The unsexiest woman in the world

Everything's been said that needs to be said about the Sarah Jessica Parker/Maxim feud but I can't help but think, as soon as a woman becomes too powerful, producing her own TV show and now movie and telling women that they don't need to be surgically enhanced to be sexy, a magazine like Maxim has to bring her down.

But I thought this was a good response.

Now, I've been watching The Sopranos and as far as I can tell, any woman who comes in contact with James Gandolfini is knocked out of her high-heeled calf-skin boots. In six seasons, he sleeps with so many women who are out of league, it's unbelievable! Annabella Sciorra was pushing it but I thought, ok, she's supposed to be a little crazy and self-destructive. Plus, she seems to be a girl from the neighborhood who's made good. But Julianna Margulies put me over the edge. Watching the episode, I thought, "Oh, she's flirting with him for him to sign the papers." Then, not only is she inexplicably hot for him, HE rejects HER.

Now Maxim is the same magazine who said that Sandra Oh was not sexy either, right?

What do they have against powerful women?

I wanna be a Luce Lady!

What a bargain!

http://www.cblpi.org/freestuff/

You've got to be kidding!

Just when you think it's hard enough to be a journalist, you see something like this.

Ok, it's not journalism per se but why is Veronica Webb, an ex-model, even trying to comment on current affairs? 

Of course, her mangling of the Beowulf reference is especially delicious.

To Catch a Peepator

So I'm obsessed with Peeps-

But PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE check out the third diorama.

It's too good.

I've got my geeky side...

So this caught my eye- a vigilante robot.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/03/atlantan-builds.html

And since Atlanta, I believe, was named one of the most dangerous cities in the US a couple of days ago, this makes sense to me.

Robocop, anyone?

Slow news day...

US Stock market volatile, what else is new?
There was the crane crash in New York City but that's old news.
Cheney visiting Iraq, blah, blah, blah.

I'm very excited for the release of the "Sex in the City" movie, um, does that count as news?

The highpoint for me over the weekend was that they found Shannon Matthews, the very cute (well, in a British way) 9 year old girl who's been missing for a month. The police found her IN A DRAWER (but alive, don't worry) in her uncle's house. As usual, the police took their own sweet time in finding her. I guess it didn't occur to them to research FAMILY MEMBERS. (Fact: three out of four abductions are by family members.) Apparently, in England, there's now a movement to copy our Amber Alert.

All I can say is, it's about time!

More on Spitzer

People are saying we're obsessed with Spitzer because it's about sex.

They're wrong.

We're obsessed with it because it's about MONEY.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3559410.ece

I don't agree with the New York Times...AGAIN!

It occurs to me I'm overusing ellipses but this topic is something I feel really strongly about. Whatever we as the media can do, we should.

But because I believe in being fair and balanced-

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10mon4.html?scp=1&sq=catch+a+predator&st=nyt

Spitzer gone...finally!

I think it's very auspicious that I begin my blog after the Eliot Spitzer case has blown up. As you probably know, my station was in the lead in terms of covering the scandal so I've barely had time to breathe lately. (We broke the identity of the call girl, Ashley Dupre. Yeah, that was us!) But now with Paterson in charge, I think I'll have a lot more time on my hands.

:) 

My question about his resignation is this: Why did it take him SO LONG?