Crap that I'm sick of...
Because there's crap...then there's crap that I'm sick of
This week's list
1. September 11 fatigue: When a friend of mine calls a weather service phone number and gets a message about honoring the victims of September 11 before finding out that it is going to be sunny and in the 70s, well you know it's gone too far. Not to say that there shouldn't be memorials and memories, but we have got to stop milking as much as we can out of it before the memories dissolve into caricature.
2. Bennifer: A colleague of mine asked today, who really cares about them? I jumped out of my chair and rabidly exclaimed: "What? Is there some news on Ben and J-Lo?" She understood that I was being facetious: would the media that obsesses over them understand that?
3. Dyin' celebrities: Johnny Cash and John Ritter on the same day. I'll give my props to the "Man in Black" first. The first song I ever sang Karaoke style was "Ring of Fire." His version of Nine Inch Nails' hurt is better than the original. And he dressed all in black. How badass was he?
John Ritter was on a highly popular sitcom with only one sit: straight man pretending to be gay lives with two women; for some reason the roommates always seem to mishear or make assumptions that leads to greater chaos. Watching "Three's Company" today is painful, truly painful, but for some reason John Ritter's performance as Jack Tripper was admirable: he was always working. That, and he was great as J.D.'s dad in "Scrubs," the best comedy on TV.
4. Clergy sex abuse: Archbishop O'Malley has managed to negotiate a settlement with the victims; there is speculation that Father Geoghan was abused by prison guards (figures); do any other religions generate this much press? Where Cardinal Law sought to protect himself and his own misguided actions with regard to the pedophile priests, O'Malley has reached a settlement in record time.
5. Donna Harris Lewis (widow of former Boston Celtic Reggie Lewis): She is 0-2 in her attempts at suing her deceased husband's doctor. She is now attempting to go 0-3. Nobody has ever come down from 0-3 to win a best of seven series.
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Because there's crap...then there's crap that I'm sick of
This week's list
1. September 11 fatigue: When a friend of mine calls a weather service phone number and gets a message about honoring the victims of September 11 before finding out that it is going to be sunny and in the 70s, well you know it's gone too far. Not to say that there shouldn't be memorials and memories, but we have got to stop milking as much as we can out of it before the memories dissolve into caricature.
2. Bennifer: A colleague of mine asked today, who really cares about them? I jumped out of my chair and rabidly exclaimed: "What? Is there some news on Ben and J-Lo?" She understood that I was being facetious: would the media that obsesses over them understand that?
3. Dyin' celebrities: Johnny Cash and John Ritter on the same day. I'll give my props to the "Man in Black" first. The first song I ever sang Karaoke style was "Ring of Fire." His version of Nine Inch Nails' hurt is better than the original. And he dressed all in black. How badass was he?
John Ritter was on a highly popular sitcom with only one sit: straight man pretending to be gay lives with two women; for some reason the roommates always seem to mishear or make assumptions that leads to greater chaos. Watching "Three's Company" today is painful, truly painful, but for some reason John Ritter's performance as Jack Tripper was admirable: he was always working. That, and he was great as J.D.'s dad in "Scrubs," the best comedy on TV.
4. Clergy sex abuse: Archbishop O'Malley has managed to negotiate a settlement with the victims; there is speculation that Father Geoghan was abused by prison guards (figures); do any other religions generate this much press? Where Cardinal Law sought to protect himself and his own misguided actions with regard to the pedophile priests, O'Malley has reached a settlement in record time.
5. Donna Harris Lewis (widow of former Boston Celtic Reggie Lewis): She is 0-2 in her attempts at suing her deceased husband's doctor. She is now attempting to go 0-3. Nobody has ever come down from 0-3 to win a best of seven series.
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