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April 5, 2006
The weirdest crap on TV.
Category: Miscellany

Okay, you heard the audio post about the weepy bra lady on TLC. That was pretty bad, right? But get this -- I just tuned into SciFi and there was a segment about a man being raped by the ghost of a Civil War soldier. As if gay cowboys (eating pudding) wasn't bad enough, now we've got gay spectres from important historical events. Who comes up with this stuff?!

I saw Brokeback Mountain the other weekend, by the way. I thought it was really good (far better than Crash, to the point where I can kind of understand why she was angry enough about the loss to write this), but it definitely could've been better. It's kind of difficult to cram 20+ years of people's lives into a two-hour film and it really showed with this film, such that it probably would've been better as a miniseries. If they released a four-plus-hour extended version like with the Lord of the Rings films, I'd totally be interested in checking it out.

All for now -- ja ne!

-posted by Wes | 11:22 am | Comments (2)
2 Comments »
  • dave says:

    This reminds me of once in graduate school, a speaker was talking about mental illness and he mentioned someone who was afraid of being gay raped.
    Then, he went way out of his way to try to be PC (not homophobic... I think), and missed the mark. He over explained. "One can understand how someone would be afraid of the pain involved in being violated anally" as though he didn't want to imply homophobia was an acceptable attitude.
    It was pretty awkward and funny!

  • Becky says:

    I'm pretty much to the point where I figure you'll have the exact opposite reaction I do to any movie:)

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