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Subject: WTF Is Wrong With People.
Time: 12:49:00 PM EST
Author:  lordofbutter
Music:  don't ask.


O.J. Simpson had a book deal and a TV interview gig yanked out from under him because of bad bad bad publicity. Duh. Gee, that was pretty freakin' obvious. Fox smartly decided to pull the interview and book special from their network after people started clamoring about how really tacky bad this was.

Did you know that my 15 minutes of national fame was ruined by O.J. Simpson? I'm not mad or anything, but it's kind of funny.
 
When I was an intern at Marvel Comics 12 years ago, I got called upstairs by a very polite and nice looking press person who said that she heard that I was the sanest most normal intern they had and would I like to be on "Primetime Live" on ABC because they were going to do a special on internships. I said, why not. Basically, I was kissing up so I could hopefully land a job there. So I did whatever the ABC people told me to. Pretended to act a lot more busy than I actually was, interacting with people I never interacted with before, having a great laugh with them, running in the hallways, handing stuff over, making copies and sitting down for one really long interview.

I was told afterwards, when it was going to air. And guess what. The day it was supposed to air, the whole thing went down with O.J. so my 15 minutes of fame? KAPUT.

Thanks a lot bro. But thank goodness that this mess was stopped. People are effed up.

Second thing that's on my mind, I just saw an article about Michael Richards. You know, the guy that played Kramer on Seinfeld. By the way, does it make me unamerican to admit that I've never seen an episode of Seinfeld?
 
I watched the rant on tmz.com and holy frijoles, he lost his freakin' mind. What was the funniest part, at least to me, is how he got his buddy Seinfeld, to get him on "Late Night With David Letterman" to apologize for what he did.
 
There are some things in life you just can't apologize for and think it's all happy pants. You can apologize for a lot of things, but racism is just something you don't apologize for. All you're doing is apologizing for the fact you slipped up and you lost your edit button and revealed how you really feel about someone, be it their creed, class, gender, what have you. Home-boy is screwed, however how screwed is a guy who's a millionaire who basically lives off the residuals of a show I never watched. Not very. This insulated guy has no lesson to learn. He'll just go back to his mansion and lock himself in it and attempt to standup some more...and fail.
 
Gee, there was no point to this. No lesson learned here for that assclown. Such is life.  


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  • #4 Comment from dizarra 
    12/23/06 10:46 PM Permalink
    But on a more serious note-I have no tolerence for people that hate! When I heard what Richard's pulled on some stage, and heard those horriable comments,
    I felt sorry for him, he's a sad, sad fool indeed-I shall never forgive him, I wouldn't care what late night show he appeared on or how many apologize-beg
    for-forgivness-speeches he makes! I'll end my comment with a few words from a
    Maya Angelou poem: You may shoot me with your words,
    you may cut me with your eyes,
    you may kill me with hatefulness,
    But still, like air, I'll rise!
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear,
    I rise,
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear,
    I rise.
    Bringing gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I'am the Dream and the Hope of the slave,
    and I rise, I rise, I RISE!  
    ~Diane~
  • #3 Comment from dizarra 
    12/23/06 5:19 PM Permalink
    OMG! You lost YOUR 15 minutes! And to that conceded thing...how weird is he? I
    mean, if he wanted to prove he DIDN'T do it, that was not the way, but who
    knows, the world has him guilty anyway. ~Diane~
  • #2 Comment from brandyp0509 
    11/22/06 1:57 PM Permalink
    All of it was very disgusting, OJ and Kramer!
  • #1 Comment from promiseluv372 
    11/22/06 12:54 PM Permalink
    Sorry you lost your 15 minutes of fame.. it will come around again .. always does!

    As for never seeing Seinfeld, IMO it doesn't make you unamerican.. not to put Seifeld fans down.. but it makes me believe you have class hehe I have never watched the show but I've seen enough of the commercials for it. YUK! But different strokes for different folks.

    take care,
    Promise