Just got word from an Unrepentant Marxist reader based in Dubai that my blog entry on the cable show "Flipping Out" was cited in "Property Weekly", a local magazine. Apparently, flipping real estate is a big thing in Dubai as well.
Property Weekly, September 12, 2007 Flipping Houses in Dubai By Mark Beachill Throughout the world, there exists a perception that original quality television is being swamped by home makeover and property-based light entertainment. Satellite and cable TV means that UK daytime stables such as Homes Under the Hammer are now shown in Eastern Europe and beyond. Often such programmes lack reality: as the class book of critical essays asked, 'How real is reality TV?' The US cultural critic Lous Proyect writes of a Bravo cable network show called Flipping Out. Since episodes were uploaded onto the internet, you can see it too. The protagonist is Jeff Lewis, a self-absorbed figure who comes across as a reject from TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm, forever causing chaos with his petty preoccupations. Lewis is a Los Angeles real estate businessman who would like to make his millions by 'flipping houses'. (clip) My blog entry on "Flipping Out": http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/flipping-out/
