It’s the Guilty Pleasures meme, even though, as I review my answers, they’re pretty freakin’ tame:
- CD I have in my car that I roll up the windows to listen to: I simply don’t play my CDs that loud. Or, if I do, I consider it a net benefit to the universe. I guess, at this point, if I had to name something, it would be an audio book (whatever I’m listening to at the moment).
- Book I read flat so no one could see the title: I don’t read books flat! Good Lord, don’t you know what that does to the spine? Instead, particularly as I walk around at lunch reading, I (a) aim the front cover down (since it’s usually the Flashing Rocket Ships or Scantily-Clad Elf-Women or other gaudy genre bits that’s the most embarrassing to see), and (b) use a piece of paper along the spine of the book so my sweaty mitts don’t wear it down (and, coincidentally, so that the cover is even more obscured …
- Crappiest song ever sung at karaoke: I have only one standard at karaoke: Secret Agent Man. And I have no shame.
- Bad movie I watch repeatedly: There are no bad movies, only movies that folks look down on. Probably the least successful movie that I watch most frequently is Undercover Blues.
- Article of clothing I love though I know it’s wrong: Most of my CBLDF tees are a scosh, um, rude (intentionally so, of course). As far as fashion gaffe sort of wrong, can’t think of anything too bad; Margie usually keeps me from embarrassing myself.
- What I order at the bar when no one is listening: Whatever sounds sweet and froofy that doesn’t involve banana liqueur, mango liqueur, watermelon liqueur, melon liqueur, or strawberries.
- Fast food item I adore: Chili cheese fries from Carl’s Jr. I’ve gone to some extraordinary lengths to secure same. Next down the list would be the double-beef cheeseburger at McD’s, a/k/a “Coronary on a Bun” (“and would you like fries with that?”).
- A TV show that is a good example of the downfall of civilization that I love anyway: Most of the really awful shows I watch are reruns from the 60s, so obviously civilization is falling down pretty slowly …
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>Most of the really awful shows I watch are reruns from the 60s
Specifics, man, specifics!
I know you watch some really great shows from the 60s (The Dick van Dyke Show, for instance). So what are the awful ones you watch? I Dream of Jeannie? Gilligan’s Island? (Confession: I watched my first reality series–The Real Gilligan’s Island! I’m so ashamed.)
Lost in Space. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Time Tunnel. Any number of HB cartoons of that era. And, yes, Bewitched and Jeannie and Gilligan’s Island (esp., in each case, the b&w eps). Iconic stuff, true, but sometimes (often?) pretty dreadful. Hell, I enjoy (despite myself) the Really Bad ST:TOS eps, too (“You are not Morg. You are not Eymorg. What are you?”).
And I confess that I, too, watched the Real Gilligan’s Island (in my defense, I was trapped in a hotel room on a business trip with a PC that had no monitor). I never tuned in for another episode, though, so I don’t think it counts.