What should I say to Randy Jackson?
Randy Jackson comes to Atlanta Monday to talk diabetes awareness. CREDIT: AP
I am planning to talk to Randy Jackson face to face in Atlanta Monday to talk about “Idol” and his Type II diabetes.
Jackson has an innate ability to avoid saying anything controversial in press interviews and getting around questions he doesn’t want to answer with jokes. (Ryan Seacrest is the same way.) But I’m sure there are questions I could ask him that might reveal something about the man. Any ideas? By the time this blog entry posts, he may very well no longer be on “Idol.” We shall see.
And “The Voice” must be thrilled that it received Emmy nom while “Idol” was snubbed for the first time for best competitive reality show. (”Idol” has never won” and probably never will.)
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Deirdre
July 20th, 2012
3:25 pm
Haven’t heard from Heather in a long time but Highlander mentions her every now and then.
Are we talking about masturbation again? I need to report this!!!!
Deirdre
July 20th, 2012
3:28 pm
This Joker’s hair is not red:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gk5Se3PAz-w/TuQ5BA7WWvI/AAAAAAAAA9o/0P2jk9mvULU/s1600/lDKtFJ_ledger-joker.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.themovieadvocate.com/2011/12/our-10-favorite-cinematic-bad-guys-12.html&h=415&w=420&sz=57&tbnid=6zc3yp6WAz5AVM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=92&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dledger’s%2Bjoker%2Bphotos%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=ledger’s+joker+photos&usg=__QHranLp72oQEoAjT_mH46YBcAoM=&docid=sTQ1X-wWZR8MYM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=F7EJUPPaKoiS9gSiiZXaCg&ved=0CEYQ9QEwBA&dur=4219
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
3:29 pm
*Sam-A* real cute, posting just a snippet of that article to try to prove your point. I read the same article and you failed to list all the correlations it listed that applied to the movie. Coincidental? Maybe, maybe not. We shall see. *JT* you are wasting your time replying and referring to me. As I said, when I see your avatar I don’t even read them, after yesterday.
Deirdre
July 20th, 2012
3:29 pm
Dang, that incredibly long link doesn’t work. Let me try something else.
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
3:32 pm
*Deirdre* That was based on what one psychologist said on the news this morning. Possibly he meant green, or purple, or even orange, and said red. I’m not that familiar with the “Joker” anyway, as I have outgrown that stage. Does he maybe change his hair color at random? BTW, no comments from you about JTesla’s “vulgar” post yesterday? I think I have heard you admonish others on here about such as that.
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
3:36 pm
I realize I am endearing myself to “The Circle of Friends” here but what the heck, it’s less boring that way. Anybody agree with me, or afraid to?
Deirdre
July 20th, 2012
3:38 pm
MyP…I didn’t find the statement vulgar at all. As a matter of fact I didn’t find the statement at all since I was in CA babysitting Lucas. I think the discussion, brief as it was, was in reference to Fred Willard being arrested in an adult movie theater for a lewd act. JT was clarifying, imo. However, you are perfectly capable of getting a post deleted by hitting “report this comment” and, well, reporting the comment. Obviously, since Rodney sees all the comments, he didn’t find it objectionable either.
And if we want to talk about “lewd acts” in movie theaters, the Colorado guy just trumped Fred Willard big time!
Highlander
July 20th, 2012
3:39 pm
Sam A, Heather is just lurking every now and then. Sadly, we’ve lost her to Facebook!
We did, however, just celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary. (Do y’all know how hard it is to find a “Happy 8th Anniversary” card???)
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
3:44 pm
I still don’t get how MyP can get away with that vulgar word in the name. What is more offensive an alternate word for pulling as the tug boat tugged the barge or a word that means… Oh I can say it, I’m too offended. I blush everytime I see Patoo… heheh I can’t even type it now. So naughty.
bknsty14
July 20th, 2012
3:46 pm
I’ve been watching the news all day and even the sheriff of the town said at this time there is no relation between the movie and the shootings and would not even speculate as to why he chose this movie. If I had to guess, it’s because there were so many people there they would be like sitting ducks. 4 different sold out shows. that’s a lot of people to shoot at. And the reports about him being dressed as or acting like the Joker to this point have been repudiated. He was dressed in body armor and a helmet apparently.
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
3:49 pm
So saying “tugging one off in an adult theater is OK” is just clarifying huh? Wow, that’s a stretch! I realized when I brought it up that it was probably hopeless. I’ve already seen how tight the circle of friends is here. We don’t want to chastise even one as we just might hurt their feelings. Even when they are wrong and out of line.
Highlander
July 20th, 2012
3:51 pm
MP, you strike me as an ultra-ultra (maybe even a 3rd ultra) conservative. (So farrrrr to the right that you wouldn’t even ever make a left turn).
So, it surprises me that you seem to be blaming the movie. Shouldn’t it be more about the personal responsibility of the shooter?!
And I find the type of psychologists who appear on (so-called) News shows to be a dime a dozen. You can bet that anyone could find just as many that would disagree with that “expert’s” opinion. Any trial with an ‘insanity’ plea proves my point. “Experts” arguing on both sides!
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
3:54 pm
*bknsty14* is obviously watching different news sources than I am. Not only that there are numerous news articles online that have noted the similarities. Skip around a bit, you might just learn more. So you and others think he just picked this place and setting at random huh? Wow, that’s amazing! The movie is about just such things as this.
Highlander
July 20th, 2012
3:55 pm
Oh, and MyP, you obviously didn’t skip over JT’s post that time! Oops!
C’mon now, you have to take responsibility for that. You can’t blame reading his post on the fact you were watching The Andy Griffith Show!
Deirdre
July 20th, 2012
3:56 pm
I’m just not a prude, MyP and there are lots of ways that JT could have said it that would have been a lot worse…but I’m the mother of 2 boys and if I wasn’t ok with masturbation I probably would have been a grandmother a lot sooner and not happily. However, I kinda agree with Sam…it was an adult movie theater….why bother with an arrest?
bknsty14
July 20th, 2012
3:57 pm
I watched an interview with the sheriff of Aurora, CO that was probably on every single news outlet in the country.
bknsty14
July 20th, 2012
3:59 pm
MP – Why so serious?!?
See…that is probably crossing a line. Talking about a movie, not so much.
Vast Wastrel
July 20th, 2012
4:03 pm
In the first few hours after a big news story breaks almost all the talking heads have to talk about is pure speculation, sometimes calling in a professional speculator they keep on retainer. I’m sure when all is said and done this nut job will have been proven to have chosen this movie to guarantee a packed house which would produce more mayhem and increase his jollies. How ’bout that for speculation?
bknsty14
July 20th, 2012
4:06 pm
See, VW just reiterated what I had said. Four sold out shows. That was roughy, what, 800-1000 people at the theater, depending on size. that is a lot of targets for a complete maniac.
Vast Wastrel
July 20th, 2012
4:11 pm
It is a PG13 movie based on comic book characters and Mercedes gets to go to previews and reports her opinion here on lots of movies and I for one, have enjoyed reading her opinions even though I haven’t posted on here that long I’ve read this blog for a long time. Now if the movie had been Natural Born Killers….
I participated in usenet newsgroups before there was a www (world wide web). The discussions here qualify for a G rating. Even movie producers can get away with one allotted f-bomb and keep a PG rating these days.
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
4:14 pm
For the record I’ve been chastised before. Deirdre is an equal opportunity chastiser. Sam has called me out before too, even more than D.
Of course only the “circle” are reading this, hey Circle! Let’s take a ring to Mordor just for fun!
I wonder if MyP get as offended when the news programs that they swear so much by imply that someone was “intimate” or someone “had relations” both terms imply something and both are as offensive as what I said. Oh that’s right MyP wasn’t offended at all but just did’t like me pointing out that they were incorrect.
“facts are facts” a cute way to say don’t question me. Always question those people, they are usually hiding the truth.
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
4:20 pm
I will just fade into oblivion for yet another day when I will reappear to upset the few and selected members of the “club”. Until then I will leave you with this: “Different Strokes For Different Folks”
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
4:24 pm
I wonder what I could have said that wouldn’t have been as offensive?
He was touching himself? No, I’m offended by that.
He was dancing with himself? No, that’s just silly
He was masturbating? No, children might see that word and start dancing with themselves.
WAIT, there it is
He was doing his best “Different strokes for different folks” impression! I knew MyP would come through for us.
I wonder if MyP thinks that they’ve offended me? LOL takes a lot more than that to offend me. Hurry on back now, blog hasn’t had this much fun since that time Rodney praised David Archuleta thus offending the David Archuleta fans.
bknsty14
July 20th, 2012
4:26 pm
He said “Strokes”. That is offensive.
G
July 20th, 2012
4:28 pm
JTesla @ 2:30PM – “….Idol is a popularity contest, but it likes to pretend that it’s about singing, so keep with some judges that are in the music business.”
Yep!
G
July 20th, 2012
4:30 pm
Idol winners have been offensive to me for the past 5 seasons or so. How does that keep happening?
Vast Wastrel
July 20th, 2012
4:32 pm
As have I JT for using one of Carlin’s seven words although it was the one he declared that didn’t belong on the list.
And we agree completely bknsty14 on the crowded theater idea but didn’t see your post until I had posted my own. I’m usually multi-tasking and don’t refresh before posting as I’m accustomed to that being done for me in other forums, in addition to being a slow typist, slow witted…
Pitchy
July 20th, 2012
4:42 pm
JTesla – apparently in 1986, the Joker had red hair.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dark-knight-shooting-aurora-theater-eerie-echo-seminal-1986-comic-frank-miller-article-1.1118708
Sam-A
July 20th, 2012
4:42 pm
So, we have now determined that MyP is actually “stroking” his/herself – wonder if that’s happening at an adult movie theater?
Actually, we can all just skip right over your petty posts MyP, and thusly not be irritated by your inanity. Your crap from last week or 10 days ago was about as offensive as it gets on this open-minded, friendly blog, and you alienated a bunch of us, and totally offended one of our best-liked members.
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
4:42 pm
I was ok with the first one G, but the last four have offended me too.
Well Vast Wastrel, two of those words are now fairly acceptable (but probably not here), and I’ve heard two others on British television shows (where they aren’t as prude). We’ve come a long way.
I think tonight I’ll play a game of “Different Strokes for Different Folks” the home version.
Pitchy
July 20th, 2012
4:44 pm
I agree with MyP. I do not think this was a random picking. That movie was targeted. However, was it the only theatre out of the 16 theatres showing the flick?
Pitchy
July 20th, 2012
4:46 pm
Why not just put on the song “Different Strokes” by Sly and The Family Stone!!! Bet you’ll like that a lot better (lol).
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
4:47 pm
Thanks Pitchy, unlike some I’m open minded and willing to reevaluate things once more information comes in. However, minor technicality Arnold Crimp (comic shooter) is not the Joker.
Pitchy
July 20th, 2012
4:50 pm
Oh, ok
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
4:52 pm
After reflecting a little, MyP reminds me a lot of Negativo back in the early days.
Sam-A
July 20th, 2012
4:53 pm
Good weekend everyone (almost).
Heard another report from a friends’ husband whose company (all dudes) had one of those “bonding gathering” thingys by going to see “Dark……” today. He’s 29 and found it way too long and loud.
Pitchy
July 20th, 2012
4:55 pm
I have no intention of seeing it in the theatre. Never have. I will see it in the confines of my living room. bootleg or honest copy.
Pitchy
July 20th, 2012
4:58 pm
Enjoy the weekend.
Deirdre
July 20th, 2012
4:59 pm
He was doing his best “Different strokes for different folks” impression!
LOL!! That’s even funnier than “He pulled a Peewee!”
Alex
July 20th, 2012
5:03 pm
Barf……
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/reality-rocks/cute-idol-couple-alert-jessica-sanchez-deandre-brackensick-192114921.html
G
July 20th, 2012
5:03 pm
Everyone enjoy your weekend! It’s time for a drink……
bknsty14
July 20th, 2012
5:13 pm
Well said, Alex. Well said.
Vast Wastrel
July 20th, 2012
5:26 pm
Do they have chaperones on the tour?
MyPatootie
July 20th, 2012
5:30 pm
Hello all, long time no see! I share the following from ABC NEWS:
1. Law enforcement sources confirmed that Holmes(the killer) said, “I AM THE JOKER” when apprehended by police.
2. His hair was painted RED, the same color Heath Ledger’s JOKER at one point in the 2008’s “The Dark Knight”.
I am usually not one to say “I told you so”, but I did inform ye all thusly. No apologies necessary. I rest on my laurels.
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
5:38 pm
I was wondering how long it would take MyP to come back.
1) Great, that has nothing to do with your earlier posts. You treated non-information then as “facts are facts” which they weren’t at that time. Just because you now have more supporting information it doesn’t follow that your earlier hypothesis was fact. It was simply a hypothesis that has now been more firmly substantiated.
2) Unless he wore a nurses outfit he wasn’t imitating the Joker with the red hair. Really. Watch the movie sometime, you’ll see.
Of course now MyP will take what limited information there is and try to use it to ban Batman movies, as MyP seemed to be advocting earlier when MyP was acting on non-facts and trying to use them as facts. So for that here is a favorite quote of mine, which was used to agrue agasint gun laws but equally applies to the type of control that MyP advocates: “You can’t stop insane people from doing insane things by passing insane laws………THAT’S INSANE!!!” – Penn Jillette
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
5:45 pm
“Of course now MyP will take what limited information there is and try to use it to ban Batman movies”
Correction, ban any discussion of the Batman movies. Don’t talk about it people! Because that will somehow… I don’t know. You got me on that one, I don’t know what good that will do.
Jenny
July 20th, 2012
6:15 pm
I have to go back to earlier topics and say, Rodney, I am with Mercedes… you must ask about the WGWG fiasco (sorry, dear Sam) and about the “infected voting system”. (good way to put it, Mercedes.)
And Jessica with Curly Squealy? REALLY??? :-O
I will skip the latest topic. Except I loved Heath Ledger’s brilliant turn as the Joker last time, and for some reason I thought I remembered red hair? But I am SO not an aficionado, so I could be way wrong. Anyway, the shooting is just sickening. (and I have friends in suburban Denver, not all of whom have checked in. (I’m sure they’re fine, they probably just haven’t looked at their FB, but still.)
JTesla
July 20th, 2012
6:22 pm
Jenny: “and for some reason I thought I remembered red hair?”
Heath’s Joker wore a red wig when he visited the Commissioner Gordon in the hospital. He was also wearing a nurses outfit at the time. However, his version of the Joker colored his hair green which matches every other version of the Joker.
See, I’m not afraid of facts, when they are actual facts.
Vast Wastrel
July 20th, 2012
6:34 pm
OK, ya’ got me to look. Way to early to declare that there is a link to the subject matter of the movie for this nut. The attribution of the Joker statement has been made by an unnamed “federal official” and the New York Police Commissioner. And that only by CNN and ABC so far trying for sensationalism I assume, (also it isn’t a ABC/Disney production). Nothing of the sort from the Aurora Police Chief who has said the suspect isn’t talking and wore full body armor, helmet and a gas mask. Sounds like the Joker to me.
Even if they come out later with a link to the subject matter within a movie the suspect likely could not have seen beforehand.that has no bearing on whether the content of the movie is discussed the following day here. I recall a mass shooting in a church a few years ago. Does that mean people should not have discussed their own church happenings the next day? Should we blame it on the minister of the affected church for throwing too much fire and brimstone into his sermon?
Mercedes S.
July 20th, 2012
6:52 pm
For being non-seasonal, this blog is hoppin’!