Comments on: All good things must come to an end http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/07/24/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:09:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack Holcomb http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/07/24/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/comment-page-1/#comment-19595 Jack Holcomb Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:31:51 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/2007/07/24/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/#comment-19595 No opinion on the silly pirate reality show, except to say that I think that "reality TV" is intrinsically oxymoronic, and usually plain old moronic, too. I've never been a fan. I like my TV to be frankly fictional, I guess, instead of surreptitiously fictional. Re: Weekly World News, though, I think that this was a brilliant brilliant thing and I'm sad to see it go. I think WWN was essentially the Onion, but with MORE irony and MORE dedication to playing it straight. And it always made checking out at the grocery store into good fun. Hey, Sean, come over and have dinner with us next week! Any time! Tell us when would be good! No opinion on the silly pirate reality show, except to say that I think that “reality TV” is intrinsically oxymoronic, and usually plain old moronic, too. I’ve never been a fan. I like my TV to be frankly fictional, I guess, instead of surreptitiously fictional.

Re: Weekly World News, though, I think that this was a brilliant brilliant thing and I’m sad to see it go. I think WWN was essentially the Onion, but with MORE irony and MORE dedication to playing it straight. And it always made checking out at the grocery store into good fun.

Hey, Sean, come over and have dinner with us next week! Any time! Tell us when would be good!

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