Another Senseless Drive-By Posting....

I just happened to be passing through and thought, well, this is my blog after all, so why not?

There are particular images, stories or little vidclips that you see on other blogs, other boards, other sites that post such things and think to yourself that these are so off-the-wall, nonsensical, ridiculous and just plain stupid that they are, in and of themselves (and many times in spite of themselves), entertaining.

Because of this fact, there ARE such blogs, websites and so on; places that post items that have no context to any linear train of thought or ideal. I know, this is the Internet - a place where you don't have to have a thought in your head to make your ideas world knowledge...just look at Paris Hilton. As long as you can cut-and-paste and push the "PUBLISH POST" button, you're already a celebrity.

But this is where my thoughts on the matter become a little less rosy. Are we devolving as a generation? Are we dumbing ourselves so far down the evolutionary track as far as thinking, problem-solving creatures that we are content to sit in front of a computer screen and click our mouses to our hearts' content that we've lost our ability to be entertained by an intricate, cohesive or even coherent ideology?

"hee hee... look at that squirrel with the big testicles picture... funny... hee hee..."

Growing up, I was into the satirical, sardonic and often quite funny cartoon shows the likes of "Rocky and Bullwinkle", "Bugs Bunny", "Pink Panther" and even "Jonny Quest" and "Speed Racer", which at least had plot-lines you could follow, be entertained by and worked on the same principle as your average action-packed comic book.

The other day I looked at Cartoon Network, which at one time showed the aforementioned cartoons and was loved by me for it (thank GOD for Boomerang!), but now shows "stuff" the likes of "Chowder", "Flapjack", "Johnny Test" (definitely NOT to be confused with "Jonny Quest"), "Chop Socky Chooks" and a whole slew of others that don't hold a candle to the good old days.

They just aren't funny, you kids. What the heck are you little twerps laughing at?!! Jeez....

I guess what I'm getting at is that we, as a people, will laugh at anything anymore as long as it is gross enough, stupid enough, scatalogical enough and just plain loud enough. This seems to have been the basis of the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer oeuvre, not to mention the output of most hit TV shows in the last 30 years, so why mess with a proven formula, right?

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Uh, what was it I was posting about originally?....

Oh, yeah - I had to share this picture:


















See, I never promised to have the answer to the problem. Just call me a co-conspirator.

Dope out.

-TGWD