Russian factories are idling or out of work due to a crash in Russia; their economy depended on high oil prices to go on forever.    The natives are getting restless…

ABC is cutting the price on their Oscars Show advertising time.  Nobody’s watching.  At the same time, movie attendance went up.  After going off to see BOLT with Mere this weekend, I ( Read more... )

Some commentary from others below, under the cut.  I watched both ABC Evening News items, and 20/20, and I thought that Charlie Gibson did a marvelous job of exposing just how hollow Sarah Palin is.  It was obvious that she’d been coached to death, and it was also obvious that she doesn’t suspect what she doesn’t know, and she’s scary as hell.  I ( Read more... )

Meredith has developed over the last year a taste for certain ‘reality’ shows that probe into private lives - as in poking inside a family household to see how it works. I have some real reservations on all of this, which I’ll go into in a minute.

In each of these cases, the family has one or more kids and a non-’conventional’ setup of some sort, ( Read more... )

From this morning’s Chicago Sun-Times (and yes, they were on Oprah this week) is more on the story of the Mia twins (sound familiar?).  Yes, we know these folks, and yes, they’re quite legit.  Someone asked today - why weren’t you guys on the show?  Well,  we weren’t asked to.   They’ve  nibbled around the edges at us.  Besides, after the ABC News ( Read more... )

To spare people who hate these things, I’m just gonna say it’s all ladycelt’s fault, and no, I’m not a vegetarian. Much the contrary.
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My half-arsed job of editing the ABC stuff - the promo from the night before and the bits during the 14th show, and the final (actual) piece itself, on YouTube.

First off, I’m amazed, considering the number of people interviewed and amount of time taken that it was as short as it was.  They cut the material to death.

Second, the direction they took it was not what they’d originally stated.  We understood it as a general look at the ‘phenomenon’  for China adoptions and elsewhere, and centering on the whole ( Read more... )

We have not directly been informed, but I am getting in reports that promos tonight for tomorrow’s ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson are showing me talking, Mere with a hula hoop and so on….the story will be on, apparently, Thursday (tomorrow night) at 6:30 pm EDT, 5:30 Central and so on on your local ABC station.  I know that ABC has a ( Read more... )

The last post was a test - I have linked the Wordpress and Gallery together, and there’s the crossposter so that I can do things natively in Wordpress and then over to LJ, but the problem is that the Gallery link goes to pieces in the LJ translation. Therefore, I’m reposting the pictures after the cut in a larger size.
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