so last night i added to the blog roll. i added katrina vanden heuvel of course. but late last night, i learned that kat of kat's korner was doing a site.
we love kat.
her music reviews make me laugh and make me think.
she's posted them at the common ills for some time now.
her blog will contain reposts of those reviews and it will also contain the occassional 'note' which is the word she uses. i think it's great and i know a lot of common ills members will just be glad to know they can go somewhere to easily read her reviews. but i'm pretty sure she'll be noting things there from time to time that will be the sort of things that only kat could do.
i'm really excited by her blog.
i really wish every member of the common ills would start a blog. as c.i. says, 'we need more voices, not less.' and kat is an important voice.
she told me that when she has time she'll add some information in her 'about me' section but that she just wanted to get it up and started. i hope you'll check out her site. it's title is 'kat's korner (of the common ills).'
she's developed quite a following and if you go there and check it out, you'll see why.
while i'm talking about community members, did i note that betty had a new entry on sunday?
she took part in what i have dubbed 'operation circle jerk' in honor of bill keller.
but she does a humorous site that's really the unfolding and self-discovery of betinna, the lead character in what i see as her online novel. her entries are like chapters and the latest is entitled
'thomas friedman's days of rage and whine.'
read it, it's funny. you'll laugh.
and while we're talking funny, let me note the hilarious review that ava and c.i. did of the nick lachey and jessica simpon tv special, it's called 'tv: jessica simpson and nick lachey reporting for two hours of self-love.'
here's the opening of their review:
Haven't the troops suffered enough? Sent into an illegal war by the Bully Boy, often victims of a back-door draft, reserves stationed full time in Iraq paid less because they are "part-time reserves" (aka "weekend warriors" -- that's been some long weekend), the wounded largely ignored when they return home, military familes losing benefits, the coffins hidden away while Bully Boy says they died for "liberty" . . . When will it end?
Not last Monday night when ABC decided to promote the upcoming release of Warner Bros.' Dukes of Hazzard by turning over two hours of prime time television to the dubious talents of Jessica Simpson and, famous for being married to her, Nick Lachey. The "event" was titled Nick & Jessica's Tour of Duty so right away you knew it was going to be horrible and lacking in any sensitivity or perspective. In case you're missing it, let's underscore it. Nick & Jessica's Tour of Duty. Two overly pampered airheads wanted to compare their miniscule contribution as a "tour of duty." Let's be really clear here, Bob Hope did multiple salutes to the military. He did countless version of The Bob Hope Vietnam Christmas Show (1965, 1966, 1971), he did Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops -- 1941-1972. But he lacked either the vanity or the stupidy (or both) to pass his own efforts off as a "Tour of Duty."
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey apparently lack shame, as well as talent.
it's funny. you'll laugh. what are you waiting for? i gave you three links. why aren't you clicking? lol.
