Longtime commenter/reader Margot ventured forth into a new career, that of Addiction Promotion Specialist (aka, “Pusher”) for This Blogger. Aware of This Blogger’s lurid infatuation with So You Think You Can Dance? dancer-smiler-dreamboat Thayne — Thayyyynnnnnne — our Margot detailed the situation to said Thayne and snapped the following photo after their tour performance. In Fresno.
Hats off to Margot. I’ll be in rehab, if anybody needs me.
I watched this miniseries, The Starter Wife, which I liked, and it ended with this quote, which I loved:
You will travel through the valley of rejection,
You will reside in the land of morning mists…
And you will find your home,
Though it will not be where you left it.
No offense to the writer of The Starter Wife, or anything, but this feels like it’s “from” something, and I’m not accomplishing anything in the Googling. Can anybody verify the name of who wrote this?
Here is the beginning of a consummate article by Patricia Williams (an American), writing in TheGuardian (a Brit newspaper):
We are now several weeks into the weird humiliation that the Republican party inflicted upon us Americans with their choice of Sarah Palin as their nominee for Vice-President. Here we are, at as precarious a crossroad as history is ever likely to offer up, yet there stands Sarah Palin regurgitating George W Bush’s ‘good guys-bad guys’ baby talk. I despair.
When I hear her failing to recall the name of a single newspaper she’d ever read, I feel willing to offer up my teenage son as a sacrifice to the Republican party; he could serve in her stead with so much more fluency. When she prattles smoothly yet non-responsively to questions about the war, economics or foreign policy - or when she brightly changes the subject altogether - I want to weep.
Palin is a never-ending train wreck of ignorance, inconsistency, outright contradiction and sneering. . . .
The rest of the article is here. Read it, and feel comforted that you’re not alone.
Many moons ago, my Famous British Actor friend came to town to do a piece of theatah. He was asked by a high-brow radio station to come onto a program of theirs, one which interviewed high-brow talent while playing the ten songs they would bring with them to a desert island. I believe they expected FBA to bring some pretty high-brow stuff with him. But FBA — never being one to travel with scores of record albums, or even being much for making useless high-brow lists — asked me, his old chum, if I wouldn’t compile this list for him. He was well prepared for me to provide him something … avant-garde (read: bratty), and lower-brow than any-other-kind-of-brow. I’m not sure the snooty radio station was prepared, however.
The list included:
“Turning Japanese” by The Vapors
“Tapedeck in His Tractor” from the Nashville soundtrack
“I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid” by Julie Brown
I would like to stress that all of my choices — with the possible exception of the grand finale — were chosen carefully, and with symbolic impact in mind: e.g., since ‘turning Japanese” is a euphemism for masturbating, I felt this was an important song to have on a desert island, and since FBA did like them big, if not stupid, I felt that this was also a sound choice. (Get it? Sound choice? hahahahaha)
As I said, perhaps the grand finale wasn’t chosen for its resonance, but more because it was utterly and completely the last thing a Famous British Actor — one expected to be of the high-brow ilk — would ever be expected to listen to. Needless to say, when asked which of his ten tunes he would leave for the next castaway, that was the one he mercilessly chose. And here it is, just for you:
Like the cockroach, even when assaulted with toxic radiation I have survived the first week of this thing and am back for more nuking. Cloris is dressed in something Scottish; I don’t know what kind of dance they could possibly be doing. Oh . . . maybe it’s supposed to be some Spanish dama thing.
Toni Braxton and Alec the Ego are up first. Their Rhumba was pretty, even though there were only about three seconds of actual Rhumba in it. And Toni’s outfit was weird; it looked like an open dressing gown with a bushy tail in the back. She looks disproportionately naked compared to her partner. Why isn’t he practically nekkid, I ask you? (Note to producers: make Alec more naked next week and I will like him better.)
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.
Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines.
“I’ve never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I’m not going to stop now,” McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
