I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.

Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Connie Neil - Nov 20, 2006 11:30:46 am PST #1639 of 10007
brillig

I didn't know that the same company owned the book's publishing co. and the Fox network.

But, tommy, the two have nothing to do with each other! Fox network had *no* involvement with the book deal!

Damn, that growing nose just impacted my computer monitor.


brenda m - Nov 20, 2006 11:30:52 am PST #1640 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Racist tirades /= mistake. Ever. If you've gone far enough to invoke "tirade", you don't get the cop out. Fuckheads.


§ ita § - Nov 20, 2006 11:32:36 am PST #1641 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nicole, it's walrus. I never would have gotten the link between Pink Floyd and Animals, although it's retroactively obvious.

I just don't know enough things.

That Michael Richards clip creeped me way out.


Glamcookie - Nov 20, 2006 11:33:06 am PST #1642 of 10007
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I heard that Michael Richards thing on the radio this morning. What a fuckhead.


Jesse - Nov 20, 2006 11:33:43 am PST #1643 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Racist tirades /= mistake. Ever. If you've gone far enough to invoke "tirade", you don't get the cop out. Fuckheads.

I'm going to make the leap and say that if you've gone far enough to invoke "racist," you don't get a cop out either.


Topic!Cindy - Nov 20, 2006 11:34:54 am PST #1644 of 10007
What is even happening?

Is there actual vid to the Richards vid? I just get a title card with the understatement of the year, "The following piece by Brooke Anderson contains language that some may find disturbing."


§ ita § - Nov 20, 2006 11:36:34 am PST #1645 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I get an ad, and then the CNN piece. They've bleeped/starred motherfucker but not nigger, which almost surprised me.


brenda m - Nov 20, 2006 11:37:21 am PST #1646 of 10007
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Fox network had *no* involvement with the book deal!

And they didn't pay him for the interview. If the entirely unrelated co-owned publisher did, then how could the network have anything to do with it?

Also, Borders, if you're that clear on what you're selling, and it sounds like you are, then why go all the way and *not sell it*?


Laga - Nov 20, 2006 11:38:41 am PST #1647 of 10007
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Really! Do they donate the profits from sales of Mein Kampf or Dianetics?


Sean K - Nov 20, 2006 11:42:23 am PST #1648 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I've never been terribly fond of Richards to begin with. That just makes him a useless fuckwad.

As to Paul Rodriguez' comment about how "freedom of speech has its limits, and [Richards] found those limits." I don't think freedom of speech should necessarily be limited in that way. I want people like Richards and Gibson to be free to speak their minds on these subjects, so that we can all be made aware that they are racist jackholes and that we can now ignore pretty much anything they have to say.