TLC To Release New Television Show

Hi Zaradon,

TLC is getting ready to release a new television show this fall, and I thought you might be interested. Please see picture and description I downloaded from there website.

Coming this fall is the newest television program from TLC in conjunction with Animal Planet. "From Lab to Fab" will be hosted by Tinkerbelle (previously owned by Paris Hilton, but now a free agent), and will make over dogs from drab to fab. These BONEfied dogs will get a makeover of a life time. Make sure to Tune In (Tuesdays, 9 PM, EST).

We will definitely have to watch this!
D. Rex

Guest Blogger: Jamieopteryx

Dear Zaradon, Dear Deepusaurus,

I was drawn to an advertisement that a reptilian friend had posted to her tumblr account, replicated below.



It reminds me, momentarily, of the human religions – a subject I have dedicated my life to studying as a Professor of Imaginations and Aislinology at our alma mater, Brown. For in the advertisement, offering some sort of building material up for sale, a selection of bricks casts a shadow similar in form to this country’s most famous dinosaur, the tyrannosaurus rex. This suggests that humans, in seeing such a formulation of bricks, might believe it to represent the mighty lizard king and become afeared. Just so the fictions of the human race strike terror into their hearts when labeled with the word “god,” for they are a fretful and fragile species, easily squashed, and it has come to my attention that they are in the habit of seeing these gods everywhere they turn.

This is just what happens to Jeff Goldblum in the movie Jurassic Park. He believes he is on a safe and controlled tour of a live-dinosaur theme park (fool!), and yet security fails and he seems unable to escape the tyrannosauruses, or the raptors, or the many other variables of our kind that the purveyors of the park had anachronistically lumped together for the purposes of capitalism. Truthfully, an unenviable position.

And yet, where dinosaurs were (and are!) so indisputably real, the human gods are indisputably not real. They are pretty characters for paintings, assuredly, and for sculptures made of marble or bronze. They make excellent fodder for jokes in Disney movies, and like the mystical unicorn, they inevitably charm. But in all my years of study, I have never met one. They are notoriously reticent, even when one sends the most cordial requests and copies of one’s impressive c.v., and this despite their depictions in the national poetries as chatty and attention-seeking! It seems the most sensible response for humans to adapt would be to reject their looming phantasmal deities and to accept dinosaurs as overlords – given our very real ability to eat them, as opposed to Yhwh’s rather feeble threat that he will fry them with lightening. The white witch Martha of Stewart has survived this punishment no fewer than three times already! It seems obvious that god is a construct as surely as the lego monster. Why do we not take his place and gobble up the human race?

All best wishes,
Jamieopteryx

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CAVEAT

Deepusaurus drew it to my attention that readers of this blog have taken a very low opinion of me due to our musical Venn Diagram. May I make it perfectly clear that Mariah Carey and musicals are not the only music I care for, just the music, of all the music I have been known to enjoy, that Deepusaurus can't stand. I like many good bands, I promise. And, obviously, the Mariah is the classic Mariah of our slow-dancing yesteryears and not E=MC2 Mariah- even though "Touch My Body" did grow on me thanks in part to the music video featuring Jack McBrayer.

As for musicals. Hell, I like musicals. Deal with it.

Grave digger was the new gold-digger (circa 1996)

Hi Z-don,

Thanks to HULU, someone I know was telling me about a television program from the mid 1990's that they were watching, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This show was a spin off from the phenomenal movie produced in 1992 with the same name. So in the TV show Buffy (the vampire slayer) falls in love and species starts dating a vampire by the name of Angel. But there is something seriously wrong with this. Now don't get me wrong, I am very much in support of interracial dating and consensual dating of the dead. I believe that if people are in love racial stereotypes or even being living or not should be a factor. Especially given the evidence of Zombie conversion in that Science paper by Murty & Hakimi (2010).

But do you know what I do think is horrible, statutory rape. In the show, Buffy is 16 and Angel is over 250 years old. That is really inappropriate of him to take advantage of her like that. Just to give you an idea of how different things are that are 250 years apart, see the pictures below for three examples. The pictures on the right are from current times, and to the left are the same type of thing 250 years old.

Also, recent evidence for Experimental Psychopathology has linked many psychiatric disorders with semen that is decrepit and/or damaged. I am pretty sure that if it 250 years old and from a dead body it cannot be in that good of conditions. It seems like their relationship is quite irresponsible. Frankly, I expected more from a television network that has such wholesome programming like 7th heaven.

Sincerely,
D-rex