The Sheila Variations

It makes me wish I could wash away this man's family away and see if he still finds that funny.

People on staff at Entertainment magazines say things off the cuff that are gross offenses all the time without thinking. I think they get caught up in the moment of having a Microphone in their face, and they speak without thinking of what they're saying. I remember someone saying 'Arrested Development' was the next 'Prince & The Revolution'(not the TV show mind you, the R&B Group, the article being paraphrased appeared around 1994.)

However, for that IDIOT to associate the tragedy in the World news with a celebrity breakup?

Revolting. Disgusting. He should be ousted. What a simple bastard.

They really really want us to believe they're legit.

"This is our tsunami".

I really want to find that guy and punch him in the head. I'm serious. I looked up the address of Wenner Media online and it's quite nearby.

I don't think he was necessarily comparing the two in any sense other than the sort of coverage that people who work in the respective medias will be expected to provide. That's not to argue that it wasn't an intensely stupid thing to say.

Speaking of which, Emily ... there's some site out there which has listed all of the insensitive silly things (and like you said - not purposefully cruel, just silly and unfortunate) said by people about the tsunami...

One was from some reporter saying they needed to "flood the zone" ... This was less than 10 hours after it occurred, etc.

I guess it's that he's from US WEEKLY that really pisses me off. Just shut your trap about the tsunami, and stop trying to pretend that your profession is on the same level as real news. It's okay. No one will hold it against you.

I thought it was unfair for critics to bash some media people for insensitivity when they used cliches that had double meanings during the disaster (bash them for lazy use of language, maybe). But the "This is our tsunami" is beyond pale. This ain't a cliche and is equivalent of saying "This is our 9-11" or "This is our holocaust".

Besides that, it isn't even propositional... in the entertainment industry "an earthquake" would be that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were divorcing. Maybe John Travolta and Kelly Preston... hell, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman stayed together TWICE as long and Brad and Jen!

The thing about satire is that its always just shy of real life. Liberal Larry called it, again. It gives me the creeps.

I think it's just a severe form of myopia that's often found in the entertainment industry.

I mean really, red, how could anything possibly be more important than the breakup of Brad and Jen?!

sheila, if you do the punching in the head thing, make sure it's recorded on some form of film, because the image of a redheaded whirlwind storming into the guy's office, giving him a roundhouse right to the temple, and stomping back out again without a word is one i'd treasure for the rest of my life.

You run into these slips of the tongue when pimping the cult of personality. You know when you spend your day in the shallow gutter, you soon start spouting the shallow.

The fact that people actually get paid to do this fascinates me on some level. These guys are sort of like strip club barkers aren't they?

Are you really going to hit him?

Okay Red...think about that night in Hoboken...think about that asshole who wouldn't stop saying 'cock-sucker' You know what I'm talking about, don't you? It was HIM!!! You can do it. You can do it...I have faith in you...this time, turn the back heel, and put your hip into it.

I'm hating this business more and more. I'm terrified that when some stupid ass fuck face sticks a microphone in my face and asks me how I feel about Star Jones and her husband, I'm going to rage so hard on them that I'll be reduced to making commercials for Depends.

I scare me.

You know what else, Sheila? And I was thinking about posting this: I wish everyone would just leave these two airheads alone. They got married, they made more money than God, and now their marriage is shit. Leave them alone and let them do what the have to do. Why the hell does every single reporter on the planet feel it's their duty to KEEP talking about it??? It was semi-important for about ten seconds, and now....not so much. Let these children clean up their lives, fix the money thing between them, and get on with doing their job: Making mindless entertainment for the masses. That's what they're paid to do. Let 'em do it.

Am I nuts?

wow. And I thought I was socially inept and said really horrid things without thinking.

I can only believe that the guy who said that is just a total social idiot who doesn't stop to filter the stuff in his brain before it comes out his mouth. I can't bring myself to believe that this person actually thought that

Brad 'n' Jennifer break up = large seismic wave that kills an unimaginable number of people, and leaves twice as many without homes and livelihoods

was a good thing to do.

'Cos if he does....well, the guy's got termites where his brain should be and cockroaches where his heart should be.

If Alex made commercials for Depends, I would totally start buying them. I'm just saying.