I’m trying to figure out the appeal of “The Masked Singer“. Commercials keep telling me it’s the super lucky happy number one most-liked most-popular show in the world and watching it will cure coronavirus. I see it all the time at the gym and it just looks shiny and stupid. First of all, it’s got Jenny McCarthy in it. Fuck her. Fuck her with a big unpeeled carrot up her ass. She brought all the anti-vaxxers upon us. She made it so celebrity hype gets a bigger voice than common sense and scientific accuracy. Fuck her. She should be blacklisted from anything in Hollywood (making her name ironic). And throw…
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Nostalgic Game Shows
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of TV. More than I probably should have watched and more than my kids watch (because the remote controls are so complicated). But that’s fine, because media is changing, and you’re just as likely to get your A/V fill on an iPod, computer, or sumsuch. The more things change the more they stay the same. But people don’t give enough credit to daytime TV in the eighties. Sure, there were lots of thinly disguised toy commercials, trashy talk shows, but there were also game shows. Ah, game shows. They weren’t like today’s contests which are based on high stakes and empty…
