So my next vaca is to the Ivory Coast? Sounds far.

So that makes me above average. Nearly five years later, I'm betting that it's one of the few times my girlfriend wasn't happy to be able to say that about me.

Just sayin'.

I didn't need Fark to be aware of items #2 and #5.

Since when is bowling a popular sport in Arkansas?

:-/

The huckster is a jack of all trades...from speeches in the Cayman's to bowling in Milwaukee.

Huck Yea!!!!!!

People like the author of "mass culture is dying" are selfish morons.

Yeah, he liked that he could mentions a line from a "gunsmoke" episode and I get the reference. And nowadays he mentions some tv show and chances are I haven't seen it - and it bothers him.

Has he considered that maybe i don't like anything even remotely close to what he likes? Yeah, when there are only 4 freaking channels or the only way to get music is based on what's in stock at the local record store, we may know some of the same things... but now that i have about 400 channels on my tv he sees this as a bad thing cause I may opt to watch something I enjoy more instead of some freakin CSI episode that he's gonna wanna "talk about" at work tomorrow. Asshole.

I'm really amazed at this guy... he's seriously bemoaning the fact that other people have "too many" choices and therefore they either don't choose the "right" things or they choose different things and he has nobody to giggle at his overplayed Seinfeld references.

$10 says he's a Democrat.

okay I felt I was a little too harsh so I reread the article with an open mind. And I stand by my initial post.

I overlooked it the first time but the guy is really crying because he has nobody to talk about "HOUSE" with?!?!!

That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life.

He literally thinks it's bad that all of us have more choices because then we're less likely to watch HOUSE and he can't chit chat with us about it.

Wow.

I couldn't agree more with E5. Have you seen House? I couldn't make it past the fifth minute. Mass culture = blandness. Safe, inoffensive, at least slightly derivative, and the edges rounded off in order to maximize its appeal. Maybe I'm just a snob, but my time is too precious to waste on crap like that.

What normal person even watches television any longer?

The only time I've spent in front of a TV in the past three months has involved watching The New York Giants go on a playoff tear and dismantle the NE Patsies, and watching the ridiculously overhyped premiere of The Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, which was so bad that I didn't bother tuning in for the conclusion.

I watched TV once last year when I was deathly ill. Fortunately too ill to reach anthing sharp with which to gouge out my eyes.

The "Big Bottom" craze is a movement I can get behind!

I like Mass culture. It's a shared experience that society can bond over.

Plus, it becomes much harder to make up good contemporary pop culture Trivia Questions when nobody knows the same stuff!

I wrote about the fat bottom craze right here in NYC. Months ago on my blog.

I wait with anticipation for Trivial Pursuit 'House (r)' edition.

It sounds riveting.

I guess three years is such a long time to propose your loved ones. I proposed my girl just after four months of I met her, we are together for almost three years now. But we don't rush to get married, may be it'll take another couple of years...