Things I Really Dislike -

Things I Really Dislike - Apropos nothing:

• Ed, Edd and Eddie. I mean, the Cartoon Network has lots and lots of shows that rub me the wrong way - CatDog, Cow and Chicken, IM Weasel, yadda yadda. But EE'nE is like rubbing salt in a cold sore, even just listening to it (when the kids are watching, two rooms over). Watching it (which I've only been able to manage for a couple of minutes) is worse. I'm no animation scholar, but it seems that in the post-"Ren and Stimpy" world of cartoons, animators thought they were making a wry, ironic comment on the plain, visually barren animation of the seventies and eighties with their overminimal, caffeine-drenched, seemingly (or even probably) intentionally-irritating style. With some cartoons, it's even fun; I like Home Movies, and the Tartakovsky 'toons like Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack. But EE'nE adds an extra dimension - a snide-yet-overly-busy style that gives me, literally, a headache (on top of the one the atrocious voice-over gives me).
• Recruiters who drag me out (inevitably to the western 'burbs) for an "interview" for a position that has absolutely no chance of getting funded.
• Dead yeast
• The West Wing, which I watched last night for the first time in probably a year. Yeah, I know - it's well-written. So was "Triumph of the Will". I don't care so much that it's slanted to the left; if a conservative show was so utterly marinated in self-righteousness and sanctimony, I'd be as quick to chunder.

That's pretty much it for today, though.

Posted by Mitch at April 17, 2003 10:34 AM