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Homosexuality was once scorned and made to believed that it didn't exist, but as of late, there has been an onslaught of TV shows with homosexuality as its underlying theme. Television shows has turned homosexual. Take "Will and Grace", a show set in New York City about Will Truman, a gay lawyer, Jack McFarland, a gay actor taking on situations just as any lawyer or actor would but with twice the puns.It was one of the top rated shows for a few seasons. Or "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" which is about five gay guys using the stereotypical gay sense of style to makeover straight men who are slobs.




Or even the gay talk show hosts like Ellen on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" or Rosie O'Donnell on "The View".




I would like to think these shows are results of our country becoming more open minded. I somehow doubt it. While many countries around the world are legalizing gay marriages, we are still devoutly dragging our proverbial feet and actively keeping out gay marriages. These gay shows are the genius idea from marketing. Those people on the board picking TV shows probably knew that the gay market has been an untapped resource. These shows have made being gay, trendy.

This is the episode where South Park is poking fun at society's need to be trendy. Gay is Fab-BO-LOUS! (Spelling done on purpose)

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I believe in gay rights. Even though these shows are probably meant to get ratings, I still have hope that it will change our nation's way of thinking.

A Positive Look at Celebrity Power

I’m actually starting to believe that celebrities have dimensions out of their usual getting doped up and sh*t-face drunk on their off days. Angelina Jolie have been getting a lot of press lately for her saintly actions like adopting children from 3rd world countries, donating her own money to charitable causes, and much more. Our latest edition to when celebrities do good deeds is Bono’s Red Campaign.

Bono is a lead singer for U2, a very large rock band. He has a lot of celebrity pull power and he has put that to good use. He has contacted many top celebrities to lend their hand to his campaign.

The Red Campaign is a campaign to help raise money for a global fund for the fight against Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis. He has recruited companies to join his Red campaign. The companies areas are American Express, Apple Computer, Converse, Motorola, The Gap and Giorgio Armani. Gap is the biggest donator because they will donate 50% of what ever they make from their Red Line. Companies are clamoring to join because the bottom line is it will make money. After the Bono appeared on Oprah, Bono’s campaign blew up because it raised enough to save 3,800 people in just one weekend after it was aired. It proved that his campaign is a success.

I always turned a critical eye towards any celebrity’s goodwill. This is a great act may it be for Bono’s big blow out attempt to get publicity or really out of the goodness of his heart. Either way, I’m glad they’re using their power to help those in need.

My Take on Sex and the City

"Sex in the City" was first aired in 1998 and became one of the biggest hit TV shows of among young girls to middle aged women. It was about four women who were protrayed as the stereotypical New York women; very sexually active and very trendy.

I thought some of the shows were borderline pornographic. It isn’t something that you sit and watch with your mom while sipping on tea and crumpets. This was something that I thought was only suitable for private viewing. I remember I was catching an episode on HBO and to my embarrassment my parents decided to join me in the viewing of Sex in the City that night. Umm, if you watch the show, you know that Samantha screws a guy or three almost every week. Let’s just say it was mortifying to say the least.

This show was a total trend setter. Whether it was good or bad, people followed it. I remember the one where Carrie, the main character, wore something that had a giant flower on her blouse. The next week, there wasn’t a trendy women store that didn’t carry those hideous flower shirts.

Or what about the high-couture fanny pack. A fanny pack is a fanny pack by any other name is, and forever will be, a fanny pack. It’s ugly and something your grandma would wear. Talk about the power of influence. I wouldn’t have been surprised if she sported a garbage shirt and the next day everyone wore something similar. *Gag*

"Sex in the City" have affected our society making it okay to be more sexually liberating and a more snazzy dresser.

Super Star Nation

I wonder why our nation is so obsessed with movie stars and stardom itself. It is at the top of our news heap. Take for example our very own Professor Lilly Buchwitz falling prey to CNN’s “Breaking News” containing Johnny Cash’s death and probably leaving out the fact that there may be a cure for all of the world’s diseases because they found Cash’s death a tad more important. And if she hasn’t unsubscribed yet, I bet that she is being attacked with a flood of CNN’s “Breaking News” about Britney Spears’ recent divorce. I don’t think that is news but I'm pretty sure that's top news to a lot of news stations.

I blame it on reality TV. Reality TV has made it possible for a no name anybody to rise to the ranks of C and D list celebrity stardom like Tera Reid, and Kathy Gifford. It gives any Joe Shmoes hope that one day they get their 15 minutes. There has been a rapid rise of reality television producing these 15 minute wonders.

Shows like "American Idol" create these anomalies of celebrities. “American Idol" is a show where contestants from all over this country compete to get signed up for a singing contract. I can’t forget William Hung. He got his own album even though he sucked. But the studio wanted to milk him because he was getting press time.

Listen and watch “She Bangs”. It is god-darn awful.




Some people worship celebrities and some people hope to be just like them. And I really mean it literally. Take for example, “I Want a Famous Face,” which aired on MTV where people get plastic surgery hoping to look like superstar counter-parts. MTV does not pay for the plastic surgery, or give them any form of payment. That means these people do it on their on will without anyone’s intervention. I don’t think obsessive describe these people; I think “neurotically deranged” fits them more.

Jennifer Lopez wannabe went from a transgender..



..to J Lo.



Brad Pitt wannabes went from dorky looking twins..



..to homosexual looking guys.



Pamela Anderson wannabe went from pretty lady to transgender looking lady.



Oh well, I'm sure plastic surgeons probably tried their best.

If you see me on reality, I’ve probably fallen fatality to the stardom bug bite.

No, Thank YOU

The movie, “Thank You for Smoking,” is dark humored satire at its best. Nick Naylor is the chief spokesman and lobbyist for the big tobacco industry who `spins' the industry’s appalling image into something almost viable to condone. The movie was not much to do with actual smoking but the more with “spin doctoring”. I have to say this is one of the most poignant movies I have seen this year, aside from, “The Fast and the Furious-Tokyo Drift.” Sarcasm should be noted when speaking about, “The Fast and the Furious”.





If you want to see how spin can sucker a nation into believing big tobacco companies aren’t the enemies, the organizations rallying to fight against it are because they’re really the ones hoping to dine on you misery, look no more because “Thank You for Smoking” has it all. This was shown through the scene where Naylor goes on a talk show and says something along the lines that the tobacco industries doesn’t want Cancer Boy (not very politically correct, I know) next to him to die because the companies want what’s his name to live and smoke for the rest of his life so they continue to make money off that kid. But in the case of organization groups against the tobacco companies, they are wishing more like Cancer Boy to turn up, otherwise they couldn’t get money to fund their organizations.

Almost every scene in the movie makes me think that public relations people are gods because the way the contrive stories and manipulate it so the good guys (politicians and organizations against “big tobacco”) are bad and the bad guys (conglomerate tobacco industries) are semi-okay. I especially enjoyed the scene where he and his friends who call themselves ‘The Merchant of Death” gather for dinner and discuss their company’s death toll. This movie is ruthless in its realism making it falter away from politically correctness, and I only wished there were more movies like this out there. I thought this movie was “awesome”.

Ignorance was Bliss

I live in the American bubble. Sure I know that there are other countries around us but really, are they that important? I believe that the USA is the sun and the other countries just revolve around us, comparatively speaking. That may sound conceited but I’m probably not the only one to feel that way. And that is probably why the rest of the world pretty much hates the United States.

Lilly told us to look at another country’s website for our assignment and I thought, “What? Why?” All the websites I need is in the American internet realm. But a good student must do what is assigned to them so I finally decided on BBC.The BBC is the largest British Broadcasting Corporation that produces programs and informative information through radio, television, and the internet. I took a look at their website and I saw how it can be of importance. It had news from every important country like America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and more. I was pretty impressed. And I realized that I should probably start subscribe to them because my bubble is starting to suffocate me. There’s actually a world out of the U.S. and it has important news that one should read about.

I know the news that is written by Americans are biased and we aren’t getting all the information and especially for the political news. So thanks to opening us up to an internet websites world beyond the American ones, I can be a lot less ignorant and a little less arrogant. Just a little since I’m still American.

Online Shopping

Since the introduction of the internet, businesses having been fine tuning it’s strategies to reach the internet audience. It struck gold when business realized they could sell their products and service online to the mass consumers. Oh and boy did they.

This thing called online shopping has spawned into something beyond just shopping. Online shopping have helped many people find items and objects that they have been looking to buy for years but never have found it. From wedding dresses, to the toast emblazon with a picture of Jesus, you can find it for sale on the net.

You know that saying, “Now, I’ve seen it all.” Well, those people who've said that before probably would flip their lids if they saw what is being sold on the internet today.

Take for instance, the man who posed in his ex wife’s wedding dress supplemented with a hilarious description. He tried to sell it on eBay.

” I was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but my sister talked me out of it. She said, ‘That’s such a gorgeous dress. Some lucky girl would be glad to have it. You should sell it on EBay. At least get something back for it.’ I’m selling it hoping to get enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer.”




Or what about the one with the Jesus toast? I just don’t see the resemblance, do you?

The Golden Casino paid $28,000 for it along with their sanity. What can you say? Karma’s a B*tch. Finally after screwing people out of their money, someone screwed the Golden Casio out of theirs.

So if you’re looking to buy Satan’s fingernail clippings, you might just find in online going to the highest bidder.