They kerfuffled without me!
Dec. 4th, 2006 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxSo, I gather that there's been a kerfuffle, and I missed it.
Of course, JM inspiring wankage isn't exactly news (even when you'd think that these days there are a reduced number of opportunities for wank). Still, from looking at the residual wank, I'm guessing that JM experienced a moment with foot in mouth disease. I haven't found the quote or what it's about (and don't feel obliged to tell me. It's okay. I really don't have to know.) But I don't know whether to simply roll my eyes at the wanking, or stand in awe that people still find the energy to wank over JM. For one small man, he sure can inspire an impressive amount of controversy.
Anyway, personally, I've been distracted by a different kerfuffle -- the Alabama coaching controversy (Explanation, UofA fired the coach and is currently searching for a new coach elsewhere -- wackiness ensues with wild rumors, flame wars, and the media going berzerk.) I find myself in the curious position of having to agree with Paul Finebaum... again. (*shudder* Hate agreeing with Finebaum). Still, he was in the right of it in his recent column when he wrote:
[quote]"Who died and left the talking heads on ESPN in charge of the University of Alabama?
Unless you've been in a cave in recent days,
[Or aren't obsessed with football... or live outside of Alabama, North Carolina, and West Virginia]
...it has been difficult to miss the continual stream of one invective after another leveled at the Crimson Tide football program, mostly from people who have never stepped foot in Bryant-Denny Stadium and couldn't care less whether the program lives or dies.[...] However, listening to these people on ESPN, one would think Mal Moore was an al-Qaida section chief and the school's football program a secret training ground for terrorists.
Here is an example from one of ESPN's highest-paid radio hosts, Colin Cowherd: "The one everyone thinks is such a great job and I don't is Alabama. They have a bad athletic director, Bear Bryant's son is your boss. They have wacko delusional boosters, an absurd and unrealistic scrutiny, hyper-competitive environment ... What's good about that?"
Jim Rome, host of ESPN's "Rome is Burning" television show, said: "Maybe Alabama wouldn't be so quick to have fired Mike Shula if they knew that nobody in America who mattered would be willing to step in and replace him."
[...]These people make it sound like the school fired Shula after a 12-0 season and three SEC titles. How many times do we need to repeat that Shula was incompetent and if it hadn't been for his daddy's name, he couldn't have gotten a job on his own managing a 7-Eleven. Shula had one winning season in four years. Hello! [...] [UofA] has made countless mistakes over the years, but one of the best things it has done this year was to correct the blunder of hiring Shula. The school should be congratulated for that. The easy way out was to ignore the problems and watch the program slip deeper into the abyss. Instead, the school did the right thing, the intelligent thing, and is being attacked from one end of the sports world to another. [/quote]
Amen.
And screw you, ESPN. (Though they do seem to be easing off just a little, perhaps beginning to realize that they went WAY overboard last week. Or maybe they simply have something else to distract them with Michagan being upset over not being included in the championship game.)
Anyway, with a great deal of work keeping me busy, I haven't been online much and have simply listened to the radio and newspaper wankage over the coaching search (and still no coach in sight), so I missed JM wankage round 6,000,004.
On a slightly different subjects:
I still haven't finished my bathroom renovation.
I'm having to make a second try at designing a house for my sister (because the current design breaks the budget... like I told her that it would. She wouldn't believe me when I said she couldn't have everything she wanted and keep it within budget, but the contractor had better success in making clear to her that she can't have everything... unless she's willing to pay for it.
I've begun my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
noel_of_spike story, but god only knows when I will find the time to finish it. (But I'm determined to do so).
And, as far as TV goes:
* I can see the Peter/Claire shippers about to form. They do have a sweet chemistry.
* The 'hero' to die was the annoying pixie. Can't say that I'm sorry (and I do hope that it wasn't a fake out and she's really, most sincerely dead.
* Horned Rim Glasses Guy's flunkey didn't want to erase Claire's memory. I'm glad. For reasons unknown, I've been rooting for Horned Rimmed Glasses Guy's flunky (who apparently has the power to erase memories) to not be a bad guy.
Of course, JM inspiring wankage isn't exactly news (even when you'd think that these days there are a reduced number of opportunities for wank). Still, from looking at the residual wank, I'm guessing that JM experienced a moment with foot in mouth disease. I haven't found the quote or what it's about (and don't feel obliged to tell me. It's okay. I really don't have to know.) But I don't know whether to simply roll my eyes at the wanking, or stand in awe that people still find the energy to wank over JM. For one small man, he sure can inspire an impressive amount of controversy.
Anyway, personally, I've been distracted by a different kerfuffle -- the Alabama coaching controversy (Explanation, UofA fired the coach and is currently searching for a new coach elsewhere -- wackiness ensues with wild rumors, flame wars, and the media going berzerk.) I find myself in the curious position of having to agree with Paul Finebaum... again. (*shudder* Hate agreeing with Finebaum). Still, he was in the right of it in his recent column when he wrote:
[quote]"Who died and left the talking heads on ESPN in charge of the University of Alabama?
Unless you've been in a cave in recent days,
[Or aren't obsessed with football... or live outside of Alabama, North Carolina, and West Virginia]
...it has been difficult to miss the continual stream of one invective after another leveled at the Crimson Tide football program, mostly from people who have never stepped foot in Bryant-Denny Stadium and couldn't care less whether the program lives or dies.[...] However, listening to these people on ESPN, one would think Mal Moore was an al-Qaida section chief and the school's football program a secret training ground for terrorists.
Here is an example from one of ESPN's highest-paid radio hosts, Colin Cowherd: "The one everyone thinks is such a great job and I don't is Alabama. They have a bad athletic director, Bear Bryant's son is your boss. They have wacko delusional boosters, an absurd and unrealistic scrutiny, hyper-competitive environment ... What's good about that?"
Jim Rome, host of ESPN's "Rome is Burning" television show, said: "Maybe Alabama wouldn't be so quick to have fired Mike Shula if they knew that nobody in America who mattered would be willing to step in and replace him."
[...]These people make it sound like the school fired Shula after a 12-0 season and three SEC titles. How many times do we need to repeat that Shula was incompetent and if it hadn't been for his daddy's name, he couldn't have gotten a job on his own managing a 7-Eleven. Shula had one winning season in four years. Hello! [...] [UofA] has made countless mistakes over the years, but one of the best things it has done this year was to correct the blunder of hiring Shula. The school should be congratulated for that. The easy way out was to ignore the problems and watch the program slip deeper into the abyss. Instead, the school did the right thing, the intelligent thing, and is being attacked from one end of the sports world to another. [/quote]
Amen.
And screw you, ESPN. (Though they do seem to be easing off just a little, perhaps beginning to realize that they went WAY overboard last week. Or maybe they simply have something else to distract them with Michagan being upset over not being included in the championship game.)
Anyway, with a great deal of work keeping me busy, I haven't been online much and have simply listened to the radio and newspaper wankage over the coaching search (and still no coach in sight), so I missed JM wankage round 6,000,004.
On a slightly different subjects:
I still haven't finished my bathroom renovation.
I'm having to make a second try at designing a house for my sister (because the current design breaks the budget... like I told her that it would. She wouldn't believe me when I said she couldn't have everything she wanted and keep it within budget, but the contractor had better success in making clear to her that she can't have everything... unless she's willing to pay for it.
I've begun my
noel_of_spike story, but god only knows when I will find the time to finish it. (But I'm determined to do so).And, as far as TV goes:
* I can see the Peter/Claire shippers about to form. They do have a sweet chemistry.
* The 'hero' to die was the annoying pixie. Can't say that I'm sorry (and I do hope that it wasn't a fake out and she's really, most sincerely dead.
* Horned Rim Glasses Guy's flunkey didn't want to erase Claire's memory. I'm glad. For reasons unknown, I've been rooting for Horned Rimmed Glasses Guy's flunky (who apparently has the power to erase memories) to not be a bad guy.
