Not a bad flounce, that

[Bu🤠ns]

http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/alec-baldwin-good-bye-public-life.html

Well, I'm not really a bit Alec Baldwin fan but in his goodbye letter he does bring up some really poignant ideas about the way our culture has changed in the new media age...how liberal media outlets are becoming more like fox.  I started out thinking okay why am I reading about Alec Baldwin and finished pretty impressed. 

[Salty]

Yeah those paparazi are scum., why anyone would take them at their word is beyond me.

[Cain]

I don't know much about Alec Baldwin or the brouha he is talking about, but I do remember he went down to New Orleans with Matt Taibbi during the floods, to help distribute food and water (also to rescue some crazy guy's maid and cats).

If nothing else, he's had my respect for that.

[Cain]

I also have to admire how Charley shat all over this on Facebook.  I'M GOING TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LINK.  LOOK AT ME NOT CARE.  He doesn't "have time for it", but apparently does have time to post things like this:

[Suu]

Most of the Baldwins still live in Amityville, NY, which is a few towns over from where my family hails from. It's pretty common to see them out and about doing their own grocery shopping and errands along that area of the Southshore. The entire clan is remarkably down to earth and the locals give them their space...because that's what they are to them. Locals. That's why they tend to stay out there so much.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I also have to admire how Charley shat all over this on Facebook.  I'M GOING TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LINK.  LOOK AT ME NOT CARE.  He doesn't "have time for it", but apparently does have time to post things like this:

I love people who feel the need to SHOW EVERYONE HOW MUCH THEY DON'T CARE.

[LMNO]

It really came out of the blue, too.  I was like, "This is the first time you've ever responded to anything I've posted in, like, ever, and it's essentially saying, 'I don't have time to care about this'? Please, do go on posting about living in an RV and connecting with your Native American Roots through the internet."

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It really came out of the blue, too.  I was like, "This is the first time you've ever responded to anything I've posted in, like, ever, and it's essentially saying, 'I don't have time to care about this'? Please, do go on posting about living in an RV and connecting with your Native American Roots through the internet."

Charley,

Well, a few care about it, but they don't give a tangible shit, so either kill your stupid fucking self or get over it and DO something.  Just because you're smarter than THOSE PD SPAGS but whiny as hell or a Beautiful Person™ with a bitchy temperament that spoils yer looks don't mean jack to the revenue office.  That dick ain't gonna cut itself off and shit ain't gonna leap INTO your mangled ass  spontaneously.  No, you have to hack & stuff on yer own, regardless of the number of Nigels, Rogers, and menacing & ungrateful children arrayed against you.  All you humans are stupid.  So stop using beer as a Nyquil chaser; Its making your ears flap like Mothra barnstorming Osaka.

Love & Kisses,
The Good Reverend Roger

[LMNO]

It really came out of the blue, too.  I was like, "This is the first time you've ever responded to anything I've posted in, like, ever, and it's essentially saying, 'I don't have time to care about this'? Please, do go on posting about living in an RV and connecting with your Native American Roots through the internet."

Charley,

Well, a few care about it, but they don't give a tangible shit, so either kill your stupid fucking self or get over it and DO something.  Just because you're smarter than THOSE PD SPAGS but whiny as hell or a Beautiful Person™ with a bitchy temperament that spoils yer looks don't mean jack to the revenue office.  That dick ain't gonna cut itself off and shit ain't gonna leap INTO your mangled ass  spontaneously.  No, you have to hack & stuff on yer own, regardless of the number of Nigels, Rogers, and menacing & ungrateful children arrayed against you.  All you humans are stupid.  So stop using beer as a Nyquil chaser; Its making your ears flap like Mothra barnstorming Osaka.

Love & Kisses,
The Good Reverend Roger

[Salty]

That whole  "I DON'T TALK OR HEAR ABOUT THE LIVES OF CELEBRITIES, MY LIFE REFINED AND CULTIVATED AND REAL!" thing is just so lame. Especially from someone who I remember QUITE clearly saying "Shedlon Cooper (from The Big Bang Theory) is a GOD."

That show is just so much shit piled on top of shitty shit. Everytime I see any clip or gif or some nerd talking about it my stomach starts to heave.

More to the point: I don't like People magazine (or US Weekly or the billion other shit rags out there). For one I don't see why people are obsessed with every detail of every celebrity, sure, but also because those kinds of publications dehumanize those people, they create whole narratives based on how fat or skinny someone is, or by pictures where they are baited into hostility. They are bullies, plain and simple.

And sure, I am not particuarly interested in the minutae of their daily lives one way or another. But that screeming is just so much, "I AM BETTER THAN YOU." Why? "BECAUSE I AM BETTER!" OK.

[Faust]

That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.

[Telarus]

That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.

I had a very similar reaction, lol.

[Cain]

That whole  "I DON'T TALK OR HEAR ABOUT THE LIVES OF CELEBRITIES, MY LIFE REFINED AND CULTIVATED AND REAL!" thing is just so lame. Especially from someone who I remember QUITE clearly saying "Shedlon Cooper (from The Big Bang Theory) is a GOD."

That show is just so much shit piled on top of shitty shit. Everytime I see any clip or gif or some nerd talking about it my stomach starts to heave.

More to the point: I don't like People magazine (or US Weekly or the billion other shit rags out there). For one I don't see why people are obsessed with every detail of every celebrity, sure, but also because those kinds of publications dehumanize those people, they create whole narratives based on how fat or skinny someone is, or by pictures where they are baited into hostility. They are bullies, plain and simple.

And sure, I am not particuarly interested in the minutae of their daily lives one way or another. But that screeming is just so much, "I AM BETTER THAN YOU." Why? "BECAUSE I AM BETTER!" OK.

Not to mention that Alec Baldwin isnt, AFAIK, considered a particularly attention hungry or vapid celebrity.

And that his writing had some powerful points to make about the judgemental mob mentality that entertainment magazines are engendering, under the guise of "proper social values".

But I may be biased, as another writer I like makes that point quite a lot, from the opposite direction (that most liberal online commentary is little more than trendy social positioning, discarded the moment it becomes too tedious to maintain).

[Eater of Clowns]

TMZ is one of the more disgusting television creatures. I'm a proponent of heaping abuse on them and any associated with their depraved theater of the grotesque, especially if it's by the person being harassed.

Plus every time they mention the name of a certain disgraced Patriots tight end, I have to field pushy reporters from a dozen news outlets.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.

Likewise.