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Odds & odds

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Odds & odds

: A few more odd moments from the day so far…

: I sat next to Tina Louise at The Week’s lunch. Nothing more to say about that. I just think it’s about the coolest name-dropping I’ve ever done here.

: Spent some time catching up with John Gibson, a friend from our mutual long-long-ago in San Francisco and a very nice guy. He explained what happened in Britain (see the previous post): He called the BBC a bunch of liars on the air in Britain and there were complaints against him for violating a law — a law — that he says forbids newscasters from giving opinions in the UK. God bless our First Amendment. Thank God for the Revolution.

: Michael Fuchs, ex head of HBO, said afterwards that he put George Carlin’s special, complete with dirty words, on cable twenty-odd years ago and he can’t believe we’re still huffing and puffing about it this many years later.

: Michele Malkin, the columnist, said as she left that she likes this blog. What a strange if wonderful world this is. That should be the other way around: kooky Internet guy goes up to big-time print person. Times are a’changin.

14 responses to “Odds & odds”

  1. ed cone Avatar
    ed cone

    Not to out myself as a Mary Ann guy…but what was Tina Louise, like, doing there?
    Also, not to out myself as a sane, left-of-extreme-right guy…but when did Michelle Malkin qualify as “big-time”?

  2. mark Avatar
    mark

    I agree with Ed. I would have been more excited if you sat next to Dawn Wells.

  3. Leonard Plinth Garnell Avatar
    Leonard Plinth Garnell

    Ginger and MaryAnn, they be MILFs now!
    Gilligan gets busted for pot.
    The skipper, Mr. & Mrs. Howell, all pushing up daisies.
    The Professor, a big fat slob.
    THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
    skipper – gluttony
    ginger – lust
    maryann – envy
    professor – pride
    mr. howell – greed
    mrs. howell – anger
    gilligan – sloth
    trivia question: who plays the MILF in the Stacy’s mom video?

  4. O'McSomething Avatar
    O’McSomething

    Michele Malkin, the columnist, said as she left that she likes this blog. What a strange if wonderful world this is. That should be the other way around: kooky Internet guy goes up to big-time print person. Times are a’changin.
    You call her a big-time print person?
    EEEEuwwwhhh! Stick with Tina Louise.

  5. egger Avatar
    egger

    Who is Michele Malkin?

  6. Oliver Avatar
    Oliver

    Except that Malkin is… psycho.

  7. Mumblix Grumph Avatar
    Mumblix Grumph

    trivia question: who plays the MILF in the Stacy’s mom video?
    Oh I know!! It’s that chick, you know, the chick who was married to that guy.

  8. fatlips Avatar
    fatlips

    “kooky Internet guy goes up to big-time print person”
    Jeff, you’re stealing a cool hat you don’t deserve when you characterize yourself as “kooky Internet guy.” You’re establishment media to the max, as you say in your About blurb:
    JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday Editor of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He is now president & creative director of Advance.net.
    An insider’s insider.

  9. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Fat:
    Well, excuuuuuuuse me. I didn’t know I had to come to you, the Komisar of Kool to get an official Kool Hat. Do you sell them?

  10. anti Avatar
    anti

    Jarvis – why do you get so pissy whenever someone calls you out. You spend all day ripping on people in your posts. Are you only capable of dishing it out?

  11. Yogi Berra Avatar
    Yogi Berra

    “You spend all day ripping on people in your posts.”
    And on company time, too! (Check out the timestamp on his reply.) What a sweet gig, Jeffo. How can I become a media insider with a post at Conde Nast so I can pretend to be cool outsider, Jeffo?

  12. Dann Avatar
    Dann

    Leonard-
    Rachel Hunter is the lass in question.

  13. Jeff B. Avatar
    Jeff B.

    Jeff, I think you need to buy some Troll-B-Gone. Even Roger Simon and Michael Totten have had to, recently.
    Something about politics these days that’s sending civility down the drain…

  14. blah Avatar
    blah

    He called the BBC a bunch of liars on the air in Britain and there were complaints against him for violating a law — a law — that he says forbids newscasters from giving opinions in the UK. God bless our First Amendment. Thank God for the Revolution.
    Complete and utter bullshit, of course; but that’s why Gibson’s on the FoxNews payroll. What ‘law’ is this, precisely? And shouldn’t a ‘journalist’ like Jarvis be a little bit skeptical, even of his pally-pals?