Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I do not like to comment on topics in which my knowledge is limited; especially when my knowledge is far inferior to the knowledge possessed by just about everyone else. And I do not like to “blog” about cool ideas. Cool ideas, to me, are for Palm Pilots. If they make it to the blog, they make it there after being sanded and polished and polished again. Even then, of course, one should be ready for an education. Perhaps somewhere on the globe, someone else has been finding new and better ways to get the turbocharger on a Porsche 911 working just a little tiny bit better, while he himself has been struggling to make a stone wheel round. In front of a large audience, that is the risk you run. And what is the “blogosphere” besides the ultimate in large audiences.
But…such a humiliation can be educational. And some ideas are so just plain cool that I do not care if someone else has already thought of it…if they haven’t, I don’t really care if someone steals mine. The important thing is to jot it down.
This is just cool.
I’ve been reading the comments on this post over at The Jawa Report about that reprehensible television show called “The View”. I do not know very much about The View. I have seen clips from it on YouTube and…you know, that is just about it. And I suppose I’m getting a tainted sampling by seeing clips of the show on YouTube. I’m imagining there may very well be a staggering amount of footage that contains less talk and more common sense, and for that reason never makes it to YouTube. Like, I only have an opportunity to become aware of the most brain-dead sludge from all the show has had to offer. Would it then be fair to form an opinion? Hmmm.
Well, that would depend on the opinion. Like: It’s freakin’ impossible to carry on a reasonable conversation with everyone talking over each other like that. And Rosie O’Donnell is a dense loudmouth bitch.
Am I in need of a more scientific method of sampling of the available footage, which in turn might negate or mollify some of that sentiment? Really? There don’t seem to be any indicators that this is the case. Lacking any such indicators, I have to presume that I know pretty much everything I need to know. It’s not as if the subject matter is terribly deep to begin with? I haven’t heard anyone say The View is terribly complex or multifaceted. So…
…here is my idea…I understand the ratings issue continues to be a crisis…
…so let us say I’m the producer who runs everything.
We continue to depend on Rosie O’Donnell as our ratings savior. We just change the format a little tiny bit. Rosie’s doing most of the talking, right? Okay, we have her start off the show. Every single episode. Someone just tosses out the topic, and we get to hear what Rosie as to say. Blah blah blah, sentence after sentence.
From inside a soundproof booth. We get to hear her through loudspeakers. Yadda yadda yadda…and of course, while Rosie’s inside the soundproof booth, the other three gals are outside. They have their thumbs pressing down on dead-mans’ switches, and while they press the buttons Rosie can still be heard. On and on she goes — but when two of the three outsiders decide Rosie has said something that demands a response, and stop pressing the switches, the loudspeaker goes OFF.
Rosie is silent. And the other three gals can talk over each other responding to what Rosie has said.
For added fun — Rosie has no way to know if her switch has been cut, or not. All she can do is keep on moving those lips and gums, blah blah blah. The other three girls would be free to critique Rosie’s sentence structure, her analytical skills, her etiquette, and…then…maybe they could take an informal vote about whether it’s too soon to let Rosie talk again. Or to be heard again, rather.
I’m tellin’ ya — I would miss a freakin’ court date to catch an episode of that. I think a lot of other people would like to see it, too.
Babba Wawa, you can have that idea for free. You’re welcome.
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