SUPERNANNY: Welcome to “The Naughty Corner.” |
6 U2 and Green Day at the Louisiana Superdome | ESPN | Say what you like about U2, that Bono can work a stadium. Warming up for the first post-Katrina game (Saints versus Falcons) in the newly renovated Superdome, former crucible of a nation’s disgrace, U2 and Green Day rampaged through the Skids’ “The Saints Are Coming” with true redemptive spirit energy. Bono, of course, had his own lyrics for the occasion: “We’re living like birds in the magnolia trees . . . Child on the rooftop, mother on her knees . . . her sign reads, “PLEASE I AM AN AMERICAN!”7 Supernanny | ABC | Now in its third season, this reality show is porn for the tired parent. Supernanny Jo Frost arrives by London taxi and sheds her limey light on troubled families. Weak mums are slapped about and emotionally withdrawn dads are given hell: “Unasseptable!” says Jo. Her most enduring contribution to child care will probably be “The Naughty Corner,” a punitive magic circle enthusiastically deployed in my own household.
8 Martin Short on the Colbert Report | Comedy Central | Personally, I find The Colbert Report a bit of a strain, like watching a one-man Broadway show: the conceit perspires a little. But when Colbert interviewed Martin Short, who actually has his own one-man Broadway show, it was 10 minutes of Old World ecstasy, two pros silkily swapping laugh lines. Bring back Jiminy Glick!
9 Martin Amis on Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason | PBS | Nothing daunted by the transatlantic critical pile-ons that have greeted his last few books, this master of English prose continues to give us the benefit of his Views. On jihadism: “It is a secret no longer well-kept that killing is a joyous experience.” On God: “Certainly not an anthropomorphized being, but yes, an intelligence . . . ” (Murmured with sullen respect, as if the Deity, in terms of brainpower, might actually compare rather favorably with Martin Amis.)
10 Brian Ross doing Foleygate | ABC | This whole thing was beautiful. Outrage was ignited, hypocrites were pulled down, and as a bonus there was the immortal comedy of Ross, in his crimestopper’s monotone, dourly reading out the fatal IMs: “Do I make you a little horny? . . . Cool.”
Related:
Fleecing, stealing, shilling, and sucking with impunity, The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 8, Leader of the hacks, More 
- Fleecing, stealing, shilling, and sucking with impunity
Over the busy holiday season, a tremendous wealth of worthless music-news tidbits slipped through the cracks, unnoticed by a lethargic, goose-sated America.
- The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 8
U2 | the Paradise Rock Club | March 6, 1981
- Leader of the hacks
We didn’t stick around long enough to see whether U2 played, but we did catch a good chunk of the “Steve Morse Review” at the Paradise on January 9.
- Hitsville USA
There are singles artists and there are album artists. Watch videos from Beck's The Information (Windows Media)
- High-octane coverage
Despite admirable wall-to-wall coverage from the national mainstream press and unusually in-depth reports from network television and cable, the Huffington Post has emerged as perhaps the single best go-to source for developing news and wide-ranging commentary about the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Freaks, Geeks, and Faux Bono
As Bay Staters, we recognize that our European ancestors sure knew how to roll: scarlet letters, sticks up asses, if-she-drowns-she's-not-a-witch-if-she-floats-she's-a-witch-so-let's-kill-her legal applications.
- Smack downer
I haven’t come hereto academically justify West Coast credos about assimilating hoes into housewives. Instead I’ve come to mourn the commercialization of misogynistic rap lyrics.
- The worst word
Then it happens: you look up at the TV screen and see Bono, the lead singer of U2, step up to the podium to accept a statuette for recording the Best Alternative Music album. "We shall continue to abuse our position," he says, "and fuck up the mainstream."
- Dance Monkey: Lizz Winstead
It will be called Harry Pott-him .
- Angels in America
The publication this month of the selected correspondence of Mother Teresa has revealed that, for many years, the Saint of Calcutta entertained significant doubts about the existence of God.
- U2 3D
Even better than the real thing? An argument can be made.
- Less
Topics:
Television
, Politics, Entertainment, Reality Shows, More
, Politics, Entertainment, Reality Shows, Martin Short, Vaslav Nijinsky, Broadway Shows, Bono (Musician), Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, NFC South Division, Less
