I'd like someone to punch him in the face.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Ginger - Mar 20, 2012 12:18:37 pm PDT #27391 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
meara - Mar 20, 2012 12:18:55 pm PDT #27392 of 30001
Skipping ahead to say I'm catching up on DVR'd shows, and just watched Good Wife (love that show), and then Smash-- and after seeing him as Colin Sweeney who is creepy as hell, it was really hard to believe him as a loving dad in Smash! I kept expecting there to be random acts of violence.
Kate P. - Mar 20, 2012 12:20:35 pm PDT #27393 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Seriously. And it pisses me off too because I think it's a topic that deserves serious journalistic inquiry, and this mess could just make it that much easier to dismiss any further reporting on problems with Apple's (or other companies') manufacturing practices abroad.
Liese S. - Mar 20, 2012 12:21:12 pm PDT #27394 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yay laundry!
Oops, I have towels in the washer from this morning I forgot about, thanks!
-t - Mar 20, 2012 12:26:54 pm PDT #27395 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't watch Smash, but I can see that being a problem, meara!
Ginger - Mar 20, 2012 12:27:39 pm PDT #27396 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Aside from the importance of the topic, I despise writers who invent things or rearrange timelines and characters and then say they did it to make a better story. If you're a good writer, you can tell a good story with the facts. If telling the truth is too difficult for you, write fiction and identify it as such.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2012 12:31:25 pm PDT #27397 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And it pisses me off too because I think it's a topic that deserves serious journalistic inquiry, and this mess could just make it that much easier to dismiss any further reporting on problems with Apple's (or other companies') manufacturing practices abroad.
God, I hope not -- the one thing that should be clear is that all of the bad stuff happened, just not to people that Mike Daisey met. I mean, Marketplace and the New York Times each have actual reporting on this stuff, from the underage workers to the Hexane and whatever else.
Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2012 12:34:04 pm PDT #27398 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I despise writers who invent things or rearrange timelines and characters and then say they did it to make a better story.
Sedaris does it too: [link]
le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 12:35:25 pm PDT #27399 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I never thought his shit was true though.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 12:43:21 pm PDT #27400 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Okay, yet another interview/resume question: Pete thinks I should just put my resume on the iPad and take that with me, instead of paper copies. I feel that having dead tree copies to hand to people is a better idea, because the "Here, look at it on my iPad" approach feels ... pretentious? Like I'm trying too hard? Something like that. Am I being ridiculous, or is Pete used to thinking in terms of showing someone an art portfolio?