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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Blackball Blocking Ban + Glee Sucks

Just saw this post on Mondoville, the fun, scrappy Toronto site:

...you’re missing all the excitement of people telling you to unfollow Mondoville on Twitter — or, worse, threatening to unfollow anyone who admits to following Mondoville. And if not for the blocking efforts of a select few, we’d have cleared 800 followers today.

According to the post, perpetual fan favourite Josh Errett is blocking Mondoville on Twitter. Apparently, if you follow Mondoville, people will even threaten to unfollow you on Twitter. I checked my Twitter and I'm fine. Even NOW is still letting me follow them. Phew. Good thing I checked. Or it would be good if I didn't find Twitterr completely irritating.

Twitter ... and Glee.

I watched Glee for the third time this week because I keep hearing people go on about how much they love Glee. So I watched it. For the third time. ... actually, I didn't watch the whole thing because it was so terrible I skipped the last ten minutes. Glee is crap.

When I watched the Glee pilot, the show had some jokes and that sort of compensated for the unbearble music ... but this week's episode didn't have any jokes at all. Instead, the teacher in charge of the Glee club discovers that his wife isn't pregnant and has been faking it with padding because she's afraid that he's going to leave her. Yeah, that was the plot and they played it for tears, not laughs.

If you have ever been in a relationship for more than five minutes, you know that plot is preposterous. And I'm living with a pregnant woman right now, so that plot seems just plain stupid. Give me a break.

Then there was the singing. My god, it's awful. Glee show just how much damage American Idol has done to pop culture ... it makes me feel like I'm Marty McFly in Back to the Future when he arrives in town in the 1950s. And if you think Back to the Future is a dated reference ... it ain't as dated as Glee's notions of "music".

I don't love to hate Glee ... I just hate Glee.

Josh Errett, on the other hand, I love to hate ... that is, until I saw his recent column in NOW:

So despite tragic accounts of oversharing, society seems to reward it. It’s endearing, humanizing, interesting and, most importantly, not going away.

Ummmm ... what the hell was that? The column made strong points using relevant examples and wasn't irritating at all. Which is fine, I guess, we all have bad days.

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