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Cultural Commentary with Doug

Season Four of The L-Word:

Except for the addition of Tasha, I heartily agree.

Exceptionally Dorky

I’ve been watching The L-Word from season one on DVD, and it’s alternately terrible and brilliant. As a series primarily about women, it definitely has its blind spots when it comes to race and class, things the writers and producers have tried to correct as the series goes on with little overall effect. […]

Ridiculous Reality TV Crushes

Jackie Warner of Work Out appears to be in good with the “housewife” set (via) according to the NYT, which may indicate that reality TV is doing a lot to mainstream gay and lesbian romance (it may also reveal that the nation is as glued to Bravo as I am). But I totally don’t […]

Human Tetris

Best game show ever:

Everything Turns Bret Michaels On

I love how VH1 finds a way to overtly mock all their major reality TV personality vehicles:

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GOD, his WIG.
It’s endearing that Michaels will willingly take part in this kind of promo, but it’s clear in the end that he knows he’s a douchebag. WITH THE BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION.

Crap Entertainment for Wine Lovers

From Pajiba’s Second Annual Shit List:
VH1: It wasn’t too long ago that E! could handily assert dominance in the competition to spew the most crap across America’s airwaves; the network is to Dumb Hollywood what Tass was to the old Soviet Union… These days, though, E!’s little more than an also-ran when measured against the […]

Thrilled

I’ve loved Thomas Lynch for some years now, so I’m definitely recording this program tonight.
Lynch is an appropriate subject for both Halloween season and the PBS and NPR lovers among us. As the third-generation funeral director in a small Michigan town, and as a single father and poet, Lynch wrote several critically […]