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I am really addicted to this group on Facebook caled "If you remember this you grew up in the 90's". It is a cool place where people from the Gen-X and early Gen-Y can just talk about the stuff they grew up with.It has brought back a whole bunch a cool memories.

There are a few things I find interesting. First thing, alot of people are fixated with the original pink Power Ranger. What gives people? She's like forty now.

The other thing is that alot of shows I grew up watching on Nick and Disney were only made for a couple seasons and then just put in reruns for a really long time. I've looked alot of them up on Wikipedia and most of them had shorter runs then I remembered.Was I really that dumb as a kid that I was fooled into not noticing that I was just watching the same show over and over again? Probably not. The networks knew that most kids have no idea how a TV show is made. They just made the show cheap for a season or two and put it on reruns knowing that most kids wouldn't even notice. And It worked.

We just loved the shows so much that we didn't care how many times we had seen it. I didn't care that I had seen every episode of  "The Adventure of Pete and Pete" it was such a cool show that it suited me just fine if there were only 50 episodes or however many where made.

Also, I think that the people who made childrens shows back then  knew their audience. Kid shows were just so much better then. Today's kids shows suck ass and are so unenjoyable. The shows play down to kids. I think (and this may be me wearing rose-colored glasses) shows back then were made as if they were being made for little adults. I also think that back then producers knew that parents watched these show with their children and put in some subtle winks and nods for them.

I just loved those old shows and wish that they were still on TV. Someone should make a cable chanel that just shows those old kids shows like "Pete and Pete" or "Ghostwriter" for us big kids who miss them. Or put them all on DVD. If they realeased all of the epidodes of "Rocko's Modern Life" I would buy them up in a heartbeat. The shows for kids were just so much better when I was a growing up. 

Thanks for Reading,

Mark M.

I have discovered my latest guilty pleasure: Rachel Ray. I have never watched her food network shows because I don't have cable. I'd seen her on talk shows before (ussually late night ones). But now I have developed a bit of a crush on her. I love watching her daily talk show. Sometimes I find her a bit too perky, but I think she is so cute. There's nothing like a little Italian girl with a nice behind, just drives me crazy. Add in the fact that she can cook and I'm in love.

I don't do much cooking myself  'cuz I live on my own with no on e else, but if I did I'm sure I would try some of her recipes. thry all seem yummy.

Her husband is now on the list of guys I wish would fall off the face of the earth (along with President Bush, Carrot Top, and Jared from The Subway ads)

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See what I mean? So freakin' cute. I'm in love.   

Thanks for Reading,

Mark M.

I'm sick of television these days.  I find more and more often that one person's lifetime of suffering is condensed into fifteen minutes of engagement for us, where we coddle and coo their endured injustices, or revamp their lives and personae completely for our mere entertainment.  This frustrates me.  I find that that it's not only the violence and sex portrayed on television that have desensitizing effects, but also the emotional shows, the talk shows, the Oprahs, and Dr Phils, and Maurys.  In these, they bring out the guests, the messed up, or emotionally wrecked, the spiritually scarred, to dissect the fabric of their lives.  And once we swiftly inspect all that has made their real lives a real Hell, we sweep the off to the side, and analyse another.  We compare the incomparable.  We catch ourselves thinking, "Well, that's not so bad, the one last week was worse," but really, the majority of these experiences are such that noone should ever endure.  And makeover shows--an aspect of one's life is shredded publically, and their history and memories in this department becomes a subject of shame.  Five, ten, fifteen years of shame.  It's not fair to toy with a human being like that, to derive amusement in such a manner.

I'm sorry, I'm rambling,  I suppose this was sparked by a poll Jessica read me from a magazine today.  The subject regarded the belief that beauty had to be cultivated, and could in cases only be otained through plastic surgery.  This poll reported that 87% of some population of teens believed this to be false.  This, for some reason, seemd to other listeners to be completely natural, but I wonder, what about the other 12 percent?  Apparently there people somewhere who actually believe that it is only with the aid of silicon and a scalpel that they can be attractive.  Quite frankly, that both scares and saddens me. 

Evidently, I'm rambing further.  I'll stop now, Mitchell reminds me that this can be dangerous.