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		<title>Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew on VH1. Sex Addicts? For Real?</title>
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		<description>I’m back! Oh wait a minute, he’s back! Dr. Drew and his collection of stars and pseudo-stars with odd problems. All my regular readers know I SO rarely write for this blog anymore but this last month I made a surprise return and wrote a piece when TLC started going back to the well and [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m back! Oh wait a minute, he’s back! Dr. Drew and his collection of stars and pseudo-stars with odd problems. All my regular readers know I SO rarely write for this blog anymore but this last month I made a surprise return and wrote a piece when TLC started going back to the well and breaking out the weird show. And like any creature of habit, having written about the first two &#8220;seasons&#8221; of the show. So this article will of course be a work in progress. Tonight was the premiere, so there’s not much I can do except give the names of the people on the show and throw up a few pictures, and of course give some early opinions and see how they play out when it’s all done. So let’s get right to it.</p>
<p>Surfer James Never heard of him of course, but he looks and acts like a prick. Obviously he’s a real person I know nothing about and he had the balls to try and get some help. Let’s see how he does! But RIGHT off the bat he has a medical exam and the word “cancer” comes up.</p>
<p>Nicole Norrine. A Playboy model. Clearly some kind of Tiger Woods ethnic mix. So she’s insanely beautiful and masturbates 18 times a day. This is a perfect woman. I will marry her. Sounds like there was incest in her background</p>
<p>Porn Star Jennifer Ketchem with classic porn star syndrome; has no ability to have a real connection with people. Wants to have rough (distant) sex and can’t be intimate</p>
<p>Phil Varone drummer for Skid Row claims a head count (pussy count) of more than 3000. Whoppee! Dr. Drew gets him crying in 30 DAMN seconds!!! Hahahahahaha.</p>
<p>Kari Anne Peneshe a former Miss Teen, so I’m thinking of Travis from Blink 182’s wife now. Another intimacy issue masturbator. First thing out of her mouth is I was molested as a child then raped twice-but it doesn’t bother me. So of course I guess Egypt is going to be her theme. You got that right little pun right? DENIAL. Man she can’t even DO her initial interview. She can’t talk about issues, she can’t even LISTEN to them ask questions.</p>
<p>ANOTHER porn star Kendra Jade. Now her I have heard of. Seems like I first heard about her on Howard Stern being involved with Jerry Springer-can’t confirm that part but I’m sure I heard about her on Stern. She suffers from the “soft” version of what the other porn star has-self destruction to relationships. But she IS married so she’s probably in a slightly better place than the rest.</p>
<p>Duncan Roy is a Brit who I guess is supposed to add a touch of class. But since his thing is sex with ”straight guys” I guess he’s adding a TOUCH OF ASS. But very real and new issues come up; chronic and internet based masturbation.</p>
<p>And Amber Theissan is back. Of course. I think this is like her third time. But in that last series I KNEW she was in some kind of sex trouble when one of the scenes looked like a date rape situation.</p>
<p>Counselor Jill and manager Thelma are the staff who are here for this go around. So looking at the previews it looks like it’s going to be a pretty VOLATILE series. I’ll be back to fix spelling and add pictures…..</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I’m back! Oh wait a minute, he’s back! Dr. Drew and his collection of stars and pseudo-stars with odd problems. All my regular readers know I SO rarely write for this blog anymore but this last month I made a surprise return and wrote a piece when TLC started going back to the well and breaking out the weird show. And like any creature of habit, having written about the first two seasons of the show. So this blog articles will of course be a work in progress. Tonight was the premiere, so there’s not much I can do except give the names of the people on the show and throw up a few pictures, and of course give some early opinions and see how they play out when it’s all done. So let’s get right to it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Surfer James Never heard of him of course, but he looks and acts like a prick. Obviously he’s a real person I know nothing about and he had the balls to try and get some help. Let’s see how he does! But RIGHT off the bat he has a medical exam and the word “cancer” comes up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Nicole Norrine. A Playboy model. Clearly some kind of Tiger Woods ethnic mix. So she’s insanely beautiful and masturbates 18 times a day. This is a perfect woman. I will marry her. Sounds like there was incest in her background</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Porn Star Jennifer Ketchem with classic porn star syndrome; has no ability to have a real connection with people. Wants to have rough (distant) sex and can’t be intimate</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Phil Varone drummer for Skid Row claims a head count (pussy count) of more than 3000. Whoppee! Dr. Drew gets him crying in 30 DAMN seconds!!! Hahahahahaha. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Kari Anne Peneshe a former Miss Teen, so I’m thinking of Travis from Blink 182’s wife now. Another intimacy issue masturbator. First thing out of her mouth is I was molested as a child then raped twice-but it doesn’t bother me. So of course I guess Egypt is going to be her theme. You got that right little pun right? DENIAL. Man she can’t even DO her initial interview. She can’t talk about issues, she can’t even LISTEN to them ask questions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">ANOTHER porn star Kendra Jade. Now her I have heard of. Seems like I first heard about her on Howard Stern being involved with Jerry Springer-can’t confirm that part but I’m sure I heard about her on Stern. She suffers from the “soft” version of what the other porn star has-self destruction to relationships. But she IS married so she’s probably in a slightly better place than the rest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Duncan Roy is a Brit who I guess is supposed to add a touch of class. But since his thing is sex with ”straight guys” I guess he’s adding a TOUCH OF ASS. But very real and new issues come up; chronic and internet based masturbation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">And Amber Smith is back. Of course. I think this is like her third time. But in that last series I KNEW she was in some kind of sex trouble when one of the scenes looked like a date rape situation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Counselor Jill and manager Thelma are the staff who are here for this go around. So looking at the previews it looks like it’s going to be a pretty VOLATILE series. Man, I can&#8217;t beleive how often I used to drive pass the Pasadena Recover Center; who knew I&#8217;d be so involved with it years later. Andyway I’ll be back to fix spelling and add pictures…..</span></p>
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		<title>My Shocking Story Albino Island on TLC is Sad, Sad, Sad</title>
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		<description>If PBS is the station of learning about other cultures. TLC has GOT to be the station of having other culture&amp;#8217;s happenings disgust and freak us out. Or, if you consider Jon and Kate, it&amp;#8217;s having our OWN culture disgust and freak us out. So tonight TLC hit us with My Shocking Story; Albino Island.

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If PBS is the station of learning about other cultures. TLC has GOT to be the station of having other culture&#8217;s happenings disgust and freak us out. Or, if you consider <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jon and Kate</span>, it&#8217;s having our OWN culture disgust and freak us out. So tonight TLC hit us with <strong>My Shocking Story; Albino Island</strong>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1138" title="Albino Island" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Albino-Island.jpg" alt="Albino Island" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p>Turns out it&#8217;s primarily about Tanz<strong>ania</strong> Africa, with cutaways to a summer camp here in America for albinos in Pennsylv<strong>ania</strong>. Both groups are as far apart geographically as they are in terms of living conditions. You DO remember Tanzania right? Come on! Hemingway? Kilimanjaro? You know! This place&#8212;-&gt;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1191" title="Tanzania" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Tanzania.jpg" alt="Tanzania" width="351" height="351" /></p>
<p>But first let me set the stage a little. Here on this blog I&#8217;ve written about a few of these TLC My Shocking Story episodes. <a href="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/woman-with-giant-legs-on-tlc" >The Woman with Giant Legs</a>, <a href="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/half-man-half-tree-on-tlc-the-real-life-x-men" >Half Man Half Tree</a>, <a href="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/tlc-the-man-with-no-face-is-a-tough-one-to-watch" >The Man with No Face</a>, and <a href="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/tlc-electric-human-is-a-story-i-can-personally-relate-to" >The Electric Humans</a>. I swore off these shows, but I did see the tv guide listings for the Mermaid Girl and I think another one called the Spider People. So Why my return to expressing my thoughts on these shows? Well this little article is just a teeny tiny effort to get the word out about atrocities in Africa. There are literally an infinite number of unsolvable problems over there. And this little program&#8217;s focus on just one medical condition helps the human mind at least grasp <em>one story</em> that can help people see how misery ripple out. And by the program also doing a little comparin&#8217; and contrastin&#8217; with the same medical condition here in North America they do the classic &#8220;bringin&#8217; it on home.&#8221; And yeah, it&#8217;s a little on the cliche side. But what else can be done? Everybody here is concerned with our new 10 percent unemployment rate, people can&#8217;t even begin to imagine decades of a 60 or 70 percent unemployment rate. So let&#8217;s take a look at the program&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1140" title="Mary" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Mary.jpg" alt="Mary" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p>We more or less begin with the story of two sisters (Shida and Semeni), a bunch of unnamed siblings and their mother Mary Mathias. The two girls are albinos in Tanzania, Africa.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1139" title="albino sisters" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/albino-sisters.jpg" alt="albino sisters" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p>The girls are teens and like most African girls living at a village level society need to do a good deal of manual labor. Obtaining water and firewood are a big part of that. Or course, it&#8217;s Africa, and that means INTENSE sunlight.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1141" title="Shida Mathias Africa" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Shida-Mathias-Africa.jpg" alt="Shida Mathias Africa" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p>Which is quite terrible for people with no pigmentation. After all, the reason &#8220;black people&#8221; are &#8220;black&#8221; is because it&#8217;s an evolutionary defense against tremendous sunlight. The darker you are the better you&#8217;re able to handle sunlight. Dark skin is still prone to things like <span style="text-decoration: underline;">sunburn and skin cancer</span> just LESS prone. So these girls are up shit creek; they have the absolute worse kind of skin for that environment.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1142" title="Mathias sister1" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Mathias-sister1.jpg" alt="Mathias sister1" width="470" height="362" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1143" title="Mathias sister2" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Mathias-sister2.jpg" alt="Mathias sister2" width="470" height="360" /></p>
<p>Now speaking of genetic evolution, let&#8217;s get into that. The program introduces a professor whose name is <strong>Dr. Brilliant</strong>!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1154" title="Doc Brilliant" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Doc-Brilliant.jpg" alt="Doc Brilliant" width="470" height="363" /></p>
<p>So Doc Brilliant has this brilliant idea. That MAYBE albinism is connected to leprosy. Hmmmm? Now let me be a little upfront here. I&#8217;m not a professor. But I DO have a very expensive degree in Anthropology from Columbia and yeah, it was cultural anthro but I did my last year&#8217;s focus on physical anthro. And even before they said it on the program I knew that leprosy was a communicable/contagious disease not a genetic disorder like, say, Sickle Cell Anemia. And even though Sickle Cell is an awful disease it&#8217;s a development in African populations that, rightly so, been theorized as a natural combatant to Malaria. Malaria and things like Sleeping Sickness can be spread by the TseTse fly and populations with sickle shaped cells WILL have a shorter life expectancy, but they will survive Malaria.</p>
<p>So the brilliant Dr. Brilliant decides to do some investigation. He already knows that some 1 in 14,000 people in this part of Africa are albinos (God was it 1,400?). And albinism is a recessive trait, so he wants to compare the DNA of albinos to lepers. First he goes to visit Samuel Mluge who has a charity called <strong>Under The Same Sun</strong>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1159" title="Samuel" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Samuel.jpg" alt="Samuel" width="470" height="364" /></p>
<p>The charity is a where the <strong>kinda sad story gets REALLY sad</strong>. See, all the albinos have to live in the locked compound so they don&#8217;t get killed. That&#8217;s right. In this part of the world with one of the highest albino populations in the world they&#8217;re ostracized even more than normal society. AND the people have started to hunt them. AND CHOP THEIR LIMBS OFF for &#8220;witchcraft&#8221; ingredients.</p>
<p>Man, I love how for Native Americans (and pretty much EVERY village level culture) it&#8217;s &#8220;medicine man,&#8221; &#8220;healer&#8221; and &#8220;shaman&#8221; but for Africa&#8230;Not that I&#8217;m sticking up for the bad guys, but still; the show did itself a disservice by going that route. If it 1950, fine. But 2009? Really?</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1161" title="lock" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lock.jpg" alt="lock" width="470" height="359" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1162" title="albino kids" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/albino-kids.jpg" alt="albino kids" width="470" height="361" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1163" title="more kids" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/more-kids.jpg" alt="more kids" width="470" height="363" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1164" title="protected kids" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/protected-kids.jpg" alt="protected kids" width="470" height="362" /><br />
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<p><strong>Let&#8217;s talk a little about the physiological aspects</strong></p>
<p>When I was younger I used to see albinos all the time. I rarely see them anymore. I&#8217;ve known black ones and white ones. The weird thing is how similar they look despite their ethnic background. In fact, it&#8217;s a great lesson in humanity to see people WITHOUT pigmentation-It&#8217;s a great reminder that we&#8217;re all humans and the skin tone is a ridiculous separation device. &#8220;Human&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean some people are dogs and some people are rocks, and some people are trees. Human means 2 arms,  2 legs, a brain, some sex organs and upright walking.</p>
<p>Anyway in fact in my early college years a friend and I got enjoyment every single day from calling an albino guy we worked with &#8220;Al&#8221; and having him correct us every single time and say &#8220;My name is Lou, how do you guys forget every day?!&#8221; Hey, I never said I was a great guy, and I&#8217;ve grown. A little. But one of the things we noticed was how BAD his vision was. He used to read everything just like these guys.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1172" title="bad vision" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bad-vision.jpg" alt="bad vision" width="470" height="360" /></p>
<p>And in the program they talk about how aside from the susceptibility to skin cancer one of the biggest problems with albinism is vision.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1171" title="braille" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/braille.jpg" alt="braille" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AyNZA1jl1DE" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AyNZA1jl1DE"></embed></object></p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/dx8v8z" ><strong>Glasses link 1</strong></a> and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ylcjrlj" ><strong>Glasses link 2</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/dx8v8z"><strong><br />
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<p>I don&#8217;t want to spoil the show for people who haven&#8217;t seen it yet, so I wont reveal all the details, but I will continue with Dr. Brilliant&#8217;s next move. Which is that he then continues his journey to the leper village to collect DNA samples. I mean wow, now you&#8217;ve got to try to take in an entire OTHER group of sickly, destitute and unhappy people in the SAME area of the SAME country.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1174" title="Selina" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Selina.jpg" alt="Selina" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p>Her hands</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1175" title="decayed hands" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/decayed-hands.jpg" alt="decayed hands" width="479" height="368" /></p>
<p>Another resident</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1176" title="lady with leprosy" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lady-with-leprosy.jpg" alt="lady with leprosy" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p><strong>MY Crazy Theories</strong></p>
<p>Hey Dr. Brilliant had a theory and he was wrong so I&#8217;M proposing a theory too. Why not? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury I put it to you that there MIGHT be a connection between albinism and the disease Michael Jackson had. The dreaded <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo" ><strong>vitiligo</strong></a>. Think about it; Michal Jackson had depigmentation through vitiligo. And check this out, leprosy goes for the hands and feet first JUST like Michael Jackson. Did you know THAT was why he started wearing the glove?</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1177" title="Michael vitiligo" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Michael-vitiligo.jpg" alt="Michael vitiligo" width="422" height="467" /></p>
<p>Just in CASE you think it&#8217;s a made up disease I encourage you to do an image search on google. Here&#8217;s a sample</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1178" title="severe" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/severe.jpg" alt="severe" width="180" height="271" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1179" title="Desiree_Vitiligo" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Desiree_Vitiligo.jpg" alt="Desiree_Vitiligo" width="320" height="240" /></p>
<p>They don&#8217;t even know what causes is. Can&#8217;t confirm if it&#8217;s purely genetic or if environment plays a factor. I also believe that ultimately albinism will be explained by a case of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_drift" ><strong>genetic drift</strong></a>. I put a wiki link in there for you guys. But similar to Tay-Sachs.</p>
<p><strong>But Back to the Show</strong></p>
<p>So, the &#8220;b story&#8221; of the episode is about Lee-Anne Thompson who&#8217;s from Canada and goes to an all albino camp.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1180" title="lee anne" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lee-anne.jpg" alt="lee anne" width="470" height="359" /></p>
<p>Obviously it&#8217;s in start contrast to what&#8217;s happening in Africa BUT keep in mind all those young people essentially live in isolation and they&#8217;ve got to spend the rest of their lives like that too. So no picnic for them either.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1181" title="camp" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/camp.jpg" alt="camp" width="470" height="359" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1182" title="good times" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/good-times.jpg" alt="good times" width="470" height="361" /></p>
<p><strong>In conclusion<br />
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<p>The show doesn&#8217;t really offer any kind of resolution or avenue to help. The give the sisters some sunglasses and Doc Brilliant is the closing shot as if its all about HIM. Nice guy, but it really isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The sad part is that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">TLC could easily have closed the show</span> with a  screen that said &#8220;If you&#8217;d like to help out go to this website&#8230;&#8221; But, because I&#8217;ve been at this for a while, I know about the super secret, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/myshockingstory" >hard to find BRITISH version of the TLC</a> website, that actually does have a section dedicated My Shocking Story section.</p>
<p>In the meantime I found a link to the organization. And the image below links to the charity site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.underthesamesun.com/home.php" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1167" title="under the same sun" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/under-the-same-sun.jpg" alt="under the same sun" width="402" height="526" /></a></p>
<p>And a GREAT personal website (from a web designer who should be kicking it up a notch!) about the history of albinism and lifestyle of the artist who created the site is&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://goldenalbinism.com/" ><strong>The Golden Child</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Guess what I learned over there? Not only is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">my personal theory</span> that albinism might be connected to vitiligo <em>not </em>an original idea, but the theory is over a hundred years old!</p>
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		<description>The 2009 TV season was just all over the place. So many shows were coming and going that it was a little hard to keep track. I think the dust has settled and we can finally start taking stock and make some definitive statements about the status of a lot of these shows.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 2009 TV season was just all over the place. So many shows were coming and going that it was a little hard to keep track. I think the dust has settled and we can finally start taking stock and make some definitive statements about the status of a lot of these shows.</p>
<p>A very long time ago I wrote about <strong>Mad TV</strong> probably needing to go. It was a tough call on my part; I love comedy, people of diverse backgrounds were getting seen, the show taped 2 blocks from my LA apartment. So I wanted to be loyal but it just suffered from weak writing. Weekly comedy is hard. Hell, COMEDY is hard, but those folks had access to top resources and just weren’t willing to get out there and find a stronger comedic voice. So as much as people have maligned SNL they just do better. The final episode and season finale of SNL, ironically, chose a lot of similar topics.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1014" title="amy on air" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/amy-on-air.jpg" alt="amy poehler" width="382" height="378" /></p>
<p>Man, a long time ago I also wrote about <strong>Knight Rider</strong>’s first episode and I had high hopes. But they fell into the young white guy is the hero of every scene formula and that’s all she wrote. Another cable show that got a little press <strong>The Beast</strong> and <strong>Nip/Tuck </strong>are gone too.</p>
<p><strong>Kyle XY</strong>, well, I also wrote about this show just being too good and the network not knowing what to do. Hour long fantasy/sci fi shows have very loyal fans. And they’re a lot of them. But networks get INTO these deals and every single time they are surprised when they’re not making enough money on these hour long shows after 2 seasons and then start talking cancellation. Every time. Look at <strong>Battlestar</strong> that show is technically gone, but <strong>Caprica</strong> is on the horizon now because the networks have fans flooding them show interest. The fans TRIED with Kyle but SO FAR the networks aren’t listening.</p>
<p>But don’t believe everything. Case in point. They killed Family Guy and voila. It came back. They killed <strong>Scrubs</strong> and voila it came back. And this brings us to the strange new trend of <strong>Network Hoping</strong>. Networks with weak programming blocks are picking dropped shows. ABC took Scrubs. And CW just dropped The Game and now BET is pretty much locked in on finalizing a deal. FOX let Futurama go years ago. But did you know they’ve been making <strong>Futurama</strong> movies? Yeah, three of them. And fans like me have been collecting them. So now Comedy Central is renewing the show. I wouldn’t be totally surprised if a network like Lifetime picked up the recently canceled <strong>Samantha Who</strong>. It looked like something like that MIGHT happen for <strong>Reaper</strong>. But, poor Reaper, it&#8217;s gone for good now. It was SOOO good and at first CW just canceled it. Then there was this mailing in socks campaign by the fans. So they renewed the show but gave it a  delayed renewal last YEAR and now it’s pretty much dead. I figure if the network can’t find another hit this summer they’ll bring it back. And if they bring it back I will update this article. But some cast members are already booked on new shows. But again; fantasy shows so rarely are giant hits like Heroes and that’s the only way they can make it.</p>
<p>Now a sad situation is <strong>My Name is Earl</strong> fiasco. As you may or may not know <strong>Chuck</strong> was canceled, but due to fans like me who made videos, the show got renewed at the last minute. The Earl group tried a similar tactic on Twitter, but it didn’t work out. Sad. Good show and I’m surprised because half hour comedies are cheap-for the most part. Earl was kinda filmic (not set in and around a living room like Rosanne or Family Matters) so it probably cost a little more to make.</p>
<p>Speaking of surprises. I PREDICTED the cancellation of <strong>Better Off Ted</strong>. But guess what? It’s <strong>staying on the air</strong>! I reasoned that the show was actually TOO funny and good for ABC, but what I forgot about was one of the stars being involved with Ellen and a network not wanting to ruffle feathers of a money maker. Totally forgot about that. It’s similar to the reason that <strong>Kath and Kim</strong> is still on the air-<strong>but they finally killed it</strong>! As awful as that show is, because Molly Shannon has a history with NBC they’re letting it live. The EXACT same reason they’re keeping <strong>Amy Poehler’s</strong> awful show Parks. Love Amy but man what a horrible premise for a show. Not the workplace but Amy playing one character. A dumb one too. Who the hell thought that was the way to go? Ah well, TV…</p>
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		<description>So a couple of days ago I read something a guy named Couch wrote. The premise of his piece was that Serena Williams should &amp;#8220;do more.&amp;#8221; In his mind she&amp;#8217;s not fit and not committed tennis. So I wrote a response that&amp;#8217;s pretty much going to get buried amongst the barrage of livid racist who [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">So a couple of days ago I read something a guy named <a href="http://tennis.fanhouse.com/2009/06/03/serena-double-faulting-on-legacy/" >Couch wrote.</a> The premise of his piece was that Serena Williams should &#8220;do more.&#8221; In his mind she&#8217;s not fit and not committed tennis. So I wrote a response that&#8217;s pretty much going to get buried amongst the barrage of livid racist who can&#8217;t stand somebody Black playing tennis anyway let alone somebody they can villianize because she has the unmitigated gall to be confident.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Pam Shriver is quoted <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sports-media29-2009may29,0,1357901.story" >in a piece for the LA times</a> this week where she says the obvious. The French Open has been repeatedly miserable to Serena. And the speculation is that maybe it&#8217;s not racist since the French have Gael Monfils and maybe it&#8217;s not anit-American since they love Roddick. But A) Gael is a a FRENCH Black person and they&#8217;ll root for anybody that can put France on the map for tennis. B) Roddick is a (white) man. Case closed on that one. In fact the ONLY person being heckled with nasty comments and repeatedly having officials ignore blatant cheating is Serena.What I wrote in response is below&#8230;<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-922" title="gael" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gael-300x240.jpg" alt="gael" width="300" height="240" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Serena’s not fit? Compared to whom? Look, Couch, I don’t know you; I’ve never read anything you’ve written, but the story title caught my eye. So I don’t know if you’re a former tennis pro, a sports writer in general or just some dude who got a job at a website and assigned to this part of the site. But I’ve been watching women’s tennis since 1999, and even I feel I can make a better assessment of what&#8217;s going on than you. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Waaaaayyy back a year and a half ago <a href="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/with-richard%e2%80%99s-role-reduced-the-williams-sisters-loose-a-little-more-steam-every-year" >I wrote a piece</a> about the slump BOTH Williams were going through and either on my own blog or in a comment I made on somebody else’s blog I predicted they were probably on a downward spiral. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">But NOT for the reasons you’ve indicated; fitness and commitment. That’s absurd. I mean have you really listened to what you’ve said? Serena’s strength is so apparent that she does not even LOOK like a tennis player. The irony is that I thought she looked about 10 pounds lighter than I’m used to seeing her for the French open. But the Williams in general are SO fit no American can even compete anymore. It took a flood of Eastern Europeans, people coming from poor parts of Europe, to be able to be able to match the physicality of the Williams. The French had to go back to the drawing board (Mauresmo) and the Belgian just dropped out (Clijsters) and one by one the other Americans have receding into obscurity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">My belief for the REAL reason for the Serena (and Venus) slump is not about commitment so much as it is about home life. When their parents got divorced and their sister got killed that broke their momentum, and they haven’t recovered. Richard (their father for those of you not up to speed) pretty much handed over coaching duties and their mother took over for a while. He wasn’t even at games as often. And I just think it&#8217;s a case of diminishing returns unless something drastic changes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">As for this issue of sponsorship money. Well let’s not kid ourselves. It’s a Black issue. Case closed. No need to harp on it. But the guy you interviewed, Bob Williams, ironically located here in FANTASTICALLY racist Chicago saying 50 percent of endorsement deals go to Black people should be corrected to &#8220;men athletes.&#8221; Yeah, Black GUYS make a lot of dough in “traditionally Black player dominated” sports. There is no Black man making a killing in hockey. So the Serena is fighting two uphill battles; women not making as much as men, and being the “wrong” race for her sport. The ad agencies are essentially not in a mood to sell Black Barbies to little white girls not when they’ve got an IDEAL candidate in Sharapova WHO ONLY WON A FEW slams compared to Serena. Because that was the other argument right? “Serena doesn’t win enough” Ha! In addition, sponsorship deals are not necessarily tied to winning as much as DRAW. The Williams have drawn more viewers to TV, more worldwide fans to the game and sold more tennis seats than anybody in the last 10 years. FACT.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I’m also noticing a lot of people talking about how “arrogant” Serena is. How she’s needs to “do it, not say it.” Well, all you fat ass people sitting at your computer’s look ridiculous. Have any of YOU ever won a Grand Slam? Even one? Come on, surely you MUST have done something to be so full of attitude. And man, how short people’s memories are. Does anybody remember Muhammad Ali most famous saying? Oh that’s right it was “I’m the Greatest!” Or let’s look at Jimmy Connors, or John McEnroe. NONE of these guys were shy and demur-whether they wore winning or LOSING about how they were the &#8220;best.&#8221; It’s unusual for a woman to do it and there are so few Black women tennis players that, YES, she pumps herself up. Who can fault her when she’s been repeatedly cheated at the French, called all kinds of names, AND had to deal with those “objective” people in the booth talking about her and her sister negatively whenever they get a chance. I mean, Mary Jo and the others were SO easy to make backhanded compliments for YEARS until the Williams winning streak could no longer be denied. So surprise, surprise<span> </span>Serena decides to be her OWN number one fan AND number one critic to get herself to the top. To NOT be a braggart is, frankly, kinda UNAmerican. Anybody remember a certain flight suited dude standing in front of a Mission Accomplished banner?</span></p>
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		<description>I’m torn. I mean, I’m really on the fence about this PBS special. It aired May 12th on the station’s Independent Lens series and I watched the whole thing. From Terrence Howards’ intro right on through to the credits. And as a Black man I’m torn. On the one hand I guess I feel like [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I’m torn. I mean, I’m really on the fence about this PBS special. It aired May 12<sup>th</sup> on the station’s Independent Lens series and I watched the whole thing. From Terrence Howards’ intro right on through to the credits. And as a Black man I’m torn. On the one hand I guess I feel like “the message” can’t be gotten out there enough. But as a person who has seen a LOT of movies (including many, many documentaries like this) and who has seen a lot of PBS in general, this film had an eerily “family” look and feel to it. So much so that it ALMOST seemed like a parody. I almost expected to hear a raspy voiced narrator saying “It was the best of times, it was the worst of time…” with Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” playing in the background.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods/" >Bloods and Crips: Made in America</a>. Whew, I mean, that’s like a conversation from 15 years ago right? Or twenty-FIVE years ago if you wanna talk crack in it’s hey day. So what compelled Stacy to drag all this out like it’s something new? For those of you (probably most) who don’t know Peralta is a a film director, but really he’s a skateboard guy. I’m a 41 year old guy and I first heard his name from precisely 26 years ago as I ventured outside of Chicago’s version of Los Angeles’ South Central (called the South Side) and made my way into the “white part of town” and discovered punk rock and skateboarding. And for those of you who don’t know Chicago is the home of the 2 other largest waring Black gangs; the Disciples and the El Rukins.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Peralta is “old school” having been a part of that original crew of Dogtown skaters in the 70’s (for this history lesson we’re gonna skip over the 60’s “sidewalk surfin’” era). Eventually he began to skate a little less and video tape younger skaters more and more. And voila; film director. So he’s no stranger to documenting LA based, sub cultures. And by him being an LA native who has lived so adjacent to one of the most largest Black communites in the America (a community that has affected so much of the PLANET via violence, style, music and attitude) I can understand him being compelled to FINALLY saying to himself, “Man, I really ought to see what’s going on in my own back yard. I’ve already got the cameras…” But isn’t everybody who watches PBS gonna be up to speed on this issue? I mean I don’t think any FOX News viewers will ever see/care about this film.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-910" title="crips1" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/crips1.jpg" alt="crips1" width="470" height="362" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-908" title="crips2" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/crips2.jpg" alt="crips2" width="470" height="355" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-909" title="bloods" src="http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bloods.jpg" alt="bloods" width="470" height="358" /><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">But with this film I see a lot of “hack” standards (from a film making point of view) and in terms of ground covered I see a lot of stereotypical elements re-hased (as a guy with a degree in Anthropology, point of view). All the favorites are there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The soundtrack ripped straight from about 3 shows on KCRW’s night time line up</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The look back at the 60’s Civil Rights movement as the “start” part of cycle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Dragging out 60’s Lefty Tom Hayden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The footage of Black kids with gang paraphanilia and guns</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The photos of dead bodies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The footage of (primarily White) cops abusing Black people of all ages and sexes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The former gang members talking about “giving back” and “changing things”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The interviews of young current gangsters talking about “no way out” “it’s all I know”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Rodney of course, can’t talk about angry Black people without Rodney King</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The montage of sad/crying Black parents</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">And the warehousing of people (Black men) by the prison complex</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">So, the phrase “Black on Black Crime” isn’t actually verbalized, but the…look and feel is tried and try Black people as surrounded by/causing violence and being victims of a culture that created a quicksand of despair that we can’t seem to break out of.<span> </span>Again, I guess the word needs to be put out there…but as an educated Black man it’s also a little tiring. Really? This is still new knowledge to white people? Really? This is still something you think would make an insightful thing to put all that money and time into? Really? I’ve seen this done so many times. In fact I’ve seen it done better several times (hey, I like the morphing photo effect a lot too but I’m not sure if it really reaches my heart in this context). I’ve seen where they give the kids cameras and let them film their lives for a few months and we see what’s important to THEM. What story they think should be told. But a project like this where you can’t personally follow individual just seems like it’s glossing over Standard Black Problem. It just affirms that violence/victim model. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">But I’m torn. People think we have “overcome” because they see Obama; and he is close to being a Martian than he is to most Black people, so it’s good to get this reminder of what’s truly a part of OUR daily existence. But maybe there are different problems that need to be addressed or maybe this film could have tackled why so many efforts to change things have been ineffective. I’m not sure, but I DO know that if I had had access to Peralta before this project was done it would not have looked like this when the finished product was done.</span></p>
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