Monday, July 04, 2005

I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS

Kind of like seeing a roadkill pit bull.
This is a reality show I would have watched...rich neocon asshats living in the burbs outside Austin (most likely Round Rock or Pflugerville)* voting a variety of "different" people out of the cul de sac until they decided on a winner.
Here's the description of the contestants: they have a rainbow coalition of choices: a black family; a Hispanic family; an Asian family; two gay white men who've adopted a black boy; a couple covered in tattoos and piercings; a couple who met at the woman's initiation as a witch; and a white family where mom is a stripper.
Here's a link to the rest of this article...Welcome to the neighborhood.
And no, we were'nt the tattooed pierced couple.
This show drew so much hostilty from the various groups that protect non white, non hetero, non asshat neocons that it was shelved before it aired.
On the one hand, it would have been interesting watching a bunch of people that I revile struggle with confronting the reality of what a bunch of shallow fucksticks they are by having to pick a neighbor out of a bunch of people they moved there to avoid in the first place.
The article makes the rest of the case much better than I could.
* Turns out it's Circle C Ranch in southwest Austin, I had blotted that corner of new money shitheads out of my memory. My apologies to RR and the Pflug...Circle C has you beaten, in spades.

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