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May 22, 2008

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My Jeopardy! Dream Board

With credit to the VTT for the idea, here are my all-time categories, taking on all comers! Round One Pope or e.e.? Tom Lehrer Songbook Hold 'em Dictionary 80's Standup Comedians Airport Food Advertising Logic 101 Round Two Famous Trebek Impersonations Olympic 800m Runners 70's Playground Games Jewish Sports Legends San Francisco Burrito Stands Nerdspeak Final Jeopardy "Well..."

Jesus is just all right. Anything more than that is your issue, not mine.

So a group called The Miracle Theater got upset after Kathy Griffin apparently mocked and/or blasphemed God during an awards presentation. They took out a full page ad in USA Today, to the tune of $90k, to express their displeasure and promote a petition against Griffin's comments on their own website. I have been around the theater world, loosely, most of my life; my mother has worked in stage theater her entire adult life. My younger sister lives in New York, has landed a few touring gigs in musical theater and is working hard for that break on Broadway (go Jen!). So I say this with some authority on the subject: a theater company that has $90k to spend on one ad, that's a miracle theater. You are indeed well-named. But now let's look at all this hubbub from a celebrity's point of view. With exceptions for those who prefer notoriety, most people and institutions for whom celebrity is part of their business naturally want the spotlight to be a glowing, positive one

Goodbye, Vikki Lynn Hogan

Yah, yah, and here it is. The article I was waiting for that tells all . Originally in Houston, relocated to obscurity outside of Dallas. Sure, sure, there's all that dirt about the person we called Anna Nicole Smith. But here's the thing, the tail end to the article linked above: "Some people have it that she disgraced this town ," said Alan Campbell, a burly trucker in the local natural gas industry. " But I don't think that she did. She had a goal and she did it ," he said as he tucked into lunch at a Mexia restaurant. See it? An idiom of your average British dirt reporter. I have my own fondness for the UK -- I've been to England, Scotland and Ireland, all on separate trips -- but their cheerless hunger for American spectacle is sad. It's a money cesspool that's far, far more crass than your average American knows how to plumb. You know Candle in the Wind , whether Elton John, so-called, was referring to Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana

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