how gawker is saving clio's sanity, episode 3

[jlh]

This might need to be daily. This morning I got my identity crisis all over poor wordplay.

Strippers! Nose Jobs! Six Easy Ways To Explain Economic Disaster Includes:
1. The 'how this is playing out at the strip club' angle
2. The 'detestable rich people put off plastic surgery' angle
3. The ha ha ha, 'assets for sale on eBay' angle
4. The 'end of greed' angle
5. The 'America and/or capitalism is dead' angle
6. The 'Wall Street: It really does affect Main Street!' angle


Debate Prep: John McCain To Practice With One Black Guy He Knows. No, they're not making this up. In other "black people aren't like us" news, people apparently think Michelle Obama is more elitist than Hillary Clinton. You know, because she's a black woman who went to college and stuff.

ETA: Oh, and it also makes me feel a tiny bit better that Defamer didn't think Probst should win, either, and that Idolator doesn't like Duffy any more than I do.

One more: What do you think you need at 38?. I'm thinking friends, a roof, and a personality, myself.

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

She's a black woman and she went to college! That must mean she is... wait for it... uppity. AMIRITE? And we know what that really means. *beats head against wall*

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Given that Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) already called Barack uppity earlier this month ...

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Exactly. *flails*

[hermorrine.livejournal.com]

UGH I just want this stupid political season to be OVER! It all just makes me want to tear my hair out.

I detest Duffy. I can't figure out why she seems to be the darling of all the late-night talk shows.

And let's see... "There are three things a woman really needs at 38: a husband, at least one child, and a dress with long sleeves." So says the supremely annoying socialite/Vogue editor/chick-lit author Plum Sykes in an October Vogue article. WOW. Just... I HAD a husband and got rid of him - does that count? :P What a stupid ELITIST bitch. :P I like your list. Mine is: 1) Having good sense with money, 2) A career or life pursuit that fufills you in some way, 3) Knowing what is fun for you and doing it on a regular basis.

[ladylisse.livejournal.com]

Debate Prep: John McCain To Practice With One Black Guy He Knows

Wait, this is for real? I seriously thought it was an Onion headline. omfg.

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

You read my mind. I started laughing till I realized it WASN'T A JOKE. Good God. I fear for our country if mccain gets in. Actually, I fear for myself--i, the gun-control favoring, peace-mongering liberal may be driven to shooting the president dead. And his veep.

[ziggy1278.livejournal.com]

Okay I'm sorry, but even if I didn't have a sick fascination with Survivor, I would think that Probst should have won. He's like the aging godfather of reality TV. It is appropriate and right that he should get the first Emmy. Ryan can get it next year. Or the year after that. Or the year after Probst, who has been doing this for 10 years, dies...

You honestly don't think the dude deserved it? Just a little?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Then I think it should have gone to Bergeron, and I honestly would have been well satisfied and pleased if he'd gotten it. He's been around for fuck-ever, I mean, he was hosting People Are Talking up in Boston when I was in college. He's forgotten more than Probst has ever known. (Not Ryan, but only because Ryan did some kind of bizarre mind meld with Merv Griffin before he died.) Dancing with the Stars is almost as much of a circus as Idol, and it's arguably harder to juggle has-been stars than unprofessional "talent" and cranky diva judges, and you should get a bonus for being live.

I also think that Padma should have been nominated instead of Heidi, and Cat Deeley instead of Howie, because seriously, what the hell was he doing on that list? Probst totally deserved to be nominated but whatever, I never liked Survivor that much.

Have you resurfaced? I was going to call you tonight on my way home. New season of HIMYM starts tonight!

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know I never mind. Besides, I'm hereby reserving a slot of your time to freak out in your general direction re. the eternal grad school question (again! um, at least I'm predictable? *headdesk*) so, you know, it all evens out.