{"id":9011,"date":"2006-03-06T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/06\/five-guilty-pleasures.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T22:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T04:15:34","slug":"five_guilty_ple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/five_guilty_ple.html","title":{"rendered":"Five Guilty Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Culinary guilt: Mother’s Taffy Cookies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Explain yourself: Yes, they are as horrid and tasteless and bad for you as any other mass-produced shelf cookie in the store. But you know that cliche about folks under stress eating a whole pint of ice cream? That’s me and Taffy Cookies. Don’t ask me why.<\/p>\n

Literary guilt: Military Space Opera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Explain yourself: Actually, space opera in general, but slap on some military ranks and some technobabble, and I eat it like candy. Yes, I’ll take David Weber over Philip K. Dick or Kurt Vonnegut or William Gibson or Olivia Butler any day. Not that I think that the former is more thoughtful or clever or wise or profound or more likely to be read in fifty years than any of the latter — but I don’t read to be edified, I read (usually) to be entertained. My tastes are quite plebeian, to be honest.<\/p>\n

Audiovisual guilt: Nostalgia for 60s-70s TV.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a great fondness for the favorite shows of my youth. Actually, they were (mostly) crap. Even the good stuff was (mostly) crap. The last decade has been the golden age of TV SF, for example. Nevertheless, I love watching reruns (or DVDs) of old favorite TV shows from that era, even when they make me cringe. ST:TOS, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica TOS, etc. I channel the little boy I was when those came out and I just can’t help getting giddy. Even over the crap.<\/p>\n

It’s not just genre stuff, of course. Gilligan’s Island was, at times, brilliant (and I still sing the songs to the “Hamlet” they did).<\/p>\n

Musical guilt: Soundtracks over Music Tracks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Explain yourself: I’d rather listen to the soundtrack of a movie (or TV show) I love than listen to the latest cool tracks downloaded by my various much-more-hip friends. <\/p>\n

Actually, that ties into my own personal taste for music, which is, “Anything I’ve heard a lot of already.” When I get a CD (and, yes, I am unhip enough that I have never bought a track via download), I tend to listen to it over and over and over until it’s oozing out of my pores. At which point it’s my faviorite, sound track or not.<\/p>\n

I suspect there’s a bit of OCD involved.<\/p>\n

Celebrity guilt: Old SF Genre Show Personalities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Explain yourself: For shows of my youth, trivia about the actors therein was — and is — of endless fascination. I’m more fascinated by Frank Gorshin’s appearances as the Riddler on Batman <\/em>(or Commissioner Bele on ST:TOS<\/em>) than on what Brittany Paris is doing with Sean Cruise, or whomever are the glitterati of the week. Which is one (sad) reason why I tend to run so many obits here.<\/p>\n

(via Brian<\/a>; LiveJournal folks, there’s a form you can fill in here<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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