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lazypadawan) wrote2009-09-14 06:11 pm
lazypadawan) wrote2009-09-14 06:11 pm
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A Little Condemnation For Your Monday
Kanye West crowned himself King of the Douchebags with his "performance" on the VMAs last night (which I didn't watch). He's entitled to think Beyoncé should have won and maybe he was right. Beats me. But to run up there and grab the mike from Taylor Swift like that to mouth off was the equivalent of dumping pig's blood on Carrie at the prom. He'd better be glad that Miss Swift doesn't have deadly telekinetic powers. But with West, it's always been about me, me, me. Beyoncé did the classy thing by trying to make it up to Swift later on, while professional jerk Russell Brand had the nerve to defend West. Can you see why I really have no use for these people?
Serena Williams's behavior at the U.S. Open was appalling. Not even John McEnroe pulled that kind of nonsense in his day.
Meanwhile, Michael Bay and Megan Fox are teaming up for Transformers 3: Battle Of The Egos. It all got started when the not-so-bright Fox gnawed off the feeding hand by saying Bay is kind of like Adolf Hitler on the set of his films. Then three crew members wrote anonymously on Bay's OWN website a long piece defending the director and portraying Fox as a dumb, untalented, harridan (but that's not the word they used). Fire up the Jiffy Pop and sit back for some entertaining reading on Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood. Not only is the letter from the crew members entertaining, so are the replies. People are accusing Bay of writing the letter himself while other comments accuse Fox's defenders of being part of her PR posse. Other comments dish on the horrors of working with the both them:
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/transformers-crew-talk-back-to-megan-fox/
Fox shouldn't say anything not written for her in advance and Bay shouldn't have plastered the missive on his website, as funny as it is. Can you imagine something like that getting posted on starwars.com?
Finally, we return to the realm of SW with another what-were-they-thinking moment. I won't link to it, but there's a video at CollegeHumor.com featuring stormtroopers looking back at the destruction of the Death Star, i.e. where they were and their "theories" on what happened. My problem? It's called "Stormtrooper 9/11" and it's posted right around the eighth anniversary of that date's atrocities. Worse yet, the starwars.com blog cheerfully linked to it and I saw a lot of Twits on Twitter laughing about it.
As some level-headed soul posted on the starwars.com blog, the 3000 people who died were real. I recall a skit on Saturday Night Live that aired in the '80s about Buckwheat's assassination. It was funny not because it made a joke of murder but because all of the satire was about media coverage of tragic events. A few years ago, I posted a list of "Death Star conspiracy theories" because it didn't make fun of 3000 people getting killed, it made fun of conspiracy theorists.
But this just left a really bad taste in my mouth and really, shouldn't the people at starwars.com know better?
Serena Williams's behavior at the U.S. Open was appalling. Not even John McEnroe pulled that kind of nonsense in his day.
Meanwhile, Michael Bay and Megan Fox are teaming up for Transformers 3: Battle Of The Egos. It all got started when the not-so-bright Fox gnawed off the feeding hand by saying Bay is kind of like Adolf Hitler on the set of his films. Then three crew members wrote anonymously on Bay's OWN website a long piece defending the director and portraying Fox as a dumb, untalented, harridan (but that's not the word they used). Fire up the Jiffy Pop and sit back for some entertaining reading on Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood. Not only is the letter from the crew members entertaining, so are the replies. People are accusing Bay of writing the letter himself while other comments accuse Fox's defenders of being part of her PR posse. Other comments dish on the horrors of working with the both them:
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/transformers-crew-talk-back-to-megan-fox/
Fox shouldn't say anything not written for her in advance and Bay shouldn't have plastered the missive on his website, as funny as it is. Can you imagine something like that getting posted on starwars.com?
Finally, we return to the realm of SW with another what-were-they-thinking moment. I won't link to it, but there's a video at CollegeHumor.com featuring stormtroopers looking back at the destruction of the Death Star, i.e. where they were and their "theories" on what happened. My problem? It's called "Stormtrooper 9/11" and it's posted right around the eighth anniversary of that date's atrocities. Worse yet, the starwars.com blog cheerfully linked to it and I saw a lot of Twits on Twitter laughing about it.
As some level-headed soul posted on the starwars.com blog, the 3000 people who died were real. I recall a skit on Saturday Night Live that aired in the '80s about Buckwheat's assassination. It was funny not because it made a joke of murder but because all of the satire was about media coverage of tragic events. A few years ago, I posted a list of "Death Star conspiracy theories" because it didn't make fun of 3000 people getting killed, it made fun of conspiracy theorists.
But this just left a really bad taste in my mouth and really, shouldn't the people at starwars.com know better?