Three visions of all-consuming hell, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Three visions of all-consuming hell
A boat, a flick, a reality show. Is it the apocalypse? You wish.
By Mark Morford

Let me confess one thing right off: these are easy.

The following examples hover out there like bacon-flavored puppies, like low-hanging fruit for very lazy bats, all waiting to be effortlessly prodded with the stick of wanton mockery, like so much intellectual road kill, like so many squished squirrels on the cracked highway of life. This much I happily acknowledge.

Nevertheless, this column has always firmly believed that it is only through our shared humor, dismay and general cringing revulsion when faced with such happy cultural detritus that we are better able to come together as a people, to unite and laugh, to remove all our clothing and writhe around in the divine mud bath of enlightenment and progress. We're all in this together, I always say. Well, not really. But let's just go with it.

Let us begin... ...

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[malaise]

1. Excellent reading

All he missed was Palin and her book launch as reality TV

[n2doc]

2. The preview to "Grown Ups" was enough to make me gag

Can't imagine sitting though it. They could send a copy to Gitmo but even the Army would consider viewing cruel and unusual punishment. Good piece. Although I admit a certain curiosity about what it would be like to take a cruise on that ship.

[cilla4progress]

3. Love Morford

He's the best - great to catch his articles here on DU