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2007-02-01

The last Liberal in Texas

Okay, maybe it only seems that way from my Left Coast vantage point, but I can't help mourning the loss of Molly Ivins both as a rare Liberal who was willing and able to speak truth to power, and as a rare wit who was both disarming and well armed. Tributes compare her to Mark Twain, which to my mind shows respect for Twain. I only got to know her through her columns and her books and a few of her TV appearances, but she's one of the few famous people I'd like to have spent an evening listening to. Her life was both well spent and way too short.

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2005-07-13

I can feel my brain oozing away.

Who watches the watchers? Who writes about the writers? Salon has an article about a cover story in W Magazine about the cult programming of Katie Holmes. Both pieces make her sound even more frightening than Tom Cruise himself; phrases like fembot and Stepford wife are used with no irony at all. But I can't decide which is more frightening: The turning of a supposedly intelligent and competent young woman into something more pudding-like? Or the fact that I had to stare momentarily at an ad for right wing wingnut Tucker Carlson before Salon would let me read their take on weird celebrity behavior? Followed by yet another picture of the creepily weird Carlson on each page of the article itself. In a celebrity strange grudge match between Holmes/Cruise and Carlson, I don't know whom to root for. Or maybe they could devour each other like the gingham dog and the calico cat. Yeah, I'd love to see that on PPV...

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2005-06-29

Rosie puts it all in perspective

A little blank verse from Rosie O'Donnell about both Oprah and Tom Cruise acting like jackasses lately. When she's right, she's right.

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2005-02-19

Fame (of a sort)

I've been helping out Virginia Hey, former blue-skinned alien in Farscape, Bond girl (The Living Daylights) and warrior woman (Mad Max 2), with a couple of her websites. Nothing major; some database configuration, editing of pages, domain setup, stuff like that. I like technical challenges, and moving, reconfiguring and adding capabilities to her sites have provided a few of those! So I was surprised and pleased to see a shoutout on her blog this morning. Granted, she gives me way more credit than I deserve. And she gushes. But that's Ginny, a wonderful combination of gracious and "say exactly what you think, the moment you think it".

Anyway, if you're a fan and haven't discovered her blog, you'll find it right where you'd expect: VirginiaHey.com. And then stop by her shop at WhiteFlowerLei.com. Ginny does an amazing line of candles, soaps, meditation CDs and the like.

Oh, and any technical problems you find, send those to me. My email's over on the left somewhere.

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