Finis Mundi

FINIS MUNDI

Yet another ill portent...

anno vertenti dies tetri miseri ac religiosi... (link)*

"People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share... Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show, because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun."
• Reytshel Rey

Antonius

"in the turning year hideous unhappy days of evil omen..." Gaius Lucilius.

First Oprah gave us Dr. Phil, now this.

Can you think of two, pardon, three more grating personalities? I'm sure they are all fine people and all, but .

Eh, I'll watch it with the sound off and an appropriate soundtrack:)

trixie-pea wrote:First Oprah gave us Dr. Phil, now this.

Can you think of two, pardon, three more grating personalities? I'm sure they are all fine people and all, but .

Now that sounds like a challenge. Annoying personalities (in three's) for $100, Alex? How about "Who are Joan Rivers, Maury Povich, and Geraldo Rivera?"

Newly risen to the top of my list (though not a threesome - tee-hee) are the "beltway boys" Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes on the occasion of their choosing to go off on a humiliating tangent 2 nights ago, leaving the safe main road of fatuous Washington blather to strip themselves even more intellectually naked by attempting to wax witty on the subject of arold Pinter's Nobel and his unfitness for the honor based on his hostility to US foreign policy.

Suffice it to say it was right up there on the same critical level as, "Art? My kid can fingerpaint better than Picasso."

mrbarolo wrote:Newly risen to the top of my list (though not a threesome - tee-hee) are the "beltway boys" Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes on the occasion of their choosing to go off on a humiliating tangent 2 nights ago, leaving the safe main road of fatuous Washington blather to strip themselves even more intellectually naked by attempting to wax witty on the subject of arold Pinter's Nobel and his unfitness for the honor based on his hostility to US foreign policy.

Suffice it to say it was right up there on the same critical level as, "Art? My kid can fingerpaint better than Picasso."

But they're on t.v. Doesn't that make them experts?



And remember, "life is full of messes and successes!!!"

And remember, "life is full of messes and successes!!!"

" . . . and getting there is half the fun!!!" (Love getting to those messes, almost as much fun as the car wrecks.)

In May 2001, I was watching a Hitchcock movie on one of the cable stations. The movie was heading to the climax and ... in AT&T fashion, the cable went out. No conclusion. The next day, I called AT&T and had them cancel the cable.

It has been great. No talking heads on TV shows shouting at each other. Time to actually do things instead of watching life pass by. Rachel Ray is a LOT less annoying when the TV screen is blank.

What I find amazing is that when I check into a hotel (2-3x monthly), there is so little worthwhile on cable ... and there is so much content that I have seen already although I haven't watched much in the past five years.

Off the soapbox.

...but I have so much more I want to share...

That's the truly frightening phrase in her statement, right there. We know you do, dear. You've already done enough, really.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/dining/19rach.html

--Zee