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I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6252\">Emily Kendal Frey\u003c/a> who writes, \"you sit in your body, quietly making blood/wild blood/bird of the world.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4\">Mary Ruefle\u003c/a> who writes, \"I could see that the course of history had changed/even if you knew that you might not know there are moments seized with tenderness/this was one of them.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pen.org/poetry/one-way-doing-battle\">Lisa Ciccarello\u003c/a>, who writes, \"When I touched my wrist to my chest, it was shorthand for love.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/\">CA Conrad\u003c/a> who writes, \"part of the dream is that you accept your waking life as part of the dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for language, ways we put language into forms and shapes and then attempt to explain our lives. I'm grateful there are people who try to do so. I'm grateful for everything I haven't read yet, for every line that moves me or confuses me or crystallizes something. I'm grateful for fiction and non-fiction. For the object of the book, for its weight, pages and fonts. I'm grateful for books found buried in thrift store bins, books I've loaned and given away so many times that I must buy them over and over (I'm looking at you, \u003cem>Jesus' Son\u003c/em>). I'm grateful for unfinished and forgotten books. I imagine the lucky person who picked up my 5 cent copy of Doris Lessing's \u003cem>The Summer Before The Dark\u003c/em> from the seat back pocket on the Jet Blue flight from Boston.\u003cem> \u003c/em>I'm grateful for Doris Lessing. I'm grateful Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize and for her sad, elegant, structurally incomparable short stories. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://horselesspress.com/\">small presses\u003c/a> and literary magazines, even the ones I don't have time to read piling on my end table. I'm grateful that I could read forever starting now and never get to it all. I'm grateful for everything I've ever read, for the jolt of each discovery, for \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo\u003c/em> in 5th grade and \u003cem>The Flamethrowers\u003c/em> last week, and everything in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for drama and melodrama. For example, I'm guiltily grateful for the glittery, inexplicable perfection of \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and the country stars whose soap operas unfold within. I'm grateful for how weirdly addictive it is, for how fraught and sexy every duet seems. I'm grateful for fraught and sexy scenes in general. I'm grateful for the fact that I cannot stream \u003cem>Nashville\u003c/em> and so I must just watch it episode by episode, old school, the cliff hangers actually able to work their car crash/explosion/fade to darkness magic. I'm grateful for guilty pleasures of all sorts, for our eclecticism that allows us to encompass all we're attracted to -- the trashy, entertaining and sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful I somehow missed out on watching \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> for years, even though it was a cultural phenomenon, and now I get to start from the very beginning, while for many people it's already over. I'm grateful for suspense and anticipation, for the million delights, pleasures and surprises of narrative. For \u003cem>Scandal \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Homeland\u003c/em>, for quadruple agents, spies, and love affairs with the president, for juicy plots of all varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so grateful Tempers finally has \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/tempersmusic/what-isnt-there-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Ftempersmusic%2Fwhat-isnt-there-1\">a new song\u003c/a>. I'm grateful for music, for how it's inextricably linked with our personal history, identity and memory. I'm grateful for the moment in the bar when I hear \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCOKAYIBmng\">The Lemonheads\u003c/a> and get all nostalgic, remembering some ephemeral fragment of being 13. I'm grateful for how it feels to listen to music while I get ready to go out, while I cook, while I work. I'm grateful for how, so often, a song says something sweeping and visceral and blood-level, that can be said in no other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3IWs-3jw-TA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for Spotify and Shazam, for record players and juke boxes. I'm grateful for concerts, for standing in the dark, shoulder to shoulder. I'm grateful for how what we love and discover musically helps us understand and be who we are. I'm grateful there is always something new to hear. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/13/new-talent-las-skin-town-on-crafting-dark-rb-for-children-of-the-90s/\">Skin Town\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://huntershunters.com/\">Hunters\u003c/a>, two bands I randomly read about today and have been listening to for the past hour. I'm grateful for the countless moods that can be evoked, transcended, and relished, with the right song as the soundtrack. I'm grateful for the music I listened to as a teenager. I'm grateful for the music my parents listened to while I was growing up. I'm grateful for the music my teenage students tell me is cool now. I'm grateful for mixed tapes from boys. For dancing. I'm so grateful for dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/movies/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9994\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-9994\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg\" alt=\"movies\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for movies and movie theaters. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201311/michael-fassbender-cover-story-november-2013?currentPage=1\">Michael Fassbender\u003c/a> and his handsome face and how he chooses to mostly play such brutal, unattractive men. I'm grateful for artsy movies and action movies. I'm grateful that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/sanfrancisco/embarcaderocentercinema.htm\">Embarcadero Center Cinema re-opened\u003c/a>, and that you can drink wine at the Kabuki. I'm grateful for Sunday afternoons that feel the exact sort of cozy way that makes going to the movies the exact right thing to do. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://nofilmschool.com/2013/04/antonio-campos-perfect-and-sloppy/\">Antonio Campos\u003c/a>, Brit Marling and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACJWPd3VnI\">Todd Haynes\u003c/a>, to name just three of thousands. I'm grateful for previews. I love previews. I'm grateful for really great cinematic scenes, the scene where conflicting expressions pass over the character's face while he dances and we understand something horrible and new and illuminating. I'm grateful for B movies starring Paul Walker. I'm grateful for the ways we absentmindedly, casually touch each other while watching movies in the dark, a hand to an arm or knee or forearm. I'm grateful for popcorn. For 16mm. For boring movies that drag on too long. For the obscure movies I studied in college. For the romantic movies I watch alone and keep secret. For the movies that have shaped my ideas about no less than love, beauty and life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might seem dramatic but I sometimes think about human creation in all of its countless incarnations, about artifacts and art from thousands of years ago, about VHS tapes, about canvases hanging on museum walls, about music videos and high school collages, about the songs we dance to, and the instruments we play, the emulsion on the film, the magic of our newfound technologies. And I think about how someday, in a long time, all of it, and all of us, will be gone. And that is at the core of gratitude perhaps, knowing how transient everything is, and feeling very lucky we're here to appreciate whatever ephemeral goodness there is in this very moment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/nashville/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9996\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9996 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville.png\" alt=\"nashville\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/nashville-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Gratitude can \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/writing-health-benefits-journal_n_4242456.html\">help us sleep better, make us happier and inspire us to exercise\u003c/a>. Studies suggest \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/science/a-serving-of-gratitude-brings-healthy-dividends.html?_r=1&\">we ought to be writing letters to people who changed our lives\u003c/a> and reading the letters aloud to them. Yet, so often we don't take the time to really feel or acknowledge our gratitude, or maybe it seems kind of cheesy to do something like \u003ca href=\"http://www.learnvest.com/2011/11/how-making-a-gratitude-list-can-change-your-life/\">list what we're grateful for\u003c/a>. And yet, if we keep a gratitude journal, we may literally \u003ca href=\"http://www.gapsychology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=309\">feel less physical pain in our lives\u003c/a>. When I stop to think about it at all, I'm insanely grateful for every single step I'm able to take, for my kneecaps, and my feet, and the sidewalk. For every single second. Every sensation. Every person I love. We forget sometimes to make space for this gratitude, to put it into words. Sure, we feel it vaguely. If someone asked, we'd say we're grateful. But for what? There's a power and intentionality behind saying who or what those things are, in pausing to actually consider the meaning of our specific gratitude. Whether we write it down or say it out loud or just think it inside our heads in complete sentences, it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My gratitude list would have to encompass both the profound and ridiculous, and everything in between. I'd be here all day listing everything from the cellular to the celestial. So instead, for now, I've compiled some pop(ish) culture people and their creations for my gratitude list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for the humor, revelation, wisdom, scariness, beauty, strangeness, uncertainty and longing within the words, images, and music that people make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/books/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9993\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-9993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books.jpg\" alt=\"books\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/books-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for poetry, something I love lately with a renewed fervor, in a way I haven't since I was an emo teenager. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6252\">Emily Kendal Frey\u003c/a> who writes, \"you sit in your body, quietly making blood/wild blood/bird of the world.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4\">Mary Ruefle\u003c/a> who writes, \"I could see that the course of history had changed/even if you knew that you might not know there are moments seized with tenderness/this was one of them.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pen.org/poetry/one-way-doing-battle\">Lisa Ciccarello\u003c/a>, who writes, \"When I touched my wrist to my chest, it was shorthand for love.\" I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/\">CA Conrad\u003c/a> who writes, \"part of the dream is that you accept your waking life as part of the dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for language, ways we put language into forms and shapes and then attempt to explain our lives. I'm grateful there are people who try to do so. I'm grateful for everything I haven't read yet, for every line that moves me or confuses me or crystallizes something. I'm grateful for fiction and non-fiction. For the object of the book, for its weight, pages and fonts. I'm grateful for books found buried in thrift store bins, books I've loaned and given away so many times that I must buy them over and over (I'm looking at you, \u003cem>Jesus' Son\u003c/em>). I'm grateful for unfinished and forgotten books. I imagine the lucky person who picked up my 5 cent copy of Doris Lessing's \u003cem>The Summer Before The Dark\u003c/em> from the seat back pocket on the Jet Blue flight from Boston.\u003cem> \u003c/em>I'm grateful for Doris Lessing. I'm grateful Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize and for her sad, elegant, structurally incomparable short stories. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://horselesspress.com/\">small presses\u003c/a> and literary magazines, even the ones I don't have time to read piling on my end table. I'm grateful that I could read forever starting now and never get to it all. I'm grateful for everything I've ever read, for the jolt of each discovery, for \u003cem>The Count of Monte Cristo\u003c/em> in 5th grade and \u003cem>The Flamethrowers\u003c/em> last week, and everything in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for drama and melodrama. For example, I'm guiltily grateful for the glittery, inexplicable perfection of \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and the country stars whose soap operas unfold within. I'm grateful for how weirdly addictive it is, for how fraught and sexy every duet seems. I'm grateful for fraught and sexy scenes in general. I'm grateful for the fact that I cannot stream \u003cem>Nashville\u003c/em> and so I must just watch it episode by episode, old school, the cliff hangers actually able to work their car crash/explosion/fade to darkness magic. I'm grateful for guilty pleasures of all sorts, for our eclecticism that allows us to encompass all we're attracted to -- the trashy, entertaining and sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful I somehow missed out on watching \u003cem>Breaking Bad\u003c/em> for years, even though it was a cultural phenomenon, and now I get to start from the very beginning, while for many people it's already over. I'm grateful for suspense and anticipation, for the million delights, pleasures and surprises of narrative. For \u003cem>Scandal \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Homeland\u003c/em>, for quadruple agents, spies, and love affairs with the president, for juicy plots of all varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so grateful Tempers finally has \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/tempersmusic/what-isnt-there-1?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Ftempersmusic%2Fwhat-isnt-there-1\">a new song\u003c/a>. I'm grateful for music, for how it's inextricably linked with our personal history, identity and memory. I'm grateful for the moment in the bar when I hear \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCOKAYIBmng\">The Lemonheads\u003c/a> and get all nostalgic, remembering some ephemeral fragment of being 13. I'm grateful for how it feels to listen to music while I get ready to go out, while I cook, while I work. I'm grateful for how, so often, a song says something sweeping and visceral and blood-level, that can be said in no other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3IWs-3jw-TA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I'm grateful for Spotify and Shazam, for record players and juke boxes. I'm grateful for concerts, for standing in the dark, shoulder to shoulder. I'm grateful for how what we love and discover musically helps us understand and be who we are. I'm grateful there is always something new to hear. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/13/new-talent-las-skin-town-on-crafting-dark-rb-for-children-of-the-90s/\">Skin Town\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://huntershunters.com/\">Hunters\u003c/a>, two bands I randomly read about today and have been listening to for the past hour. I'm grateful for the countless moods that can be evoked, transcended, and relished, with the right song as the soundtrack. I'm grateful for the music I listened to as a teenager. I'm grateful for the music my parents listened to while I was growing up. I'm grateful for the music my teenage students tell me is cool now. I'm grateful for mixed tapes from boys. For dancing. I'm so grateful for dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/26/pop-culture-to-be-grateful-for-this-thanksgiving/movies/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9994\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-9994\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg\" alt=\"movies\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/movies-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\">\u003c/a>I'm grateful for movies and movie theaters. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201311/michael-fassbender-cover-story-november-2013?currentPage=1\">Michael Fassbender\u003c/a> and his handsome face and how he chooses to mostly play such brutal, unattractive men. I'm grateful for artsy movies and action movies. I'm grateful that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/sanfrancisco/embarcaderocentercinema.htm\">Embarcadero Center Cinema re-opened\u003c/a>, and that you can drink wine at the Kabuki. I'm grateful for Sunday afternoons that feel the exact sort of cozy way that makes going to the movies the exact right thing to do. I'm grateful for \u003ca href=\"http://nofilmschool.com/2013/04/antonio-campos-perfect-and-sloppy/\">Antonio Campos\u003c/a>, Brit Marling and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACJWPd3VnI\">Todd Haynes\u003c/a>, to name just three of thousands. I'm grateful for previews. I love previews. I'm grateful for really great cinematic scenes, the scene where conflicting expressions pass over the character's face while he dances and we understand something horrible and new and illuminating. I'm grateful for B movies starring Paul Walker. I'm grateful for the ways we absentmindedly, casually touch each other while watching movies in the dark, a hand to an arm or knee or forearm. I'm grateful for popcorn. For 16mm. For boring movies that drag on too long. For the obscure movies I studied in college. For the romantic movies I watch alone and keep secret. For the movies that have shaped my ideas about no less than love, beauty and life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/25/dear-downton-abbey-dont-go-breaking-my-heart-again/downton/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9979\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/downton.png\" alt=\"downton\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/downton.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/downton-400x225.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I shall come right to it; no need to flit about the matter. We had some altogether unpleasant words at the end of Series 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who can remember what was said? It would be very middle class for us to resurrect those ghosts now. Perhaps I mentioned in passing (no voices were raised) that the foreshadowing of Matthew Crawley's death via his roadster's prominence in the first episode was a Chekhovian gun that rather ruined my enjoyment, but I don't recall. Or, a casual aside I may have made about the handling of Lady Sybil's death in childbirth (my heart was shattered into more pieces than a dropped Limoges teacup) may have reached your ears; alas, I wouldn't know. I hope that any display of emotion can be forgiven. We wouldn't want to be thought of as going to pieces at every little thing as though we were on the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dear \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>, I have come to revise my decision to cease viewing. I'm a blogger; I can be as contrary as I choose.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong> I know I swore off the program after the new housemaid was so forward with Mr. Branson (a shocking way to treat the suffering yet dignified widower), but I suppose it is a sign of the changing times. Now that all of that is in the past, we must look to the future (the PBS premiere on January 5, 2014!). One doesn't want to be left behind to antiquity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the previous series, the biggest question that was left over our heads (like mistletoe at Christmas or those garish electric lights) was: W\u003cem>ill Lady Edith become the interesting sister?\u003c/em> After her jilting, one wanted \u003cem>something\u003c/em> good to happen to the wretched child and Lady Sybil's passing left a vacancy in the most liberated Crawley woman department. Shall she follow in the footsteps of those Hon. Mitford girls and develop a voice for herself as a writer or shall she follow in the footsteps of those Hon. Mitford girls and continue down the path of her affair with her much married editor, Mr. Gregson? It's the 1920s; perhaps she can do both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although not technically a Crawley Sister, Lady Edith's most immediate competition in the interesting department remains her cousin, Lady Rose MacClare. Her Ladyship is scandalous enough to listen to American jazz music and show off her kneecaps, while all of Surrey stares with mouths open. As the 1920s begin to figuratively roar, Lady Rose is sure to literally roar back, although it is very common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of life's stranger destinies that newlywed to newly widowed Lady Mary and Tom Branson are now single parents sharing their grief so soon after such happy times. Will Mr. Branson further temper down his Irish rebellion spirit with his work managing the estate or will he radicalize the chamber maids into Red Stockings? Will Lady Mary eventually switch to wearing purple after six months of proper mourning in black or will she remain stranded in the fog of grief over her lost Matthew? Or, in the aristocratic tradition of intermarriages, will they turn to each other for solace?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will The Earl continue to fight the tide of modernization and the 20th century? Will Cora ever speak above a whisper? These questions must be answered since they represent the only Crawley marriage that remains intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casting the eye downstairs, one immediately ponders further developments in the lives of the staff. Mr. And Mrs. Bates have been afforded all the happiness the Crawley family has had snatched away, but for how long? Could the next downstairs pairing be the clotted cream thick romantic tension between Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes? Will Julian Fellows bring a groomsman to the estate that will return Thomas's feelings? Will O'Brien ever experiment with a different hairdo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Come Christmas Day, the \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> fans in the United Kingdom will be watching the annual Christmas finale of Series 4 and us Yanks will be 11 days away from our PBS premiere date. Eleven days until the Dowager Countess and Mrs. Crawley again find themselves on opposing ends of barbed quips, 11 days until Jimmy the valet is serving in the dining room, 11 days until Mrs. Patmore is again banging pots and pans in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we are currently a full month away from Christmas and must not get ahead of ourselves. It took a year, but I've come around: my grief from Series 3 has lifted and I'm ready for Series 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some advice if we don't want a repeat: Find a way to explain the Dowager Countess staying with the show through the entire run. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 561px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/realworld/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9757\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9757\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/RealWorld.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: MTV\" width=\"561\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/RealWorld.jpg 561w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/RealWorld-400x285.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cem>The Real World Ex-Plosion\u003c/em> cast. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/2013/11/13/real-world-ex-plosion-san-francisco/\">MTV\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happens when people stop being polite and start getting real (all up in our backyard)? We're about to find out when the 29th season (that's not a typo) of \u003cem>The Real World\u003c/em> premieres in early 2014. As you probably already know, seven wild and crazy kids have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvJTzP4iUE\">fighting outside of bars\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://d15ya7jlc6yy8b.cloudfront.net/paperclip/article_images/29851/images/three_column/IMG_5476.jpeg?1382130840\">waiting for the bus\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://vevmo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2902&d=1380308277\">playing sandbag games\u003c/a> in Dolores Park for the past two months, but what was just announced this week is that the format is changing: the cast members will live in the house for a month, go away on a day trip, and return to find their exes have moved in! Contrived drama at its worst. To add insult to injury, the show has been re-coined \u003cem>The Real World: Ex-Plosion\u003c/em>. (That rumble you feel is not an earthquake, but Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath and every other person who has ever respected the English language rolling in their graves).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all honesty, I planned to watch this season after a decade-long sabbatical from the \u003cem>Real World\u003c/em> series, mainly to see what was happening in the background of the boozy confessions and betrayals (I know that DJ! I used to live on that street! Is that me?!?). But this shameless gimmick is just too much to handle; a stunt like this would make sense in Las Vegas (the first season in that city was all about breaking up and making up), but to return to San Francisco where in 1993, Pedro Zamora taught the world (\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8u67d_mtv-presents-pedro-s-message-with-b_shortfilms\">and even Bill Clinton\u003c/a>) about what it's like to live with HIV, is sacrilege, an erasure of the years when the program was actually an illuminating sociological experiment. This is the result of staying at the party so long that you wake up there the next afternoon. It's embarrassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sir Newton declared that \"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.\" Since MTV has put this toxic offering into the world, I feel it is my duty to make a counterbalance...by casting the only cast of exes worthy of living together on a television show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Winona Ryder & Johnny Depp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/enhanced-buzz-31033-1367533177-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9721\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9721\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/enhanced-buzz-31033-1367533177-7.jpg\" alt=\"enhanced-buzz-31033-1367533177-7\" width=\"610\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/enhanced-buzz-31033-1367533177-7.jpg 610w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/enhanced-buzz-31033-1367533177-7-400x295.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does any breakup get more heart-wrenching than this one? These two yearned for each other \u003ca href=\"http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/5/3/8/enhanced-buzz-8603-1367583757-7.jpg\">so\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/5/3/8/enhanced-buzz-12897-1367583261-1.jpg\">intensely\u003c/a>, almost as intensely as all of us wishing they would get back together someday. They have unfinished business to take care of (mainly making our '90s grunge dreams come true). Thankfully, no matter what happens, their love lives on in the form of \u003ca href=\"http://www.deppimpact.com/images/bodyart/winona.jpg\">the most famous tattoo in pop culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Britney and Justin at the premiere of 'Crossroads', 2002. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-2255589.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney and Justin at the premiere of 'Crossroads', 2002. \u003ccite>(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their union represented the innocence of pre 9-11 America. Unfortunately, they traded their matching basketball jerseys and \u003ca href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iFoUDj-O6-Q/UcIw46L3FQI/AAAAAAAAADg/_MCYS13ag_8/s1600/Britney-Justin-DD.jpg\">denim outfits\u003c/a> for pop songs \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DksSPZTZES0\">calling each other out\u003c/a>. Their entire relationship played itself out on MTV so it would make sense for them to reunite on the same network that made them famous in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVERiB6jGBg?rel=0]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">America is still dealing with the scar tissue from this disastrous breakup. And we're masochists so give us more (starting with an answer from Brad to the question: HOW COULD YOU?!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/jlo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9725\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jlo.png\" alt=\"jennifer lopez and ben affleck\" width=\"450\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jlo.png 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jlo-400x455.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">If we got these two back together, Ben would be too busy to ruin our lives with \u003ca href=\"http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/22/ben-affleck-batman/\">his impersonation of Batman\u003c/a>! And we could dust off our Gigli jokes and relive that music video where \u003ca href=\"http://brittanyherself.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jenny-from-the-block.gif\">Ben was obsessed with J. 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These two yearned for each other \u003ca href=\"http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/5/3/8/enhanced-buzz-8603-1367583757-7.jpg\">so\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/5/3/8/enhanced-buzz-12897-1367583261-1.jpg\">intensely\u003c/a>, almost as intensely as all of us wishing they would get back together someday. They have unfinished business to take care of (mainly making our '90s grunge dreams come true). 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And we're masochists so give us more (starting with an answer from Brad to the question: HOW COULD YOU?!).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/15/a-list-exes-the-real-world-san-francisco-explosion-should-have-included-in-their-cast-breakup/jlo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9725\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jlo.png\" alt=\"jennifer lopez and ben affleck\" width=\"450\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jlo.png 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/jlo-400x455.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">If we got these two back together, Ben would be too busy to ruin our lives with \u003ca href=\"http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/22/ben-affleck-batman/\">his impersonation of Batman\u003c/a>! And we could dust off our Gigli jokes and relive that music video where \u003ca href=\"http://brittanyherself.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jenny-from-the-block.gif\">Ben was obsessed with J. 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And maybe there will be references to \u003ca href=\"http://surisburnbook.tumblr.com/\">Suri's Burn Book\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Amy Poehler & Will Arnett\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-800x663.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Poehler and Will Arnett, May 2012. \" width=\"800\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-800x663.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-160x133.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-768x637.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-1020x846.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-1200x995.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906-1920x1592.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/GettyImages-144011906.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Poehler and Will Arnett, May 2012. \u003ccite>(TIMOTHY A. 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There could be a revolving door at the entrance to the house to accommodate all of Tay Tay's past boos: pretentious hipster music loving Jake Gyllenhaal, creepy lothario with a guitar John Mayer, the second cutest One Direction member Harry Styles, and even that random high school age Kennedy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Which exes would you cast?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/13/totally-biased-with-w-kamau-bell-canceled/2013-television-critics-associations-summer-press-tour-fox-all-star-party/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9703\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9703\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/ku-xlarge.jpg\" alt=\"2013 Television Critics Association's Summer Press Tour - FOX All-Star Party\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/ku-xlarge.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/ku-xlarge-400x270.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Defamer \u003c/em>is reporting that FXX has cancelled \u003cem>Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell\u003c/em>, the show hosted by \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/jp/why-you-should-love-local-late-night-star-w-kamau-bell/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area comedian W. Kamau Bell\u003c/a> that actually worked hard to create a dialogue about serious issues like race and gender with honesty and humor. How sad that due to ratings (which are probably related to the show being moved to a channel no one has ever heard of), we will now be deprived of a nuanced critical look at our world. The final show airs Sunday night. Kamau! We love you! Come back to us soon!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/1969564uhmhz6jpg/k-bigpic.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://defamer.gawker.com/fxxs-totally-biased-has-been-cancelled-1463889392\" target=\"_blank\">FXX's Totally Biased Has Been Cancelled\u003c/a>I'm hearing from multiple writers on FXX's Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell that the show has been officially cancelled by FX. The show, which is currently in its second season, just moved to FXX this season, after FX launched their secondary network this summer.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdefamer.gawker.com%2Ffxxs-totally-biased-has-been-cancelled-1463889392\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://defamer.gawker.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/12/searching-for-wonder-woman-why-cant-the-first-female-superhero-catch-a-break-in-hollywood/ww6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9664\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/ww6.jpg\" alt=\"ww6\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/ww6.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/ww6-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling all Amazons: \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2013/film/news/batman-superman-1200665552/\">Variety is reporting \u003c/a>that the a “tall, brunette, athletic and exotic” actress is being sought for the role of \"'Bruce Wayne's love interest\" in the upcoming, as-yet-untitled \"Batman-Superman\" movie in pre-production at Warner Brothers. You don't have to be as wise as Hera to see that there's a strong possibility this is a sneaky way of casting the net for the first ever big screen Wonder Woman. After all, remember when Anne Hathaway was cast as \"Bruce Wayne's love interest\" a few years back in \u003cem>The Dark Knight Rises\u003c/em>? To no one's surprise, Hathaway's role was revealed to actually be that of Selina Kyle, a.k.a. 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Kelly made an attempt at a new take on the heroine for television in 2011 (the pilot was so disappointing it went un-aired) and rumors swirled of a solo film project to the point where media front runner Megan Fox went on record as calling the character \"lame.\" You want to talk \u003cem>lame, \u003c/em>Megan? I was one of the six people who saw your performance in \u003cem>Passion Play\u003c/em> and we'll just leave it at that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a self-professed superhero nerd let \u003cem>me\u003c/em> go on record with the following: Wonder Woman is NOT lame. Any character with a mythological back-story as carefully articulated as WW's (she's the daughter of the Queen of the Amazons blessed with gifts from Mercury, Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, depending on the comic incarnation) a set of accessories that also double as weaponry (tiara boomerang, bullet deflecting bracelets, Lasso of Truth and a belt from which her Amazonian power emanates) and a pre-second-wave feminism refusal to subjugate herself to male authority, is a more than worthy subject for the screen. Another cool fact about Wonder Woman and that Golden Lasso of Truth (fashioned from the Golden Fleece): Wonder Woman's creator was William Moulton Marston, a feminist theorist, psychologist and one of the inventors of the modern polygraph test. See where I'm going with this? Wonder Woman's appeal isn't restricted to women either: three generations of men have been counted among her fans, including this blogger who continues to hold onto his mother's vintage Wonder Woman cake pan for birthdays, gluten allergy or no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/12/searching-for-wonder-woman-why-cant-the-first-female-superhero-catch-a-break-in-hollywood/wwcake-pans/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9662\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/WWcake-pans.jpg\" alt=\"WWcake pans\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/WWcake-pans.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/WWcake-pans-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women in superhero franchises have had mixed luck. In the '80s \u003cem>Sheena, Queen of the Jungle\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Supergirl\u003c/em> both bombed at the box office. In the '90s Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in \u003cem>Batman Returns\u003c/em> was a complicated enough anti-heroine to offer hope of more female comic book characters getting their moment in the spotlight. Come the 2000s Jennifer Garner's \u003cem>Elektra\u003c/em> didn't fare quite so well (brave attempt, Jenn). Halle Berry's Storm in the original \u003cem>X-Men \u003c/em>trilogy had her moments but the women in the films (including a fundamentally disempowered Rogue portrayed by Anna Paquin, a barely seen Ellen Page as Kitty Pride and an extremely good Rebecca Romijn as Mystique) took a backseat to the male stars. Let's hope some of that continues to be corrected with the \u003cem>First Class-\u003c/em>Original Trilogy hybrid \u003cem>Days of Future Past\u003c/em> due out this spring. I won't even mention Scarlet Johansson as the token female \u003cem>Avenger,\u003c/em> Black Widow: we get it, you can fit into a leather onesie but what did she actually \u003cem>do\u003c/em> in the film?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all Wonder Woman's fashion forward bustiers, thigh high boots and short-shorts, the character has never been just about sex appeal. What greater defender could the character ask for than a real-life fighter for woman-kind, feminist icon Gloria Steinem? Steinem choose an image of Wonder Woman for the first cover of \u003cem>Ms. Magazine\u003c/em> in 1972 and famously criticized a character reboot in the '70s that saw a de-costumed and de-powered Wonder Woman using karate to fight foes. Her argument: why take away the powers and iconography of one of the few female heroes available to young girls and grown women? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 606px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/07/who-will-you-choose-the-dire-geometry-of-the-love-triangle/savages_606/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9598\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/savages_606.jpg\" alt=\"savages_606\" width=\"606\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/savages_606.jpg 606w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/savages_606-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The love triangle of Savages.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003c/em>-Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry Miller could be talking about any kind of love in this letter to Anaïs Nin, but he's specifically considering the constantly unresolved and inexplicable nature of the love triangle. The love triangle does contain a perpetual expectancy, which is where the frustrating allure resides, and where the endless tension and narrative potential exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Shakespeare to \u003cem>Gossip Girl\u003c/em>, from Harold Pinter (\u003ca href=\"http://www.broadway.com/buzz/172437/betrayal-exposed-how-harold-pinters-real-life-affair-inspired-an-illicit-love-triangle-on-stage-screen/\">whose real life affair inspired his play, \u003cem>Betrayal\u003c/em>)\u003c/a> to every recent vampire story, from \u003ca href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/cig/mythology/threes-crowd-olympian-love-triangle.html\">Mount Olympus\u003c/a> to Camelot, from Flaubert to \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>, for over hundreds of years, from the highest of high brow culture to the lowest of low brow, everyone is riveted by the revelations and mysteries of this shape. The geometry of the two angles facing the third is a dire sort of math. When we choose one person over another, we choose one life over another, one self over another. Most of us, whether knowingly or not, have been one of these angles. Love is full of messy, maddening entanglements and the precise geometry of the love triangle is our narrative attempt to give gray areas a structure we can understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always relished a good love triangle, in real life, on screen, or on the page. From approximately age 18-20, I had two boyfriends. Love letters were written, tears shed, threats threatened, dramatic entrances and exits performed. Perhaps my two boyfriends and I allowed it to go on for so long because we knew that none of us would end up together in the end. Or maybe we secretly hoped it might finally settle into a verdict of one outcome or another. I had no exit strategy. Upon reflection, I’m honestly not sure what I hoped was going to happen. I think part of me actually believed I might just end up with both of them in some sort of other-worldly, non-sleazy, impossible polygamy, a blurry version of \u003cem>Jules et Jim \u003c/em>(minus the car driving off the bridge), \u003cem>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u003c/em> (minus the shoot-out) or maybe even Oliver Stone’s \u003cem>Savages \u003c/em>(minus the kidnapping, drug dealing and bloodshed). While the polyamorous vision my 19-year old self cultivated was definitely ridiculous, there's an undeniably charismatic equilibrium to the tension of three, a significant part of the triangle's draw. Not only are we choosing between opposites, we're creating a whole, albeit one we don't usually get to keep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/P4MV1NLejQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">In Godard’s \u003cem>Band of Outsiders\u003c/em>, while there's no overt romance, it's still the fact that there's three of them which creates the chemistry. Bertolucci's threesome in \u003cem>The Dreamers\u003c/em> even mimics the \u003cem>Band of Outsiders\u003c/em> trio and their charming run through the Louvre. The nearly identical scenes (check it out in the awesome split screen above) suggest the most ideal, irreverent qualities of the love triangle, along with the accompanying refusal of propriety. In Miranda July's short story \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/fiction-podcast-david-sedaris-reads-miranda-july.html\">\"\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/fiction-podcast-david-sedaris-reads-miranda-july.html\">Roy Spivey,\"\u003c/a> \u003c/em>a significant and intimate (though unconsummated, and not exactly sexual) encounter with a man on a plane creates a lifelong, conceptual love triangle with everyone else the woman ever loves, and everything else she ever chooses. The moment with him creates a longing to define all else against. The love triangle is that too, a trope within which we can pick two opposites to define each other, weigh those options, feel the pleasant/unpleasant sensations of longing, uncertainty and meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/07/who-will-you-choose-the-dire-geometry-of-the-love-triangle/wade-zoe-george-zoe-and-george-33456307-245-283/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9476\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9476 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/wade-zoe-george-zoe-and-george-33456307-245-283.gif\" alt=\"wade-zoe-george-zoe-and-george-33456307-245-283\" width=\"245\" height=\"283\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recently started watching \u003cem>Hart of Dixie \u003c/em>(I don’t have the word count to get into my reasons and justifications here), and find myself preoccupied with Zoe’s choice between Wade and George. For those of you lucky enough to not know what I’m talking about, Zoe is an NYC doctor transplanted to the small town of Bluebell, Alabama where she's confronted with all the zaniness of small town life (depicted as quirky but morally superior to urban living), along with the small town boys who make up her love triangle. Wade is a hunky bartender who paints her house without his shirt on, and George is a chivalrous, buttoned-up lawyer. To me, the choice seems clear. Wade is a type of country boy who doesn't actually exist, and is oddly appealing in the sense that there's literally no real life equivalent. Every time Zoe messes it up or doesn’t quite choose him, I’m befuddled and frustrated beyond belief. Case and point: she's kissing the wrong guy in the amazing gif to the left. So I keep watching in the hopes that she will come to her senses (but I also hope she won't). They’re \u003cem>perfect\u003c/em> together. Yet, I must admit, there’s something essential about George’s presence, the threat of his contrasts, which adds to that perfection. If this was only the love story of Zoe and Wade, I wouldn’t care nearly as much. As long as George is there too, nothing is resolved, and everything ought to be questioned and compared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolution, or lack thereof, is at the heart of the triangle. What I imagined in my own triangle was no resolution, the three of us residing in Henry Miller’s perpetual expectancy forever. Yet resolution, sought after or not, is inexorable. We know it all along, and it's why we're watching: our heroine (or hero) must choose. And with her choice, the triangle moves itself into a more reasonable, sustainable shape. She picks the bad boy or the nice guy. The affair becomes the primary relationship. Someone throws themselves in front of a train. She “chooses herself.\" She shows preference for one archetype or lifestyle over another. She is torn between passion or obligation, between history and the new, but one of these pulls finally becomes stronger. The equilateral version of the triangle, after all, is the least sustainable type. Eventually a decision removes her from her triangle. This inherent and emblematic temporariness is a significant part of the triangle’s charms, for as long as the triangular indecision is intact, the story continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9481\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/07/who-will-you-choose-the-dire-geometry-of-the-love-triangle/love-triangles/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9481\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-9481 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/love-triangles-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"love triangles\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just Six of Thousands of Love Triangles.\u003cbr>From top left, clockwise: \u003cem>Deerhunter\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Archie\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em>, \u003cem>King Arthur\u003c/em>, \u003cem>90210\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Heartbeats\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And we must take sides while there is still time. The Team ____ vs Team ____ phenomenon that emerged in the wake of \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> always struck me as odd for the simple fact that it was clear the poor werewolf kid was never going to win. I didn’t understand those rooting for him, and the inevitability of the triangle’s winner seemed kind of depressing and indicative of mediocre triangle weaving. Occasionally, the choice is not clear; the choice is between two equally interesting, viable and deserving parties (neither of whom die in battle), and that’s when things really start to get interesting, moving away from symbolism into the spaces of actual risk, loss and suspense. A love triangle ought to map out the intricacy and complication of human emotion, eventually resolving itself into some final variation we are able to wish for, and wonder about, but not entirely predict, at least not with certainty. In this way we negotiate desire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The triangle is so often the heartbreak of cheating, the torridness of a threesome, the sadness of a difficult decision, or the salaciousness of soap opera. Yet, couldn't it also be the simple admission that our affections and intimacies are not always so clean, easy and monogamous as we believe them to be, or as they might sometimes need to be in order for us to lead halfway manageable lives? The popularity and ubiquity of love triangle depictions indicate that we acknowledge the messiness of our affections -- our fears of how they might ruin us, our curiosity at how they might play out. If we could, perhaps we’d all just get in bed together, date both vampires, have the lawyer and the bartender, ask Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson to both save us from our kidnappers. That’s not to say that it would work for longer than an hour (or 20 years if you’re Henry Miller), but I wonder how our consumption and interpretation of fictional love triangles helps us unravel and process those affections and desires that might not have any other place to go, or any other way to be acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've all composed some version of the letter from Henry to Anaïs, haven't we? We've attempted to explain our feelings of love that grow difficult to categorize, or contain, that moment when we'd like to grab the hands of two different people and run through the Louvre with them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I think part of me actually believed I might just end up with both of them in some sort of other-worldly, non-sleazy, impossible polygamy, a blurry version of \u003cem>Jules et Jim \u003c/em>(minus the car driving off the bridge), \u003cem>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u003c/em> (minus the shoot-out) or maybe even Oliver Stone’s \u003cem>Savages \u003c/em>(minus the kidnapping, drug dealing and bloodshed). While the polyamorous vision my 19-year old self cultivated was definitely ridiculous, there's an undeniably charismatic equilibrium to the tension of three, a significant part of the triangle's draw. 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For those of you lucky enough to not know what I’m talking about, Zoe is an NYC doctor transplanted to the small town of Bluebell, Alabama where she's confronted with all the zaniness of small town life (depicted as quirky but morally superior to urban living), along with the small town boys who make up her love triangle. Wade is a hunky bartender who paints her house without his shirt on, and George is a chivalrous, buttoned-up lawyer. To me, the choice seems clear. Wade is a type of country boy who doesn't actually exist, and is oddly appealing in the sense that there's literally no real life equivalent. Every time Zoe messes it up or doesn’t quite choose him, I’m befuddled and frustrated beyond belief. Case and point: she's kissing the wrong guy in the amazing gif to the left. So I keep watching in the hopes that she will come to her senses (but I also hope she won't). They’re \u003cem>perfect\u003c/em> together. Yet, I must admit, there’s something essential about George’s presence, the threat of his contrasts, which adds to that perfection. If this was only the love story of Zoe and Wade, I wouldn’t care nearly as much. As long as George is there too, nothing is resolved, and everything ought to be questioned and compared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolution, or lack thereof, is at the heart of the triangle. What I imagined in my own triangle was no resolution, the three of us residing in Henry Miller’s perpetual expectancy forever. Yet resolution, sought after or not, is inexorable. We know it all along, and it's why we're watching: our heroine (or hero) must choose. And with her choice, the triangle moves itself into a more reasonable, sustainable shape. She picks the bad boy or the nice guy. The affair becomes the primary relationship. Someone throws themselves in front of a train. She “chooses herself.\" She shows preference for one archetype or lifestyle over another. She is torn between passion or obligation, between history and the new, but one of these pulls finally becomes stronger. The equilateral version of the triangle, after all, is the least sustainable type. Eventually a decision removes her from her triangle. This inherent and emblematic temporariness is a significant part of the triangle’s charms, for as long as the triangular indecision is intact, the story continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9481\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/07/who-will-you-choose-the-dire-geometry-of-the-love-triangle/love-triangles/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9481\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-9481 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/love-triangles-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"love triangles\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just Six of Thousands of Love Triangles.\u003cbr>From top left, clockwise: \u003cem>Deerhunter\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Archie\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em>, \u003cem>King Arthur\u003c/em>, \u003cem>90210\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Heartbeats\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And we must take sides while there is still time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maybe you heard \u003ca href=\"http://www.inquisitr.com/1018472/full-house-to-launch-sequel-series-with-adult-tanner-girls/\">the breaking news of the \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> sequel\u003c/a> series that was to center around the lives of the eldest two Tanner girls this morning. And perhaps this led to an unusually glorious Monday commute where you believed that everything would actually be okay and that the arc of the moral universe really does bend towards justice. And maybe you got into work and started to diligently work on a piece illustrating this cultural victory through Stephanie Tanner animated gifs. And maybe you felt really good about your gif curating skills and your life's purpose in general...until you tried linking back to the original source of the \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> news and \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/new-moon-story-details.jpg\">found this instead\u003c/a>. And maybe you hated everything, especially the internet, and made some or all of these faces:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvlbyvvlet1spckcao1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9503\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvlbyvVlet1spckcao1_500.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_mvlbyvVlet1spckcao1_500\" width=\"450\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvlbyvVlet1spckcao1_500.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvlbyvVlet1spckcao1_500-400x304.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvm3mw6skv1s2etwto1_1280/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9505\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvm3mw6sKv1s2etwto1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_mvm3mw6sKv1s2etwto1_1280\" width=\"486\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvm3mw6sKv1s2etwto1_1280.jpg 694w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvm3mw6sKv1s2etwto1_1280-400x311.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvozd9ryox1sj9phro1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9504\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvozd9ryOx1sj9phro1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvozd9ryOx1sj9phro1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_ms0i15grlc1s2etwto1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9500\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_ms0i15grlC1s2etwto1_500.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_ms0i15grlC1s2etwto1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_ms0i15grlC1s2etwto1_500.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_ms0i15grlC1s2etwto1_500-400x306.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mitgf13mi11qa5sn8o1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9525\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9525\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mitgf13Mi11qa5sn8o1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mitgf13Mi11qa5sn8o1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/michelle-tanner-is-doesnt-care-reaction-gif-on-full-house/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9519\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9519\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Michelle-Tanner-Is-Doesnt-Care-Reaction-Gif-On-Full-House.gif\" alt=\"Michelle-Tanner-Is-Doesnt-Care-Reaction-Gif-On-Full-House\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvmcrwzfgi1sf1l7xo1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9501\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9501\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvmcrwZFGI1sf1l7xo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvmcrwZFGI1sf1l7xo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you know what? This doesn't have to be the day we were fooled into having our hearts broken. This can be the day that we remember all the things we love about the Tanners (and Kimmy Gibbler of course).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Everything about Uncle Jesse (even his weird Elvis fetish). Anything he does is forgivable, although that time he just \u003cem>had to\u003c/em> jump out of a plane and get stuck in a tree on his wedding day is really pushing it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_inline_mo71xbepx11qz4rgp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9506\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_inline_mo71xbePx11qz4rgp.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_mo71xbePx11qz4rgp\" width=\"245\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_inline_mo71wvphso1qz4rgp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9508\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_inline_mo71wvphSO1qz4rgp.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_mo71wvphSO1qz4rgp\" width=\"245\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/giphy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9507\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9507\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy\" width=\"389\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/jesse2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9509\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/JESSE2.gif\" alt=\"JESSE2\" width=\"387\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Michelle's attitude\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvfg0p2pgg1slbjwho5_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9526\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9526\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvfg0p2PGG1slbjwho5_250.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvfg0p2PGG1slbjwho5_250\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/full-house-full-house-35766466-280-191/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9514\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/full-house-full-house-35766466-280-191.gif\" alt=\"full-house-full-house-35766466-280-191\" width=\"280\" height=\"191\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvn5xgfzvl1qffjqso1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9523\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvn5xgfzvl1qffjqso1_500.png\" alt=\"tumblr_mvn5xgfzvl1qffjqso1_500\" width=\"403\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvn5xgfzvl1qffjqso1_500.png 403w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvn5xgfzvl1qffjqso1_500-400x345.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/michelle-tanner-duh-full-house/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9518\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9518\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Michelle-Tanner-Duh-Full-House.gif\" alt=\"Michelle-Tanner-Duh-Full-House\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/screen-shot-2013-11-04-at-2-52-15-pm/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9520\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9520\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Screen-shot-2013-11-04-at-2.52.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-11-04 at 2.52.15 PM\" width=\"473\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Screen-shot-2013-11-04-at-2.52.15-PM.png 473w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Screen-shot-2013-11-04-at-2.52.15-PM-400x263.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvgffazs2w1ssnhiao1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9524\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9524\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvgffaZs2W1ssnhiao1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvgffaZs2W1ssnhiao1_500\" width=\"496\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. DJ's relatability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/f/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9530\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9530\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Full_House_414_Working_Girl_015_0001.jpg\" alt=\"F\" width=\"431\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Full_House_414_Working_Girl_015_0001.jpg 431w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Full_House_414_Working_Girl_015_0001-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_m1p4oj396a1qm75ofo1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9517\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_m1p4oj396A1qm75ofo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_m1p4oj396A1qm75ofo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>4. Kimmy Gibbler's WTF face\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/kimmy-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9513\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy.jpg\" alt=\"kimmy\" width=\"228\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy.jpg 228w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/kimmy-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_lxcoryxq9f1r7k6buo1_400/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9510\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9510\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_lxcoryXq9F1r7k6buo1_400.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_lxcoryXq9F1r7k6buo1_400\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/kimmy-gibbler-full-house-509159_320_240/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9511\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Kimmy-Gibbler-full-house-509159_320_240.jpg\" alt=\"Kimmy-Gibbler-full-house-509159_320_240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/o-full-house-kimmy-gibler-facebook/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9512\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/o-FULL-HOUSE-KIMMY-GIBLER-facebook-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"o-FULL-HOUSE-KIMMY-GIBLER-facebook\" width=\"491\" height=\"393\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Stephanie Tanner's indignation about the world's rudeness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/gcyOoPDlSuU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And that time she called Kimmy a whore:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/PWwoRVmvc-g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And that time she danced like a boss to Boyz II Men:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-class\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/nLaSH7o986M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Maybe someday our beloved TGIF gem will come back to us. Until then, we'll just have to continue to hum the theme song every time we pass Alamo Square. Leave your favorite \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> moment in the comments!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mitgf13mi11qa5sn8o1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9525\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9525\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mitgf13Mi11qa5sn8o1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mitgf13Mi11qa5sn8o1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/michelle-tanner-is-doesnt-care-reaction-gif-on-full-house/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9519\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9519\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/Michelle-Tanner-Is-Doesnt-Care-Reaction-Gif-On-Full-House.gif\" alt=\"Michelle-Tanner-Is-Doesnt-Care-Reaction-Gif-On-Full-House\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/11/04/full-house-sequel-just-a-hoax-survive-the-disappointment-with-these-animated-gifs/tumblr_mvmcrwzfgi1sf1l7xo1_500/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9501\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9501\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/tumblr_mvmcrwZFGI1sf1l7xo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvmcrwZFGI1sf1l7xo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you know what? This doesn't have to be the day we were fooled into having our hearts broken. This can be the day that we remember all the things we love about the Tanners (and Kimmy Gibbler of course).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Everything about Uncle Jesse (even his weird Elvis fetish). 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Leave your favorite \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em> moment in the comments!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/24/in-defense-of-kim-kardashian/kimmy-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9300\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kimmy1.png\" alt=\"kimmy\" width=\"640\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kimmy1.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kimmy1-400x199.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Kardashian has no apparent talent. It is likely she sings \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMXsZcpqH_g\">off key\u003c/a>, dances like \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQu_NLRvULM\">Elaine Benes\u003c/a>, and paints on par with a fifth grader. Her body is wonderfully curvy, her makeup has taken some getting used to, and her psoriasis will continue to haunt her in humid environments. The rest of her family, including sisters Kourtney and Khloe, are just as talent-less, albeit tossing out some epic one-liners here and there. True you can call the entire Kardashian clan \u003cem>business savvy\u003c/em>, especially mother hen Kris Jenner who has, along with the help of Ryan Seacrest, turned their Calabasas-based family into reality show royals. But the Kardashians are doing it like no one else, that it to say, by being just like me and you and everyone we know. Minus all the cash, of course. And as for Kim, the brightest supernova, every step she takes is \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjgezzktTR0\">photographed\u003c/a>, recorded and archived, making her one of the most Googled and talked about celebrities of our time. And all she has to do is exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>A Brief History of Relevant Reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be difficult to speak to the rise of Kim and the Kardashians without looking back at the history of such televised programming. The genre of reality began arguably in \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ef4xFSmLuo\">New York City\u003c/a> with the premier of \u003cem>The Real World \u003c/em>in 1992, a whopping 21 years ago. This show spawned an entire generation of spinoffs, the most relevant coming in 2001 with MTV’s \u003cem>The Osbournes\u003c/em>, chronicling the everyday domestic lives of Ozzy Osbourne and his kooky family. The show took off. This clan was quirky, funny, and already had the star power. Much to the chagrin of Black Sabbath fans, Ozzy was shown to the world as a “normal” person, a father, a History Channel lover. America fell for the Osbournes and recognized qualities in their own neighbors, their own families and themselves. Oh, the editing process! After 52 episodes, the show called it quits. The jokes got stale, Ozzy’s slurring became too much, and to be honest, no one on the show was that easy on the eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/X_3nzshUHMs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Pioneers in the genre, MTV, recognized this and with the huge success of \u003cem>The O.C.\u003c/em>, decided to create \u003cem>Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County\u003c/em>, a loosely-scripted reality show documenting the melodramatic lives of high school teens living the lux and breezy seaside life. Another big score for the network. From there, it was all semi-golden: \u003cem>The Hills, The City\u003c/em>, Lauren Conrad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wenn2740290.jpg\">Heidi Montag\u003c/a>, Kristin Cavallari. All beautiful and relatively un-famous people just going about their lives either in Los Angeles or New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Kim and the Kardashians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>II.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>From Riches to Riches\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>When the show began in 2007, I think it’s safe to say we were all like “Who? \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infLrZjJpNc\">O.J.’s\u003c/a> lawyer’s family? I don’t get it.” I caught a few episodes but still could not wrap my head around why they were making a television show about such a family of nobodies. \u003cem>Laguna Beach \u003c/em>had an angle; it was attempting to show the world what life was like in the “real” Orange County, without Mischa Barton. And then it clicked:\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzmhiEolEUE\"> a sex tape\u003c/a>. Unless you lived in L.A. (which most of the world doesn’t), you wouldn’t know the Kardashians were already a bit of deal, especially Kim who was a celebrity stylist to Brandy. In walks Brandy’s brother Ray-J who catches Kim’s eye, and yadda yadda yadda, a home video is leaked to the internet and watched by every male between the ages of 15 and 115. Filling the void left by Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwJRQ_18iY\">The Simple Life\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Keeping Up with the Kardashians\u003c/em> was born, thanks to Hollywood powerhouse Ryan Seacrest. The shtick was in place: daughter of influential Hollywood family made sex tape then went home to that family and they still loved her and all their names begin with K and they are Armenian and hella rich and tell jokes. What a formula! The family continued on to “take” Miami, New York and Lamar Odom. I wouldn’t even consider these shows spin-offs as they were extensions of \u003cem>Keeping Up with the Kardashians. \u003c/em>America could not get enough of one central show, they needed more time with the klan (the only time I will do that). It wasn’t enough to see what they were doing on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday; we yearned for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EkCs7d4fSuI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>III. The Hollywood Walk of Shame\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These past weeks have really been something for Kim. She celebrated her 33\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> birthday, she got engaged to Kanye West (\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/22/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-got-engaged-in-sf-last-night/\" target=\"_blank\">in San Francisco!\u003c/a>), and she is about to have her baby a second time on television this upcoming Sunday. But nothing has been quite as controversial as her \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ax9FSRdvAw\">denial\u003c/a> of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to spokeswoman Ana Martinez, Kim simply does not qualify for a star. In order to even be considered, you must fall into one of five performance categories, reality television nowhere to be found. “We’re happy to consider reality stars once they get nominated for, or win, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar,” Martinez \u003ca href=\"http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/burning-does-kim-kardashian-really-deserve-walk-fame-195200708.html\">tells\u003c/a> omg Yahoo. “We’ll consider them when they’re legitimate actors or singers.” Because there are no politics involved in \u003cem>that \u003c/em>selection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_on_the_Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame\">cases\u003c/a>, though, when the rules have been \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame\">bent\u003c/a> a bit. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZUn1VFkAI\">Vanna White\u003c/a>, for example, might have said less on camera in her entire career than Kim has on one episode of her show. And now that things are all digitalized, Vanna doesn’t even have to strain her wrist to turn letters any more, she just needs to tap them like an iPad, and then clap, smile and wave. An American game show icon of course, but a $30,000 star on Hollywood and Vine is highly debatable. And then there’s Muhammad Ali. Although an obvious legend in sports, he was awarded a star because boxing is considered “live performance.” It is difficult to compare Kim Kardashian to Muhammad Ali purely for the sake of accomplishment. But when it comes to Tinseltown and what it stands for, I’m not sure anyone is more Hollywood than Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_9290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 565px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.enstarz.com/articles/13222/20130214/kim-kardashian-braids-instagram-hairsyle-photos-bo-derek-look.htm\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-9290\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian.png\" alt=\"Kim Kardashian's Instagram\" width=\"565\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian.png 565w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian-400x401.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/kim-kardashian-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Kardashian's Instagram\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IV. In Defense of Kim Kardashian\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it might not seem like it when you’re sitting on your couch eating that second bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, you are just like Kim Kardashian. Because she lacks the enormous talent that catapults everyday people to stardom and because she lacks the Kate Moss waistline, she in turn represents both what could be and what is. In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.wmagazine.com/people/celebrities/2010/11/kim_kardashian_queen_of_reality_tv/\">interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>W\u003c/em>, Kim reveals: “I’m way more boring than they think. I’m not a drinker, and when I’m up on the table dancing, it’s for the picture. Then I sit back down. I play into the perception of me, but it’s not really me. And the show reveals that.” And what is that perception of Kim Kardashian? Her name has become synonymous with—in my circles, at least—sounds and sighs of annoyance or comments on the stupidity of American celebrities and television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, when Nirvana released \u003cem>Nevermind\u003c/em>, it was an album that our country was waiting for without even realizing it. It was the natural progression of culture. Grunge surfaced as a response to that particularly sensitive time of pure social alienation. Kim Kardashian was put on television in response to our post-millennial, celebrity-obsessed, wired selves. And from the looks of it, she’s here to stay. So let thee, who hath never taken a selfie, cast the first stone.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In walks Brandy’s brother Ray-J who catches Kim’s eye, and yadda yadda yadda, a home video is leaked to the internet and watched by every male between the ages of 15 and 115. Filling the void left by Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwJRQ_18iY\">The Simple Life\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Keeping Up with the Kardashians\u003c/em> was born, thanks to Hollywood powerhouse Ryan Seacrest. The shtick was in place: daughter of influential Hollywood family made sex tape then went home to that family and they still loved her and all their names begin with K and they are Armenian and hella rich and tell jokes. What a formula! The family continued on to “take” Miami, New York and Lamar Odom. I wouldn’t even consider these shows spin-offs as they were extensions of \u003cem>Keeping Up with the Kardashians. \u003c/em>America could not get enough of one central show, they needed more time with the klan (the only time I will do that). It wasn’t enough to see what they were doing on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday; we yearned for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/EkCs7d4fSuI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>III. The Hollywood Walk of Shame\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These past weeks have really been something for Kim. She celebrated her 33\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> birthday, she got engaged to Kanye West (\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/22/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-got-engaged-in-sf-last-night/\" target=\"_blank\">in San Francisco!\u003c/a>), and she is about to have her baby a second time on television this upcoming Sunday. But nothing has been quite as controversial as her \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ax9FSRdvAw\">denial\u003c/a> of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to spokeswoman Ana Martinez, Kim simply does not qualify for a star. In order to even be considered, you must fall into one of five performance categories, reality television nowhere to be found. “We’re happy to consider reality stars once they get nominated for, or win, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar,” Martinez \u003ca href=\"http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/burning-does-kim-kardashian-really-deserve-walk-fame-195200708.html\">tells\u003c/a> omg Yahoo. “We’ll consider them when they’re legitimate actors or singers.” Because there are no politics involved in \u003cem>that \u003c/em>selection process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_on_the_Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame\">cases\u003c/a>, though, when the rules have been \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame\">bent\u003c/a> a bit. \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZUn1VFkAI\">Vanna White\u003c/a>, for example, might have said less on camera in her entire career than Kim has on one episode of her show. And now that things are all digitalized, Vanna doesn’t even have to strain her wrist to turn letters any more, she just needs to tap them like an iPad, and then clap, smile and wave. An American game show icon of course, but a $30,000 star on Hollywood and Vine is highly debatable. And then there’s Muhammad Ali. Although an obvious legend in sports, he was awarded a star because boxing is considered “live performance.” It is difficult to compare Kim Kardashian to Muhammad Ali purely for the sake of accomplishment. 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Her name has become synonymous with—in my circles, at least—sounds and sighs of annoyance or comments on the stupidity of American celebrities and television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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