Mo’ free association

Well, enough of my “political crap.” Back to the ordinary.

I say … and you think … ?

  1. Limit :: volume
  2. Voice :: activated. Like the commercial where the guy in the coffee shop gets his laptop to search for sites on “alternate sex.” (he asked for “alternate specs.”) Yeah, not too funny.
  3. Change :: is good. I tell myself this a lot.
  4. Expression :: “change is good” is just an expression.
  5. Tailor :: made! Also, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.
  6. Lemonade :: I prefer yellow, but others like pink. What do you think?
  7. Thought :: cloud. My thoughts are often cloudy.
  8. Phoebe :: Cates! Because I forever have a certain scene from Fast Times etched in my primitive male brain.
  9. Impression :: First. See above for what I remember about Phoebe.
  10. Sister :: Act, on of Whoopi’s better movies, I guess.

Wanna play along?

The hell?

I’m not a Typepad member, so I can’t login and comment, but I wanted to point out Melissa’s summary of her Exciting Day on NBC over at [tag]Suburban Bliss[/tag].

This was when she was invited to go on the [tag]Today show[/tag] (or the yesterday show, or whatever it’s called) and talk about playgroups and whether or not a mom could (gasp!) handle herself, her kids, and a drink at the same time.

Huh?

I think the other commenters and blogs have covered most of the important bits, and agree with most of the ones I’ve read. Since I have a penis, I obviously have no problem combining alcohol and babysitting, and often get the little guys to mix [tag]jello shots[/tag] while I’m busy with the crack pipe.

(just kidding, NBC! We don’t do jello shots here, only upside-down margaritas while lying on the Little Tikes slide!)

update

I’ve been thinking about this, and I think down deep what really bugs me isn’t even what the debate seems to be about (“to drink or not to drink,” or as James put it, “Shaken? Or stirred?”). It’s this:

NBC is hitting me (us) over the head with their “message” of ‘Do This because our Expert Says it Must be Done’ and they are doing it by setting up an ‘interview’ with somebody who was totally blindsided by what actually went down.

And of course, NBC isn’t the only one to do this, it’s SOP on Fox (watch O’Really and the Hannity Colmes ‘debates’ as they follow their little scripts) and I even see it on sports shows when they have two or three has-beens on to “discuss” the event and if you watch you can catch them reading their cues as they settle into their little practiced position.

It isn’t an open debate, not by a long shot, but it is staged in such a manner to look like it is an interview, to lend credibility. Why did they attack mom’s? Well, who is their number one demographic of their show at that time of the morning? And they have what’s her name (pre-view host) who’s making umpteen millions but still pretending to be a normal mom (whatever that is) as part of the equation. It’s smoke and mirrors.

I don’t like being insulted, which is exactly what the show was about – insulting people who can think through both sides of an issue.

Weekend ‘rap’ up

Well, lessee:

  • We wound up seeing Dreamgirls, after all.
  • It was quite good.
  • I don’t know if it should be nominated for Best Picture, but it was at least as good as Brokeback or Crash, but in a different way. I haven’t seen enough of this year’s movies to know (I don’t think Slither made the cut, either)
  • We cleaned house some.
  • I satisfied my runner geek by getting some Balegas (via mail order) and taking them for a 6.2 mile run today in the pre-dawn chill. My longest run to date.
  • My kids had their hair done (pictures all around)
  • We cooked some seriously good ribeyes for dinner tonite, along with grilled asparagus and cous-cous.
  • I may be developing pinkeye. Yay me (and they said I’d never amount to anything)
  • My son wants me to buy him some rap music (er, hip-hop I guess) and do you know how hard it is to find some that doesn’t say “fuck” or “shit” or “bitch” every other line?