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Scary thing of the evening: watching VH1. MTV has apparently gotten so overflowing with *crap* programming that it's splashing out onto VH1, where they were showing an episode of "Sex in the 90's". So it's an episode on polyamory, and I thought "Hmm. It would be amusing to see JB and them on here, but they've got too much class to be on MT*cough*sputter*hack* Lo and behold, there they were. This almost matches hearing about Steve & Martha's stint on HBO's "Real Sex" or whatever that show was.

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Right, a quick separate post because this rant happened to come to mind, fueled by Bill Hicks, however indirectly.

So there I was, sitting in quiet contemplation, wondering about the Ice Capades, and thinking I haven't heard about any of their shows in years. This is not to say that they aren't still going (though I really couldn't give a shit if they are), but it made me think about the possibility that they aren't any more, and that the likely cause of such a failure would be the uprising of available television programming. For $27 a month, you get 60 channels of crap. $50 and a digital TV receiver gets you what, 200+? And I don't watch much of it at all. Commercial TV lost me when Survivor hit the air. Cable lost me when FX started showing 2 episodes of Buffy in a night, so that I'd end up having to tape them and try watching 10 hours of it in a weekend. Fuck that, I have better things to do with my life.

Of course, Bill rants about being hooked on "Cops", where they point out to you that anything you do wrong will get law enforcement on your ass and crush you like an insignificant insect. Personally, I'd love to see "Cops at the WTO" and see just what they're thinking while they're bashing protestors' heads in. Me? I'm addicted to Law & Order, which is only slightly better in that they try to only show cases which make you think "Yep, those are some reeeaaallly bad people there, they sure do deserve everything that's coming to 'em."

On a lighter note about pop culture hell, I seem to be seeing pictures of Shakira everywhere, and her hair just keeps making me thing "Vampire". Mind you, this isn't the traditional Bram Stoker or White Wolf creation, more the Larry Niven's Ringworld variety, where they're incredibly beautiful and they put out pheromones that make you insanely horny (so you'll rip off any clothes and/or armor you might be wearing and thus become vulnerable). Their brain cavity is also about a third the size of what a human's would be, which you never notice because of all the *hair* they have.