Archive for May 18, 2006

Stop the presses!

May 18, 2006 / / 3 comments

This is big news. Big news. Changing my life type news.

[NBC’s] biggest hope next fall is “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” a new series from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin. With Sorkin’s pedigree and an all-star cast that includes Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford and Amanda Peet, the network scheduled it for the key slot of Thursday night at 9 p.m.

The stars will play the backstage operators behind a network sketch-comedy show.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, I love you already.

P.S. I find there’s a blog discussing that this show will be up against Grey’s Anatomy. GET TIVO PEOPLE!

Tabloid gossip and the dearth of hope

May 18, 2006 / / 2 comments

It’s possible that it’s unforgivably dorky to comment on the McCartney-Mills breakup, but I venture forward unafraid.

There is no way that 90% of the adult population of the U.S., and Great Britain, and most of Europe, didn’t see this coming. Rich man. Disreputable woman. Old enough to be her father. She feuds with the children of the previous marriage. He’s on the rebound. I mean, DUH.

But. » Read more..

Tar babies and apologies

May 18, 2006 / / Comments Off on Tar babies and apologies

In looking into the whole “hug the tar baby” thing, I find citations of Tony Snow using the phrase as far back as 1999. It seems it’s a pet phrase of his.

On the way to work this morning, I was listening to Rachael Maddow, and she explained that yesterday, she’d called Snow to task for using “tar baby” because, although it is a phrase meaning “sticky or inextricable situation,” it’s also a racial epithet. Later in the show yesterday, she used the word “bohunk,” which she didn’t realize was also an offensive epithet. So today she apologized for it, laughed and moved on.

It was so easy. It astonishes me that people don’t know that apologizing is easy. It is a natural thing, because sooner or later, we all need to apologize. It can be discomfitting to approach, but is often pleasant in the hearing.

The current administration seems structured around the idea that apologizing is offensive and wrong. “Stay the course” is not just their watchword in Iraq, it’s their watchword in everything they do, because they cannot and must not be wrong.

It’s not the worst thing about Bushco, but it may be the most inhuman.

 
zeeReputation Theme