327 user journals have been reduced by 117 journals (over 35%)
226 remain. If you feel that you shouldn’t have been dropped because you read some of my filtered groups, drop a line. Again, nothing personal. And I may have checked the wrong box, so I may not have meant to cut you at all.
Comments filtered.
This may be my first gloomy post. I should have gone to bed about an hour ago, but I’ve been working on this project for about 5 days.
As warned and warned and warned… I’m about to commit my first purge.
Currently I have 501 subscriptions on LJ (which LJ refers to as friends).
Of that number 341 are individual journals, (or at least not officially communities or feeds)
So far I have scheduled for purge around 30% of these. (just over 100).
This process is never easy. The journals I’ve picked include, people who don’t subscribe to me, people who haven’t posted in years, people that I’ve fallen out of contact with, people I just don’t know that well or read very much.
None of these unsubscriptions should be considered as personal, as I bear no ill will to any journal owner that I’m dropping.
I will leave comments open (but screened to all). If you think you may be among the dropped and wish not to be in that group (especially in the event that you want to read my increasingly rarely made filtered posts) leave a comment. Please this is not an open season to beg. Just tell me that you really do read and I’ll pull you off the list if you’re on it.
To be honest, I really don’t expect anyone I’m dropping to be among the people who comment.
Also, if you discover you were dropped, (because you didn’t think you’d be on the drop list), first… again, don’t take it personally. Second, if you’d like me to keep your journal in subscriptions (maybe for filters, but for any reason) again… Comment.
My first purge will occur at about 3pm tomorrow.
This will allow me to follow LJ more actively again 🙂
A while ago, I attended a taping of “That 70’s show” – For those who care it was episode – 49, “Red Fired Up”
When you see a show taping, first-off you need to remember that you will be there approximately 6 minutes for every minute of air time (including commercials). Thus a 30 minute program will probably take up 180 minutes, or 3 hours of time.
Further you will see lines that the writers are testing in the script and may change or lose entirely. One such line was the final credit-crawl joke.
The foreign character of Fez has been watching “Hollywood Squares” through the entire episode. At the very end of the episode while the credits are rolling we hear him make a comment aloud to himself. “You know… I think this Paul Lynde may be Gay.”
It was completely out of the blue, and I must admit that the audience and myself nearly wet ourselves with hysteria. The line was delivered with such a level of 70’s innocence to something that we now reflect upon as obvious beyond measure.
Paul Lynde, the poster child for what we often view as a male homosexual stereotype. Well, we can do that now; but in 1971 at the height of Bewitched, most had no idea.
Thanks to one of today’s posts by theferrett. I am looking forward to reading a new biography on America’s ‘Center Square‘
There is a wonderful interview with the author at Salon.com
Sadly, the producers of “That 70’s Show” never let this pearl of humour out in the airing of the episode. But at least a man who’s comic delivery was a highlight of the 70’s as finally been given some proper honour.
And now for your walk down amnesia lane. A series of lines from 80’s comedy, “Night Court”
[Dan breaks down crying the night after his date]
Dan Fielding: Women.
Harry Stone: So, who was it last night? The Soviet gymnast?
Mac Robinson: The farmer’s daughter?
Bull Shannon: One of those rubber-jointed ladies from the freak shows that like to be handcuffed and thrown around the room by their ponytails, screaming for mercy until they black out?
[Stares from everyone]
Bull Shannon: What?
Rereading this gave me the uncontrollable giggles. But then again, I remember what the cast looked like. 🙂
So, for reasons that do not need elabourations I looked at some back posts.
I found a report from the ’03 Comic-con. I sat in on a session that talked about upcoming movies and shows:
Later was the Fox preview for next season. Three shows: “Tru Calling” the new Eliza Dushku action (pseudo-)supernatural series. “Still Life” which is 7th Heaven meets Wonder Years modern day. This time the narrator is the dead son. So add in a touch of American Beauty. Then there was a comedy whose name I can’t remember about a Daria like girl who can hear inanimate objects talk to her. This one showed the most promise.
And 4 episodes of Wonderfalls later… 😉
heh
