Entries from January 2009 ↓
January 28th, 2009 — Shoot the Messenger
Is it really better late than never?
On Friday, Late Night with David Letterman will have Bill Hicks’ mom on to pay tribute to her late son. They will air Hicks’ twelfth and final appearance on Letterman, which was censored after it had been pre-approved and taped before a studio audience.
The set, which had Pro-Choice among other socially and pop culturally relevant jokes, created a perceived conflict with CBS’ advertisers.
Five months later Hicks died of pancreatic cancer and by all accounts was still pissed at Letterman and CBS.
February will mark the fifteenth anniversary of Bill Hicks’ death and as much as a lot of his material has maintained relevant, it’s hard to understand why Late Night has decided to dredge up something that they have always maintained an elusive distance from addressing.
Guess we’ll see.
January 21st, 2009 — Shoot the Messenger
January 7th, 2009 — Sports, We're All Okay!
Downhill skiing is a winter sport that you won’t catch me doing. There’s too many bones to be irreparably shattered and too much potential impaling.
Now, I have this to add to my worries:
From the Smoking Gun:
Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap
JANUARY 6—In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair’s botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. The images on page four and five were taken by Marty Odom (who can be reached at martyodm@gmail.com if you’re interested in licensing the photos). In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being “suspended for approximately seven minutes.” The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that “the man was caught on the chair.”
January 5th, 2009 — Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“I know that they’re killing my people, but isn’t the writing pretty?”
—a middle aged Jewish woman commenting on the font in an unabridged Koran my co-worker Aaron helped her locate.
January 1st, 2009 — Lost & Found
May you achieve all your goals.
