In my defense, I did not mean to watch MTV's new series, "Buckwild", the other night. I was innocently flipping during a commercial break from a Kathy Griffin stand-up special.
Kathy Griffin should so be my best friend.
She would probably understand why I got sucked into "Buckwild".
Hot Guy won't. In fact, Hot Guy please stop reading now. Go here instead.
From what I gathered during the bits* I watched, the show seems to be Jersey Shore, but set in West Virginia. Rural - oh wait, the term used on the show is "country" - West Virginia. The people seem to be a much less tan and muscular, more close-knit version of the people on Jersey Shore. I think they may all actually be from West Virginia.
And in addition to getting drunk and hooking up and fighting, the Buckwild kids also do go mudding and swim in converted dump trucks and roll in huge tires and whatnot. Hence the "Jackass" aspect.
I know that people in West Virginia are all offended by the "fake" show and one of their senators wants MTV to cancel it, but if New Jerseyans can put up with Jersey Shore and our Real Housewives and that stupid NJ hair salon one I saw once I think West Virginia needs to suck it up.
Besides, the show actually improved my opinion of West Virginia.
I've actually been to West Virginia, you see. My aunt and uncle live just over the border in Maryland, so I've been to funky little tourist destinations in the greater Morgantown area. Those places aren't any different from any other rural places I've been. My other experience, however, includes a solo drive through the southern part of the state.
The part where this show is filmed.
I used to take a lot of road trips by myself, looking to spice up the trip between my parents' house in NJ and my then home in Kansas City. I was only ever nervous on three occasions. Two of those occasions were in West Virginia. (The other was in Mississippi. Go figure.)
It's not that I was ever overtly threatened, it was the that I knew if I did the wrong thing, I would be. People ranged from sullen to hostile every single place I stopped. It was weird.
The kids on Buckwild, however drunk and stupid they may be, seem fifty times friendlier than anyone I met in that area of the state. I have no plans to actually watch the show on a regular basis - it's undoubtedly too scripted to be any real fun - but it's definitely worth a commercial break flip.
If you're into that sort of thing. Or if you really miss Jackass and Jersey Shore.
*bit meaning anywhere from one to twenty minutes. Ahem. There was another on after Kathy's special was done, okay?
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1/08/2013
1/18/2010
People Who Need to Be Deported* (With Apologies to Dr. King)
I am sorry to post this blog on your day, Dr. King. I know that it is the opposite of tolerance and love for fellow man, but I feel like you would understand.
This may be a foreshadowing of the grumpy old lady I'm becoming, in which case I look forward to smacking these people with my cane someday. . .
1. Pat Robertson. For being everything that's wrong with today's Evangelical movement as well as a bigoted ignoramus. Jesus would be helping in Haiti, asshole.
2. The Jersey Shore cast. Not because they're ignorant trash who are making more money than I am, but because ONLY ONE OF THEM IS ACTUALLY FROM NEW JERSEY. Spending a summer on the Jersey shore does not make you from New Jersey, capiche?
3. John Gosselin. It's not like he spends time with his kids any more anyway, and maybe all of his young girlfriends would follow him. Although this whole story is a great case in point about the dangers of marrying young and treating your husband like one of the kids.
4. Glenn Beck. Pandering to the ignorant is so mercenary.
5.The creator of Yo Gabba Gabba. That show is just freaking WEIRD, yet even the baby stares at it if it's on. And the songs stick in my head for days.
6. My local nemesis. He's an overbearing stay-at-home dad I see around town all the time who has published a novel based on bashing the people in his playgroup. We've met countless times and have kids the same age and he refuses to remember who I am or speak to me. And his kids are RUDE.
7. The head of NBC programming. First, there's the fact that Friday Night Lights, one of the best shows on television, is treated like a second-class citizen (WHEN are you putting it on the network? WHEN?). Then there's was the blatant idiocy of giving Leno 10 o'clock, screwing over Conan and Jimmy somewhat, not to mention all the quality shows that could have gone on then (ie Friday Night Lights, Criminal Intent). And now there's the end of the 10 o'clock show and all this stupid fighting. But I might let him/her eventually back for approving Community. I like that show.
8. The casting director of the Twilight series. Yeah, I got into the books. Though I'm still not sure why. But I haven't seen any of the movies and I never will. Robert Pattinson is not hot enough to be Edward and he never will be.
*I know that most, if not all, of these people are American citizens and can't technically be deported. But it sounds nicer than "shot".
This may be a foreshadowing of the grumpy old lady I'm becoming, in which case I look forward to smacking these people with my cane someday. . .
1. Pat Robertson. For being everything that's wrong with today's Evangelical movement as well as a bigoted ignoramus. Jesus would be helping in Haiti, asshole.
2. The Jersey Shore cast. Not because they're ignorant trash who are making more money than I am, but because ONLY ONE OF THEM IS ACTUALLY FROM NEW JERSEY. Spending a summer on the Jersey shore does not make you from New Jersey, capiche?
3. John Gosselin. It's not like he spends time with his kids any more anyway, and maybe all of his young girlfriends would follow him. Although this whole story is a great case in point about the dangers of marrying young and treating your husband like one of the kids.
4. Glenn Beck. Pandering to the ignorant is so mercenary.
5.The creator of Yo Gabba Gabba. That show is just freaking WEIRD, yet even the baby stares at it if it's on. And the songs stick in my head for days.
6. My local nemesis. He's an overbearing stay-at-home dad I see around town all the time who has published a novel based on bashing the people in his playgroup. We've met countless times and have kids the same age and he refuses to remember who I am or speak to me. And his kids are RUDE.
7. The head of NBC programming. First, there's the fact that Friday Night Lights, one of the best shows on television, is treated like a second-class citizen (WHEN are you putting it on the network? WHEN?). Then there's was the blatant idiocy of giving Leno 10 o'clock, screwing over Conan and Jimmy somewhat, not to mention all the quality shows that could have gone on then (ie Friday Night Lights, Criminal Intent). And now there's the end of the 10 o'clock show and all this stupid fighting. But I might let him/her eventually back for approving Community. I like that show.
8. The casting director of the Twilight series. Yeah, I got into the books. Though I'm still not sure why. But I haven't seen any of the movies and I never will. Robert Pattinson is not hot enough to be Edward and he never will be.
*I know that most, if not all, of these people are American citizens and can't technically be deported. But it sounds nicer than "shot".
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