NewscomaGot A Two-Pack Habit And A Motel Tan

10:30 So the gabbing and self-congratulatory hoohaw is over. I’m out. I’m hallucinating. I need an IV drip to take me back into the non-television/virtual world. Peace out, campers. Be sure to check your baggage and I hope you had a good flight.

10:27 I’m out. Thanks10:26 HERBIE HANCOCK wins Album of the year! Whoa, didn’t see that one coming. Joni Mitchell. If you’ve never hear Court And Spark I command you to go hear it right now.

10:25 Thankfully, and believe me I’m thankful. It’s almost over.

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10:05 I’m not up to starting a new post as we enter hour THREE. **sigh** Why are Target commercials moderately cool and Wal-Mart commercials suck so bad that I fight the urge to throw myself into the road? Deep Thoughts from Newscoma.

9:58 Saying goodbye. I liked Robert Goulet. He was fun. Bye folks. I didn’t know Luther Ingram had died. Bad year for Opera with the loss of Luciano and Beverly Sills.

9:50 Twitter is popping on the Grammy talk. And highlights of the night: Vince Gill and Kanye West as well as Amy Winehouse saying “To my Blake who is incarcerated.” The Benedryl is making me hallucinate penguins reading election speeches but I realized I had accidentally turned the channel to CSpan.

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SONG OF THE YEAR
”Rehab,” Amy Winehouse, songwriter (Amy Winehouse)

NEW ARTIST
Amy Winehouse

RAP ALBUM
Graduation, Kanye West

FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”No One,” Alicia Keys

FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”Rehab,” Amy Winehouse

MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”What Goes Around…Comes Around,” Justin Timberlake

POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL
”Makes Me Wonder,” Maroon 5

POP VOCAL ALBUM
Back to Black, Amy Winehouse

SOLO ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen

ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL
”Icky Thump,” The White Stripes

HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE
”The Pretender,” Foo Fighters

ROCK SONG
”Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
Icky Thump, The White Stripes

MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”Future Baby Mama,” Prince

R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS
”Disrespectful,” Chaka Khan Featuring Mary J. Blige

R&B SONG
”No One,” Alicia Keys

R&B ALBUM
Funk This, Chaka Khan

CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM
Because Of You, Ne-Yo

RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE
”Stronger,” Kanye West

RAP PEFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP
”Southside,” Common Featuring Kanye West

RAP SONG
”Good Life,” Kanye West Featuring T-Pain

FEMALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”Before He Cheats,” Carrie Underwood

MALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE
”Stupid Boy,” Keith Urban

COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS
”How Long,” Eagles

COUNTRY SONG
”Before He Cheats,” Carrie Underwood

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA
Love, the Beatles (George Martin and Giles Martin, producers)

9:00 It’s almost hour three. Hell, why not as I speak to myself . Keely Smith needed to sing on her own campers. Grammy for Rock Album goes to The Foo Fighters. Woot.

8:56 Feist is always fun.

8:55 My mother made me listen to Tapesty by Carole King every day of my life during 3rd and 4th grade. She looks great. EVERY DAY People. Fiest is up.

8:54 I’m distracted by a story I just saw about people born with tails. I can’t help it.

8:50 Here’s a list of who’s one so far. Icky Thump won. Woot.

8:43 There isn’t anything better than cool trumpets.

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First Hour- The wine is poured and I have a cold so at any moment I might explode.

7:56 Just experimenting here and the cold has the best of me. I’ll check in periodically. And why isn’t anyone talking about Rhianna’s Wheat dress? Waiting on Amy Winehouse. I know she’s a hot mess but I think she’s cool. I may move into hour two on a new post. Maybe, maybe not.

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I didn’t know Charles Fawcett, but I have to tell you, if everyone could have an obituary like this then the world might be just a bit hipper.

Fawcett died on Feb. 3 of this year a man with a life fully lived and a unique history at the age of 92.

Why is this man Unusual? Well, he did more in one lifetime than most folks do in one. I’m thinking he was a man with nine lives times nine.

Whoa.

Well, check this out:

His unlikely – some would say unbelievable – life was informed by an impulse to stand up for the underdog mixed with a thirst for glamour and adventure. Fawcett charmed everyone he met with tales of swashbuckling intrigue and good deeds.

In 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he helped film the conflict between the Russian forces and their enemies, the Mujahideen – footage that was pivotal in persuading the United States secretly to arm and fund the tribal warriors fighting the Red Army.

Fawcett’s film featured the glamorous, ultra-conservative Texan socialite Joanne Herring, portrayed by Julia Roberts in the current Hollywood blockbuster Charlie Wilson’s War. In typical Fawcett style, he had alerted her by sending her a note he had scribbled in crayon on the back of a child’s notebook: “Come immediately. Bring film equipment. The world doesn’t know what’s going on here.”

But that’s not all. During WWII, he has paper marriages to six Jewish women who were in concentration camp to automatically give them automatic American visa status.

But I think the greatest sentence from his obit is this one:

In Paris Fawcett also took part in the rescue of a group of British prisoners-of-war who had been placed under French guard in a hospital ward by the Germans. By impersonating a German ambulance crew, Fawcett and a comrade marched in at 4am and ordered the French nurses to usher the PoWs out into the yard. “Gentlemen,” he announced as he drove them away, “consider yourself liberated.”

“You’re a Yank,” said a British voice.

“Never,” came Fawcett’s lilting southern burr, “confuse a Virginian with a Yankee.”

I’d never heard of Fawcett before. My bad.

H/t: Ironically Fark.

Bravo has a great deal of reality television shows to choose from. Some of them are pretty darned skippy (unabashed Tim Gunn fan here and I love going here for the snark/love after Project Runway airs.) I guess I started watching Bravo reality television when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was on, which was fun but faded away rather quickly.

On Make Me A Supermodel, there is this guy from Tennessee.

Nashville, actually.

I didn’t really think about him being from Nashville but I thought I’d throw it out to you. His name is Ben DiChiara.

Buddy TV says this about him:

Twenty-two-year-old Ben of Nashville, Tennessee has been a deputy sheriff correctional officer for the past two years. While in high school, he met his future wife, with whom he has been with for six years.

I think it’s interesting to see folks from Tennessee on reality television that aren’t wrangling chickens or on 60 Minutes talking about the Meth problem because, campers, Tennesseans get stereotyped pretty regularly.

Of course, I can’t remember these reality people about a week after the shows end but there you go.

Now, let’s just cross our fingers that the Writers’ Strike is seriously over (I think it is) because I’m about to get burned out.

I mentioned yesterday about the blogs I write and how I want you to read them and then either pat me on the back, give me a job making $100 grand a year or give me a pony.

I keed. (Well, maybe not about the job but you get my drift.)

With that said, it started a series of emails between myself and a few people off line that I wanted to address about public relations, promoting online content/products and the differences between being annoying and savvy. First of all, there is nothing wrong with self-promotion. It isn’t shady as so many people think it is. YES, I said it. It’s only shady if you are doing something shady. Many of us just blog because it amuses us and we like to communicate with other people. I’ve built some fantastic relationships with people that I’ve met in the blogging community. Relationships I would have not had otherwise.

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Aunt B.’s father is ill and she’s processing the information.

In other words, I feel like my dad has to cross through the dark forest Death hunts in. And I, more than anything, don’t want him to come to Her attention.

Those words are absolutely beautiful and, you see, I remember feeling that way not too very long ago but instead of articulating it in the lovely way B. did, I think for me it was more of an “AAAAGGHAARG” sort of noise I made and that buzzed in my head for a good part of two years. I was 31 years old when my mother became sick and I lived with that static for quite some time.

First of all, I believe I’m a spiritual person and I’ve been undergoing some sort of faith transformation recently that I would prefer not to put on this blog. That’s just me. I’m just not comfortable putting my positions on faith out in the blogosphere and I never have been.

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I would hope that the Dems just get happy with which ever candidate wins the nomination. I like Obama, but if he doesn’t get it, then I am with Clinton. I hope those who are for Clinton will accept Obama if he wins the nomination.

You see, this is where I am right now as well.

John Shuck also quotes Molly Ivins in his post saying “In the primaries, I vote to change the world; in November, I vote for a sliver more for programs that help the needy. 

Of course a commenter posted that Ivins said she wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton either but that’s just for you to know and I offer that without comment.

If you are a political news junkie, you probably now know that Barack Obama did very well yesterday, however Clinton has raised a boatload of money this past week. You also know that Huckabee beating McCain 3 -1 in Kansas and also taking Louisiana.

I mentioned Louisiana in a post last night. It appears to me, although I’m no pundit or insider, that our fare friends in the bayou voted for change on both sides of the ticket.