An Accurate Reflection of Who You Are

One of the reasons my blogging has been more sporadic of late is that I've found other ways to waste time in less productive pursuits.  One of them has been participating in the #HashTagWars put on by the comedy program "Midnight".  A recent war required us to #RuinASoup and here are a few of my creations for that:

Crème of Semen Soup
No Soup For You Humble Pie Soup from the Soup Nazi
Campbell's Chunky Monkey Chocolate Soup
Progresso's Puke Green Split Pea Soup
Scooby Doo Doo Soup

As you can see, mindless entertainment for me and little more.  I'm not going to give this pursuit up completely, but I want to spend less time on it and more on substantive writing.  Oh, I forgot my favorite #RuinASoup - Crème of Hemorrhoid Soup.

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Amy Pascal is leaving her post as Co-Chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Of course, she landed a four year production deal and will continue to have offices on the Sony lot, so she isn't going very far.

She wouldn't be going anywhere if she'd realized you can write what she wrote in some of her emails.  Business email, personal email, text messages, it's all the same.  But what really bothers me is this statement from Ms Pascal:

"“The content of my emails were insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate reflection of who I am,” she said in a statement, adding that “although this was a private communication that was stolen, I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.”

Is this true?  I don't think she's a racist.  But it is the height of stupidity to write anything using a company email account that could cause you to be portrayed in a bad light.  Nothing you commit to paper or tell someone on a phone line is ever completely and totally secure.

Ms Pascal has had a great run as studio head.  She's promoted female filmmakers, brought in a bunch of box office hits, and managed to hold on to her position for much longer than anyone thought possible. 

Her departure isn't just the email scandal.  She's approved movies that didn't do well at the box office.  The actors and directors she's made profitable films with aren't as successful as before.  And yet, were it not for a few stupid emails, she could have probably kept her job.

Compose in haste, repent in unemployment.

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Random Ponderings:

Doing a "where are they now" piece on the Andy Griffith Show was kind of morbid.  Except for Ron Howard and Jim Nabors, the regulars have all died.

I just heard a guest on the Maury Povich show call his baby mama "peanut butter" and when asked by Maury why he called her that, the guest replied "Easy to spread."  That's even better than what Don Cheadle says at the start of this clip:

 



Now people are speculating if the Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) might change Bruce Jenner's sexual preference, and make him attracted to men instead of women.  Older research says no.  More recent research says it is possible.  But the American Psychological Association says,
"Gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same. Sexual orientation refers to an individual’s enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction to another person, whereas gender identity refers to one’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else. Transgender people may be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or asexual, just as non-transgender people can be. Some recent research has shown that a change or a new exploration period in partner attraction may occur during the process of transition. However, transgender people usually remain as attached to loved ones after transition as they were before transition. Transgender people usually label their sexual orientation using their gender as a reference. For example, a transgender woman, or a person who is assigned male at birth and transitions to female, who is attracted to other women would be identified as a lesbian or gay woman. Likewise, a transgender man, or a person who is assigned female at birth and transitions to male, who is attracted to other men would be identified as a gay man."  Since he isn't going to share details until his reality show drops, the speculation is pointless.

I almost feel bad for the people over at TurboTax, as it isn't their fault people are using their software to file fraudulent tax returns.  Almost.

In Brazil, a woman was shot by a man committing a robbery.  But her bra's underwire stopped the bullet, and prevented her from being injured.  Wow. 

I'm wearing the new boots the VA gave me early this afternoon.  They're called Unna's Boots, and they are really no fun to have on.  But I have to get used to them, I may be having them on for weeks.

I am very proud of my niece.