A miscellany:
#1. Okay, I give up. I’ve had my conversion. I adore Achewood and I don’t care who knows.
#2. Given the amount of dudes now dressing up like Captain Jack Sparrow outside of the Chinese Theatre, I propose the institution of a new Hollywood game: Pirate or Homeless?
#3. This interview fascinates not because the President is grilled by a journalist outside the clubby atmosphere of the mainstream media/White House press corps, but because of the unbelievable condescension with with Bush responds. Considering his general reputation as something less than a leading intellectual light, I’ve long found it interesting how much of Bush’s articulation involves speaking down to his listener, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen him manifest it like an Andover old boy. At first I thought it might be because the interviewer is a woman, and chicks need to be spoken to like they’re idiots, but then I realized: Oh my god, no, it’s because she’s Irish. Bush is talking down to her because she’s Irish, and when you’re at Andover or Yale in the 60s, who better to take a few lumps than Paddy?
July 13th, 2007 at 8:03 am
#1. Cool.
#2. You need a “both” category. The Superman there smells like very old cheese (no way he’s sleeping indoors).
#3. This is expected. If you’ve ever heard Garry Trudeau talk about going to school with Lil’ Bush, this is the behavior (frat heirarchy)he talks about… leadership/power by humiliating others. Your referencing of Bush and Andover reminded me of the Robbie Fulks song Countrier Than Thou, which, after the Bush verse*, contains the great rhyme: “You’ve been to Andover, so what’s the banjo fer”
* “He’s got a ranch. He wears a Stetson
he’s a hip shooting ex-oil king
even talks like Buddy Ebson
but he’s sitting in the west wing.
Frankenstein, i’m well aware of
but won’t somebody please explain
how you get a county sherrif
walking with a frat boy’s brain”
July 13th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
The library in downtown had (has?) a photo exhibit of something like Life Around Hollywood– one of the photos is of the inside of Superman’s apartment. I think he’s smoking pot in it, but that may have just been in the text describing the photograph.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
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