1.Banning Female Dogs and Garden Tools
2.Has Quizno's Spoiled the Sub?
3.Should the USA Boycott the Chinese Olympics?
4.Have you given into the Chocolate Rain?
Steve's Topics:
1)Social Networking Websites: Your Favorite? or The Next Downward Rung in Decent of Human Civilization?
2) An Exploration into the Phenomenon known as Jumping the Shark!
3)TV - Not Gay Enough? Come on!!
4) Art or Just Poop!?
WARNING: SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING IMAGES VERY DISTURBING...
I know I did!
3 comments:
1.Banning words is pretty much a no-no for the simple fact that it starts us down a slippery slope of where we let that kind of censorship lead. There's already too much anger directed at some books that were written 50+ years ago and use language that we now find offensive. Everything has to be looked at in context.
2. I like toasted subs too. My opinion is that you should eat what you like and don't eat what you don't like. However it's crappy that the Meat Monkey at Subway didn't even ask you. If that were me in your position, I would have asked him to remake it. It's not like he can spit in your sub when you're standing right there watching him make it.
3. This is a tough issue. However I believe that we have the potential to have more influence on China if we have more contact, interaction, and discussion with China. Cutting ourselves off from them would pretty much be cutting our noses to spite our faces. Nothing productive would come of it.
4. Wow. That was the first time I've heard/watched that. At first I kind of liked it. As it drug on though I got very bored. The problem I see with it is twofold:
a. It's too long. He needs to shorten it by like a minute and a half or two minutes and just keep the very best lines.
b. If he doesn't want to shorten it, he at least needs to change up the melody every once in a while. Maybe a distinct chorus.
1. I'm only on Myspace, but I'm in favor of these. Like David said, I've been able to touch base with people I haven't seen or even thought about in years. Plus, if you don't want to interact with someone you don't have to. You can't "block" someone if you pass them out on the street, and they start talking to you (well, actually you can...and it's funny, but it's a lot meaner than just not getting back to someone online).
2. Fads will come and fads will go. However, I think that the concept for a show "jumping the shark" is a clever and funny way to label the point any show started to go bad. It should only be used at a distance though. A few seasons need to pass (ie- you shouldn't claim a show has jumped the shark in the middle of a season)before you can really say if an entire series has fallen away.
3. Good TV is good tv and bad tv is bad tv. I'm not sure that GLAD has too much of a case. There's much more representation of gays and lesbians on tv than there ever has been in the past. I know that the stigma isn't completely gone, but I can see it dying away bit by bit.
Excuse me: RANT ALERT-
(ps- why is everyone so vehemently against gay marriage? It was mentioned off the cuff more than once this episode. Two gay people getting married has absolutely NO effect on your marriage or any heterosexual marriage in the future. Gay marriage being legal will NOT force any church to provide services for them. And finally (and this is the point I have absolutely NO idea why I have to make) gay marriage will not make it permissable to marry animals. There is still a very large difference between two consenting human adults and livestock. This sometimes passive, sometimes very active bigotry really needs to go by the wayside. Humanity can be better than this. Sorry for that.)
4. This is TOTALLY art. The conceptual aspect alone makes it genius. Seeing all that dog doo around and coming up with the idea to do something constructive with it (and something actually funny) is creativity at its best. Be honest, if you just saw that dog poop siting there on the sidewalk or where ever you would probably be upset and offended that the owner didn't clean up after their dog. Now if that dog poop is "fancied up" by these kids doesn't that make you grin a little and take some of that anger away? It also has the effect of attracting some major attention to the problem and may motivate people to start being more observant and responsible about it.
Oh-I had one more thing:
For the closing line how about-
"This is David A. Dein(sp.?),"
"And I'm Steve 'the Goog' Guglich(sp.?),"
(together)"and remember: the Devil is in the details."
I just wanted to jump in with a comment on the art subject.
The whole point of Abstract art, is not in the admiration of the piece, but in the act of making the piece. Thinking of the reaction that people will have to the piece is all the fun. Could you imagine the feeling of how funny you think it is going to be when someone sees the poop with sprinkles on it, while you are putting the sprinkles on it... there in lies the fun.
Also,
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but WORDS will never hurt me. If you take offense to a word you are the one giving it the power to do so.
All myspace is is a place for stupid porn sites to send you spam within your little serious messages and other such things. I have one and I use it, bu it is not the social place it claims to be. As was said in the Podcast there are people who I don't want to hear from and I am sure
Should China...
Absolutely not. The Olympics is a series of games meant to be out of the political spectrum. We competed in the German Olympics with Hitler in charge, why not with China now? The Olympics are not supposed to tear the world apart, but bring it together. Bias of politics, race, creed, color, and gender.
I am totally on Steves side with this subject of is TV gay enough, as far as I am concerned there is LOGO which is a gay network and that is enough. There are others and shows as well that they can tune in to. I can fins a gay show 24 hours a day. It is not my fault or they TV industries if the content sucks.
I am on the fence with the sub debate. I just don't like it when I go to subway for my Meatball hero and the person puts a ton of sauce on it and by the time I get home it is nothing more than meatball hero soup and the bread is ruined.
The real question is with the ever increasing release of early slips in the TV industry, will shows ever jump the shark before the pilot even airs???
Dave that section of the x-files is reffered to as the Dogget years and is the post jump episodes... lol
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