National Geographic Channel visits a rural Brazilian town where "the 80 households in a one-square-mile area have reportedly some 38 pairs of twins. Blond, blue-eyed twins." Nat Geo then attempts to trace rumors connecting that creepy phenomenon to Nazi medical monster Joseph Mengele, who was on the lam in Brazil in the 1950s.
FAIRFIELD, N.J. (Associated Press) - A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-American beachgoers as the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" is offensive and should be scrapped before it airs.
UNICO National said Tuesday that "Jersey Shore" relies on crude stereotypes and highlights cursing, bad behavior and violence in depicting renters at a New Jersey beach house.
An MTV promo says the participants "keep their hair high, their muscles juiced and their fists pumping all summer long!"
UNICO President Andre DiMino calls the show "trash television."
It's scheduled to debut Dec. 3.
MTV did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.
WATCH:
the tears (again!) and then the somewhat nonsensical allegory of the party and the beer and the dad - what is he trying to say (again)?
the simpler time beck longs for was the same time period when he was a teenager already addicted to drugs - does he really want to go back that time?
According to Wikipedia, in 1979, the date of the commercial that made Glenn Beck cry, his mother drowned in a mysterious boating accident. His parents had divorced in 1977 and he then had to move to a different town to live with his father. His step-brother subsequently committed suicide. Keep those apparent facts in mind and watch the Youtube clip.
70s TV Ads
i started watching this collection of commercials from the 1970s and i actually sort of tranced out on it and watched the whole hour of it!part of it was basic nostalgia i guess since they cover - roughly - my first ten years on earth, but there was a little more. i thought about a few different things while i zombied out on these ads.
while so much of it is sheer cornball, some of the fashions and furniture is surprisingly up to date. i couldn't help noticing that allot of major unthinkably unbreakable "rules" of today are blithely ignored, seat belts, car seats, cigarettes, alcohol, sexism, crazy processed food-stuffs - and everything chugged along with a cheery, upbeat and optimistically mellow soundtrack. amazingly we survived all these nowadays no-nos.
they also made me remember that answering machines, dvds, vhs, cell phones, computers, the internet, cable tv - almost everything i use for entertainment didn't even exist at all. but then on the other hand neither did any of those bills: netflix, comcast cable, comcast internet, att cell. i had also forgotten that tv simply stopped broadcasting during the late night all together.
it was also hard for me to remember the concept of making a phone call without the assumption that it would necessarily go through - either to the person or to their voicemail but that most of the time when you made a call back then it just rang and rang and rang, or else you got the busy signal sometimes for an hour or more. no messages. no phone in your pocket for "emergencies", no coming home to a bunch of messages to sort through and deal with and no being interrupted when you were out and about getting stuff done or spending time with actual real life people. emails and txt goes without saying.
it made me wonder what my day to day life would be like right now and why i can't really remember what it was that we did with all of our time before?
partial review from Proceed at Your own Risk (NSFW - Not Safe for Work - username = payor password = password):
"Part of me loves this controversial and risky story. I love the premise and I mostly love the show, but the simple-minded and constant tongue-in-cheek sophomoric references to gay rights and gay issues potentially borders on distasteful and possibly does us some harm.
Vampires are fighting stereotypes and coming out of the coffin. We even have a vampire bar and vampire hags. Vampires are under attack by right wing Evangelicals. Vampires are fighting for equality.
I get it... "
