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On all those darned advertisments…

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You, our welcome guest, may have noticed the advertisements scattered about this site. We’d like to apologize, but we won’t. You see, advertisements are the life-blood of small, independent WEBSITES like this one.

Consider this: a small site, or network of sites – say three or four inter-linked portals of information – are not FREE to run. Unlike sites hosted on bigger group domains like Blogger or MySpace, independent sites need to manage their existence on their very own. We, as website operators, must pay for hosting and domain registration. We must maintain software, keep it up-to-date and relevant, manage plug-ins, templates, and spread the word about our efforts through with only minimal help from the giants of website promotion.

When you see advertisements on our sites think of them not as obtrusive clutter, but as the flags of mediated partnerships. Companies that advertise here do so because they understand the power of independent information. Companies that advertise here do so because they’ve joined groups like Google to build strong tools that enable small WEBSITES to remain viable and active. We keep our costs low because by supporting our partners you are supporting us. Supporting the companies that choose to advertise on these types of advertising networks provides a trickle of revenue that can pay for most of the costs associated with a site like this one.

We’re not suggesting that you click for the sake of clicking. No. Please don’t. By clicking advertisements simply to click them you de-legitimize their purpose. If they are not legitimate, they fail. And if they fail, we lose our support and the indirect sponsorship that keeps us alive. Rather, support these companies. We can’t say that we either agree or disagree with or approve a single advertisement that appears here. Those advertisements appear here because they are related to the content you see on this site. If that content brought you here, hopefully there is a product or service offered by our partners to move you forward on your search.

So for now, read on. Enjoy this site. Ignore the advertisements if you must. But please don’t complain and please don’t wait for an apology that will never come.

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Television Showdown - Episode #5

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This is Episode Five of my feature column, the Television Showdown on Haddow Drive where I pit two similar shows against each other on a variety of standard criteria. The criteria are always the same, and the winner of each criterion gets one point, for a maximum of five points. Winner takes all.

Episode #5
Lost versus Gilligan’s Island

In this installment of the Television Showdown on Haddow Drive I try to rescue the dignity from the sitcom classic Gilligan’s Island and compare it to its modern stuck-on-an-island incarnation Lost.

Criterion 1: Glad-I’m-Not-Them Factor
It’s tricky to measure the relative distaste of two seemingly equal situations, stuck on a desert island because of some higher force. But when it comes right down to it, the seven cast-aways from Gilligan’s Island are there because of human incompetance, while the angst of Lost is generated from an unseeable force shaping the twisted imaginations of the desertees. Thus, despite the relatively low survival rate, I think I’d definitely enjoy the company of the ill-fated freaks on Lost than the bumbling stupidy of Gilligan and Co. anyday. Gilligan’s Island (+1)

Criterion 2: Use of Revenue Generating Product Placement
The fullness of the Lost metaverse makes this a fragile loss: that is, nothing seems real, and as far as I can tell every product is either generic Dharma Initiative inventions, or fabrications of the story. Also, the Harlem Globetrotters have yet to show up on THAT island, so too bad. Gilligan’s Island (+1)

Criterion 3: Inclusion of Primates in Cast
Not only does Gilligan = Monkey, but that whole show forms the basis of all bad monkey driven plots for the entire future of television to bow down and admire. C’mon, Lost, we dare you to try and top that.
Gilligan’s Island (+1)

Criterion 4: Clear and Present Reference to Adult Situations
We all sat on the edge of our seats hoping that one episode when the Skipper would catch Mary Ann and Gilligan behind a palm tree. Never happened. That said, Lost, by virtue of simply being a twenty-first century television show is mandated to include at least three sexually-motivated character RELATIONSHIPS per week. It’s the law or something.Lost (+1)

Criterion 5: Gratuitous Use of Four Letter Explicatives
Ah, the lure of the prime-TIME line-up filters a lot of language that I know — for a fact — I would use more often were I at RISK of dying a greusome death on a deserted island. I think a character who sat on the beach cursing explicatively as he fell into deep and troubling psychosis would not only be interesting, but hey, realistic too. On the other hand, i doubt Gilligan ever heard a word more nasty than “gosh” in his whole life. Lost (+1)

OVERALL
Thus, it seems that Gilligan’s Island is rescued from the ancient vaults of irrelevancy by mere virtue of its pure pop cultural icon status and out-scores Lost by a narrow margin of 3 to 2.

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