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June 13 in Remembrance
June 13. My birthday. And now, 3 milestones that I can count:
2006: Michael Jackson acquitted
2008: R. Kelly acquitted
2008: Tim Russert dies
Watch out, celebrities: it’s an up and down day!
Jimmy Kimmel is an idiot.
The Huffington Post put together a montage of how late night hosts addressed their return to the air, largely without their writers.
Jay Leno expressed his support for the writers, but did mention that “19 people [writers] put 160 other people out of work,” and that’s why he returned to the air. Conan also expressed his support and said he stands with the writers.
Meanwhile, Letterman brought out a chorus line doing a Rockette rendition holding up strike signs, and had a “top 10” list of writers’ demands. The top demand: producers should immediately remove their heads from their asses.
The biggest idiot of them all: Jimmy Kimmel, who expressed frustration that actors can “do movies like the Sex and the City movie,” but can’t come on his show. Well, Jimmy, one has a picket line, the other does not, and you’re a selfish bastard.
Watch the full montage
As Late Night Returns, Who Will Stand with the Writers?
I have my first post up on FireDogLake, where I’ll be writing about the ongoing WGA strike. -MW
After seven weeks of silence, late night talk hosts return to the air tonight – but without their writers, who promise to picket outside the shows until the strike is resolved. While David Letterman negotiated a deal for writers to return to his and Craig Ferguson’s shows, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert must improvise monologues and sketches to fill air time without their writers.
Letterman likely took the lead from Johnny Carson’s efforts during the 1988 strike, in which Carson eventually negotiated a deal for his writers to return while the strike continued. While Carson briefly mentioned the strike in his return to the air, he did not use the strike for material for his show, instead filling time with musical performances and skits.
Letterman took a different route in 1988 – one that he will hopefully resurrect tonight.
“The producers happen to be, in my opinion, money-grabbing scum,” he said in one of a number of skewering references to the studios. “I want to make sure people understand I’m in favor of the writers guild.”
How I Broke into My Own Apartment
It’s Sunday. The Buffalo Bills are playing at 1:00, and I can watch it on TV in DC for the first time since 2003. So of course, I need to get some Canadian beer.
I took Dirt McGirt to the corner store to buy a 6-pack of Molson with some chips & salsa. I have a ripe avocado in my kitchen, and I want to make some guacamole.
The trip to the store is routine, and I come back to my apartment at exactly 1:00. One problem, though: I have every key but the one to open the front door, which, I remembered, fell off earlier in the day. At the time I thought to myself, “I should really reattach that key before I go out again.” I never did, and now I was locked out of my own building.
This t-shirt is hilarious. I watched my first episode of Big Love yesterday – I think I need to give it a few more episodes.
This whole “collaborative internet” of people connecting and communicating is great. FX’s showing of Cops just took it to a place it should never have gone. While you’re watching Cops, the channel puts up a “Cops 2.0” question. Today’s was “Have you ever been hit by a car?” Thanks to the Internet, you get to see what idiots who are watching cops respond to these insightful questions.
This screen cap shows the responses “yes and i died” and “no but i hit my mailbox”. Hurrah, Internet!
Aug 14, 06:20 PM / Comment [1]
The Sopranos Go On; TNT is Brilliant
The Sopranos is over. I’ve seen a bunch of people hate on the episode (including this dissection by Ezra Klein), but I wholeheartedly disagree. I think that this was the best way the Sopranos could end.
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