Letters to the Editor
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Open wide!
I know its your job, Heather, and I truly appreciate the vicarious glimpse into the nature of shows I probably wouldn't watch if I were a Gitmo torturee.
Yours,
Crusty
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Pacino in "Raging Bull," ........
nope not never!
oh well your passion and words are vastly more interesting to me than the actual shows themselves
yeehaw!
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Andrea creeps me out, and so does Heather
I don't understand Heather. Is she joking when she pretends to have no value system whatsoever? Or does she really mean it?
Andrea is creepy. She looked angry when her team won with Roxanne as PM. I saw that pissed off face she made. And she also made grumpy faces during the reward.
What kind of a person is so hateful that she wishes her own team lost just so she could stick it to her team mate?
But this what Heather values, apparently. If you're not controlling and hateful then you're a brainless tart, in Heather's value system.
When people on the left are as cynically anti-human as Heather Havrilesky, it seems right and proper that some outright jerk like Bush should be running the country.
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Back in the good ol' days...
Well, you give a little you take a little. Look at all the crap that used to be on TV and compare that to the great shows we have now (24, The Office, The Simpsons, the list goes on). Yeah, there's still some dull spoons in the drawer, but overall I think TV has improved. Mmmm, TV...
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Reality TV (Shudder)
One of the great things about Heather is that she has saved me a lot of unnecessary time and bother by watching--and writing about--shows that I would never, ever want to watch. Because of her, I am now watching much less TV than I would otherwise; other than hockey (does that count as a reality show?) and the occasional episode of "Kim Possible" with the kids, I only watch DVDs.
In fact, I have accelarated backwards, one might say. Now when I want to watch TV, I just rent the DVDs from Netflix, and watch 'em whenever I damn well want to. I find that I mostly like shows that were cancelled pretty early, for whatever reason. Firefly, Dark Angel, Cowboy Bebop. . .all of these have taken a spin through my DVD player. Perhaps someday I'll watch 24, but it'll be on DVD.
So thanks, Heather, for watching so we don't have to.
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Cool to get laid?
Heather,
Just one thing, nobody ever needed to be cool to get laid. For that, no matter what your age, all it takes it determination. :)
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The Most Infuriating Thing About The Apprentice!
Season after season (or "cycles" as Tyra tries to call it on "America's Next Top Model") we see our "betters" on full display on The Apprentice.
We have Mensa members with model good looks. We have Yale graduates. We have self-made millionaires, etc.
And the disturbing part?
THEY ARE ALL MORONS!
We here at the bottom of the wage ladder always suspected that the people at the top making huge salaries were NOT the business geniuses they claimed to be. We, the slugs in the file room, the slaves doing data entry, the serfs working reception ALWAYS knew in the back of our minds that these models with perfect bodies making 100-200k a year were NOT that freaking smart. They do not have the intelligence, the insitincts or even the "street smarts" to justify their huge salaries. Just abut eveyone making under $40,000 pretty much knows that unless your a doctor -- you really aren't doing anything for the company that's worth that much and the people that are making 60k, 70k, 100k a year really aren't as "talented" or as "hard-working" as they deludedly believe they are.
The Apprentice proves we were right all along.
Selling a pizza sandwich for almost $10??? Insane. Trying to sell an almost $10 sandwich at 7-11? C'mon! You don't have to be a Yale graduate with double majors in marketing and economics to know that's just retarded.
No matter what the task everyone watching at home is screaming at the TV, "What are you doing? That's obviously a stupid idea! That's obviously a dumb mangement style to spend 5 of your 10hr time limit debating paint colors!!!" Of course the poor slobs at home without Harvard degrees are shouting this common sense advice to people who were making millions BEFORE going on the show.
And those God-awful Boardroom scenes! Painful!
You'd think these "brilliant" minds would at least have masterful oratory skills that would dazzle and confuse us all into thinking their idiotic mistakes were, in fact, good decisions! But instead of masterful oratory and debating skills what we get instead is, "Tarak is lazy!" "Am not, Mr. Trump!" "Oh, you so are!" "Oh, I am so NOT you poop-head!"
And then someone gets fired and goes back to their mansion and counts their millions of dollars.
Has any else noticed (in the Boardroom scenes) that the cadidates always begin or end every single sentence out of their mouth with, "Mr. Trump"? It's almost as if the producers told them they must begin every....single...sentence...with, "Mr. Trump."
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Anti-hippie sentiment every bit as evil as anti-Semitism.
Inspired by the recent suppression of the recent Mearsheimer and Walt Harvard study on the Jewish lobby, I *insist* that the term "hippie" be replace by "orthodox post-WWII bohemian." Fire-dancing and hackey-sack are to be considered cultural statements. Drum circles are sacred.
Havrilesky ought to be summarily dismissed for her obvious anti-orthodox post-WWII bohemian sentiments. It's astounding she could get this kind of biased claptrap published in this country.
That kind of shallow post-yuppie thinking is disturbing.
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Encore!
Oh Heather, I love your style. The way you tell me, through the small screen of my monitor, about life, filtered through the small screen of bad TV.
I love that you hate pink espadilles and how the telling makes me laugh. I love how you tell it without stuffing it into a suit and pantyhose and standing it up on a pair of pumps and serving it with a bundtcake you made yourself.
Laugh at the crying christians and the tedious hippies and the people who scowl because we're wearing that army jacket. And then write and tell me about it.
Keep on doing what you do!