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.
Yeah those paparazi are scum., why anyone would take them at their word is beyond me.
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.
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:
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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.
Quote from: Cain on February 24, 2014, 12:09:45 PM
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:
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:lulz: I love people who feel the need to SHOW EVERYONE HOW MUCH THEY DON'T CARE.
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."
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 24, 2014, 03:53:53 PM
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
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 03:59:43 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 24, 2014, 03:53:53 PM
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
:pwned:
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.
That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.
Quote from: Faust on February 24, 2014, 11:16:59 PM
That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.
I had a very similar reaction, lol.
Quote from: Alty on February 24, 2014, 06:35:51 PM
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).
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.
Quote from: Faust on February 24, 2014, 11:16:59 PM
That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.
Likewise.
Quote from: Nigel on February 26, 2014, 05:31:12 PM
Quote from: Faust on February 24, 2014, 11:16:59 PM
That made me like Alec Baldwin. And I didn't like Alec Baldwin before that.
Likewise.
Also this.
We should send him a postcard informing him of this development.
And inviting him to our cult.
Who is he?
Handsome actor, has a bunch of actor brothers, was known as a "sexy person" when he was younger, is now best known for playing the role of the boss on 30 Rock.
Also, he's kind of a drunk, and can be a bit unstable at times.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 26, 2014, 07:56:08 PM
Handsome actor, has a bunch of actor brothers, was known as a "sexy person" when he was younger, is now best known for playing the role of the boss on 30 Rock.
Also, he's kind of a drunk, and can be a bit unstable at times.
1. What's a
30 Rock? and
2. I expect actors to be drunk and unstable.
I really liked him in The Edge.
30 Rock was an incredibly funny show on NBC starring other people you haven't heard of, and won multiple Emmys over the 7 or so seasons they were on.
Srsly, it's funny.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 26, 2014, 08:02:41 PM
30 Rock was an incredibly funny show on NBC starring other people you haven't heard of, and won multiple Emmys over the 7 or so seasons they were on.
Srsly, it's funny.
In some ways, I am a complete cultural illiterate.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 26, 2014, 08:07:51 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 26, 2014, 08:02:41 PM
30 Rock was an incredibly funny show on NBC starring other people you haven't heard of, and won multiple Emmys over the 7 or so seasons they were on.
Srsly, it's funny.
In some ways, I am a complete cultural illiterate.
There is just too much culture these days, who can keep up?
In the Future, pop culture will be mandatory.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 26, 2014, 08:10:30 PM
In the Future, pop culture will be mandatory.
That's why I'm fucking staying in 1979.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 26, 2014, 08:10:30 PM
In the Future, pop culture will be mandatory replace history in school.
Fixt.
Quote from: :regret: on February 26, 2014, 08:08:42 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 26, 2014, 08:07:51 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 26, 2014, 08:02:41 PM
30 Rock was an incredibly funny show on NBC starring other people you haven't heard of, and won multiple Emmys over the 7 or so seasons they were on.
Srsly, it's funny.
In some ways, I am a complete cultural illiterate.
There is just too much culture these days, who can keep up?
Not me. Too much shit to wade through with just MUSIC, let alone TV.
That was a good letter. I don't want to restate him, and Cain said it quite well above as well, but all of the media has become one great big tabloid. And the general atmosphere does seem to be swimming with hate. And not any kind of righteous hate - it's pettiness, jealousy, gossip, racism, sexism (and other assorted -isms), lack of personal boundaries, selfishness. Maybe it's not new, maybe I'm just noticing it more, but it's sick and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And the worst part is that's ACCEPTED, even DESIRED. Feh.
After reading that letter, I laughed (not in a good way) at the recommended articles linked afterwards - "15 Celebrities with Ugly Spouses", "These are Actual Boyfriends of Victoria's Secret Models", Speed Skater Forgot She Had Nothing on Under her Uniform". Ha. Hahahahahaha