Why I didn't finish my 2006 Year in Review?
I wrote a post about the good stuff that happened in 2006. Everytime I sat down to write about the bad and the ugly of last year, I'd become paralyized by the massive amounts of badness and uglyness that permeated the year.
There was the triumvirate of firecrotch (Lindsay Lohan), skanky chocha (Paris Hilton), and white trash poontang (Britney Spears).
Ugh Britney.
Anorexia became the new black with Nicole Ritchie it's standard bearer. Yeah sure, anorectics have been banned from catwalks across the globe what with four dead models sacrificied to the disease but when we still have a coked-out yet incredibly rich Kate Moss prancing around ... well ... no wonder it's still considered hot in Hollywood.
There was also the crazy whacked out Tom Cruise with his scientology slave Katie Holmes and their tethan child. And Star Jones. And Donald Trump. And Kid Rock and Pam Anderson.
But those are just the entertainment.
What about Darfur?
Do you remember the devastation of Lebanon?
Then there's the never ending carnage in Iraq.
And the immigration raids.
Do you know where habeas corpus went?
How about Mark Foley?
Ted Haggard?
Samuel Alito?
The thing is ... all of this is too abstract, too far away when compared to the death of my niece Lydia.
That was the worst of 2006.
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Submitted by mole333 on 2 January 2007 - 7:56am.
Your neice's death occasionally comes to my mind...very sad and quite a reminder that no matter what we do, we are never really in control of our lives. I had such a lesson long ago when I got hit by a car on an otherwise bright and sunny and happy day. But I survived and in survival comes some degree of frogetting that lesson.
Lebanon is a tough one for me...my default is always Israel, but I never assume Israel is entirely in the right. I don't want to go into my complex feelings about the Lebanon crisis this last year, but I do want to mention that Anthony Bourdain's Lebanon episode was amazing to watch. He went there to film a regular episode. His show is not one I watch. But I did watch his Lebanon one. Watching events unfold from regular Lebanese watching the celebrating Hezbollah supporters and saying something like, "we will all pay for their foolishness" to the lame US political response but excellent performance of the US troops who carried out the evacuation, was all riveting. Caught in a war that has nothing to do with you and you have a film crew with you. That's what Bourdain accidently was able to do and it was very interesting to watch.
Death in Real Life
Submitted by JJ Ross on 2 January 2007 - 10:39am.
The memorial here for our lost loved one is this coming Sunday. Yes. It is the worst. And worst of all for the kids.
How suddenly I remember how
How suddenly I remember how lucky I have been and am.
I remember all those things. Now I shall remember your niece as well.
Anything more I say will be trite.