apropos of nothing

[saffronhare]

One of the great dangers at my parents' house is that they watch a lot of TV. Regis & Kelly is on while I'm drinking my coffee. ESPN is on while we eat dinner. And then, from then until bedtime, they're scrolling through Tivo'd episodes of CSI and Shark and NCIS. Sucks one in, it does.

But none of that is quite so trying as my new-found addiction to Dancing with the Stars. When is it on? Who will advance? Why is everyone surprised that Joey Fatone can dance and perform? Jeepers. I'm hopeless.

Comments

I R Out of Loop.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't even know who Joey Fatone *is*.

Re: I R Out of Loop.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I'd be surprised if you did. He was one of the members of N Sync, back in the heyday of cute boy bands. So very far out of your loop, I bet you never even mocked them except as a category.

Re: I R Out of Loop.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Heh. I would not have guessed that. He has a mafioso name. It would be Joey Fah-Toh-Nay, but the boys would call him Joey Fat One. Or at least that was my story. Now I'm picturing the mafioso character I made up doing the boy band thing. Are they a dancing band?

Re: I R Out of Loop.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

More to the point, they were. That was before Lance didn't go up in space and then later was gay.

Around our house, we were Backstreet Boys people, but you won't get Rachel to admit it. Some parents call that sort of thing an anecdote. I call it blackmail.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

I found myself briefly addicted to the British version, Strictly Come Dancing, during winter holiday. Luckily, the 2006 series is over and the 2007 is yet to begin, else I might never get my work done.

Disturbing, isn't it?

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Hee! I got the OCP hooked on it too...
It's fun.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Why is everyone surprised that Joey Fatone can dance and perform?

Those boy-banders could always dance. That's how they make it. The singing? Eh. Lets see him make it to the finals on American Idol.

Oh, and he is a terrible actor IMHO. He was in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.