On Jun 3, 6:35 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2:44 pm, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > As the brain trust who runs this board debates on whether to keep up
> > Tom's old Twitter account for the site, interesting that Conan did a
> > sketch last night that wasn't too kind to Twitter (or at least some of
> > the people who use it)--pandering to the Leno audience or just healthy
> > skepticism?(not to mention taking a shot at his moron "Late Night"
> > replacement)--NY Mag worries it's the former:
>
> >http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/06/conan_fallon_twitter.html
>
> This article strikes me as the very soul of dumbass-edness. "Conan's
> no longer hip because he thinks Twitter is stupid." Ye gods, Twitter -
> is- stupid, and the whole point of the piece was how vapid it is.
> (And, I hesitate to add, any technology that's flogged as endlessly by
> NPR as Twitter is cannot be considered "hip" by any stretch of the
> imagination.)
>
> As far as "decrying the the kinds of things that 'those youngsters
> with their rock-and-roll music' are wholeheartedly embracing," does
> that really equate with having Pearl Jam and Green Day as the first
> two musical guests? Guess they're not as current and hip as Paul
> Simon, who Fallon had on.
But the Decemberists or (name any band on the home page of Pitchfork)
could be even more current and hip than even Pearl Jam and Green Day.
(And Michaels will always book his buddy Simon when given the
chance.) But I know what you mean.
Speaking of Michaels, were my eyes correct that Michaels is not
involved with the Conan "Tonight Show"--that it's just Conanco and
Universal as producers?
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