Life Decision about TV

While waiting for my next client, I was looking at The View (love that show) and one of the actors of The Walking Dead was on the couch as a guest and I found out what this popular show is about. Then it hit me being Scripted & Reality TV show everyone and every interest is represented somewhere on TV. In my opinion, if a person wants to watch TV and can't find anything of interest on TV, they're not looking hard enough or don't want to really watch TV
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It is no secret to the offline world, I watch an obscene amount of TV. I've tried to put it in hours and get embarrassed. I even have the TV on when I read and I read a least 3-4 books a month
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As I sit here doing this blog I am being reminded of the first show that identified me, the show Daria. I was a dry wit sarcastic nerd of a teenager and I dreaded talking to "stupid" people and couldn't wait to go to college where I belonged. Daria was proof it wasn't just me out there feeling like that. Since then I found myself in other TV characters. There was Joan of the show Girlfriends. The trusty advisor to her friends whose life is just a neurotic as theirs. I can name every one of my friends as a character on Girlfriends. The ill-fated show Emily Owens screamed at me every Tuesday. I am going to miss this show. Woman becomes a doctor, vying the opportunity to assist a renown doctor. She knows she's awkward, accepted it, & made it work for her and people thinks she's cool. Then her high school nemesis walks in and she has not changed. Now balance all of that. I'm good until somebody from my foundation church visits my current church and sees me and wants to talk to me and whoever is around me. I see someone from the "hood" at a restaurant or the mall, I say silent prayers like Emily Owens. Friend Request on Facebook it all makes me feel like Emily Owens. I'm gonna miss that show Emily Owens (Gone to Soon).

Those are just some. I don't think I watch anything that does not reflect me or my interests somewhere. TV is more than just entertainment, it is a reflection of life. Look at what you watch. What does a show say about you?

As Always, Talking to You In Adult Terms

The Fun in Funeral... Oh Yeah

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I found the Hardcore "Reality" TV watcher's limit. Thy limit's name is Best Funeral Ever. Child, most of the people who watch All the "Wives", Love & Hip Hop, Honey Boo-Boo, etc have harsh words for this show. I find the comment hilarious. Oh I feel the same way but I have the same reaction to the popular reality shows, too.

I watched the "Reality" special. The Christmas Funeral was of a elementary/middle class mate. So I had tearful moment at the start but afterwards I was stunned. I can't stand for people to take pictures or videotape (unless a key person is absent) at funerals. So this was unnerving. But, The families ask and pay for this so Oh Well. And
No, non-DFW black people, this not how we funeralized our loved ones. I've gone to a funeral at Golden Gate and it was a "normal" funeral. And even Beckwith posted on Facebook, only 1% of his customers ask for those kind of funerals

Best Funeral Ever is real life version of a funeral home idea in a Comedy called "Undertaking Betty". That's the trailer above. I bet that's were Golden Gate got the idea from the "American" funeral home in the movie. Watch the movie and I know you will agree.

I read TLC is waiting for the ratings to see if they will make Best Funeral Ever into a regular show. Gosh let the ratings be low.  The "Reality" special was interesting enough. Keyword is Enough!

Talking to you in Adult terms

"Catfish" My New Television Guilty Pleasure

 *Spoiler Warning*

Okay, It's no secret that I don't watch many popular reality shows. You know the ones that Wives, Hip Hop, Bachelor, Bachelorette, Bad, Club, or Chrissy in the title of it. I don't watch them. Yes, it gets me stared at crazy by many I know. I don't relate at all. I just don't understand all that fighting and you are not competing for a Large Cash Grand Prize or Job (Like RuPaul's Drag Race, Big Brother, or Amazing Race) or Not Relatives (Like Mary Mary) Yes, the Parentheses are shows I watch and I have some "Guilty Pleasure" shows I do watches like Cheaters, Toddlers and Tiaras, and Bridezillas. Well, there is an addition to the "Guilty Pleasures" list and its name is Catfish the TV Show.

It is derived from a Documentary about a guy who meets his online love and finds out she was not who she said was. Well after the movie aired the man was bombarded with emails with people with online love horror stories. The show is about that same guy helping people find out if their online lovers are lying or not. So far in five episodes, no one is telling the truth. I have faith though. It may be the Season finale but I have faith somebody will be telling the truth. (Yes, you can laugh).

The show is a trip. There is an episode with a lady who was a stripper and thought she dating a childless male stripper. The male stripper was a husky guy with children that was supposed to be the male stripper's promoter. There is the episode where a young lady thought for almost 2 years she was talking to a guy and it was a cruel prank of an ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend. The girlfriend was Not remorseful at all because she just wanted the girl to leave her boyfriend. I pray that the young lady learns better and more mature conflict management. *sigh* Then there was the most interesting case to date to me. The lady had a boyfriend who wanted to marry her. Yet, she had a 10-year online romance that she wanted to meet to make a decision.

I try to watch this show with an open mind. This could happen to anyone. There are so many liars out there in the world. But like Cheaters, I think it is sad that this show is even needed. People don't use common sense or are too lazy to do the "homework" on someone before meeting one another and even worse catching feelings. A central theme I see is almost Anuptahobic people trying to date. They are so scared to be alone that they accept these obvious lies. I'm sorry "Never being able to meet" is an obvious lie. Especially if for longer than 3 months if you live in the same city, in my opinion, is a bald-faced lie. Who never has time if they are single and telling the truth? Even if you met while both were grocery shopping. I understand long-distance love puts a strain on the meeting but listen to what they say when you finally become able to meet.

As for being too lazy to do the Homework, it amazed me how everyone has at least a Facebook page on this show. Yet, no one looks through the page fully. Many of the clues are found on the Facebook pages of the offender. They go to a Modeling school in India. Friends of the offender have the same pictures as the offender that happens to look just like the offender. While we texting each other I'd be all on their page.  If "Bells" went off enough to email Catfish Ummm "Bells" should have gone off for you to do your own investigating. If he could find it...

I date No One without doing All my homework. As I get older and add to my dating experience, the amount of homework has increased. I've dated online men before. Met the man to become one of my best friends that way (That was a Confession). I also met the Best Liar in the World ever (trust me he increased my amount of homework) online also.  We always met in a public place. Sometimes I brought my friends along, just in case a dude stood me up. Never had it to happen. But we always met within a month. And if we can't meet, I tell the dude to lose my number (Hey, am I wrong for saying "Lose my Number" to dismissed guys? Just Curious!). In the words of Sweet Brown "Ain't Nobody got Time Fah Dat".

So, that's my new "Guilty Pleasure", Catfish the TV Show. I'm going to watch Catfish the Documentary one day. I want to see this guy's journey. I do know him and the girl became good friends. Okay let me catch the latest episode with my fingers crossed the "offender" is true blue. LoL

Oh That Reality Televisison

What is it about reality television that fascinates us? Most are riddled with so many stereotypes that make everyone & anyone look so bad. Most of the shows I like are competitions like Amazing Race, Hair Battle Spectacular & Ru Paul's Drag U. In my Opinion, the contestants or cast members are tame compared to others. But I have a couple of guilty pleasures like Toddlers & Tiaras & Bridezillas that have people on there that will make you cringe. But as bad, vile, & violent as some of the cast mates are I still watch. I watch Toddlers & Tiaras in hope to see a pageant butt whooping. Shoot, I'll settle for a pageant spanking.




But what is it about a Housewife that really has a job or a Wife that is really an ex-wife, or some really hickey guys picking out their trout dinner even though it's with their hand and not with a fishing rod that makes us tune in everyday, all day. I remember when I first saw the Real Housewives of Atlanta, they were on Ellen and a fight broke out within the group right on stage during the interview. 8O I was disgusted. Why fight like that? I found out later Kim runs her gossiping mouth to much around town & other Housewives series about everybody on the show. If I see another woman fight another woman on a show I am gonna scream. Did they burn their bras in the 60's for this. And men are not exempt. American Chopper has father & son fighting hard with each other. And I've seen the a commercial for A-List Dallas. I think the will make me wish we could vote them out of the metroplex. Riddled with Gay & Texas stereotypes and myths. And I have a strange feeling everyone from Jersey (Jorsey) does not sound the cast mates of all the numerous of reality show that depict life from Jersey. 8(




The state of reality television saddens me. I call most of it Trash Reality. Because of all the fighting, cursing and stereotypes. And I feel like very few of us are embarrassed by it. I am. As a black woman from Dallas, TX a state in the United States of America a country in the continent of North America on the planet Earth, inhabited by my people human beings am embarrassed. But I guess the attitude of "Hey it's not me & mine acting that way" is the popular mind set.