Sunday Night Thoughts -- Plus BACK BEHIND THE MIC TOMORROW
I did not have Slash and Barbie in the same ... anything on my bingo card.
I only tuned into the Oscars last night for however long it took Ryan Gosling perform the Ken song (made interesting because the Broad Brigade was butthurt over Gosling getting a nom while the chicks were left hanging) and lo, Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen literally came out on stage and soloed. The Academy People should invent a best Oscars live performance category and give a little gold man to this. I was done watching the second the performance ended.
The Oscars used to be enjoyable to watch. They were fun. The outfits and Joan Rivers’s commentary was a highlight. This was before people became so tribally single-celled that everything was politicized, even grammar.
By the way, I only glossed over this on air, but I tried watching the “Barbie” movie because of the confused “is this a feminist statement?” fury that raged, chlamydia-like, all over social media. Sometimes, this is part of the job. Except I literally couldn’t finish it because it was trash. Ken’s scenes were the best, Margot Robbie is a good actress but the Barbie character wasn’t interesting, Greta Gerwig is confused as hell as to how to write a grrrrrl power yay! script/manifesto because she deuced all over her own third wave premise and made Ken and all the other Kens look like the good guys. See, we’re not supposed to talk about how third wave ironically took a benign male avatar created as a supporting role for a girl’s toy and spitefully reduced him to a second class citizen in a movie that was supposed to build women up by tearing men down. Now you get why they were all so angry that Gosling got an Oscar nom and Robbie or any of the other generic, copy+paste+repeat Feminist Characters did not.
I have rested my brain this past week and am eagerly once more unto the breach tomorrow.
Here’s some of what’s on deck this week:
TOMORROW: David Covey, who faces off against the corrupt, far-left Texas Speaker of the Texas House, Republican Dade Phelan. This is a seismic shift in Texas politics, showing the moderates that their god can bleed. Remember — you lose Texas, you lost the nation, so doubly important for Texas Republicans to keep their party healthy and principled. Stephen Yates also joins and will touch on the Biden admin’s strategy to turn up the pressure on Israel whenever Hamas refuses to negotiate, and more.
TUESDAY: Brendan Carr, senior Republican member of the FCC, on the fight over TikTok.
We’re talking budget, border, Biden’s tax lie, the idiotic (and manufactured) fight on the “right” over girls who are tomboys, trans tyrants canceling The Runaways Cherie Currie, Gaza aid, and so much more.
More to come, so stay tuned.
We were well served by Sergio and Rich. It will be good to have you back.
Really enjoyed this issue, Dana. Gotta say, though, you cracked me up with your descriptive phrase "...fury that raged, chlamydia-like, all over social media" discussing the Barbie movie. (Still chuckling over here.)