Lake Superior State University came up with a list of words and terms that it believes should be banished from the English language. Nice list, but I would add two more:
“Indie Darling” — I was reading Entertainment Weekly and, on page 12, I noticed an item about “Indie-rock darling Carrie Brownstein.” In the same issue on page 80, there was a piece about “indie-cinema darling” Parker Posey. So I did what anyone with too much time on his hands would do, I Googled “indie darling” and another annoying term that pops up everywhere, “(fill-in-the-blank) porn.”
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“Imagine if you flicked on your television and found that the government had cancelled American Idol, 30 Rock, The Office, and Dancing with the Stars.” — CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, commenting on government censorship in China. Next time, Fareed, could you please pick shows that don’t deserve to be censored?
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Until this week, I’d never heard of CNN correspondent Alison Kosik. But on Wednesday I listened as this (presumably) highly paid TV reporter told unemployed Americans that temp jobs are “not that bad.” Then I read that in October Kosik had mocked the Occupy Wall Street folk. And I see that she advocates the use of job-killing self-checkout lanes in grocery stores. So now I know more about Alison Kosik. She is a jerk.
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Runaway: I love this film. It’s nine minutes of goofy greatness. Watch it by clicking here, and thank me later.
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Stephen Colbert is “running for president.” Ha ha. This guy has never struck me as funny. He is a one-joke act, and I tire of that act after about 15 seconds. Colbert gets a lot of media attention because of his proximity to Jon Stewart and because he jokes about politics. But that don’t make him funny, do it?
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I’ve been wondering whatever became of the male stars of Dawson’s Creek. Turns out that Joshua Jackson, who played Pacey Witter, has been getting up to all sorts of mischief in Latin America. Just in case you weren’t a Dawson fan, here are a few pictures of Joshua, Hollywood-style (top row), and Joshua, Peruvian-style (bottom row).
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For some unfathomable reason, there are people interested in the fact that Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, are new parents. Their baby girl is named Blue, but I’ve been unable to discover her surname. In fact, I’ve been unable to discover her parents’ surnames. So I guess I will just call them the blacks and Blue.
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