Well, Obama does keep saying Romney wants to take us back to the 50s. Of course, that kind of indictment loses its sting when your own advertising is seemingly aimed at the product of your first four years — and further serves as a kind of metaphor for your entire administration.
War on women? Pshaw. I mean, they may be broke, but I suspect they’re getting plenty of dick thanks to all that free contraception their employer had better be providing them for free.
In fact, while I haven’t seen the show, it sounds to me like an updated version of “Alice,” only with an extra chick, more casual sex, and the same kind of progressive sensibilities that made the Carter years so enjoyable for all who lived through them.
Forward!
You forgot the now-obligatory fabulous homosexual
That show is still on the air? It’s awful. Wife tried watching it for a handful of episodes and then we both simply forgot it existed.
Also, Flo was pretty funny, and Alice was sympathetic.
Prime time sit-coms have gone the way of music. Formulaic, stale, artificial, and non-distinctive, much less original.
Is why most everyone over 40 watches Nicolodian at night, and listens to classic rock or talk radio during the day.
Which of them watches South Park? Even with the Book of Mormon, I suspect Mitt Romney might be a secret fan.
If this continues, it might be like Scanners in Boulder on November 6.
Sure, Lee. Nothing formulaic or unoriginal about the dreck the Boomers consumed and produced for the last 40 years. Uh huh.
Well, North Carolina HAS swung for Romney now…
Speaking of TV advertising — has everyone seen that His Wonness is doing another Letterman show this week? It seems odd to me that he would schedule such a high-profile media appearance so soon after the big debate tonight. Isn’t he afraid that he might distract people away from his sure-to-be awesome performance?
His Wonness is doing another Letterman show this week?
Brave man, tackling such a hostile audience.
Whatever you say sonny. Don’t you have a cartoon(South Park for instance) to watch? ;-)
When it comes to Obama’s 2nd term, you just have to nip it!
Nip! It! In! The! Bud!
Don’t knock the South Park, Lee. It’s one of the funniest shows on television. Topical, anti-PC, skewers politicians and citizens alike. And it has a catchy theme song.
leigh, different strokes for different folks I guess. Also, I’m a curmudgeon. Get over it.
Art seems to have taken a bad turn when it became a matter of Aesthetic Science, which in its odd way could find itself as much interested in ugliness as in beauty. Schade.
I’ve often wondered, what was Mark Rothko’s intent when he painted the Seagram Murals?
We used to have a saying we thought fit the absurdity of the problem: “There is only ONE Art: . . . . . . . . Art Carney.”
Architectural art in Seattle:
Experience Music Project
Architectural art in Minneapolis:
Riverside Plaza (aka the Crack Stacks). The Joan Baez of residential developments.
There was a television show on Bravo (I think) that ran for two seasons called “America’s Next Great Artist” and was produced in the manner of America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway. Participants compete for a show at the Brooklyn Museum and $100,000.
All of the contestants are modern artists, albeit in different mediums. Seldom was there anything produced that I thought of as art. The critiques were a hoot. Pompous hipster art critic opines about the aesthetic of using acrylic paint on concrete blocks and bent nails, evoking the angst of Modern Man. Or some such.
Second pompous hipster art critic (in hipster garb and purple hair) disagrees that the whole effect is Old School, childish and not outre.
Hipster host nods along and points to the next project: A diorama made of twigs and twine and a nude barbie doll standing on a broken mirror splattered with nail polish.