Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Bye bye Monkey
I cruised over to CBS at 10 p .m. last night to watch one of my new favorite shows, "Love Monkey". It's not on, so I figure it's Olympics related.
Unfortunately, no. "Love Monkey" is on hiatus, meaning it is dead. It was a bit contrived, but I liked the music angle, I liked the writing, and I'm both a Tom Cavanagh and a Jason Priestley (90210 was never the same after he left!) fan. Explain to me how "Life with Jim" is still on the air, and something like "Love Monkey" gets kneecapped after three episodes.
One other random note: I'm not too familiar with parochial schools, having been either a-religious or a Jewish hanger-on (see Taggart, Ella) for the past 10 to 20 years. Still, I found it amusing that in this day and age -- where your average BET video or beer billboard or myspace profile walks a fine line between poor taste and downright porn -- a local Catholic high school would be setting the clock back 50 years in mandating how students should behave at dances.
Exhibit 1:
Crap. I can't get the bitmap file to upload. Well, this isn't as interesting, but here's what it says.
Face to Face...with Space
FOLLOW THESE RULES AT XXX/XXX DANCES
Unfortunately, no. "Love Monkey" is on hiatus, meaning it is dead. It was a bit contrived, but I liked the music angle, I liked the writing, and I'm both a Tom Cavanagh and a Jason Priestley (90210 was never the same after he left!) fan. Explain to me how "Life with Jim" is still on the air, and something like "Love Monkey" gets kneecapped after three episodes.
One other random note: I'm not too familiar with parochial schools, having been either a-religious or a Jewish hanger-on (see Taggart, Ella) for the past 10 to 20 years. Still, I found it amusing that in this day and age -- where your average BET video or beer billboard or myspace profile walks a fine line between poor taste and downright porn -- a local Catholic high school would be setting the clock back 50 years in mandating how students should behave at dances.
Exhibit 1:
Crap. I can't get the bitmap file to upload. Well, this isn't as interesting, but here's what it says.
Face to Face...with Space
FOLLOW THESE RULES AT XXX/XXX DANCES
- NO bending over and touching the ground
- NO straddling
- NO back to front or front to back
- NO sandwiching (3s, 4s or 5s)
- NO freaking/grinding
Somewhere, Kevin Bacon is excited: "Yes! 'Footloose' is still relevant even in 2006!"
Maybe it is exactly because of today's increased exposure of young people to sexuality that schools are doing this? Maybe I'm sounding like an old goddamn fart right about now?
// posted by Bill @ 8:16 AM 
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# posted by 
: 11:03 AM
: 11:03 AM
I don't think CBS gave Love Monkey a chance with the time slot that it gave it. I really wanted to see it based on the commercials. I loved Tom Cavanaugh as Ed. But I just cant stay up for a 10:00 show with a five year old and three year and a full time job.
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