SPAM AIRLIFT

Members of the US Navy prepare an emergency shipment of Spam bound for a stranded cruise ship some 200 miles off the coast of San Diego. (Photo: Gregory Bull / AP via the San Francisco Chronicle)

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There’s an obvious joke here, but if yr stranded on a cruise ship with supplies running out, you won’t be saying no to Spam.

Not for long.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I like Spam.

Spam spam spam,

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PRIME TIME FOR REPUBLICANS

ITEM: Democrats and Republicans can’t even agree on what TV shows they like.

Well, sort of.

Media-research company Experian Simmons has issued a new study tallying the top TV shows sorted by party affiliation of the survey respondent.

Results:



The top show in each category is predictable. What Experian points out is that generally, Republicans tend to go for big hits, while Democrats tend to like more cult hits like Mad Men.

Here’s another way of looking at it:

“The big shows with mass appeal tend to have above-average scores from Democrats and Republicans but with higher concentrations of Republicans,” says John Fetto, senior marketing manager at Experian Simmons. “Looking at the Democrats side, I don’t mean to make light of it, but they seem to like shows about damaged people. Those are the kind of shows Republicans just stay away from.”

By which he means shows like Damages, Dexter, Entourage and Breaking Bad.

So what does all this mean?

Not a damn thing, really – at least in terms of being able to guess someone’s party affiliation based on their prime-time viewing habits. (Unless it’s cable TV news or the new Sarah Palin “reality” show, maybe.) The Hollywood Reporter hints that it could mean the TV industry – a supposed nest of Socialist liberal homosexuals – has to pander more to conservatives to get good ratings.

Maybe. But I doubt you’d notice the difference. If Republicans are keeping shows like Desperate Housewives on the air, you’ll be seeing more of the same. Which isn’t necessarily a good thing, but at least it’s not going to be like all TV shows will be written by Glenn Beck or anything.

But then I don’t watch a lot of TV anyway, so I can afford to be blasé.

FUN FACT: I don’t watch any of the shows on both of the above lists. Not one.

TV party tonight,

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LISTEN TO IT #21: THE ONLY FRIENDS HE’S GOT LEFT

!!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk) get a lot of flak for their name, but they’re actually quite good – provided you like bands that play intellectual dance music.

Which I tend to do.

Their new album, Strange Weather, Isn’t It?, has been entertaining the hell out of me. It sounds a lot more fully realized than the previous album, and leans a little more towards electronica (supposedly the result of recording in Berlin this time), which makes for a spacier sound with lots of depth.

Listen to the first single if you’d like to know more.

You can change the station,

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