Have you ever hated a song? I mean REALLY hated one particular song?
There have been, in my lifetime, a lot of songs that I didn't like, say The Macarena or Toni Basil's Mickey, for example, but I more or less was able to avoid those because they usually went away after a short while.
There is currently a "song" which I find to be the most irritating earworm that I've ever heard. This wretched recording, which was released exactly one year ago today, is a huge pop hit and despite the fact that I don't listen to commercial radio, don't watch MTV and never go to danceclubs - I somehow manage to hear it at least once a day.
The shitty song in question was in heavy rotation at my gym for months, playing twice, and sometimes three fucking times during a typical 90 minute workout. Luckily, now I only hear it every other day. Or maybe I'm just not working out as often as I used to? On Facebook, so-called friends are constantly posting YouTube clips featuring the song, or updating their status with a lyric from this dreadful ditty. This begs me to ask "Who the fuck are these people and what have they done to my friends?"
The 'performer' of this musical atrocity is someone who I never really cared for in films and I do not know any other song that this one-named person sings. If their other songs are anything like this thing, please keep 'em far away from me. To make things worse, this musical turd has won awards from once-reputable magazines, proving how sad the state of music is today.
Recently, several trendy new TV shows have used this atrocious tune in episodes and even before that one older, once funny sketch show had done a painful parody of the "groundbreaking" music video that came attached to this malignant melody. I think a certain someone is rolling over in his jazzy grave.
These shows have all been promptly removed from my dvr. That's how much I hate it. I haven't hated anything this much since Sarah Palin, well maybe Glenn Beck.
What puzzles me is that people who I know and like actually find the song amusing, fun and cute (?) - when to me it's like listening to a thousand pieces of chalk being dragged across the world's largest blackboard. 
To top it all off, the "message" of the song is offensive as well - I only wish this was still the days of women's lib where Helen Reddy fans would take to the streets protesting this sexist, mindless dreck!
What puzzles me is that people who I know and like actually find the song amusing, fun and cute (?) - when to me it's like listening to a thousand pieces of chalk being dragged across the world's largest blackboard. 
To top it all off, the "message" of the song is offensive as well - I only wish this was still the days of women's lib where Helen Reddy fans would take to the streets protesting this sexist, mindless dreck!
Yes, I know it's only "pop music" and I should chill out and not get so worked up about it and stop being such a "hater". But you know what, if something that I don't like is forced upon me aurally, I have a right to complain! As a person who suffers from migraines, a song like this is a danger to my health.
So, I will do my best to avoid this vile and vomitous anthem–I've already managed to walk out of bars and stores in protest when I've heard it playing, and I've left at least one party prematurely and I will continue to do so in protest and in defense of good taste. I will go on hating it, hoping that the hate will spread and people will rise up an destroy every known recording of it in existence.
My biggest fear is now that this thing is part of the lexicon, I will never be able to escape it. It will be played at weddings, bat mitzvahs and probably at my funeral - and then I will rise from my grave and yell...
"Oh, Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine you blow my mind Hey, Mickey Hey, Mickey!!!"
Anybody who knows me in my "real life" knows that I have a 
I've avoided blogging about the character because frankly, there are dozens of great sites like 
First, here's some background. Wonder Woman was created in 1941 by William Moulton Marston, who was also polygymist (long story) and also created the lie detector. Marton's basic idea was to portray a strong woman that young boys and girls alike would be drawn to. His Wonder Woman was dedicated to peace, justice and equality at a time when women were far from equal in mainstream society. Wonder Woman soon became the most recognizable super-heroine in the industry. 
At some point in the early 1970s, an "animated" Wonder Woman appeared in one reel of a Viewmaster Good Guys gift pack. (
Where 
The Bradys somehow beat the Greek athletes in a marathon, but Wonder Woman points out that, if they win the race itself, they will be changing history!!! (
The series was known as SUPER FRIENDS from 1973-76. (
THE ALL-NEW SUPER FRIENDS HOUR introduced The Wonder Twins (also, no relation!) and ran from 1977-78.
The villain-filled CHALLENGE OF THE SUPER FRIENDS aired from 1978-80.
The title changed to SUPERFRIENDS: THE LEGENDARY SUPER POWERS SHOW from 1984-85 as DC's mega villain Darkseid became their nemesis.
And finally, SUPER POWERS TEAM: THE GALACTIC GUARDIANS from 1985-86! Whew!
During the time SUPER FRIENDS was airing on Saturday mornings, Wonder Woman appeared in two ABC TV-movies - the second, starring the perfectly-cast Lynda Carter lead to a wonderfully kitchy prime-time series that aired first on ABC, and then on CBS. 
The opening credits to the WWII-set ABC version of the show are among the finest ever created, and featured an elegant animated version of the Golden Age Wonder Woman.
In 1988, Wonder Woman made a guest appearance on the CBS series SUPERMAN, which was developed by comic superstar Marv Wolfman. The episode 
Though in 1993, Wonder Woman almost had a series of her own with something called WONDER WOMAN AND THE STAR RIDERS, a proposed half-hour animated series by Warner Bros. Animation which was to launch a line of Mattel toys not unlike the popular She-Ra collection. 
This project never made it past a promotional comic book that came inside Kellogg's cereals. 
You can read all about 
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE ANIMATED series came next, and as with SUPER FRIENDS, Wonder Woman was included in the line-up. The excellent Cartoon Network series kicked-off with a three-parter and Wonder Woman initially was portrayed as a young and innocent Princess, fresh from Themyscira. Several episodes featured Diana maturing into a more adult role, as well as memorable appearances by Hippolyta, the Greek gods, and the Amazons. This series ran from 2001 through 2004 - to be followed by JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED, which ran from 2004 to 2006.
In 2008, Wonder Woman stole the show in JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER - a direct-to video which was a faithfull adaptation of the acclaimed Darwyn Cooke graphic novel. 
While this Elseworlds version of Diana may not have been to everybody's liking, it certainly works in the alternate universe in which this story took place.
This brings us to 2009 and WONDER WOMAN, the eagerly awaited original animated film. I watched this film with high hopes, but found it very disappointing - and downright depressing. The film retells Diana's origin with a few minor changes, which I was fine with. The popular character Artemis (introduced in the 1990s) is successfully woven into the backstory - but the new character Alexa seems redundant - and takes camera time away from Diana. Loyal supporting characters, Steve Trevor and Etta Candy have had unflattering remakes, as has Diana's double W symbol. It now barely reads as one W. These problems I could have lived with. It is the changes made to Diana's core character that I have the most issues with.
This film portrays Diana as XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS - which she is not. To me it seems that in this story, Ares (the God of War) has won - creating NOT a Wonder Woman that can inspire greatness, but one that only knows triumph through violence, and that is very sad to this lifelong Wonder Woman fan. Strangely, the great Gail Simone who currently writes the wonderfully compelling monthly