.a piece of glass puncture in my heart.

i apologize ahead of time for the pure randomness of this post. i don't really have anything important or insightful to say. i just feel like typing something.

first, my peeve, it's WAY too cold out right now. i want to leave ohio simply because the weather is constantly putting me out of wack. severe weather changes make me feel sick. never sick enough to skip class, but sick enough that i don't feel like doing anything.

bleh.

and i'm already stressing about this quarter. not a bad stressing, but there's just lots to do. i probably have at least two meetings every night on a normal day. sometimes three to four if i'm lucky. the amount of reading i have to do is insane and midterms are creeping up fast. i already have one midterm this monday, and a 40-some minute presentation to do wednesday, which i need 20 sources for. and trust me, finding 20 sources for online journalism topics is not that easy. i guess it's good though because not many books have been written, so i don't have to go searching through insanely large books.

not to mention my political junkieness is coming out. as much as i hate television news, i find myself turning on msnbc and cnn every day, i check the washingtonpost.com ALL the time, the newyorktimes.com sometimes, and a host of blog sites including drudgereport.com, huffintonpost.com and dailykos.com.

and jon stewart is one of my favorite people ever. pretty much.

although, you have to watch these series of videos of stephen colbert. okay, so i used to hate him. i thought he was horrible, offensive, rude, obnoxious and didn't understand what the hell he was trying to accomplish. then i started reading about him. and once i found out exactly what he was doing (basically playing a character, bill o'reilly to be exact) i started to have a lot more appreciation for him. even more so after i watched his infamous speech at the correspondent's dinner last year.

for those of you who don't know, the correspondent's dinner is a dinner held in washington for all the beltway reporters. everyone who's anyone in d.c. attends. thousands of people in fact. now, ever since i found out about this tradition i've been disgusted by it. it makes me sick, actually. but that's besides my point right now.

anyway, at this dinner, they always have someone give a speech, that's usually sarcastic, pokes fun at the press, but generally is lighthearted and fun.

well, whoever decided that stephen colbert fits this profile or thought he'd ease up a little needs a serious headcheck.

i, however, thought the speech was brilliant. he's never drops his character and holds nothing back. nothing. the funniest thing is how uneasy he made the room, and the expressions on some people's faces - ranging from disgust, to polite smiles, to wanting to laugh but not being sure if they could, to cracking up.

and i hope that the government and the press sitting in that room took something from it, especially knowing how popular his show and the daily show are (now they just need to get stewart up there).

watch. and enjoy.

part 1


part 2


part 3


(youtube is fabulous, btw.)

and if you want to know why i love jon stewart so much, it's not just because he's funny as hell. but two main reasons. his book - america: the book, a citizen's guide to democracy inaction and this appearance on the now defunct show, crossfire on cnn:



it's a shame, that when all stewart wanted to do was have a serious conversation about the state of the media in the U.S. (which is sad, indeed) all the insufferable Tucker (who now has his own show on msnbc, go figure) could do, after he realized how absurd it was to compare crossfire to the daily show, is complain about how stewart is boring, instead of actively participating in the conversation.

how is this person even on air? it's disgusting.

anyway, hope you enjoyed those clips. go onto youtube and look for more, there's a bunch from both the daily show and the colbert report that are just priceless.

jon stewart for president.


xoxo.m