a poisoned dream cycle
unknown wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Saturday morning, my wife was watching one of the seemingly infinite number of decorating/home renovations shows that channels like HGTV and TLC have made so popular. Ever since the show Trading Spaces caught on a few years back, these shows have spread like weeds, because television executives are second only to football coaches in the tendency to be copycats. The biggest gripe I have with these shows is that they have filled the head of every woman who watches them with the delusion that they are a skilled interior decorator, and the head of the men who watch with a similar delusion that they are skilled carpenters.
In the grand tradition of all things popular and trendy, there is a formula to be followed. Actual professional decorators come in and explain their ideas, delusional woman of the house pouts like a damn baby because she has “her own vision for the room”, an accord is [...]
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