Monthly Archives: April 2009

Susan Boyle: The Ugly and the Unkissed

We find the rise of television and internet singing phenomenon Susan Boyle confusing and disappointing.  What the world is confessing in their stunned sycophancy for her is ritualistically simple:  “Golly, we never suspected ugly, unkissed, people could have beautiful singing … Continue reading

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Kathy Griffin Cuts a Bitch

We have loved Kathy Griffin because she is an outsider and a rebel.  What, then, happens when your favorite celebrity stone-thrower becomes a fawning morass of sentimentality instead of a biting, vicious, cutting-edge-funny razor?

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