the16thminute

First thing we do, let's kill all the dead celebrities

It all started with poor wonderful Fred Astaire being unearthed to schill for a vacuum cleaner. Then it was John Wayne giving his famed growl up from the grave for a few cans of beer. There have been a bunch of others, Steve McQueen, Audrey Hepburn and the King of the Zombies – Orville Redenbacher, in a performance that would have done George Romero (and no one else) proud. The latest addition to this necropolis was a Dr. Martens campaign showing Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer wearing the brand’s boots in Rock & Roll heaven.

I'm going to miss Steven Colbert

The fall of Don Imus is a leading indicator of a change in the cultural weather.  Although you can argue his  was a special case -- a combination of particularly ignorant language targeted on "normal people," not the rich and/or powerful -- it looks more like an extreme moved toward the moderate in the American psyche. If that's so,  either he's going to be followed by some other of our leading yappers or they are going to turn their volume way, way down.

Boring like Beckham

You’re a football star? That’s odd because you don’t look like Peyton Manning and we’ve never heard of any of the teams you say you’ve played on.