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I am at R's place tonight for pizza and bad documentary television, despite the fact that it's zero degrees out, -22 if you factor in wind chill. I couldn't resist going somewhere with central air and hot pepperoni pizza.

We were watching youtube videos of famous court trials, because why wouldn't you, when we got to talking about "crime porn" -- cheesy, cheap documentaries that lovingly re-enact real-life murders, complete with detailed death scenes. I don't even pretend these have any value; they are probably a signficant detriment to society. But they're also fascinating, and Behind Mansion Walls is both the best and the worst of murder porn. It's hosted by a guy who is so douchey that by the third season he's being filmed against a green screen so they can project him into a cocktail party he's not even attending.

Every time a dude comes on the screen, R says "HE DID IT." Sad thing is, he's almost always right.

Now we're watching a documentary on the FBI breakin in 1971, and R pointed to a map that came on the screen and said "I've been high EVERYWHERE ON THAT MAP."

In not-at-all-news: J. Edgar Hoover was an asshole, y/y.

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[juniper200.livejournal.com]

Fact: Crime Porn and the Food Network are the only television my mom consumes.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, they're both awfully satisfying somehow.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

LOL, my husband and I have just started watching crime porn for our go-to background TV (there is SO MUCH of it on Netflix), and you are completely right about the host of Behind Mansion Walls. Worst/Best program title goes to "Wives With Knives" though.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have it on in the kitchen when I'm cooking a lot, though once in a while I switch to something less scream-y. :D Wouldn't want the neighbors to think I'm a serial killer.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

I love R. I suspect he could say just about anything about what he's eaten, seen, who he's slept with and/or what he's smoked and I'd probably believe it.

Oh gods CRIME PORN. It's the surreptitious 3 a.m. bag of cheese-puffs of Bad TV Viewing.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

R is a difficult man to disbelieve, if only because you're skeptical and then he BACKS IT UP.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

**snorts** Kinda figured as much. And anyway, he's a musician; musicians do things like that, they're almost as weird as engineers (says the daughter of a man who made his living playing gigs for the first half of his life before working as an acoustical engineer for the government during the latter half.)

[(Anonymous)]

OMGWTF STOP WATCHING CRAPPY TV AND CATCH UP ON WHITE COLLAR AND DO THREE THINGS I AM IN SERIOUS FUCKING WITHDRAWAL, DUDE!

With you on the weirdness of the "genre" if you can call it that. And I don't know why, but R's being high everywhere provoked a serious, real life, "Aw...." from me. Which is weird, because I hardly "aw" anything, not even cute cats, puppies or babies, but apparently, seriously travellin' high dudes get one. Who knew?


This comment has been brought to you be seriously too much coffee in thesis creation month.
As such, it ought probably to be ignored.
Am I posting it anyway?
You bet your ass.
Is that normal?
No.
But on THESIS it is!

[(Anonymous)]

... uhm; I had put cute fake html tags on that to separate my rabidfan comment from the rest of it, and apparently LJ ate it. So now that comment looks 85% more nutso than I intended.

... I am going to step away from the computer, put down the coffee, and maybe take a walk.

Sorry.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL sorry! White Collar stopped being interesting! I do have them all downloaded though, I really should catch up.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'd figured you'd cooled off on it considering how 3things petered off, but...
... let's just say that certain sex scenes (hurrah! aubade! And Neal's sheet thinking it's in a Renaissance painting!) and the potential for identity porn (where both people are trying to con each other, deaaar god) would be... well, I shan't say right up your alley, but I will say SOMEBODY ought to be writing ALL the fic....

Yeah, sorry for going nuts on your lj the other day; feeling slightly saner this morning.

[viverra-libro.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the South Park "Informative Murder Porn"? You might find it amusing. :)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I haven't, but South Park gives me hives :D

[mq-musings.livejournal.com]

Seriously, R's the best.