Jinx wrote:
> First was 5 minutes (all I can stomach, waiting for another
> program) of WWF. I'm just speechless at the insanity of it

After putting up with my roomates' absolute obscession with that show
for the last three years I've come to realize that's its just a soap
opera. Its noisy, cheesy, poorly written, poorly acted, dramatic and
episodic. It has a cast of characters that alternate between getting
along and hating each other, they all have a story that you have to
understand for any of it to make sense, and popular characters that
leave will always come back. From that perspecitve its just the same as
daytime soaps or 90210 or dawson's creek, etc... The main difference is
that it's geared towards the likes of a different crowd. Daytime soaps
were originally for housewives, and 90210/dawson's creek are for some
species that I have yet to identify. WWF is for people that like their
soap opera delivered from a wrestling ring. To each his own.

Thats not to say that I like WWF, I've merely come to recognize its
right to exist. Barely.

> The second was a documentary about the two Woodstocks -
> '69 and '99. What a change, and an indictment. '69, as we all
> know and will always remember, was 3 Days Of Peace And
> Love. The travesty that was Woodstock '99 (Woodstock in
> name only) was a riot waiting to happen. Which it did, and
> forever tainted the name Woodstock. The attitude of concert-
> goers at '99 was saddening to say the least. "We paid $150
> to get in, we can do whatever the f*** we like". When Wavy
> Gravy (unofficial nice cop from '69) got on stage to calm
> things down, he was left in doubt what a "f***ed-up old hippy"
> could do with himself. They want to get on and trash themselves
> to Limp Bizkit. Who as a band I don't mind, but LB and their
> ilk (Korn etc) have this pernicious violence about them that
> I don't like. It will be interesting (!!!) to see what state today's
> teenagers will be in when they're 30

I'm willing to bet that the very same question was asked about the
hippies not too many decades ago.

> 'scuse my asterisks

<rant>
Why do people do that? If you leave enough letters there to know what
the word is, you might as well have just written it out. Not that it
really matters, it just strikes me as silly.
</rant>

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