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Feb. 20th, 2008 09:18 pmi forgot to post about Knight Rider. I love the idea of it and I LOVED the updated theme song (in an "oh, that takes me back!" way), and I was OK with everyone in it EXCEPT the main guy. I might watch it one more time and see if he improves. Or, you know, I might not.
My box of 59 Penny Jordan novels arrived, and I have been wallowing -- I keep a handful in my backpack and read them on the Metro, and I'm getting through one or two a day. Some of them are very old-school -- her boss forces devastating kisses on her, and it's supposed to be romantic, and I just have to put my brain into an alternate universe where that's not completely appalling.
But apparently Harlequin Presents have changed in the, I don't know, 10 years? since I've read them. Because yesterday I read one that used the c-word (not *that* one, the other one -- the one that rhymes with Delores), and it also used the e-word (the one that's a lot like election), and it *also* had a scene in which the heroine, um, pleasures herself. (The last time I read these regularly? An aroused hero would take a cold shower before he'd take matters into his own hands.) And then some evil people try to blackmail the heroine with explicit photos of someone else with her hed pastede on (yay?), and one of those photos included an object-that-rhymes-with-Bilbo, and I just about fell out of my seat on the bus, it was that startling.
Re-reading this paragraph, I realize that I sound prissy as all get out. If we were talking in person, I would have no problem speaking these words, but posting them on the internet seems like asking for trouble. And in most contexts I wouldn't blink twice at them -- but a *Harlequin Presents*? Is not one of those contexts.
My box of 59 Penny Jordan novels arrived, and I have been wallowing -- I keep a handful in my backpack and read them on the Metro, and I'm getting through one or two a day. Some of them are very old-school -- her boss forces devastating kisses on her, and it's supposed to be romantic, and I just have to put my brain into an alternate universe where that's not completely appalling.
But apparently Harlequin Presents have changed in the, I don't know, 10 years? since I've read them. Because yesterday I read one that used the c-word (not *that* one, the other one -- the one that rhymes with Delores), and it also used the e-word (the one that's a lot like election), and it *also* had a scene in which the heroine, um, pleasures herself. (The last time I read these regularly? An aroused hero would take a cold shower before he'd take matters into his own hands.) And then some evil people try to blackmail the heroine with explicit photos of someone else with her hed pastede on (yay?), and one of those photos included an object-that-rhymes-with-Bilbo, and I just about fell out of my seat on the bus, it was that startling.
Re-reading this paragraph, I realize that I sound prissy as all get out. If we were talking in person, I would have no problem speaking these words, but posting them on the internet seems like asking for trouble. And in most contexts I wouldn't blink twice at them -- but a *Harlequin Presents*? Is not one of those contexts.