January: The News-Avoidance Month in Review

[cathyj]

With apologies to the Weekly Dig.

After gentle prodding by M., an overview of the month during which I stood in a convenience store turning a copy of the Times in my hands and wondering, "Do I really want this much news?"

JT LeRoy: As well as illiterate, imaginary. Took up a slot on Bloomsbury's list that should have gone to a real writer-I

Comments

[mistersmearcase]

Conventional wisdom (i.e. the last couple of people I talked to about it) holds that W would havea to rape a little boy on prime time tv for there to be any consequences for anything.

I'm beginning to feel odd about the fact that Brokeback didn't move me much.

[cathyj]

yeah, a little girl might not work. okay, i grossed myself out.

well--in re brokeback--it happens. i know a bi girl (actually it's whatkatiedid) who wasn't too broken up about it either. it's probably all that opera--your sensibility just isn't coarse enough. heh.

[anonymous]

The U.S. government:

Get wasted and shoot some guy in the face with a shotgun?

Um...OK...guess that won't work either.

Remember, guns don't shoot people, Dick Cheney shoots people.

-MDL

[cathyj]

God, you're right, it's just getting more and more absurd. Hi, how are you by the way.