we used to be friends

Things I used to like/love that now makes me shudder/annoys me:

Glee - Thinking back to the pilot and oh, what promises it held.  But I stopped believin' long ago.  It was all downhill from season one onwards.  The characters are increasingly annoying, and the plots non-sensical (you still need some semblance of character/plot continuity even if it's a musical!!!).  Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel have got to be the most self-absorbed protagonists in tv history.

New Girl - It's the Moonlighting syndrome.  They killed it by having Jess and Nick get together.  Their hipster romance is so misguided and so...hipster that I had to stop watching this season or I would have eventually stuck myself with a fork.

Lady Gaga - Yeah, when her first cd first arrived, I thought for a sec, we have a good Madonna wannabe.  I am always a champion for good old fashioned electronic dance pop (love Robyn!).  But then she somehow got into her head that she's some kind of modern art herself.  The costumes and the looks jump the shark, and we soon realize the emperor has no clothes.  In Chinese, there's a phrase called Run Fire Enter Monster that is totally appropos.  Last straw for me was her passive-aggressive feud with the Big M.  Bow down, you pretentious hack - you wouldn't even have a career without Madonna's blueprint.

Johnny Depp - Oh how I don't want to dislike Johnny Depp.  I love Edward Scissorhands-, 21 Jump Street-, Ed Wood-, Donnie Brasco-Johnny Depp.  I even liked the first Pirates-Johnny Depp.  But Pirates was the worst thing that could have happened, because it was his first major commercial blockbuster, and for the first time, he became predictable.  All he does now is play Jack Sparrow over and over again.  He's become a caricature.  Think all the subsequent Pirates movies, Alice In Wonderland, Willy Wonka - eeks.  Will we ever get our beloved Johnny Depp back?

San Francisco 49ers - How can I not root for my hometown team, with a rich history that includes Bill Walsh, Joe Montana and Steve Young?  I heart Steve Young!  But then you gave us Jeff Garcia - blah.  This was followed by a decade or so where I have no idea what happened.  It was all kind of a blur while my attention was stolen by the Patriots.  Now though my primary disdain for the Niners stems from the dick (Jim Harbaugh) and the thug (Colin Kaepernick).  I am actually rooting for the Niners to lose every week til those assholes are out of here.  (Yeah, I don't like them.)