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
wow
Connie Neil - Jan 16, 2009 7:24:52 pm PST #1692 of 30000
brillig
To begin with, I think he's wrong about that, but also, is "Do people learn from it?" really the measure of sitcoms?
There's also the question of what did people learn from The Cosby Show. Apparently we were supposed to be highly enlighted by having a black dentist and a black lawyer appearing in our living rooms. I don't remember being that surprised at the idea of black professionals.
Kat - Jan 16, 2009 7:26:54 pm PST #1693 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sara!! Call me so we can try to meet up. I'll have my cell (of course).
The geniuses at the foundation want me to take a cab from BWI to Crystal City. hahahahahah.
Ahem.
erikaj - Jan 16, 2009 7:33:57 pm PST #1694 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Brooklyn was exotic to me at the time. But I was like, eleven, from bumfuck, Arizona. I hope my experience was not the typical one. I'm sad to say I find Cosby sanctimonious and annoying now, however.
Typo Boy - Jan 16, 2009 7:46:00 pm PST #1695 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Cosby annoys. AITF was funny, but there are still some valid comments to be made about it. At the time a noted comedian said "I have people tell me: 'I've got an uncle just like that'. Man, the only guy who ever had an uncle just like that was Mussolin's nephew." The other point was that for a while saying racist stuff was really really unacceptable. And all in the family crossed a line and said "you can be as racist as you want if you claim you are doing it to fight racism". Also it contributed to the stereotypes that that helped move this country to the right. You know: Racists are well-intentioned salt-of-the-earth working-class types with big hearts. Liberals are hypocritical delusional sanctimonius wimpy elitists. Rush Limbaugh's act is basically to pretend to be Archie Bunker for everyone who missed that "All in the Family" was satire, and that Archie was not intended to be a hero.