In a conversation about the WGA Strike (no,this post isn’t about that…
a few days ago, Jackson Miller said that the true future of revenue in television was most likely in product placement. I’ve been re-reading that statement in my head over the last week, and I have to tell you. I [...]
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One of the 82 thousand Death Of A Princess shows I’ve watched in the last two weeks had some person–Dodi al Fayed’s masseuse, I believe–saying that if you’ve ever bought a tabloid you have Diana and Dodi’s blood on your hands.
Okaaaay.
I suppose appearing on a tabloid-like show about them doesn’t encourage ongoing fascination with celebrity [...]
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If you go to Noshville today and sit in the booths just stage left of the bar area, second one back, if you look down you’ll see a white bag from JJ’s Market.
In that bag are two magazines: a National Geographic on the History of the Maya and a Vanity Fair with that wierdly named [...]
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My mom used to tell me “Life isn’t fair” whenever I’d whine about not getting the same treatment as other kids at home or school. Now, I pretty much say the same thing when people complain to me…although instead of my mom’s polite verbiage, I tend to just say “suck it!” really harshly. [...]
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Back in May I said I wouldn’t read the Warren Zevon biography. I had good reasons. But then I saw the book in the store on my birthday, and the heavy slab of words on Warren would not be ignored. I made a compromise with myself and checked it out of [...]
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Anne Heche’s ex-husband says she’s mentally unstable. Really, I have to ask. Is Anne Heche’s ex-husband illiterate? Did he not read the book she wrote about how nuts she was? The book called Call Me Crazy: A Memoir? Because she is obviously a person suffering from mental illness, and [...]
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I had a weird dream.
Someone made a movie of my life. The role of “me” was played by Truman Capote.
Friday Random Ten after the jump.
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It’s one of those milestones in life where you say to yourself “I’d really like the town drunk from Hoosiers to weigh in on this one.”
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Jake Lloyd, the kid who played Anakin Skywalker in Phantom Menace is working at a Pac Sun in a mall outside Indianapolis.
Wow.
Just remember this next time you think YOUR life has taken odd twists and turns.
And while you’re at it, maybe you can explain to me why there’s a surf duds shop in [...]
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Why is Alec Baldwin apologising on The View?
I don’t know what he said; I’m only vaguely aware of him saying something that this time angered the whole country, instead of just half of it. But I thought what he said was something to his child. Certainly he owes the child [...]
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