12 years ago
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
another icon...
she lost her battle with cancer, and i am mostly sad because of the way her last days were spent in pain, withering away. so far removed from the vibrant innocence she exuded decades ago. farrah fawcett, out of nowhere, changed the face of beauty. she brought a down-home simplicity to an otherwise untouchable facet of american popular culture. a beauty queen with a warm and welcoming sense of herself, and her self never taken too seriosuly.
farrah, you finally got your wings, and i am sure they are feathered back.
farrah, you finally got your wings, and i am sure they are feathered back.
Monday, June 22, 2009
i saw her standing there
it took me several glances but i am pretty sure it was her. the light was dim and the music was loud and i had had some drinks, and i wasn't sure. until i noticed how detached, how silent, how frumpy, and how DOWNRIGHT MISERABLE she looked. then i was sure. quite sure. of that and a whole lot more.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
all apologies
late night tv still in the news, and this time it's disturbing.
ok. so due to nbc's nail-in-the-coffin replacement of jay's time slot with conan, we had the jay vs dave debate last week. no-brainer:dave wins that debate. hands down. oh you are wondering why jay has higher ratings? have you sampled the intelligence of the american television watching population lately? there's your answer. jay appeals to vanilla. and stupid. he's a no-talent hack who steals his specialty bits from howard stern. old, tired news. done. but now, we are in the throes of a darker late night tv controversy.
david letterman tells a joke about sarah palin's knocked up unmarried daughter and the likelihood that she would also get knocked up by alex rodriguez while she attended a recent yankees game. it was funny. it was topical. it was smart, and it was good. and now,the ill-vetted former vice presidential candidate is marching all over the media complaining about it.
come again, sarah?
sarah palin parades her child and the teen aged sperm donor of her unplanned grandchild in front of every single camera she could find to serve HER needs, but no one else can? oh wait, she DID let everyone else use her, at least she did not complain about it. until david letterman did it. WHY? why didn't jay leno have to apologize for HIS jokes about palin's kid? like THIS one he told a studio audience:
"hey did you hear Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant? Oh boy, John Edwards is in big trouble"
not to mention, what late-night comedian did NOT use palin's knocked up kid as a punchline? jay, conan, kimmel, kilbourne, stewart, colbert...why isn't she calling for all apologies? are you KIDDING ME? or is this no surprise from the woman wanted to be our vice president on the evangelical family values tour ticket with an unwed knocked up teenager?
her defense: she says that dave was talking about willow, her 14 year old. no, sarah, NO ONE ELSE saw it that way. NO ONE. you are lying. i know you have your own carl rove masterminding this effort, but he will be exposed, too. in the meantime, using your logic (underage children should not be targets of off-color jokes), why are you not calling on your former running mate to apologize to the Clinton family? Or have you conveniently forgotten this "joke", told in front of tv cameras by john mccain:
"why is chelsea so ugly? because janet reno is her father"
chelsea was 12 years old, sarah. if that. where's the outrage, sarah?
clearly: she has proven herself an opportunistic media whore;
the republican party has imploded a la the nonsense of hers and others' evangelical bottom-feeder hypocrisy;
and that david letterman is the late night comedy king.
hmmm. i think i am starting to like this broad.
ok. so due to nbc's nail-in-the-coffin replacement of jay's time slot with conan, we had the jay vs dave debate last week. no-brainer:dave wins that debate. hands down. oh you are wondering why jay has higher ratings? have you sampled the intelligence of the american television watching population lately? there's your answer. jay appeals to vanilla. and stupid. he's a no-talent hack who steals his specialty bits from howard stern. old, tired news. done. but now, we are in the throes of a darker late night tv controversy.
david letterman tells a joke about sarah palin's knocked up unmarried daughter and the likelihood that she would also get knocked up by alex rodriguez while she attended a recent yankees game. it was funny. it was topical. it was smart, and it was good. and now,the ill-vetted former vice presidential candidate is marching all over the media complaining about it.
come again, sarah?
sarah palin parades her child and the teen aged sperm donor of her unplanned grandchild in front of every single camera she could find to serve HER needs, but no one else can? oh wait, she DID let everyone else use her, at least she did not complain about it. until david letterman did it. WHY? why didn't jay leno have to apologize for HIS jokes about palin's kid? like THIS one he told a studio audience:
"hey did you hear Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant? Oh boy, John Edwards is in big trouble"
not to mention, what late-night comedian did NOT use palin's knocked up kid as a punchline? jay, conan, kimmel, kilbourne, stewart, colbert...why isn't she calling for all apologies? are you KIDDING ME? or is this no surprise from the woman wanted to be our vice president on the evangelical family values tour ticket with an unwed knocked up teenager?
her defense: she says that dave was talking about willow, her 14 year old. no, sarah, NO ONE ELSE saw it that way. NO ONE. you are lying. i know you have your own carl rove masterminding this effort, but he will be exposed, too. in the meantime, using your logic (underage children should not be targets of off-color jokes), why are you not calling on your former running mate to apologize to the Clinton family? Or have you conveniently forgotten this "joke", told in front of tv cameras by john mccain:
"why is chelsea so ugly? because janet reno is her father"
chelsea was 12 years old, sarah. if that. where's the outrage, sarah?
clearly: she has proven herself an opportunistic media whore;
the republican party has imploded a la the nonsense of hers and others' evangelical bottom-feeder hypocrisy;
and that david letterman is the late night comedy king.
hmmm. i think i am starting to like this broad.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
sunday morning
Sunday morning I'm waking up
Can't even focus on a coffee cup
Don't even know whose bed I'm in
Where do I start
Where do I begin
Where do I start
Where do I begin
Beth Orton
Saturday, June 6, 2009
never heard it until now
So I am cruising along in the Jetta, listening to E Street Radio (Sirius channel 10, 24-7 Bruce Springsteen) and i notice on the display that the current song is a live performance from the Boston Music Hall from 3/25/1977, so HELL YES i am gonna turn it up. Well, he and the band were in the middle of Rosalita, doing that signature intro to all the band members, and i am having so much fun listening to vintage live Bruce, and singing along until he did the cutest thing. Well, he did the cutest thing in '77, but you're still with me, right? OK OK OK: So you know that verse in Rosalita that goes:
But now you're sad, your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money (papa says he knows that i don't have any money, papa says he knows i don't have any moooneeeey)
Well tell him this is last chance! To get his daughter in a fine romaaaaance
Cuz a record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance!
well, here is how he sang it in Boston on March 25, 1977:
But now you're sad, your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money (papa says he knows that i don't have any money, papa says he knows i don't have any moooneeeey)
Well tell him this is last chance! To tell him this guy's no creep!
Cuz I just got my picture, Rosie, on the cover of Time and Newsweek!
Oh it was just so precious. I had never heard it until now, and now suddenly became our late 70's EB kitchen and I can SEE BOTH of those magazines covers on our kitchen table in the mail stack.
Damn, y'all.
But now you're sad, your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money (papa says he knows that i don't have any money, papa says he knows i don't have any moooneeeey)
Well tell him this is last chance! To get his daughter in a fine romaaaaance
Cuz a record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance!
well, here is how he sang it in Boston on March 25, 1977:
But now you're sad, your mama's mad
And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money (papa says he knows that i don't have any money, papa says he knows i don't have any moooneeeey)
Well tell him this is last chance! To tell him this guy's no creep!
Cuz I just got my picture, Rosie, on the cover of Time and Newsweek!
Oh it was just so precious. I had never heard it until now, and now suddenly became our late 70's EB kitchen and I can SEE BOTH of those magazines covers on our kitchen table in the mail stack.
Damn, y'all.
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