"It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late"

Literary Lovers – I don’t expect you to know who Sandra Lee is because I would hope that most of you haven’t the half hour time slot to fit her into your lives.  For the purposes of today’s article, however, let me take a moment to “enlighten” you.  Sandra Lee is the host of The Food Network’s television show “Semi-Homemade.”  She is also one of the many descending steps The Food Network took to get to the substandard hell it dwells in today.  Before you call me out on my tendencies to overreact to things that don’t really affect my life and do not pertain to storytelling whatsoever, understand that my anger for her and that network is really anger at a bigger picture – she is the face of our society’s acceptance of mediocrity as the norm.

Sure, who the hell am I to say anything on the matter? I don’t even reread what I write here before I post it (please don’t fire me, Julia).  I publish with the assumption that no one expects the respect of proper grammar and structure (although I confess I am so often tempted to correct grammatical and spelling errors on people’s Facebook statuses).  We live in a society that doesn’t expect us to suit up for work and we buy electronics that we anticipate to break within the year.  We are used to, accept, and fully expect things to be semi-acceptable and we’re totally okay with it.  Things that used to require a written letter are done via Facebook comment.  Announcements of important events are done via Twitter.  Everything is casual.  Things are good as long as they’re good for now.  Formality is dead.  Quality check is optional. Read more »