Comments on: Roaring of the Bliss

By: Jonniker. » Candy

Jonniker. » Candy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:12:05 +0000

[...] It’s here. It’s here! Our Nielsen package is here! Let the television watching commence! What’s disappointing about this is that it’s only eight days. Only EIGHT DAYS to discuss our television habits in extreme detail. Only eight days to properly explain my disdain for all things cheap reality TV, and my passion for all things Top Chef (except for Padma. Padma, please pack your knives and go). This hardly seems fair, don’t you think? I’d like to be a lifetime member, please. Adam is also lording it over me that the envelope is addressed to him, and him alone and that this is his project–his “cross to bear,” as he put it. Which, HAHAHAHA. No. [...]

By: Jonniker. » Animal

Jonniker. » Animal — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:41:32 +0000

[...] Speaking of pop culture, um, remember the dream come true? The Nielsen dream? Like my friend Erica warned, we have yet to receive a package. I might never become a Nielsen family, and the dream is close to being shattered, just ripped to shreds. This is particularly unfair, given my strong feelings about Top Chef: Miami, which includes Tre (love!), Hung (love!), and Joey (hate!), and Padma Lakshmi, who seems to be growing some sort of personality as she breaks away from Rushdie, not to mention my ever-growing excitement at the new Paula Abdul reality show, because seriously, the woman looks in the mirror and tells her hairdresser that she’s a warrior, which conjures all sorts of hilarious images, mostly involving Paula in gladiator wear at Caesar’s Palace, like Jeremy Piven in a very old Ellen episode that no one likely remembers but me. [...]

By: Swistle

Swistle — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:10:59 +0000

I loved Prep. I am so jealous that you are a Nielson family.

By: winterwheat

winterwheat — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:38:56 +0000

We were a Nielsen family a few years ago. It sucked. I do research requiring parents to keep family media diaries, and God decided to pay me back. I felt like a proctologist getting a parsnip shoved up the ass. Served me right.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:05:45 +0000

Soooooo… can you be bribed, as a purveyor of Neilsen info?

By: erica

erica — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:10:24 +0000

Congrats on the Nielsen selection, dude. Nice!
Let me know how it goes!. We were picked about a year and a half ago, and of course accepted immediately because, duh, it’s friggin NIELSEN, and then….nothing. We never received the promised info kit or anything. It was all just a cruel game I guess. Fuckers.
So I will now live vicariously through you in all things Nielsen. And maybe I can even sneak in some comments through you? Eh?

By: Maya (Meepers)

Maya (Meepers) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:20:50 +0000

I’m glad to hear a couple of non-rhapsodic reviews about the Kite Runner. I haven’t read it yet, for the (stoooopid) reason that EVERY G.D. person I talk to says I MUST read it and I will LOVE it and it will change my LIFE and possibly remove the calcium deposits from my bathtub.

I would love to get packets about tv in the mail. Sounds like fun! Also canNOT wait for Big Love.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:35:38 +0000

No rain!! We’re having an outside birthday party tomorrow, and I want no devastated almost-5-year olds on my hands due to rain!! It can rain on Sunday if it must do so.

Prep was really fantastic, and I liked her second book, too.

By: Gentry

Gentry — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:06:11 +0000

You are living proof of karma. Your Neilsen coupe is karmic compensation for the carrot cake. I’m convinced.

By: bubandpie

bubandpie — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:10:06 +0000

Oooh, I love surveys too! And even better, research studies. I love the way the phone interviewers hang on my every word, care about my opinions… The power! The egocentrism! It rocks.