Diary of Reggie, Alligator at Large, Entry #4
September 29, 2007They’re exploiting me at the Zoo. Or at least my image. I’m appearing on mugs, T-shirts, posters, advertising, you name it–and not a nickel for Reggie.
Call my agent!
Archive for September, 2007
Tom Cruise: New Bunker to Be Xenu-proof?
September 28, 2007Is Tom Cruise building a $10 million bunker to protect his family from space alien attack?
If true (it is posted in one of the ever-reliable British newspapers, quoting the even more reliable Star) like Michael Jackson with , Cruise is crazy like a fox. The publicity value is incalculable.
Why She Posed in Playboy
September 26, 2007A girl of the SEC, a classic in rationalization: “It’s not like it’s Hustler.”
Britney Spears: It’s all LA’s fault
September 26, 2007Alas, my City of Angels, does no one respect or love you? Britney Spears is the latest to diss “Sodom by the Sea” (or insert your own pejorative here). “I HATE L.A., I’m so sick of that town. I don’t want anyone to know I’m here in Atlanta,” she revealed to a shop clerk and a few million people on a shopping trip to the mall there.
She is of course a victim of the town, not of herself. But blaming “the dream factory”, “would you really want to raise your kids in LA” (as if Britney might do a better job elsewhere), etc. has a long tradition. As the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen put it, “Knock San Francisco to a San Franciscan and you’re starting a fight. Knock LA to someone from there and you’re starting a conversation.”
Does business own the language update
September 25, 2007Now the NY Times (or is it dollar-crazed AOL) is trademarking President Bush. How much would you pay?
Live Blogging Ahadminejad #6
September 24, 2007Ahadminejad was upset by the ‘unfriendly treatment’ he received from Columbia President Lee Bollinger. Like Hitler, he’s remarkably thin-skinned for a tyrannical dictator.
Live Blogging Ahadminejad #5
September 24, 2007“Let me just tell a joke here. The politicians who are against atomic weapons are retarded.”
With such knee slappers, he’s clearly a budding Sammy Davis Jr.
Whoops, wrong religion.
Live Blogging Ahadminejad #4
September 24, 2007Homosexuals=drug traffickers=death penalty.
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
Live Blogging Ahadminejad #3
September 24, 2007Wrapping himself in the cloak of scientific and academic inquiry to defend Holocaust denial is one of the most odious of Ahadminejad’s tactics.
Live Blogging Ahadminejad #2
September 24, 2007“We are peaceful loving nation. We love all nations. We are friends with the Jews.”
The translator is doing her emotional best to sell Ahadminejad.