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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Brick in the face

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that Ryan Seacrest's show was borne out of a Fox Television need for further shameless self-promotion. Picture the TV suit saying, "Y'know, we need something like a Today Show or GMA, where we can co-op and pimp our talent and promote our shows. And it needs to be cheap, and maybe it doesn't have to be in the morning so much. And maybe I'd like it to be a little like TRL because Carson Daly wouldn't go down on me when I cornered him in the restroom stall the other day at 1515."

And then the suit next to him says, "You know, it'd be a pain in the ass to put it on the network. Why don't we just syndicate it?"

Ta da! Instant bonus job for yet another plastic-face tool. Check out a recent week's schedule courtesy Tom Heald via "This Week at the TV Barn":

ON AIR WITH RYAN SEACREST, Syndicated
Mo 5/24 "American Idol losers" R.J. Helton, Julia DeMato,
Vanessa Olivarez, Nikki McKibbin, Rickey Smith and Josh Gracin
Tu 5/25 Tamyra Gray performs / "American Idol'' update /
winner of "The Swan."
We 5/26 On the set of "American Idol" / Alanis Morissette
performs.
Th 5/27 "American Idol'' winner and runner-up / Randy Jackson.
Fr 5/28 TBA

Yes, yes, yes, I know it is after all American Idol (season 3) Finale Week. But come on. Besides the TBA on the day after sweeps (which will probably be a rerun) and Alanis Morissette, everything else is a Fox property.

While I'm on the subject is it just me or am I the only one who wants to heave a brick in the face to the following Ken dolls?:
+ Carson Daly
+ Ryan Seacrest
+ Billy Bush (on Access: Hollywood)
(more tools to be named later)

I'm sorry, I just cannot stand such polished, "with it," so obviously empty-headed individuals on television. These men just LOOK like the only thing they were born, groomed, and paid to do is read cue cards and be professional suck-ups. If I ever turn into one of these men, shoot me. If I ever turn into one of these men and I am no longer wearing glasses on a regular basis, for God's sake stab me through the heart with a wooden stake and take away my powder base compact immediately. I hesitate, for some reason, to invoke the Seinlanguage word mimbo here, but it seems appropriate.

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More admiring of other writers

Dude, read Gary Dretzka. This time the topic is NAB and FCC. I love it when people take a stand. Now I just need to learn how to do it myself. TV Barn | Broadcasters in Vegas: More hedging than betting

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Don't Care Government

Nicki Finke's LA Weekly: Columns: Deadline Hollywood: Dave the Brave makes me want to be a better human being and a better writer. Somehow this article makes me think of a quote in John Maxwell's REAL leadership series of books, specifically the Attitude 101 book: "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." Maybe it's the thing about George W. Bush reportedly wiping his glasses on Maria Pope's sweater without asking. He must have thought people working for the show (or essentially for him) are just there to help him out and don't care what happens to their clothes.

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Stop Shouting already!

idea... take classes in being a mime so I can learn how to communicate without using my voice.

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Fairly OddParents Lyrics

Cue the jazzy orchestra!

SINGERS
Timmy is an average kid
that no one understands.
Mom & Dad & Vicky always giving him commands.

VICKY
BED, TWERP!

SINGERS
The doom and gloom up in his room
is broken instantly...
By his magic little fish,
They grant his every wish...
'Cause in reality,
they are his
OddParents,
Fairly OddParents!

WANDA
Wands and wings!

COSMO
Floaty, crowny things!
(Dinosaur CHOMPs down on Cosmo)

SINGERS
OddParents, Fairly OddParents!
Really mod! Peapod! Buff bod! Hot rod!

TIMMY (wishing Vicky into all of these things)
Obtuse! Rubber goose! Green moose! Guava juice!
Giant snake! Birthday cake! Large fries! Chocolate shake!

SINGERS
OddParents, Fairly OddParents!
It flips your lid when you are the kid
with Fairly OddParents!

VICKY
Yeah right!
(her head turns into something with a Pop!)

--Copyright Nickelodeon/Viacom. No copyright infringement intended.

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Where is Hooker Street anyway? Chinatown?

The Hooker Street Band sounds like they need to put a schedule of their gigs on their website. Just heard a demo CD of them Saturday 5/1 and they're as entertaining as Maroon 5 or other such bands. C'mon, you gotta give props (god, listen to how ridiculous I'm starting to sound) to a band that includes a ukelele. Fun fun.

Maybe I'll see them crop up on lovethyjob's schedules... Hmm...

(Why Chinatown (in Boston that is)? It was the first time I've ever come close to being propositioned by a prostitute. I was walking down one street one night on my way to meeting friends at, I dunno, Apollo for Korean barbecue perhaps, and I walk past these two young ladies of the night, one of whom says to me as I pass, "You look lonely." I managed to keep a straight face as I thought, "That I may be, but I ain't buying what you're selling.")

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DRY UP

Someone named Holly whom I have never heard of, whose voting privileges should be revoked, just got the following unsolicited message sent to me:

Holly has referred you to President Bush's re-election campaign as someone interested in volunteering for the President's team!

I sent you this message because I hope you'll sign up to volunteer for the President today! Just enter your email address in the box below, or click here:

By signing up today as a Bush Volunteer, you'll join the most important part of the 2004 election: the grassroots team to reelect President Bush. You'll also receive the latest inside information, news of upcoming visits, emails from the campaign trail, and special campaign mementos!

Hi Guys! I encourage you to become a member of the Bush re-election team! Help put a man of faith and courage back into office! Thanks a bunch!

Sincerely,
Holly

Learn more about this unspeakable person Holly by clicking here. She lists one of her favorite links as "News" but it links to CNN rather than Fox News Channel. Inexplicable. I hope her dearly beloved, Tad, gets some itchy venereal disease.

Maybe this is all just a dumb joke being played on me. If that is so then SOMEBODY'S sense of humor is more skewed than mine.

I admit I do have friends who are in favor of the president but this does not seem to be their style.

If you actually want to volunteer to put The Little Shrub back in office for another four years of "Goll-eee, Sarge! I done become Prez-eye-dent!" go to GeorgeWBush.com if you must.

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Twofer: Delaying Newscasts and A Corrupt UN

A Providence-based television station group will be delaying its air product electronically in order to "bleep out" any offensive material in news broadcasts or televised sports. Read a teeny bit at the bottom of this article at Forbes magazine.

Also, I don't know how or why but a young woman named Cindy on AOL sent me this article from The Australian. It's continuing a story about how people at the UN against sanctions on Iraq were being bribed by Saddam Hussein with money intended to buy food and provisions for the Iraqi people (oil-for-food). The story was also covered in the Washington Post, which has a good deal of background about it.

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