Things That Annoy You

[Eddie Coyle]

for the record, i am considering changing my display name to Em Vee.

        There might be a Vietnamese rapper with that name. Check first.

[MV/Liberace!]

        There might be a Vietnamese rapper with that name. Check first.

there is, but i'm a fan, so it's "all good."

[Eddie Coyle]

there is, but i'm a fan, so it's "all good."

     For realz, yo? That's trippin'

       Wow, I'm starting to sound like a genuine...white teenager.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
       I was in a Barnes and Nobles, doing that uncomfortable, sure to destroy my Achilles tendon crouch, while skimming a relatively new biography of George Kennan.

       The book to my immediate left...by Jenna Jameson
       The book directly above me...      Kim Kardashian
        The book to my immediate right    Artie Lange.

          Yes, we are fucked.

[BobGrau]

       I was in a Barnes and Nobles, doing that uncomfortable, sure to destroy my Achilles tendon crouch, while skimming a relatively new biography of George Kennan.

       The book to my immediate left...by Jenna Jameson
       The book directly above me...      Kim Kardashian
        The book to my immediate right    Artie Lange.

          Yes, we are fucked.

We're not just fucked, we're fucked on camera and somehow it's got online.

[Sardondi]

       I was in a Barnes and Nobles, doing that uncomfortable, sure to destroy my Achilles tendon crouch, while skimming a relatively new biography of George Kennan.

       The book to my immediate left...by Jenna Jameson
       The book directly above me...      Kim Kardashian
        The book to my immediate right    Artie Lange.

          Yes, we are fucked.

But let's make sure we drum into everyone's head how fun it is to have "no rules", and how exciting and even commendable it is to believe in "no boundaries". Because, hey, just because it's right for you doesn't mean it's right for me, chief.

People who tell you that kind of stuff have a motive to tell you that, usually associated with selling something.

[Nucky Nolan]

       I was in a Barnes and Nobles, doing that uncomfortable, sure to destroy my Achilles tendon crouch, while skimming a relatively new biography of George Kennan.

       The book to my immediate left...by Jenna Jameson
       The book directly above me...      Kim Kardashian
        The book to my immediate right    Artie Lange.

          Yes, we are fucked.

....more than Jenna during her heyday since Honey Boo Boo further destroyed our pop culture. Speaking of reality shows (which greatly annoy me), I'm *very* sick and tired of the ones about people who buy/find and sell things. Each cable channel has to have at least one of these programs at the expense of old series that really *fit* the theme of the network. Just tonight, I thought that I found a new horror series, but it turned out to be the paranormal version of "Pawn Stars".

[Eddie Coyle]

            If SAG had a hint of integrity, they'd put a blacklist/boycott on anybody who involves themself with a "reality show". Reality shows are the cheap labor Home Depot parking lot laborers of entertainment.(excuse the McCartneyesque bit of redundancy)

          That said, if any part of our culture deserved a bit of deconstructionist defilement it's Hollyweird.

[Nucky Nolan]

            If SAG had a hint of integrity, they'd put a blacklist/boycott on anybody who involves themself with a "reality show". Reality shows are the cheap labor Home Depot parking lot laborers of entertainment.(excuse the McCartneyesque bit of redundancy)

          That said, if any part of our culture deserved a bit of deconstructionist defilement it's Hollyweird.

"In this ever changing world in which we live in", reality shows destroyed the meaning and purpose of varied cable channels. Some of them are tangentially related, but most of them aren't. Look at the offerings on TLC for Exhibits A through Z. Honey Boo Boo is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse. 

[Eddie Coyle]

"In this ever changing world in which we live in", reality shows destroyed the meaning and purpose of varied cable channels. Some of them are tangentially related, but most of them aren't. Look at the offerings on TLC for Exhibits A through Z. Honey Boo Boo is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse.

Bingo! Macca had a tendency for things like that occurring after say...April, 1970. But "Worthington's Law" applies to him, so me and 99.7% of the world's population can't criticize him.

        I say it all the time...give me the Cablevision of Monday, November 28, 1983-the day it arrived in Coyle's neighborhood, over the garbage of today. More choices=more shit. I liked it when Headline News had headline news, The Weather Channel had weather, Music Television had music..."Night Flight" on USA Network, etc. Shutting the TV off as my brother tried to watch Fraggle Rock.
       You're never too young to be...

[Nucky Nolan]

I couldn't agree with you more, Eddie. Sadly, when it comes to cable TV, less is more. The offerings are too diluted and polluted. Greed is behind the fragmentation of cable channels. You have to buy expensive packages to watch history shows on THC, for example. If not, you're stuck with marathons of "Pawn Stars". MTV and VH1 set the trend. I'll spare you the hackneyed jokes about the former.

[Eddie Coyle]

I couldn't agree with you more, Eddie. Sadly, when it comes to cable TV, less is more. The offerings are too diluted and polluted. Greed is behind the fragmentation of cable channels. You have to buy expensive packages to watch history shows on THC, for example. If not, you're stuck with marathons of "Pawn Stars". MTV and VH1 set the trend. I'll spare you the hackneyed jokes about the former.

       To paraphrase a long dead person..."Viacom is the gangrenous appendix" of Cable, if not our culture. And Rupert Murdoch plays a role...Doomsday Preppers comes from his sector of the universe.

[Nucky Nolan]

       To paraphrase a long dead person..."Viacom is the gangrenous appendix" of Cable, if not our culture. And Rupert Murdoch plays a role...Doomsday Preppers comes from his sector of the universe.

The message is the tedium (apologies to Mr. McLuhan). We've gone from a vast wasteland to a wasted TV Land (apologies to any readers).   

[BobGrau]

Why Doesn't MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

[Juan]

For all of those reasons, I disconnected cable in 1998.  I get 22-channels free over the air.  That's more than enough to me.  The only thing I miss is I can't see the college national championship football game as it is on ESPN.  I guess I can give up one night a year.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
          That my fairly intelligent sister married this guy. Picture Randy Quaid circa "The Last Detail" This occurred at roughly 10pm this evening.

          Young Randy Quaid: I just don't think of Chinese people as being gays
           Coyle: Well, Ho Chi Minh banned homosexuality there in like 1835. So that may explain...
           Young Randy Quaid:  Yeah, so they come here to be gay
          Coyle: Well, San Francisco has so many gays and Chinese because of that reason, they founded that city
             Young Randy Quaid(helpfully interrupting): And the gold miners


              What annoys me further is that I face 5 hours of this next Thursday. At least. And with more people.
         
           

[McPhallus]

For all of those reasons, I disconnected cable in 1998.  I get 22-channels free over the air.  That's more than enough to me.  The only thing I miss is I can't see the college national championship football game as it is on ESPN.  I guess I can give up one night a year.

I've never had cable since living on my own partly because of the reasons already mentioned, and partly because I seem to get assaulted by Concast sales goons every time I visit the mall or my local Sam's Club.

[McPhallus]

          That my fairly intelligent sister married this guy. Picture Randy Quaid circa "The Last Detail" This occurred at roughly 10pm this evening.

          Young Randy Quaid: I just don't think of Chinese people as being gays         

I wonder if he hasn't learned yet that Ensign Sulu is actually gay (and creepy as fuck).  (To most Americans, all Asians are somehow Chinese anyway.)

[b_dubb]

What annoys me further is that I face 5 hours of this next Thursday. At least. And with more people.

did you say you quit drinking?

[PB the Deplorable]

               What annoys me further is that I face 5 hours of this next Thursday. At least. And with more people.
               

We all do.  That's why they have 2 NFL games on

[Eddie Coyle]

 
      Good point about Sulu.  Young Randy Quaid isn't the Star Trek type, probably unaware of George Takei...so Asian,Oriental "Chinee" gays are really foreign to him.

       I may be doing more than drinking by Thursday afternnon. Mellow me out anyway I can.

         Take the Texans, Cowboys and Pats next thursday. Lay the points...Lions and Jets suck. The Skins...have a chance.

[Sardondi]

....What annoys me further is that I face 5 hours of this next Thursday. At least. And with more people.

Oh, but the possibilities are endless. Good times, good times.

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

  Bingo! Macca had a tendency for things like that occurring after say...April, 1970. But "Worthington's Law" applies to him, so me and 99.7% of the world's population can't criticize him.

        I say it all the time...give me the Cablevision of Monday, November 28, 1983-the day it arrived in Coyle's neighborhood, over the garbage of today. More choices=more shit. I liked it when Headline News had headline news, The Weather Channel had weather, Music Television had music..."Night Flight" on USA Network, etc. Shutting the TV off as my brother tried to watch Fraggle Rock.
       You're never too young to be...

Night Flight was the shit!!!!! Super sentai shits on the Power Rangers.  Awesome television to come home to when you're trashed on a weekend.

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

          That my fairly intelligent sister married this guy. Picture Randy Quaid circa "The Last Detail" This occurred at roughly 10pm this evening.

          Young Randy Quaid: I just don't think of Chinese people as being gays
           Coyle: Well, Ho Chi Minh banned homosexuality there in like 1835. So that may explain...
           Young Randy Quaid:  Yeah, so they come here to be gay
          Coyle: Well, San Francisco has so many gays and Chinese because of that reason, they founded that city
             Young Randy Quaid(helpfully interrupting): And the gold miners


              What annoys me further is that I face 5 hours of this next Thursday. At least. And with more people.
         
         

How can a reciprocal circle of pure comedy gold annoy you?  Record every minute man.  It'll make the effort worth the while.  at least for us.

[Eddie Coyle]

Oh, but the possibilities are endless. Good times, good times.

I can't wait until Young Randy Quaid has the Lions game on and offers up incisive conversation starters like "Remember Barry Sanders...he was good", or "How come the Lions get to play on Thanksgiving?"

        Even when you dumb it down for him...he manages to take it lower. "I'm shocked they still call it Black Friday" will fall from his mouth by 3pm.

[PB the Deplorable]

          I can't wait until Young Randy Quaid has the Lions game on and offers up incisive conversation starters like "Remember Barry Sanders...he was good", or "How come the Lions get to play on Thanksgiving?"

        Even when you dumb it down for him...he manages to take it lower. "I'm shocked they still call it Black Friday" will fall from his mouth by 3pm.

You could introduce him to the utterances of George Noory, and he might go sit in an empty room to listen to some old shows for the rest of the day..

[Eddie Coyle]

How can a reciprocal circle of pure comedy gold annoy you?  Record every minute man.  It'll make the effort worth the while.  at least for us.

        I'm sure somebody will be recording it. Days like that seem to bring out the documentarian in my relatives. My sister has the hosting duties this year, and Young Randy Quaid's dummy kin folk will likely be there too. I have to laugh about it, or I'll go nuts. 40 people there, and I've already devised escape plans for conversations with 37 of them.

          I might stay home and watch Night Flight on YouTube.

[Eddie Coyle]

You could introduce him to the utterances of George Noory, and he might go sit in an empty room to listen to some old shows for the rest of the day..

       "That's that show that talks about conspiracies and space people?" I can imagine him saying if C2C was to come up. This kid is more of a "JT The Brick" listener.

         Believe it not...Young Randy Quaid makes Noory seem like Ray Bradbury.

       

[ChewMouse]

Believe it not...Young Randy Quaid makes Noory seem like Ray Bradbury.

Good God, man!

That's quite possibly the scariest thing I've read here, except for cat things.

[HorrorRetro]

     

          I might stay home and watch Night Flight on YouTube.

Sounds like a plan.  This year, it's just me and the dogs and cat. I was invited to aunt/cousin's house, but I really don't know their family at all, and that would be awkward.  I usually go all out on Thanksgiving, everything homemade, but I think I'll probably just make chicken wings this year.