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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
Linda Ronstadt Eyewitness: Not So Much Bedlam. Boots N' Ronstadt Tuesday continues, as a reader points us to this post on The National Review's The Corner blog. [Defamer]
Not surprisingly, this is a case of
someone -- here, the president of the Aladdin -- blowing something out
of proportion. Maybe he needs to put Dubya in his pocket for some
reason. The National Review, of course, is no bastion of left wing
hysteria:
My wife & I were at the Linda
Ronstadt performance in question, at the Aladdin in Las Vegas, and
quite frankly, Aladdin President Bill Timmins' account of what happened
is complete crap. There was mixed booing and cheering at Ronstadt's
pro-Michael Moore comment, and that was about the extent of the
"bedlam" that supposedly broke out.
I saw no posters being torn down or cocktails being thrown in the
air, and if people stomped out of the theatre unhappy, it was because
1) that was the last song Ronstadt performed; it was her encore; and 2)
she mainly sang her standards repertoire, with the Nelson Riddle
orchestrations, and a large part of the crowd wanted to hear more of
her rock-'n'-roll stuff; she got the biggest round of applause for
doing a lackadaisical run-through of her version of "Blue Bayou."
Frankly, my suspicion is that Timmins is way overdramatizing what
happened, in order to justify giving Ronstadt the boot. It simply
wasn't that big a deal.
What an ass. What a country we live in.
1:55:46 PM Permalink
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The War on Parody. The sun sets and rises, and a company files another frivolous trademark infringement suit. The target in this case is a T-shirt maker that altered the Miller logo to read "It's Mullet Time."
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Miller claims the product "is likely to cause confusion or mistake or to deceive consumers as to the origin, sponsorship or approval of the...T-shirts." Coming up next: The White House sues Saturday Night Live, because someone might think that comedian really is Dick Cheney. [Hit & Run]
Of course, when they talk of "tort reform" or "frivolous lawsuits" they're never meaning this kind of thing, or Fox's suit against Franken's publishers.
11:14:23 AM Permalink
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I Like 'Pusghetti. From the Amazon customer reviews for "My Pet Goat": All I remember about that morning are the words "get ready"... [The Poor Man]
"My Pet Goat" is, of course, the book that Dubya sat and read for 7 minutes while the towers burned and fell. Read these Amazon reviews of the book.
8:57:45 AM Permalink
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It was a dark and stormy night
The 2004 Results of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are out.
I will tell you a tale of great
adventure like in "Treasure Island," with some smiles and some tears
like in "Lassie Come Home," some treachery and some heroism, again,
like in "Treasure Island," some romance and some betrayal like in lots
of Shakespeare ("Romeo and Juliet," for example), and even -- if the
reader doesn't mind -- some philosophy, but like the Chicken Soup books
not like Spinoza or Plato or anything.
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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