Creative?
When I walked into my Mother’s the other day she asked me a question that I assumed had been on Jeopardy. I heard “Who are the Cardassians?” She has never been a fan of science fiction, and I assumed it came up in one of the pop culture categories.
I hadn’t even gotten warmed up about Deep Space Nine, when she, said “No, no, no! These people are in California, and I want to why they are on TV?”
She had meant a family named the Kardashians, and even after looking them up, I had no idea why they were on TV. They are apparently ‘famous for being famous’ and a way to fill a programming slot without spending money on actually creating a program.
Since I looked it up, I have noticed that the name pops up in the Entertainment section of CNN on occasion, but still have no idea why.
My only response to my Mother was that she should use the channel change function on her remote.
Elayne has a very large infographic up that points out that the media moguls have opposed every technical advance made, and repeatedly claimed that they would be ruined by people stealing their ‘precious fluids’ as a result of each new product.
I think they need to make something worth stealing, before they complain.
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Yeah, I agree. I have no idea why they have a reality show, but when I flip through the channels, I flip right on past that show!
WE can see the Cardassians on cable Personally I preferred them when they were galactic Nazis and not a bunch of worthless “celebs” . This t shirt amused me
http://shirtoid.com/31015/keeping-up-with-the-cardassians/
Makes me glad that I don’t watch television, actually. I know who the Kardashians are only via the daily newspaper, which makes it easier to skip the articles about them than when you’re watching television and the news reader is reading something to the viewers about these no-talent no-brain uninteresting people.
As for complaining, I’ll just note that nobody bothers pirating music now that you can buy a song for 99 cents and an album for $9.95 on iTunes or Amazon mp3, if the MPAA wants to reduce online piracy they need to provide some way to get movies to their customers that doesn’t require owning physical media that takes up space in cluttered apartments. Not to mention the point you made in your post about the Ministry of Scary Numbers, which is that most of the piracy by hard-core “collectors” does *not* represent lost sales because thieves don’t buy, and it’s the bootleggers that are the real problem with lost sales.
You know who Bruce Jenner is? He married into a rich family. That is his wife and step-children on the show. I know this because I have two nieces who love the show. I usually go out and hit my head on a brick wall because it feels better then when I watched 5 seconds of the Kardashians.
“THERE… ARE… FOUR… BLIGHTS!”
(Great shirt, jams!)
I love you guys.
I make a point of IGNORING.. or trying to.. the weirdness of the horribly creepy Kardickiness family. They seem to have picked up where whatsherface Hilton left off. No talent, no charm, no brains. Pre-chewed for easy digestion!
There has been gossip about ‘celebrities’ for centuries, but it only recently that this trend of creating ‘celebrities’ to gossip about.
That’s why the channel changer is on the remote, OWL.
That IS a killer t-shirt, Jams.
Hell, Badtux, I get promotional credit to buy music if I want it, from other big dollar items I have bought. The 99¢ route is the only way to go these days, because most current CDs only have one or two decent songs on the entire disc when they come from the moguls.
Well, I kind of remember Bruce Jenner from a long time ago, Rook, but he can’t be much of a celebrity to build a show around. I would suggest military school for your nieces to flush their minds.
I assume that you know enough about them to know there are four of them, Steve. All I gleaned is that someone is fixated on the letter ‘K’.
Ellroon, we have more important things to do, like cleaning litter boxes, that to waste time on that sort of thing. I assume that someone who investigated the matter would discover some common link between the people in these shows, and the people at the network who promote them, maybe a shrink.