The Old School Lunch

On the old blog, I tried to post a link recap almost every Saturday about the most recent episode of seXtv which is to me hands down, the best non-scripted thing on televion. It appears on a Canadian station which I somehow manage to get with my Radio Shack antenna.

seXtv, if you haven’t seen it, sounds awful and if you watch the opening it probably looks even worse. The opening features a long sequence of men and women, women and women, men and men having all sorts of sex or everything leading up to sex. It’s a bit of a misleading opening because at first, I sort of thought it was completely unnecessary and even cheap in its attempt at gaining “OMG BOOBS” viewership but then I began to think that the likely larger purpose of such an opening is to not get that aforementioned reaction but instead to have people flipping the channels stop and say either “wtf is this?” to “i’m not comfortable with what i’m seeing” and then have those folks question why they feel the way they do. After all, it’s mostly bare male and female bodies in various acts and it doesn’t focus on say, penetration in the porn male-pleasure-above-all sort of way.

But anyways, I only caught a bit of the show today because to be honest the one feature I saw didn’t really grab my interest (but even their absolute worst show is better than any Oprah or FOX news feature on gender or sexuality) but I caught enough to see once again that these folks put out a quality the likes of which just doesn’t show up on any mainstream tv.

Directly after seXtv on CityTV is a show called “Ed’s Night Party” or some shit. I do not know how a show like this gets the continual green light from networks but somehow, they’ve developed a following. The show is hosted by a sock-puppet which has become their clever way of the male co-host saying extremely racist, sexist and homophobic things without being Imused out. On this edition of Ed’s Night Party, they had a hot-tub (which I think is a recurring part of the show, actually) right in the middle of the set where different women in bikinis hop in with a different male guest. Today’s male guest was dressed in a two-piece bikini and to my honest eye looked like a woman. From the beginning, the jokes started cracking on how “weird” this person was and the 3 women (1 in particular) remarked at how uncomfortable she was with this person being in the tub instead of some joe six-pack schlub. Ed then chimed in saying that though (I forget what his name was and I know i’m saying “him” even though I don’t know how he identifies..) this person was a “pretty” guy, as a woman he was “a two bagger.”

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It’s all just dumb as “shitballs” as my friend says and I couldn’t stop wondering who the hell created this latenight lineup that goes from some honest and articulate discussion about gender and sexuality to a damn sock-puppet who says “you know how those terrorists go to heaven thinking they’re going to get 70 virgins?! We need to send them some sluts! Show them what a real hummer is! That’s how we solve terrorism!”