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The Ennui of Euphoria
The Ennui of Euphoria Euphoria is 2019 HBO show. I had heard of it, but didn’t know much about it. Finally, I clicked on it on HBO Max and found myself hooked. It is graphic and gritty, but strangely addictive. … Continue reading
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Tagged 13 Reasons, 1970s, 1980s, Adults, Angst, Anxiety, Ashtray, bingeable, Brown, Cable TV, call back, Children, Claws, collective trauma, Dark, darkness, Depression, documentary, Drama, Drinking, Drugs, E, Eric Dane, Euphoria, extreme, Fashion, Flashy, generation, Glitter, Glittery, Green Light, ground breaking, HBO, High, Homosexuality, Hunter, Jules, laptops, Lexi, LGBTQ, lighting, lower middle class, melodramatic, MIddle Class, Modern, morose, Narrator, no apology, party girls, Penis, Poor Choices, popular, Poverty, preteen, Push Boundaries, Real Housewives, Reality TV, Red Light, Rue, Sex, shock value, smart phones, stylized, Surreal, Teenagers, teens, titulating, Transgender, Wallflower, wood paneling, Yellow, Zendaya
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And Just Like That
And Just Like That And Just Like That the gals from Sex And The City have turned into The Golden Girls! Given all the differences between being 55 in 1985 and being 55 in 2022, perhaps we should call Carrie, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, 50s, Actress, Age, Aging Process, And Just Like That, Appartments, behavior, Blanche, Botox, Carrie, Charlotte, Children, Dating, Doroth, Dyed Hair, Empty Nest, Fashion, Feminity, Fillers, Glasses, Grown Children, Guys, Hair, Heels, Independent, Life Doesn't End, Lives, Marriage, Men, Miranda, Motherhood, Mothers, Old, Older Than 25, Original, Pretty, reboot, Representation, Revolutionary, Roommates, Rose, Sad, Sadness, Sex, Sex and the City, society, Sophia, Teenagers, Television, The Golden Girls, Times We Live In, White Hair, Widow, Widowed, Widower, Work Done, Wrinkles
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Nod To Nickelodeon
Nod To Nickelodeon Nickelodeon was available on cable in 1979. I remember watching the network in the early 80s when we first got cable. Back then we only had maybe 35 channels. Nickelodeon was like channel 25. I watched their … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Belle and Sebastian, Blues Clues, Clarissa Explains It All, Columbus, Count Duckla, Danger Mouse, Dora The Explorer, Double Dar, Fairly Odd Parents, French Produced, Go Diego Go, Heathcliff, Hey Dude, Inspector Gadget, Japanese Animated, Lassie, Loony Toons, MIster Ed, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon, Ohio, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Sponge Bob Squarepants, Star Trek The Animated Series, The Brady Bunch, The Donna Reed Show, The Legend of Korra, The Magical World of David The Gnome, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Tomorrow People, The Winx Club, Tiny Toons, Turkey Television, You Can't Do That on Television
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On The Grid
On The Grid Back in the 80s, 90s and even the early 2000s, I lived on The Grid. A large part of my life was centered around television. I watched a variety of television channels and shows over the years, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, 2 Broke Girls, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, 24, Alias, Arrow, Blossom, California Dreams, Cybil, Dallas, Dt. Quinn Medicine Woman, Dukes of Hazzard, Empty Nest, Falcon Crest, Family Ties, Friday, Game of Thrones, Goldbergs, Golden Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Grid, Grimm, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, Heroes, Home Improvement, House MD, Hulu, King of The Hill, Lost, Mom, Monday, Netflix, Once Upon A Time, Primtime, Quantum Leap, Remington Steele, Rosanne, Saturday Morning, Saved By The Bell, Sunday, Superstore, That 70s Show, The Flash, The Naked Truth, The Simpsons, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, The Wonderful World of Disney, Thursday, Tuesday, Tv Guide, Wednesday, Who's The Boss
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Tragicomics
Tragicomics Comic books were originally supposed to have a humorous, but today the content is often dark and tragic. Perhaps a better term for comics would be Tragicomics. If a play can be considered a Tragicomedy, then why couldn’t comic … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1933, 1964, 1970s, 1980s, 2016, Agent Carter, Agents of Shield, Alan Moore, Batman, Black Widow, Captian America, Cartoons, Comedy, Comic Book Nerds, Comic Books, Computer Geeks, Dark, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Doctor Strange, Geeks, Gotham, Graphic Novel, Hawkeye, Heroes, Humor, Iron Man, Jessica Jones, Loki, Looking out for the little guy, Movies, Popular Culture, Spiderman, Stan Lee, Super Heroes, Supergirl, Superheroes, Superman, Television, The Avengers, The Flash, The Green Arrow, The Incredible Hulk, The Walking Dead, Thor, Today, Tragedy, Tragicomedy, Tragicomic, Watchmen, Westerns, Wonder Woman
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Nuclear
January 28, 2016 Nuclear The past couple of weeks have been nuclear in nature. I thought it fitting since I was writing about the natural nuclear explosion over Tunguska and watching the TV show Manhattan about the first Atomic Bomb. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Event, History, Movies/TV, Mythology, News, Politics/Economics, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1949s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Africa, Agony, Aliens, Anti-Nuclear, Army, astroid, Atlantis, badass, Bomb, Chernobyl, Cities of Gold, Classfied, Cold War, comet, Damage, Destruction, Disrespect, Don't Mess With The US, Edgar Cayce, Fat Man, Fission, Fukushima, Fussion, Hiroshima, Hiva Empire, horror, Idaho, India, Japan, Lemuria, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, metetor, Nagasaki, Natural Nuclear Reactor, New Mexico, Nuclear, Nuclear Power Plans, Nuclear Reactor, Oko, Olmecs, Pakistan, Platonium, Power, Radiation, Radium, Russia, Tennessee, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Thin Man, Three Mile Island, Top Secret, Tunguska Explosion, US, US Government, War, Weapons, WWII
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Glamorous Vs Gritty
Glamorous Vs Gritty Sex and the City aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004. Since I didn’t have HBO except for a brief few months in 2003, I did not get hooked on the series. I heard about … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1960s, 1980s, Apples and Oranges, Brooklyn, Career, Carrie Bradshaw, Cosmo, Entitlement, entrepreneurial spirit, Fashion, Generation Me, Generation X, Generation Y, Girls, Glamourous, Gritty, Hannah, HBO, idealistic, Jean Twenge, Job, Judgmental, Late 20, Late 30s, LGBT Community, Lost, Love Life, Luxury, Manhattan, Midwestern Girl, Millennials, Motherhood, Paris, Russian Lover, Sex and the City, Snapshot, Successful, Wealthy, Whiny
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May 23, 2004 Truthfully, Industrialization and the Human Condition had gotten to me. Seeing the rundown homes and businesses made me want to inspire some sort of change. I am all for technology and modern amenities. The problem is we, … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 1800s, 1900s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Abandon, Apartments, Architecture, big backyards, Boxed Buildings, Business, Constructs, Dark, Demolish, developed areas, Environmentally Friendly, Falling Down, Fix Them Up, Human Condition, Industrialization, Knock Them Down, Landscape, Light, Mansfield, narrow, Ohio, OSU, Outskirts, Ovalwood, rebuild, renovate, Shelby, Third Street, tree lined streets, Urban Growth, Urban Sprawl, Victorians, wide, windows
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Culture History of Shoplifting
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shteir came out in 2011. She starts out with the fact that in 2009 there was a dramatic rise in shoplifting. Why? Economic downturn … Continue reading
Posted in History, Psychology
Tagged 1591, 1778, 1880s, 1962, 1980s, 1990s, 2009, A Cultural History of Shopfliting, Abbie Hoffman, Anorexia, Available, Batteries, Bibliomania, Bulimia, CDs and DVD, Clothes, Clothing, Concealable, Cosmetics, CRAVED, Department Stores, Disposable., DVD Players, DVDs, Electronic Tags, Electronics, Enjoyable, Gillette Razors and Cartridges, Instant Coffee, Jane Leigh Perrot, Jewelery, Kleptomania, Lingerie, Luxury Toothbrushes, Men, Moll Flanders, Poor, Rachel Shteir, Removable, Rich, Steak, Steal this Book, The Steal, Toiletries and Alcohol, TVs, Valuable, VCRs, Vitamins and Pregnancy Tests, Winona Ryder, Women
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