Thursday, April 12, 2007
Bye Bye, Donny Boy
Don Imus will not be missed. He had become a fixture inside the beltway and somewhat outside of it. A lot of people had never heard of him before all the current controversy. Maybe he had some talent at one point but he's now 66 and not exactly fresh. Most importantly, HE IS A RACIST. Thank God CBS fired his ass. It wasn't an altruistic move on their part but, despite it all, it sends a message. You can't make hateful and destructive comments and expect to just get away with it and have people laugh it off. This is not the first time Imus has made racist comments. And how about this for his official apology while he still had a show to apologize on:
"Want to take a moment to apologize for an insensitive and ill-conceived remark we made the other morning regarding the Rutgers women's basketball team.
It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended. Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry."
Why include the "WE"? He said it. Not "WE." What a complete and utter self-absorbed insincere goon. And now he still wants to meet with the Rutgers team to say a little something to them.
Don, just leave them alone and go crawl under a rock.
Labels: CBS, communication, Don Imus, idiots, mass media, media, politics, pop culture, racism, racist, radio, television
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Random Nation Part Two
So what do we call ourselves this time? "The YouTube Generation" sounds about right. WIRED, in it's current cover story, comes close to saying, "The Bite-Sized Generation." I am still holding onto calling these times, "The Random Generation" or use the term, "Random Nation."
From the mailbag, I got this recent post that I'll go ahead and quote from. It's in response to my post, "Open Toes, The Beauty of it All!":
Talk about overcomplicating. Indeed, it is a pop song of the Nelly type, who has a similar poppy song devoted to open toeds, targeted at the -just wanna have fun- teen to 30 something female, and anyone who likes feet really. It should be known by now after countless mentioning of feet surrounding Mcphee, she loves them. I saw her on Tyra Bank's show and Trya (Chingy's foot girl) took off her shoes for some reason and showed them to Mcphee, then she said "you have pretty feet". Right then I noticed her eyes alone immediately turned to the crowd as her head followed in the same way when someone says something and they are unsure how or if they will be judged or also when ego is checking if relation is apparent, kind of like when someone lies but thats just because the crowd was directly to her right side. Well her expression was cheekier than usual and to me thats enough proof. I hear Tyra is pregnant and due, also think its Chingy's, also think they only hooked up because of her feet, now isnt that a stupid reason to bring a kid into this world
Well, this won't be the first time we have a child born from excess.
We live in an ultra-narcissistic age.
Reality and fantasy collide at more rapid intervals.
Here is where I think a discussion of Hyperreality would prove useful. And, if you're going to go to Baudrillard, then you must go to McLuhan as well. I haven't gotten any takers on views regarding Marshall McLuhan yet. I'm just wondering if people are familiar with him at all given that he once was truly a household name.
Here is where I think the foot becomes a far more interesting symbol. It can represent excess. But it can also represent a coming back to reality in a spiritual and grounded sense. If you think of the '60s, for instance, you can clearly see the foot back then as a symbol of the age: excess commingling with spirituality.
Labels: Baudrillard, blogs, celebrity, feet, foot fetish, hyperreality, images, Marshall McLuhan, philosophy, pop culture, social studies, society, television, text, video, Writing
