Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Night of the Living Dead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film directed by George A. Romero. It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a USD$114,000 budget. After decades of cinematic re-releases, it grossed $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized during its release because of its explicit content. However, it eventually received critical acclaim and was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Google Goggles - Info | Facebook
Check out this website I found at facebook.com
Just in case you happen to be looking for weird yellow phycomycetes and all the pages about it are now defunct. Or something like that.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
The Mind Research Network and Charting Creativity - NYTimes.com
“Creativity is kind of like pornography — you know it when you see it,” said Rex Jung, a research scientist at the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque.
(But wait! There's more . . . . )
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(But wait! There's more . . . . )
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Christina Perri's "Distance"
The sun is filling up the room, and I can hear you dreaming.
Do you feel the way I do? Quiet now.
I wish we would just give up, 'cause the best part is falling.
Call it anything but love.
And I will make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
And how long can we keep it slow? Oh, oh.
Please don't stand so close to me; I'm having trouble breathing.
I'm afraid of what you'll see right now.
I give you everything I am, all my broken heartbeats, until I know you'll understand.
And I will make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
And how long can we keep it slow? Oh, oh, oh.
And I keep waiting for you to take me.
You keep waiting to say what we have.
So I'll make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
And how long can we keep it slow? Oh, oh, oh.
Make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
How long 'till we call this love, love, love?
More lyrics: http://ping.fm/PxVs5
Do you feel the way I do? Quiet now.
I wish we would just give up, 'cause the best part is falling.
Call it anything but love.
And I will make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
And how long can we keep it slow? Oh, oh.
Please don't stand so close to me; I'm having trouble breathing.
I'm afraid of what you'll see right now.
I give you everything I am, all my broken heartbeats, until I know you'll understand.
And I will make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
And how long can we keep it slow? Oh, oh, oh.
And I keep waiting for you to take me.
You keep waiting to say what we have.
So I'll make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
And how long can we keep it slow? Oh, oh, oh.
Make sure to keep my distance.
Say I love you, and you're not listening.
How long 'till we call this love, love, love?
More lyrics: http://ping.fm/PxVs5
Monday, May 09, 2011
Mine
Wait a minute I don't want you to know
It's the only way that I might grow
A secret's safe behind a pretty smile
And it's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
What's with all the late night liquored phone calls?
I don't think your love likes me at all
A secret's safe behind a pretty smile
But it's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
What, what might you do
To find out why I can't love you?
I can't love you!
Who said it was cool to be asking me these questions?
Who, what and when, where and why? I'm making my head spin
When was it an option to put your lips upon my lips?
And how did this happen?
And why are you laughing?
And how do I get back together again?
Ohhhh, ohhh, ohhhh, ohhh, ohhh
What, what might you do?
What, what might you do
To find out why
To find out why
I can't love you?
I can't love you!
More lyrics: http://ping.fm/OHRO7
It's the only way that I might grow
A secret's safe behind a pretty smile
And it's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
What's with all the late night liquored phone calls?
I don't think your love likes me at all
A secret's safe behind a pretty smile
But it's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
What, what might you do
To find out why I can't love you?
I can't love you!
Who said it was cool to be asking me these questions?
Who, what and when, where and why? I'm making my head spin
When was it an option to put your lips upon my lips?
And how did this happen?
And why are you laughing?
And how do I get back together again?
Ohhhh, ohhh, ohhhh, ohhh, ohhh
What, what might you do?
What, what might you do
To find out why
To find out why
I can't love you?
I can't love you!
More lyrics: http://ping.fm/OHRO7
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Ernie Admits Talking To Someone Called “Um No.”
Right at this time, Ernie Cordell was caught testing a blog tool, as well as having a simultaneous chat with someone: When asked if he would reveal the identity of this person he said, “Um, No.” Whether these are first and last names or a Chinese operative, we are unsure. We now return this blog to the control of his audience.
Saturday, May 07, 2011
formspring.me
You people are really bad about following instructions. Ask me about shifts and flip-flops. http://formspring.me/erniecordell
What historical time period would you most like to visit?
Yesterday, before I broke my time machine.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Monday, May 02, 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
HP Open Source and Linux on HP Integrity servers based on the Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series http://ping.fm/9IqFw
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h8xslwmj Shared by AvrilLavigne http://yfrog.com/h8xslwmj?sms_ss=pingfm&at_xt=4db7416fa81fdb6f%2C0
Monday, April 25, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Debunking Five Myths About Tape Storage
Tape is a key component in the enterprise data center, and that will continue to be the case well into the future. If you're investigating new storage technologies for backup and archive needs, it's worth being able to discern fact from myth as you consider your options.
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Ernest Phillip Henry Clay Yates Kehoe Head Cordell | Just another WordPress.com site
Well, if the posts are not going to go through, there's another way to do this . . .
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Brazil closes first quarter with 38.5 million broadband connection
4/20/2011 Digital Convergence - Telecom - Brazil/191-04-1-2011-10:35
Section: Telecom
From the Newsroom:
Section: Telecom
Brazil closes first quarter with 38.5 million broadband connections
From the Newsroom:
The broadband access providers of fixed and mobile telecommunications services in Brazil reached 38.5 million in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 51.5% compared to the amount at the end of March 2010, according to survey by the Brazilian Association of Telecommunications (Telebrasil). With this figure, Brazil, according to international consultants, sits in eighth position in the global mobile broadband and in ninth place among the countries with the largest number of access lines.
In the fixed broadband access reached 14 million at the end of the quarter, an increase of 20.5% compared to March 2010. Since the mobile broadband connections - which include those offered through modems connecting to the Internet terminals and third generation (3G), such as smartphones - had an increase of 77.7%, jumping from 13.7 million to 24 4 million in the same period.
According to data consolidated by Informa 4G Americas and the organization at the end of 2010 Brazil, where they are connected 25 new broadband connections every minute, has been ranked as the Latin American country with the largest growth in mobile broadband and leading with 59% ranking access to this service in the region, followed by Argentina with 10%, Mexico, Colombia and 6%, 5%. This progress is even more evident when one notes that Brazil has 36% of the total base of mobile phones in Latin America.
The survey also shows that the Telebrasil the fixed broadband access (Multimedia Communication Services) in Brazil with speeds below 1Mbps are in decline. The faster connections over 2Mbps, already represent 20% of access and it is this age that saw the largest growth rate. Several providers are making investments for the introduction of ultravelocidades (high-speed?), with the implementation of projects for FTTH (Fiber to the Home).
The survey calculates that more than eight out of 10 connections in Brazil are in residence. One consequence of this expansion, according to the survey Telebrasil, is that 79% of households already have computers surfing the internet at high speed. The figures include fixed broadband connections and those offered through modems to access the mobile Internet.
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Christina Perri Reveals Sad Story Behind 'The Lonely' -- Exclusive Interview - AOL Music Blog http://ping.fm/FX3iA
Monday, April 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
What's the biggest risk you've ever taken? Are you glad you took it or do you regret it?
I probably don't even remember it.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Republican Government: Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures
. . . minds of the strongest and most active powers for their proper objects fall below mediocrity and labour without effect, if confined to uncongenial pursuits. And it is thence to be inferred, that the results of human exertion may be immensely increased by diversifying its objects. When all the different kinds of industry obtain in a community, each individual can find his proper element, and can call into activity the whole vigour of his nature. And the community is benefitted by the services of its respective members, in the manner, in which each can serve it with most effect. -- Republican Government: Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures http://bit.ly/gmgjMv
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Friday, April 01, 2011
Do You Think That Facebook Can Be The Cause Of Your Anxiety? « Reflections by Ron Schenone http://ping.fm/WT7bJ
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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Monday, March 21, 2011
The UFO Report: Recent News
In 1952-1953, the CIA formed the Robertson Panel in direct response to President Truman's orders to make recommendations to the Air Force on how to handle the UFO “problem.” The formation of this panel came to later be known as Project Bluebook. The panel was headed by Dr. H. P. Robertson, a physicist of the California Institute of Technology, and included various physicists, meteorologists, and engineers, and one astronomer (Hynek). The Robertson Panel first met on January 14, 1953 in order to formulate a response to the overwhelming public interest in UFOs.
Read more at Suite101: The UFO Report: Recent News http://ping.fm/ynDmE
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Read more at Suite101: The UFO Report: Recent News http://ping.fm/ynDmE
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
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Monday, March 14, 2011
La petite mort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
female orgasm is associated with decreased blood flow in the orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain that is crucial for behavioural control
via en.wikipedia.org
This was posted on Wikipedia as further clarification (disambiguation) of "la petite morte" in both sexual and non-sexual senses, but I thought it may serve in some way to explain what many women have told me about impulse control and "bonding" in sexual relationships. Some have characterized it with a loss of impulse control, and mention is also made of the role of oxytocin as it relates to orgasm, pair bonding, social recognition, anxiety and maternal behaviors.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Characters Who Say What The Audience Is Thinking
Joss Whedon, in particular, has a great talent for lacing his shows and movies with smart-aleck rebels who provide a running commentary. His characters are often hyper-aware of the weird, outlandish situations they find themselves in.
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In Defense of C.S. Lewis- Beliefnet.com
does having characters say "darkies" make Lewis racist? He was, after all, employing language then in common parlance�and placing it in the mouths of the wicked. "Many older books contain race or gender references discordant to modern ears," John G. West Jr., a co-editor of "The C. S. Lewis Reader's Encyclopedia," told me recently. "We don't stop reading Twain or Darwin because they used racial terms no author uses today."
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Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is no single Bible, and both the individual books (Biblical canon), their contents and their order vary between denominations. Mainstream Judaism divides the Tanakh into 24 books, while a minority stream of Judaism, the Samaritans, accepts only five. The 24 texts of the Hebrew Bible are divided into 39 books in Christian Old Testaments, and complete Christian Bibles range from the 66 books of the Protestant canon to the 81 books in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.[2]
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Save me. Clients want me to work on cam. Regulate Human Resource Departments: There must be a lot of misconduct http://bit.ly/gZngpS
Saturday, February 26, 2011
My Posts Aren't Getting Here
I'm trying to send posts to this blog from a variety of sources, but for some reason it's not working. The curious thing is that it worked before and I've done nothing to change it. I did notice that some methods 'expired' with the excuse that permissions were no longer set (likely because of cookies, though I haven't checked). Anyway, I thought I'd try a normal, old-fashioned post to see how it comes out.
Friday, February 18, 2011
The Violence of Theory and Practice
There are natural forces in the construction of an ideal that influence every belief system, whether that system is religion, political ideology or simply guideline and policy. There must be some form held pure and guided so that there may be a practice, which will invariably mutate into species that will be denounced and rejected by the body of proponency for the original ideal.
The reason for this duality is that some rationale must exist for the formulation of individual components, all of which must unite to form a virtually seamless whole. Both the wholeness and the seamlessness are illusory, a necessary feature that makes the finished product appear as though conceived in completeness as a "brainchild" like a Mozart Symphony. But to the human mind, credibility is a function of this pristine and inviolable condition, the immaculate conception of every great notion.
There will be a form of "practice" in the field, though, that will be gritty and rude, with all the features of a creature that evolves with a need to survive. The ideal will be adapted to match the character of the terrain in which this belief system must live. In arrid climes, it will retain a freshness that soothes the organs and organisms which it supports, where it is cold, it will provide warmth; where there is little stimulation the belief system will produce characteristics that nourish its subscribers.
The guardians of purity will assume one stance, defending the delicate crystalline suspension of frozen time wherein the kernel was originally conceived, and the staunch practitioners will fight for the species whose familiarity and comfort has sustained them through its adaptation to their applications. There will be the variety for the hunter-gatherers and nomads, there will be a form for the agrarian populations and the rooted settlers, there will be a rendition for the maritime cultures and any sufficiently advanced idea will shape itself around all other forms of practice where it can be applied.
In the way of example, if gardening were a religion, in some location where it is respected, there will be a central shrine: The location of this shrine itself may be a contested element because each population will want to own the source of its power, appoint its leaders and create its priesthooods. There will be an inevitable schism between the disparate bodies and the ways in which they communicate, which is also subject to weather and the demands of every cover type.
But let us say that one meditative capital where a gardening shrine is built might be London, where there would likely be an enormous Cathedral where claws, seeders and fertilizers surround a great golden trowel, a symbol in which so much value is invested that armed guards will be assigned to protect it and the social taboos against besmirching it will make hainous crimes of any offense that is an indication of disrespect for the great golden trowel.
The guardians of the ideal will surround the shrine and try to associate themselves with it both physically and intellectually: This is not to say that they are insincere; one must remember that the great golden trowel is not only the bread and butter of the gardening religion. The Great Golden Trowel will be a symbol of purity and goodness, poem and song will laud its virtues in a culture where great works of art are dedicated to it.
But the staunch practitioners will be the gardeners, whose tools are worn and bent, covered in the soil where they labor; this species of thought made pure through labor, this form embued with sanctity through habit and practice; the gardeners will adapt themselves to every conceivable environment where they may cultivate great stems and stalks or protect moss and lichens on some craggy cliff. The rituals will be specific to their needs and considered indispensible and necessary to all practitioners, whether it applies to their form of gardening or not. While the hallowed halls in London are polished to translucence, the implements in Mississippi will endearingly worn by the habits of the hands that manipulate them, filthy with the mud of whatever swamp or bog nourishes the flower of their art.
So when any religion, political ideology or policy grows to its production capacity, there will be a battle between those who tried to preserve its holy original form and those who manage its blessed gritty application. War is often inevitable: Humanity is characteristically poor at seeing its particular individual and social adaptations to the elements which limit them, and far more suited to a glorification of the attributes of its own practice that acknowledge the superiority of its sector of influence over the common "metademands" under which they must grunt and sweat. Their practice may be guided by weather, but it will not be the same weather; their habits may be formed by their terrain, the same Earth, but a different face thereof.
Somewhere in the midst of all this is the problem of communication: Occasionally understanding is achieved, however rare. While a certain basic symbology is agreed upon, there will be many varying interpretations that will confuse both priest and layperson alike: "Why must we examine every detai?" they will ask, "Is the trowel not universal?" The symbols of the discipline, the icon or the word is invested with meaning: With every practitioner, different semantics will be applied to the canon of the gardening religion.
In this struggle between purity and application, between theory and practice, whether acknowledged or denied by the body politic, there will be a point where principle is held above human life, and human life will fare very poorly. First it will be the individual, the sinner, the one who insults the trowel by the manner of his/her grasp, the force applied to the point or even whether there is a point to the trowel. Where there is one violator, there are associates, sympathizers, cohorts, organizers, dissenters and they will all eventually be prosecuted.
Everything is a matter of faith: We are born, we live, die and murder in accordance with our beliefs. For each of us there is a separate metric for purity and corruption but there will be some measures held pure and guided so that there may be a practice, which will invariably mutate into forms that will be denounced and rejected by the body of proponency for the original ideal.
The reason for this duality is that some rationale must exist for the formulation of individual components, all of which must unite to form a virtually seamless whole. Both the wholeness and the seamlessness are illusory, a necessary feature that makes the finished product appear as though conceived in completeness as a "brainchild" like a Mozart Symphony. But to the human mind, credibility is a function of this pristine and inviolable condition, the immaculate conception of every great notion.
There will be a form of "practice" in the field, though, that will be gritty and rude, with all the features of a creature that evolves with a need to survive. The ideal will be adapted to match the character of the terrain in which this belief system must live. In arrid climes, it will retain a freshness that soothes the organs and organisms which it supports, where it is cold, it will provide warmth; where there is little stimulation the belief system will produce characteristics that nourish its subscribers.
The guardians of purity will assume one stance, defending the delicate crystalline suspension of frozen time wherein the kernel was originally conceived, and the staunch practitioners will fight for the species whose familiarity and comfort has sustained them through its adaptation to their applications. There will be the variety for the hunter-gatherers and nomads, there will be a form for the agrarian populations and the rooted settlers, there will be a rendition for the maritime cultures and any sufficiently advanced idea will shape itself around all other forms of practice where it can be applied.
In the way of example, if gardening were a religion, in some location where it is respected, there will be a central shrine: The location of this shrine itself may be a contested element because each population will want to own the source of its power, appoint its leaders and create its priesthooods. There will be an inevitable schism between the disparate bodies and the ways in which they communicate, which is also subject to weather and the demands of every cover type.
But let us say that one meditative capital where a gardening shrine is built might be London, where there would likely be an enormous Cathedral where claws, seeders and fertilizers surround a great golden trowel, a symbol in which so much value is invested that armed guards will be assigned to protect it and the social taboos against besmirching it will make hainous crimes of any offense that is an indication of disrespect for the great golden trowel.
The guardians of the ideal will surround the shrine and try to associate themselves with it both physically and intellectually: This is not to say that they are insincere; one must remember that the great golden trowel is not only the bread and butter of the gardening religion. The Great Golden Trowel will be a symbol of purity and goodness, poem and song will laud its virtues in a culture where great works of art are dedicated to it.
But the staunch practitioners will be the gardeners, whose tools are worn and bent, covered in the soil where they labor; this species of thought made pure through labor, this form embued with sanctity through habit and practice; the gardeners will adapt themselves to every conceivable environment where they may cultivate great stems and stalks or protect moss and lichens on some craggy cliff. The rituals will be specific to their needs and considered indispensible and necessary to all practitioners, whether it applies to their form of gardening or not. While the hallowed halls in London are polished to translucence, the implements in Mississippi will endearingly worn by the habits of the hands that manipulate them, filthy with the mud of whatever swamp or bog nourishes the flower of their art.
So when any religion, political ideology or policy grows to its production capacity, there will be a battle between those who tried to preserve its holy original form and those who manage its blessed gritty application. War is often inevitable: Humanity is characteristically poor at seeing its particular individual and social adaptations to the elements which limit them, and far more suited to a glorification of the attributes of its own practice that acknowledge the superiority of its sector of influence over the common "metademands" under which they must grunt and sweat. Their practice may be guided by weather, but it will not be the same weather; their habits may be formed by their terrain, the same Earth, but a different face thereof.
Somewhere in the midst of all this is the problem of communication: Occasionally understanding is achieved, however rare. While a certain basic symbology is agreed upon, there will be many varying interpretations that will confuse both priest and layperson alike: "Why must we examine every detai?" they will ask, "Is the trowel not universal?" The symbols of the discipline, the icon or the word is invested with meaning: With every practitioner, different semantics will be applied to the canon of the gardening religion.
In this struggle between purity and application, between theory and practice, whether acknowledged or denied by the body politic, there will be a point where principle is held above human life, and human life will fare very poorly. First it will be the individual, the sinner, the one who insults the trowel by the manner of his/her grasp, the force applied to the point or even whether there is a point to the trowel. Where there is one violator, there are associates, sympathizers, cohorts, organizers, dissenters and they will all eventually be prosecuted.
Everything is a matter of faith: We are born, we live, die and murder in accordance with our beliefs. For each of us there is a separate metric for purity and corruption but there will be some measures held pure and guided so that there may be a practice, which will invariably mutate into forms that will be denounced and rejected by the body of proponency for the original ideal.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Do you think Watson will win on Jeopardy or do you think man will triumph over machine?
I don't think man wants it badly enough, and Watson is unable to want it. He'd better stop those senior moments, though, before IBM starts losing contracts.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
x22;Cupid" (1998) - IMDb user reviews
0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Cancellation a bad move?, 20 July 2006
Author: Ernie Cordell (ernie.cordell@cdumail.com) from Washington, DC, USA
While I feel that my impressions of this work is generally aligned with the other proponents of its continuation, I would largely omit many of the superlatives praising its art, performance and collection of virtues.
I don't mean to attack the show in my criticism, I'd just like to try the understated defense of that collection of virtues. In doing so, I'd like to try to guess why it was cancelled. Sponsorship strikes me first and foremost: I would guess that whatever it was supposed to be selling, it didn't hit the market demographic or some other equally enlightening pseudoscientific ratings language. This strikes me of the sort of industry error that one might compare to pitching to one person and charging another. If you make a show that a lot of people seem to like, it doesn't make sense to complain that it doesn't sell enough lawn-mowers to the 50+ crowd; or maybe it's just me.
A more legitimate reason might seem to be that the show relied too heavily on the bubbly babbling of the Jeremy Piven character(s). It might seem, from a production viewpoint, that it would be too difficult to sustain that Dolly-Madison-a-la-Streisand tenor over a series of a number of shows. While part of me says, "While the people are still watching, who cares?" but my realistic side says that we do have to predict the future when we write, produce, direct and play in performance art. Further complicating the idea of sustaining the expected tension is the notion of suspending disbelief or finally deciding whether our "Cupid" is a Greek God or someone with a personality disorder.
Maybe one of the things that the show failed to accomplish is its intent that was reflected in an episode of the series "Bewitched" about a witch, in this case, who conjures up Benjamin Franklin. Evidently the disbelieving public of that imaginary world were ready to commit poor Benny until witch Samantha Stevens steps in to defend Franklin's antics as "reminders of Benjamin Franklin's great deeds" whether he were a counterfeit Benjamin or not. While difficult to sustain throughout a series, a previous incarnation of "Relationship Rescue" might be to pay attention to a present-day interpretation of another, possibly slower-moving civilization's attitudes toward love and romance.
Whether a real "Cupid" or "Eros" would espouse the sanitized semi-serious sitcom alternative to pop psychology relationship advice is rather immaterial. After all, it is not a serious contrast of 20th century head-shrinking against Golden-Age Grecian attitudes on romance, it is an appeal to look at issues we consider agonizingly complex and idealize them into a simplicity we can digest. An irony that may have been lost on a big part of the audience is that this is both a goal of "science" and the more "holistic" approaches reflected in the modernized presentation of a Greek God's practical common sense.
Was it a bad move to cancel the show? I believe it was -- not so much because it was such stunningly good art -- but maybe because it could have been if effort were given to sustaining the mood and supporting the premise. If I might make a bad and clichéd comparison, it is as though the advice on romance were wholly missed by those who originally promoted it: They loved it enough to commit in the beginning, but they lacked the perspicacity to dedicate time and effort to solving the problems that may have plagued it in some projected future.
The pathology reminds me of current publishing policies: A good story told well isn't enough; we want the name recognition up front so that we don't have to cultivate a good thing.
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Monday, February 07, 2011
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