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Title: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: bookem_dan-o on November 04, 2006, 04:57:44 PM
Here's mine:

- Van Halen...including Hagar-era VH.
- Canned corned beef and/or Vienna Sausages
- Rick and Rose's Radio Zero podcast
- Lily Allen
- Led Zeppelin, "Coda" and "In Through the Out Door"
- "Xanadu" (both the movie AND the soundtrack)
- Adbusters magazine
- Late night infomercials, specifically the Magic Bullet blender, Ron Popeil rotisserie and that hyper-LoFi "Allumalloy" infomercial)

So, what's yours?
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on November 04, 2006, 06:05:07 PM
1) Comic Books, lots of them. Picked it up again while studying for the Bar Exam and have become borderline fanatic since.
2) Nascar. If its on TV and I am watching TV I can't look away
3) Cartoons.
4) The Take-5 candy bar
5) The Maple Scone from Starbucks
6) Not answering the phone
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: John Junk on November 04, 2006, 07:34:52 PM
Snuff Films, Adultery, Sexual Tourism, Hardcore Pornography, Making Children Cry,


....Oh, you mean MY PERSONAL guilty pleasures?? 

Boston the album by Boston the band.
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: Fido on November 05, 2006, 01:18:14 AM

There are so many that I couldn't list them all.  But here are several.

1.  Cheesesteaks
2.  Professional Bull Riding shows on TV
3.  Curb Your Enthusiasm
4.  The "Airplane" movies
5.  Entenmann's donuts
6.  Dance music
7.  Reggaeton
8.  Roseanne Barr
9.  Miami
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: Fido on November 05, 2006, 01:19:25 AM

And Ren and Stimpy.
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on November 05, 2006, 10:31:08 AM
Ren and Stimpy is high art.

No guilty pleasure there. Stimpy's Big Day is up there with Guernica.
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: Emerson on November 05, 2006, 04:50:18 PM
"A guilty pleasure is neither," as the Buddhists say. But people goof on me about:
-Fireworks
-Cheap beer
-Hip-hop
-Guns N Roses
-Basketball
-Chili
-Standup comedy

~EmD
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on November 05, 2006, 06:42:36 PM
Sweet, sweet fireworks.

Once a year, I get together will a bunch of my completely wacky law school pals, who are truly 8 years old at heart. There is a tradition of buying a bunch of balsa wood and styrofoam planes and spending copious amounts of time using various Indian-reservation-purchased illegal fireworks to rocket propel and destroy them in increasingly elaborate ways.
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: kenkwan on November 06, 2006, 11:16:40 AM
Even though I learned from former Best Show Patron Saint, Andrew WK, that there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure...

1. Andrew WK
2. The Carpenters
2. Dragonball Z
4. Supertroopers
5. TNBC shows (City Guys, Endurance, Trading Spaces: Boys Vs. Girls, etc)

Things listed so far that I dispute being guilty pleasures;
Hip-Hop
Guns'n'Roses
Basketball
Chili
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: buffcoat on November 06, 2006, 11:27:01 AM
Andrew WK was on Aqua Teen Hunger Force last night.
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: DigiDan on November 06, 2006, 07:39:42 PM
Dr Phil, Jerry Springer, Montel, Ellen, Maury...

I have it go on record that the only time I watch TV is when I eat, it's an OCD thing... but since TV is almost entirely garbage in these days, I find myself watching shows such as the ones mentioned above and enjoying them.

I'll think of some other guilty pleasures later.
Title: Re: Guilty Pleasures...
Post by: John Junk on November 06, 2006, 07:46:00 PM
Men In Trees.  'nuff said.