She's fucking stupid. NBC has exclusive airing rights to her show, not ABC.
"Luckily, ABC plays Oprah episodes twice each day in Chicago so I can watch the rest later tonight. Crisis averted. Everything really WILL be fine."
The Big Give is over (the show Oprah DID license to ABC) so this ho is stupid
we hate her and her potential book!
Why couldn't this have been done as a Kindle instead of a book so I could ignore it even more?
Perhaps Oprah should suggest something fatal?
That blog reads like Chelsea Alva Gadda Davida without the fucking gratuitous swearing.
Somebody is going to bet you $50 to read when it does get published.
You should try to hit that, Paul. Oprah loves bookreaders. Fuck this ho and blog about it.
Hmm. This is really a fad, doing something weird for a year and then writing a book about it. I wanna piece.
I resolve to spend one year reading several Slog posts per day, and commenting on many of them. I will speak and perhaps write on the experience, from time to time. I'm not saying I won't write a book about it, especially if such a book looked like it would sell; a question you are perfectly capable of doing the math on. No need to share our answer, as anyone reading this is just as adept at the math as you are.
I do this out of my commitment to public service.
I've been reading Living Oprah blog for a few months and I've been enjoying it. Give it another chance.
Do my bidding you fools! My every suggestion weakens the human race so that I might rise and dominate all! BWWWAAHHHAAAAHAAAAHAAA!!!!
someone did this for martha stewart and showed their work at bumbershoot about five years ago. and it was quite compelling: martha does not advocate a comfortable life. everything was craftsy, yet anxious. nervous, somehow.
So what's she going to do when Oprah says "don't slavishly follow anyone's advice; pick and choose from the thoughts of different people that you respect?"
Or is Ophrah in on the game such that she'd never say that?
someone did this for martha stewart and showed their work at bumbershoot about five years ago. and it was quite compelling: martha does not advocate a comfortable life. everything was craftsy, yet anxious. nervous, somehow.
I really need to do the whole "come up with a weird idea for a blog and then get a book deal when it becomes popular for a week" thing. Seems like there are a few different routes:
- What's it like to be a "x" - opinionista (NY lawyer), rob the bouncer, waiterrant, etc.
- Do "x" for a year or otherwise adjust your life in some way (e.g., "100 things") and blog about it
- Humor site like stuff white people like
Time to get crackin....
I totally wish I had come up with this idea. It could make me a bunch of money and then I wouldn't have to worry about pursuing a life of the mind in which I denounce vapid crap like this.
Perhaps someone should live their life exactly opposite everything Oprah advocates for a year and then write about it. "Live your worst life."
@ 16 PopTart
You could live your life as Mr. Poe advises. That would suffice.
Quote from first post by 'Non':
'She's fucking stupid. NBC has exclusive airing rights to her show, not ABC.'
Check your facts before you bust out the hate cannon amigo. The ABC affiliate broadcasts Oprah two glorious times a day. I don't endorse this lady's weird quest nor do i ever post on blogs - but your knee-jerk, hateful speech (not to mention uninformed) was too much to pass up.
I linked to your site via Andrew Sullivan's ... I have to admit to my first, intuitive thought about the living-like-Oprah experiment: If it was me, I'd be broke, exhausted, surrounded by STUFF and utterly bonkers within a week!
In other words, I'm a low-key, simple-living, slow-as-molasses homebody (especially now, in the dog days of summer) ...
I wonder, though: if someone is living "Your Best Life" according to Oprah, isn't she living (or trying to live) Oprah's best life? ;-)
I linked to your site via Andrew Sullivan's ... I have to admit to my first, intuitive thought about the living-like-Oprah experiment: If it was me, I'd be broke, exhausted, surrounded by STUFF and utterly bonkers within a week!
In other words, I'm a low-key, simple-living, slow-as-molasses homebody (especially now, in the dog days of summer) ...
I wonder, though: if someone is living "Your Best Life" according to Oprah, isn't she living (or trying to live) Oprah's best life? ;-)
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