Entries Tagged as 'brilliant'
Who Watches The WATCHMEN?
You. You should watch the WATCHMEN.
Fake U.S.A.! Fake U.S.A.!
Since the McCain campaign and the Republican Party are in decline and don’t take losing very well, they’ve decided to go back to that time-tested strategy of deciding who’s a “real” American and who’s a “fake” American. I was worried that in all this talk about whether or not Obama was a terrorist and the possibility of a complete economic meltdown, we wouldn’t discuss who really loves their country and what loving that country means.
Thankfully, the GOP went there this past weekend and two of TV’s best editorialists have responded as only they could. First, the eloquent Keith Olbermann asks, “What is ‘pro-America’, Senator?”
Jon Stewart then has a follow-up question, “What the pfuck?”
Hang In There, Nation!
There are 28 days left until Election Day. In that time, a horrible virus could ravage the Earth rendering its inhabitants fast-moving, blood-thirsty zombies; Sandra Bullock could do a stint in rehab; or John McCain could come back from the political brink and win this election on nothing more than vile attacks and broad smears. I think back to 2004 and recall the shock and horror of Bush winning a second term. I picture John McCain crossing the threshold of 270 votes on November 4th…I see him dying in office because he’s fucking old…I see Sarah Palin as President…My blood runs cold but my heart is beating out of my chest. I curl up into the fetal position and begin to sob. And then I look at this picture and everything is okay again:
It reminds me that Obama has run the best campaign possible. It wasn’t without its stumbles but it was hard-fought and it didn’t fall into the trap that got Al Gore and John Kerry of ignoring the smears and hoping the American people would be smart enough to see through it (they’re not). Obama has a smart, well-disciplined campaign and this little image reminds me of that. So whenever I read horror stories about John McCain or Sarah Palin, I just look at this photo and it calms my nerves and I put away my passport and stop looking for jobs overseas and return to hoping that our long, national nightmare will finally be over on January 20th, 2009.
Tina Fey is still Sarah Palin
The funniest person on SNL is the one who no longer works there. Tina Fey kills again as Sarah Palin.
Praise Blog!
Who knew that my blog would be an asset and not a liability? I did. That’s why I keep it and write under my own name.
Today I went in for a job interview (a real one!*) and the interviewers both said they had read my blog and and enjoyed it! I don’t know if that’s enough to hire me (that would be totally awesome if it were), but it did help boost my writing self-esteem. Lately I’ve felt like I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump. I’ve been turning in a steady stream of articles for Collider but I felt they were lacking the pop I was once providing. I wasn’t playing with words like I used to or including fun asides. It was rote analysis of movie news with not enough of the snark that I was hired to write in the first place. And I love writing snark. How many people get paid to be snarky? Thankfully, not many. But I’m one of them!
Anyway, if anyone ever tells you that keeping a blog may be detrimental to your job prospects, feel free to use this instance as anecdotal evidence. You will surely win the argument.
*At some point I’ll have to chronicle how CareerBuilder led me into a den of thieves.
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