Guide To Nowhere... Fast!

Just thought I was spending waaaaaaaay too much time on Yahoo.com - and its biased ABC NEWS leaking of news and facts, one drop at a time, leaking only what THEY WANT US TO KNOW...

I figured, if I am to waste my time, exactly as I used to do when I was watching cable TV on a regular basis, for example, I might just as well be on TV GUIDE.COM instead...!

Now, nobody even reads TV Guide any more - rrrright?  After all, aren't there 5700 channels now - minimum - and absolutely NOTHING on?!? So why would anybody bother going to TV GUIDE's freaking website these days - to read about NOTHING AT ALL?!?

See the dilemma?

The fact is, people do go to the website - they unquestionably do! Large numbers - all the couch potatoes and parasites of society, one figures: they have nothing else to do all freaking days of their lives, right?  Thus, they flock over there, in hopes of getting an advance preview, catch a free glimpse, get a basic but good idea of what to watch in their rest of their misused, thoroughly wasted time - but in TV's prime time, this time! And so, I figured, I should take a peek, too! Just to see what the hell can be so interesting over there... Back in that other realm, the grand-daddy of this one here: for TV land was begotten by La-la-land - but it sure as heck has begotten the net! But we're getting side-tracked here, fast...

And so I did it - I sure did it, yeah! I really did log on to TV Guide.com - and what I saw there momentarily stunned me, leaving me dazed, confused but mostly... bemused, in truth!

For TV Guide dot com is so very familiar-looking...

In fact, it's exactly like Yahoo - dammit! 

Between the "exclusive" first look at True Blood's "bloody fifth season" and xxx-clusive lurid pics of everybody who's posing nude in Hollywood these days - what is the difference between Yahoo and TV Guide, really? Is there any? Huh?  HUH?

No - there isn't!

The only difference between Yahoo and TV Guide is the lengths that they are allowed to go to...!

And, quite frankly, judging from what I used to see quite regularly indeed (I am ashamed to admit) on Yahoo! - and what I just saw on TV Guide dot com - well, I am not sure who lowered the bar the most here...!!!

Nothing worth making the news ACTUALLY MAKES THE NEWS WITH THESE PEEPS...!!!
It's incredible!  Sneezing is news material - farting even more so! And natural everyday actions, such as, I don't know, taking a freaking BATH... for God's Sake... or not... is also viewed as news material?!?  Heck - it's HEADLINE NEWS...! Sheesh.

In other words, if cheap tabloids without scruples are dying, becoming freebies no one would wrap their catch-of-the-day with, much less bother to peruse cover-to-cover, the net's versions of all of these are giving blogs a GRAND NAME...!  (At least on blogs, such as mine here and every other blog of its ilk, whether it is a full-fledged member of the TLB Prime Network or not, give out entertainment value, editorial-worthy pieces and accurate information without any claims of being serious journalism, ethical reporting without a bias, investigative accounts highly-researched... which they are NOT! Blogs are, oftentimes, none of that either - but we do not pretend to be it either! However, that's another story...)

The rule of thumb amongst ''users'' is as follows: each article you are suckered into clicking on, whether it is on Yahoo!, TV Guide.com or any other similar site (Huff... Huff... Cough-Cough... baby!) via a snaring ''catchy title'' (their favored bait, really) is a total and complete waste of your time!
Nine times out of ten it is, anyways...!

But they say some pictures are worth thousands of words (I paraphrase, ever-so slightly!) - so take a little peek at what was hiding behind one such catchy title and get what I'm screaming here...!

 Old Dame taking her bath... 

Not just any older woman, though:

HM! is, of course, Helen Mirren 

Here she was still a fresh, vibrant 65 

when she bared all 

just for a photo shoot 

meant to promote her latest movie, 

''Love Ranch''.

The pictorial, made ex(xx)clusively 
for New York Magazine 
(not The New Yorker, 
not the New York Times, 
not Playboy magazine) 

and it is meant to make some take notice 
 of a film effort directed by 

Taylor Hackford, 

her husband. 

It is a period piece, 
one could say - 
one about a brothel 

that was set up 

in an innocuous  

Nevada ranch 

- in the not-so innocent 

town of Reno...
Helen plays the madam. 

She'll play Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock next...

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