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for April 2009

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4/3 - Entertainment: Niche Networks - I love the idea of a network that has a self-explaining title. It's Tuesday night, I'm in the mood for watching some science fiction, so where to turn? The SciFi channel, of course!

And what's on? Wrestling. WTF?

And thus, this rant:

- SciFi shows documentaries, reality TV, and wrestling. Neither science nor fiction (well, the wrestling is at least fiction).

- MTV (which used to stand for "Music Television") hasn't shown a music video in what, twenty years or so?

- VH1 (which used to show music videos when MTV went non-music) now only shows the "Remember the 90s" and "I love the ..." and crap reality shows. Hey, remember VH1 in the 80s and 90s when they used to show music videos?

- History Channel. I tuned into History Channel a few weeks ago and saw the movie "Hunt for Red October." Since when is Red October a history show? I seem to recall that being a work of fiction.

- AMC (which stands for American Movie Classics) presents the TV-Series "Mad Men." Okay, so you show movie but now you have a TV series? I'm waiting for the TVLand original movie.

- Cartoon Network is now airing live action shows.

- CNN Headline News, which used to show the headlines every half-hour, 24 hours a day is now only showing Nancy Grace and some crap-ass Entertainment Tonight knock-off. I'm guessing on the latter; I haven't watched Headline News in about 5 years. Seriously.

Based on that, I'm ready for a cartoon wrestling show to appear on Food Network; a sitcom to show up on Home and Garden Network; the new season of the Man Show on Women's Entertainment or Oxygen; a drama series on Comedy Central; and actual news to appear on Fox News.

4/15 - Entertainment: Niche Networks (Continued) - I meant to also add "a TVLand original movie" to the list above, but wouldn't you know that something equally bizarre happened with TVLand? Remember when TVLand used to show reruns of classic series? Now, they are showing a reality TV show called "The Cougar" which is another fine reality show in the tradition of "Rock of Love Bus" and "The Bachelor." I'm just glad I have lots of DVDs.

Politics: Teabagging - Can someone explain this to me? I mean, Bush loses and Obama wins, the economy is in a crapper, and now people are complaining about taxes? What did I miss? Where were the teabaggers six months ago? I just don't get it.

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