We’ve changed the title of this week’s celebrity slide show in the hopes that you’ll like it more. But it’s still much the same as last week’s: a rip-roaring, side-splitting, super-high-quality celebrity slide show, so never fear.
It’s important to be liked. Everyone wants to be liked. Some of us are. Some, not so much.
We don’t claim to be the life of the party. If we did, everyone would laugh. We’re usually the one sitting in the corner, eating a plate of celery and dip. The one in the bow tie.
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It’s not that we don’t have anything interesting to say or don’t cut a suave figure. It’s that the music’s too loud. Turn down the music and you’ll see how interesting we are. Sparkling repartee is our forte. For instance, did you know that that word — “forte” — is actually pronounced “fort?” Now you do. See how nice it is when you turn the music down?
Some of the writers around here go viral with these slide show things. You like them, and they feel good about themselves. The bosses like them and dole out kudos by the boatload. The viral writers strut around like proud roosters with their pumped up chests, a few feet off the ground. We hate them.
On the other hand, we haven’t gone viral. Yet. As we drift off to sleep in the wee hours at night, though, a tear on our cheek, we often think about it … what it would feel like. We’d feel validated, as a maker of slide shows, as a journalist, as a person. We imagine opening up a bottle of fine champagne and lighting up a giant cigar to celebrate the occasion, kicking back with the stogie hanging from our mouth, smoke in our eyes, laughing like a hyena as we count a big fat wad of Benjamin Franklins.
Yes, indeed, it must be a sweet thing going viral. But we’re not going to beg. We’re not going to pander. You’re better than that. We’re better than that.
So, as said, we’ve changed the title of this slide show in the hopes that you’ll like it more. Oh, please say you do!
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I do! In fact, I loved the whole week’s worth. I think there should be a man-date for this to go viral!
The Larry Elder Show likes me too. They just called and I’m going to be a live guest at 5:30 today, AM 790 KABC.
Well done, Tim!
Danke schoen.
The Larry Elder Show likes me too.
I guess it was too much to have expected Larry Elder wanting you on to discuss, say, the current Mahler series presented by the LA Phil. A bit of me was naive enough to assume that wasn’t totally unlikely. Oh, well.
But I do admit that when I visit telegraph.co.uk — almost always due to clicking on articles found there that are linked elsewhere — some of that site’s links to celebrity fluff pieces, which they run to the right of a page’s article, are interesting enough to me that I’ll open them up. I read in the LA Times that the Telegraph’s format has been a big success in attracting lots of visitors.
I find it interesting that a voice can give me an impression of the speaker looking a certain way — of a certain age — which may not be in sync with the way he or she looks like in actuality. Based on your online photo, I expected a less youthful, less approachable, or somewhat raspy-baritone-ish voice.
So, you heard it? I was surprised when Larry started out by talking about me being a classical music critic and a trombonist, etc. Totally unexpected, totally unrehearsed. I believe he, or an assistant, must have read the bio on this blog.
Tim, I saw the comment to Aunt Laurel just a bit before the broadcast on KABC and switched it on. I admit that once I realized it would be about only the type of stuff in your Register column, my curiosity waned. However, I know that even though some of us find the celebrity beat to be less than stimulating, I just read the following article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16746785
I now realize I was referring to the wrong website out of Britain. It’s the mirror.co.uk and NOT telegraph.co.uk. That should be of some interest to you since the Daily Mail has become quite a draw on both sides of the Atlantic due largely to the type of showbiz fluff — which the Register foisted upon you — that is a big feature of their format. So, like it or not, a good portion of the public apparently does appreciate the subject matter that you’re covering on a daily basis.