Controversy!

Perhaps you’ve seen the little feud shaping up between Dan Rather and Katie Couric? He said this in an MSNBC interview “The mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ show ethos to the ‘Evening News’ and to dumb it down – tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience.”

People are up in arms about the tart business there. But it’s not something that hasn’t been said before. I don’t think it was that egregious at all. I think he’s right. It’s precisely what has been happening with CBS News and anyone who doesn’t think so hasn’t really watched it lately! It’s ridiculous.
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Some TWIB Notes:

–If you are watching tv and see this Stop & Shop commercial where a bag of cat food and dog food are talking to each other? And the cat food is hitting on the dog food? That cat food is voiced by me. Now, I just eagerly await my exploding pants commercial(I am not making this up).

–Cavs/Spurs: Most boring NBA Finals of all time? Prolly. Somehow it isn’t as exciting seeing Bron Bron in his first finals as I thought it could be. But the problem is he has nobody to play with. And he just lacks the killer selfish instinct to be a one horse johnny.

–Hell’s Kitchen is on again! (It’s pretty good. I’m not sweet on anyone has much as I was for Virginia, but still good.) I am so happy for something to cut through the summer glut. If anyone has any suggestions, I’m open to them. So far, I am watching Creature Comforts and Hell’s Kitchen, and come next week, The Flight of the Conchords.

–Speaking of, we saw them last night. They were great! I think, dare I say this, even better than Tenacious D!

–Dyna was asking me if Brent and I are going to wear matching shirts again this year. Brent’s wife Meredith does this cute thing where she buys us matching shirts every year and makes us wear them. Don’t know if that will happen this year or not. But my favorite still was the Hawaiian shirts from our 30th. I should compile a photo collage of our matching shirts. Note to self.

–Huck Slim goes into the studio again this weekend. So hopefully after this w/e 6 new tracks will be ready for a demo. Exciting! Look for it soon.

–I think Toys ‘R Us is running some sort of scam. Or maybe the cost of moving sand really is expensive. I wanted to get a sandbox for my nephew this week but the shipping on sandbox is $200! Yeesh. So I guess we’re going to wait until I see him in person to go get it. It’s just as well, this means I get to play in the sandbox too now.