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The dilemma

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Oh the dilemma! I’ve always despised PBS for taking my tax dollars to buy British programming. On the other hand British shit is better (even if you do need subtitles). No denying. They can’t have the budget of Hollywood, they can’t have the facilities of Hollywood, but the Brits kick Hollywood’s ass so bad! Hollywood’s ass is still flying somewhere over Lake Michigan.

Now I could get into KCCI’s subchannel programming, ME-TV 8.2 and H&I 8.3, if they’d just play the damn shows. But they won’t. Its a never ending string of station promos. I’m not complaining about the commercials, I get that. What KCCI does on top of the commercials is run weather breaks, and news teases, and personality profiles, for minutes on end! Instead of just showing us how good they are, they tell us.

I just flip up one channel to 11.1. No commercials. No station promos. Better shows. Beautiful cinematography. Sure its goofy ass British shit, but at least you get to see the show. Somebody really should look at why Hollywood can’t turn out anything you’d want to watch. It is rather embarrassing. We’re supposed to be the “world’s lone superpower” and we can’t produce decent television. I think a group of 12-year-olds with Sony Cams could beat the snot out of Hollywood. 

 

Its a wasteland!

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Horrible photo of 70s goddess Laurie Prange, there’s just nothing there of a young woman with such a heavenly body (the Barnaby Jones episode: The Inside Man) 

I was going up channel, and here’s what I saw: Barney Miller, CHiPs, “Best of the Week” (some goofy video show where people get hurt), Last Man Standing, Bulletproof with idiot Adam Sandler, Law and Order… KCCI early morning shows a couple of great programs from the 70s, Cannon and Barnaby Jones. Yesterday I wasn’t sure what happened with Cannon. They were closing in on the crooks at 7 till the hour, on schedule, they go to commercial, then its the happy last minute wrap-up-! What the hell happened?? I’d been watching the whole show to get the viewer satisfaction of handcuffs being slapped on those bastards, and poof! KCCI misses the climax! The whole point of the damn show!

This morning I was watching for it on Barnaby Jones. They go to commercial and comeback at 12 minutes after the hour. Barnaby is sitting in the office getting the details of the heist from the owner when, poof! 5 seconds back from commercial, and GD KCCI is off on 5 minutes of station promos and weather promos! You literally just got back, and you go again?? Why even bother to run the damn show? We can not be seeing even half the show. Its ridiculous. When they aren’t showing crap shows you can’t watch, they’re cutting 12 minutes from the show you could watch!

[Saturday morning update: the weekend crew at the station didn’t seem to have the mission of the wrecking crew I mean regular crew to cut out half the show. I actually saw it all on the weekend morning, 46 minutes of an hour show. Yes, I put a timer to it.]

“Coming up next, your Black Friday forecast!”

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So I’m watching the morning news on KCCI channel 8 yesterday (Wednesday), and the weatherman Kurtis Gertz goes, “Coming up next, your Black Friday forecast!”. We live in a sick world.

This morning the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was on. It laid the groundwork for this sickness. It was the infection that got worse. Inflatable cartoon figures and sweatshop made garments is what Thanksgiving is all about the TV parade hosts have told us for decades now.

Your life will be incomplete if you don’t spend yourself into oblivion, they would have you believe. Life as we know it will end if you don’t go stand inline tomorrow to buy Chinese plastic! You have to have it! (Whatever it is!) Without the “hot” new piece of plastic, your life is ruined!

It has gotten so bad, that the actual day of Thanksgiving, is an afterthought! The ONLY thing that matters is giving your money to the corporate altar. Worshipping consumerism. Thanking the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost for your health, comforts, family and friends, does not benefit corporations. Long live stupidity.

Walking away (2)

photograph by DME