Looking for Tampa Bay triumphalism over at Ain't Too Proud to Blog I got up-to-date on the Bloggie "scandal." I think awards are a fine idea and they should be run fairly and they're not very important but like all forms of popularity and attention they do matter, of course. They have real-world consequences. On the other hand, I don't really understand why so many panties are in a bunch about all this.
It sounds like the nomination/judging system was fairly lame and easily gamed and that there have been what Jimmy Carter likes to call "irregularities" in the voting. Maybe the whole thing should be tossed aside. It doesn't really seem worth getting worked up about.
Then again, maybe if I had friends involved, pro or con, it would matter more to me. Count the number of times the phrase "my friend" or "my friends" appears in this post.
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Mom suggests McD's and the punchline is the son saying, "That's what I love about that woman."
This was followed by an ad for the premier of the Jimmy Kimmel show and one for the Al Bundy version of Dragnet. Then the kickoff show started and I had to mute Celine Dion singing God Bless America. I put the sound back on for the Dixie Chicks harmonizing on a cool arrangement of the semi-unsingable Star-Spangled Banner.
Then there was another version of the roadtrip ad. Equally cute, but are they trying to sell electric cars to college kids?
A preview of men's tennis Masters, and then a funny ad for NFL Gameday 2003, featuring football fans tackling the guy who takes the last slice of pizza:
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First ad I tuned in for was a cute ad about a roadtrip, for Honda Element. Amusing, but no sale.
Next up was an ad for watching football. Heartwarming.
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The usually impeccable attitude on display at The Gawker shows a slight crack today when editor/writer Elizabeth Spiers responds to an illiterate slam from some Tim Goodman groupie.
The main response on the Gawker home page is just perfect, but the extended entry tries too hard:
I was merely challenging his assumption that American audiences like the crap they're fed by network TV. Mr. Goodman's analysis implies that while he has perfectly good taste, network programming can be explained by demand created by other Americans who actually enjoy it. Who are these hypothetical people, we ask?Elizabeth, never stoop to explaining your jokes. Even "fisking" the all-caps slam seems like a little too much effort for the payoff. Just running the email in all its glory probably did the trick.
Never let them see you sweat!
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