Comments on: the unedited rantings of a fat 42 year old menopausal ex -talk show host

the unedited rantings of a fat 42 year old menopausal ex -talk show host

NickDouglas — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:41:46 -0800

formerlyROSIE hit Blogger with Rosie O'Donnell's name and photo in the profile, but of course we all knew the poems about the Black Album were posted by some fan or mocker. But the New York Times interviewed Rosie and confirmed that she indeed wrote this blog. The article depicts Rosie as the ultimate blogger, though some may feel she belongs on LiveJournal.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:54:05 -0800

"I don't know if she is doing some form of haiku or a terrible Faulkner imitation." Bwahaha. Ah. How weird. We are all equals now, even if we had a strange talk show for a while. Or something. She really does write oddly. Maybe she has ADD.

By: underer

underer — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:07:10 -0800

so when I sit down face to face with him in my depo - I tell him marty - the nebbishy jewish below average lawyer before we start – I say hey "listen my kid had a briss - on the 8th day - performed by a moyle - I buried his foreskin in the backyard" this is no joke stunned silence he does not quite know what to do with me Nobody really exists on the internet; nothing you say on the internet matters because nobody exists on the internet; I will write this. /insane

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:16:03 -0800

I refuse to click on these links on the grounds that Rosie O'Donnell is the single most irritating human being of all time. Your honor, I rest my case.

By: graventy

graventy — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:44:19 -0800

Your, honor, I bring to the stand a witness in this matter, one Carrot Top. *jurors and the rest of the court people flee*

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:50:21 -0800

god alone knows why she thought poetry is the ideal form for her thoughts and observations. i met her once--mid 90s--still shivering when i think back to those cold, dead eyes

By: PhatLobley

PhatLobley — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:01:53 -0800

Rosie's ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to her blog. /Sorry again, Nick.

By: RJ Reynolds

RJ Reynolds — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:03:53 -0800

Well, it wasn't any mystery that it was her blog, exactly. It is linked prominently on the main page of Rosie.com. Though it's still kind of fabulously hard to believe.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:10:25 -0800

i think it's pretty cool that someone that well known would blog ... it'd be cooler if she did it a little better, though ...

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:14:28 -0800

Rosie probably wants to thank you for all your making a big fuss about her ! Thank you ! Tomorrow fuss: zoophilia and Rosie We now resume our normal blogging

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:16:44 -0800

You know what? I applaud her courage (now I sound like I belong on her show) for just expressing herself just as anyone else would, without hiring designers and PR people. But then, I use livejournal.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:31:09 -0800

Do you think that perky (and cute!) Katie Couric has one of those newfangled blogs?

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:35:19 -0800

I liked it -- maybe because i have ADD...maybe because my poems aren't better. I never found her too annoying, and if ever i did...i know how to change the channel(or go outside -- blasphemy.) kudos rosie...

By: carter

carter — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:36:23 -0800

It's just as readable as the NYT; in fact more, I think.

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:42:21 -0800

Phat: You rock. I actually like Rosie's blog, even though I detest her role as an example and cause of America's dumbing down. She represents all that Europe hates about our country -- gluttony, anti-intellectualism, bigotry, and slobbering adoration of the mass media machine -- while still offending the Americans that Europeans hate (the Christian Right). But now she's so vulnerable, and that's cute.

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:43:32 -0800

What's the difference between blogging and livejournal? I thought they were the same thing? Is there some kind of attempt to make a pecking order where non-livejournal users try to make themselves out as The Real Thing or something? If so, is that just the usual attempts by people to try to claim status over others, or is it motivated by a deeper fear that livejournal rips the mystique off blogging, exposing it for what it is, and thus creating a need to believe one's own writings are more important than some 14 year old girl's vapid diary?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:51:12 -0800

i thought livejournal is more online diaries, and blogging is about links and comments on them?

By: Arch Stanton

Arch Stanton — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:55:34 -0800

Livejournal is a community of blogs that are interconnected under the umbrella of 'Livejournal'. A regular blog is something that stands alone.

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:55:58 -0800

Blogger is a specific site for weblogs and usually attracts small-time blogs. LiveJournal is more community based and goes further to encourage links between bloggers. It includes features like "current mood" and is often ridiculed for attracting teenage goth girls and the like. These are only stereotypes that I mercilessly exploited. Yes, they often arise from desparate status-seekers. But just as a man on the street in a suit usually is making more money than a man on the street in blue jeans, a Blogger blog is usually less personal and diary-like than a LiveJournal.

By: bunnytricks

bunnytricks — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:57:17 -0800

I really dislike most bloggers. The way they call each other "peer" and "associate" while citing someone's meaningless interpretation of the latest drudge report exclusive. Livejournal may have gone downhill since 2002 or so, but at least ljers don't come off as pretentious children playing dress up with their Edward R. Murrow Ken dolls.

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:59:57 -0800

amberglow: Ah. That works. (Well, as a stereotype anyway, since the website (livejournal or blogger or something else entirely) seems to be entirely irrelevant to that, since the toolset is the same for both activities, and both sites are used for both activities). /read a few blogs, but not too familiar with the culture.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:20:19 -0800

NickDouglas: What do you get for having a "big-time blog?" Don't cite the .0000001 percent of cases where someone makes money on them.

By: Agrippina

Agrippina — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:21:14 -0800

She could at least use punctuation. We need periods and commas, Rosie. It's like trying to watch TV through static. No, it's more like trying to watch "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" through static, but giving up because Rosie is so obnoxious.

By: cedar

cedar — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:26:40 -0800

I liked it. Sure, it's tempting to snark, but in the end I think it's pretty cool that a gen-u-wine celebrity maintains a Blogspot weblog that she actually seems to write herself.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:35:59 -0800

Rosie can't find the shift key either!

By: justgary

justgary — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:39:22 -0800

Livejournal may have gone downhill since 2002 or so, but at least ljers don't come off as pretentious children playing dress up with their Edward R. Murrow Ken dolls. That's because most of them ARE children.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:29:03 -0800

And this is a resounding fuck you to all of you LJ-haters. LJ is no different than Blogger, except inasmuch as there is the focus on networking/community-building/etc. The tool is precisely, as noted above, the fucking same. Just like MeFi, there's a cross-section of children and grownups, idiots and smart people, assholes (exemplified here, it seems) and nice people. Grow up, elitist snobs.

By: ba3r

ba3r — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:35:45 -0800

my public outlet is more real than yours... so there! why does this bashing of Livejournal or blogger or whatever remind me of all the sellout talk in the late 90s. Now if it was a joke on geocities.. i would laugh

By: deborah

deborah — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:31:09 -0800

I've been reading Rosie's blog a few days and have gone through her archives as well. She mentioned that she was writing more "stream of conscious" rather than poetry. Some of it does read as poetry, intentional or not, bad or not. Irritating? Maybe, but we all have our moments, eh? Regarding the journal/diary/[web]log semantics: yeah, at the beginning people seemed to do one or the other. Now, most people do a little bit of everything. I write journal-style, yet I call it a blog. Does it really matter what they're called?

By: First Post

First Post — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:52:18 -0800

Next you'll be telling me Nick Nolte's is real too... (even with the now-prominently-displayed "work of fiction" signage)

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:02:47 -0800

I'd rather not continue the Blogger-vs-LJ fighting, as most actual bloggers are quite at peace with the "other side." At least all of those worth speaking of. Raysmj: Mostly fame. But Stephanie Klein got a book deal, Brian Crecente got hired to write Kotaku, Jason Kottke will get some sweet job offers when he re-enters the working world, Raed and Salam informed the world about Iraq... Having a "big blog" can do all sorts of things. As Danah Boyd says, blogs "have an array of practices associated with them." "What can blogs do" is parallel to "What can TV do" or "What can telephones do;" the answers are myriad and evolving -- even if the witty gems are buried under mindless chatter.

By: xammerboy

xammerboy — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:06:36 -0800

Pretty surprising she's writing and out there, considering most celebs stay away from that kind of thing. More power to her.

By: sophist

sophist — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:07:37 -0800

I really don't think it should have been "better written". She is obviously just writing whatever the hell comes into her mind, and I think that is really cool considering how famous she is. She seems almost unconscious of her fame, or at least purposely not making a big deal out of presenting something professional. I liked her blog a lot better than her TV show, which isn't saying much because I hated her show. One of the last celebrities I would have expected to see writing their own blog.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:55:54 -0800

NickDouglas: As predicted, you told me about .0001 of all cases.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:56:45 -0800

My point, by the way, was your comment was akin to saying, "She has a blog on Blogger, which is where the small time blogs go." So freakin' what? It's a blog, for cryin' out loud. I guess she doesn't want to be famous, to go for that "big-time blog." What makes a blogger "famous," in any case, is just as arbitrary and connections-driven, oftentimes, as regular fame. (The most irritating part to me is seeing how, for the longest time, "fame" was built upon whether you were up-to-date with design, and whether you used MT, or what. Now it's how much you can talk out of your ass about politics, in most cases. Atrios can do this via Blogger, and do great.) And you don't get paid much of anything, if anything, for all that effort, small audience or no. Rosie, I'm sure, is pretty comfortable on the financial end, and, again, famous already, so this is a fun thing for her. Whatever floats her boat is cool, and was to begin with.