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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

feeling better

I'm feeling much better. I've had a few real meals now and they've gone well, so I think I'm good now.

I just watched the documentary F**k (I'll use the polite starred-out version of the title like Netflix does) and it was interesting. I particularly enjoyed the quotations from people like LBJ's comment on Ford's economics, some history on the FCC and profanity, and did you know there's something called eco-porn? There were also interviews with and clips of some funny (and controversial) comedians. Plenty was said about the First Amendment too. Did you know in the first season of Deadwood on HBO they averaged using the f-word 69.3 times per episode? And that NYPD Blue wanted to have someone give the bird on camera in an episode, and when the network didn't like it, Steven Bochco said they could either let them do that, or they would use their contractually guaranteed right to use profanity 34 times per show to have Dennis Franz's character called an asshole 34 times in that scene? Also, F**k claimed that if their documentary were aired uncensored on network TV, they would incur like $260,000,000 in fines. Goodness. Definitely not for those who can't stand a little profanity (okay, a lot, 857 times or so).

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