Hollywood Gossip and Political Hoopla

I always end up defending Ellen DeGeneres in this blog for some reason, despite the fact that I hated her old sitcom and I hate her talk show. She should be low on my pecking order of people I defend, or at least in the middle somewhere because she’s never done anything to make me particularly care about her. I guess I could argue that she pisses me off for making me feel sympathetic towards her and thus whenever I have a chance I need to toss some sort of vile her way in retribution. I’ll start now. Ellen DeGeneres has ugly hair.

Now that that’s out of my system I can move on. I get why the writers involved in the current strike are pitching a fit because she’s still producing episodes. I understand that it breaks the show of solidarity everyone’s trying to show for the writers struggle. With that said, there’s a good number of staffers working on the Ellen DeGeneres show that could lose their jobs if she stops production, and in case no one has noticed Christmas is coming up. If you looked around hard enough last week you probably heard about either the Tonight Show or the Late Show having to cut a good portion of their staff in two weeks if the strike doesn’t end. I can give Ellen a pass for this because regardless of what her real motivation is people who aren’t making millions a year, the lowly peons stuck in the middle of all of this, are going to stay employed.

It’s not like there’s not enough support for the writers as it is. It’s not like people haven’t noticed, and it’s not like ones that haven’t noticed yet won’t in the coming weeks as they find their favorite shows off the air and a shitty American Idol clone or some other d-level reality show stuck in it’s place.

Thank goodness for internet websites, otherwise I might be forced to actually watch the Ellen DeGeneres Show for updates on what manner of strangeness is going on over there at any time during the week. Last week we were spared any Ellen dog updates, but viewers did catch this gem — a story about a couple of eight years old who have invented tear away underwear. No, we’re not talking about Chippendale attire, we’re talking about a wedgie safe guard. When a juvenile delinquent / future prison inmate attempts to give a wedgie to a hapless kid on the playground, the velcro undies tear in half, leaving a stupified bully and a celebrating young man.

Now I could be crazy, but I would think underwear with velcro down the middle of it would feel incredibly uncomfortable to wear, not to mention hurt like a mofo when someone grasps it from the back and forcefully lifts it and you up in the air causing it to rip open. I would think a normal wedgie would be more appealing than velcro chafing on one’s sensitive regions.

Dispatch: Bully Protection With a Price?

Did I actually pay a compliment to this woman in that post where I bashed her and MSNBC awhile back?

After doing a story about a book the creator of the Sopranos wrote where he discussed the fate of the Tony Soprano character after the last episode, Contessa Brewer decided she needed to make a quip. Before the channel cut to commercial, Contessa called it pathetic that someone would wonder what happens to a TV show character after the show has ended. Yep, as soon as that TV show ends or you’re done reading that book you need to stop thinking about it immediately. Hell the whole point of cliffhanger endings in books, movies and TV is so you come to your own conclusions about the characters. Speculation is pathetic now?

This is why I can’t stand MSNBC sometimes. Their reporters can’t just shut the f*ck up and just give the news like they’re supposed to. They’ve always got to insert their own little comments or giggle like schoolgirls about dumb shit. Speaking of, while I’m here I want to mention again that that dude from Talk Soup on E! was on Olbermann last night and questioned why MSNBC was paying attention to the Ellen DeGeneres story when there’s serious stuff going on in the news because the goofy bullshit celebrities do is more E!’s territory. Same shit I’ve been saying in this blog from day one.

Now this nutty chick is flipping out and screaming about nail clipping on trains? Is this woman for real? Did they drag her off bikini covered ass off some beach somewhere and give her a job or did she actually go to school for this?