My Charity Challenge to Joe Bardi

I made a joke on Joe Bardi's Facebook wall that he should do a review of only the Maggie scenes from the HBO series The Newsroom. Not the actual show. I don't even know if Bardi has seen The Newsroom. What prompted the comment was Creative Loafing recently did a charity auction. I wondered if Bardi would subject himself to two seasons of Maggie for a worthy cause.

Bardi asked how much I was offering. This originally started as a joke but I thought why not.

I posted this comment.

This started as a joke. Tell you what, set up a PayPal account. Set a price and we see if we can reach it. I will try to fundraise for it on the blog. You must watch all the scenes with Maggie in the two seasons of The Newsroom. Not the actual show. You must write a character analysis of Maggie on Daily Loaf. I will let you pick the charity.

If Bardi is game he will have to watch scenes like this. For the record: I like Allison Pill as an actress. It seems like Aaron Sorkin took a promising young actressand projected all his problems with women on to her character.

Where Are the Young People?

The photo is of the grand opening of the Obama/Biden campaign headquarters in Orlando. This was the caption under the picture.

[Photo] Take a look at how many people are already at our #Obama2012 office opening in Orlando.

Creative Loafing's Joe Bardi tweeted this response.

And look how old they are, too.

An early sign that the youth vote won't be there for President Obama in 2012.

Quote of the Day

"Listening to Obama, he believes that he's supposed to work with the (Republicans) now. Listing to (Republicans), they believe they're there to destroy him now."

Joe Bardi, of Creative Loafing

Mitch McConnell made it clear getting the economy back on track is not the Republicans first priority.

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

There comes a point where Obama doesn't sound as if he is trying to be civil. Obama now sounds like he just can't accept reality.

Mr. President, the Republicans just aren't that into you.

George Carlin RIP

Joe Bardi reminisces about George Carlin and post video highlights of the comic genius's career.

Just For Creative Loafing

I know I have jumped the local media couch when Creative Loafing adds links in their Short List just to peeve me.

Just for Hussey: Christoper Hitchens on why Huckabee sucks.

The whole thing started out when I mention, in the comments, to Joe Bardi that no one cares what Hitchens thinks about anything these days.

I'm wondering what Creative Loafing is trying to do with the Short List. I have been linked in the SL posts and it doesn't generated a great deal of traffic for my site. My guess is most Political Whore readers don't bother to click the links. (Or no one cares what I have to say.)

Ben Eason wants Creative Loafing to make more revenue off the internet. Tampa CL seems too understaffed to attend to their blogs full-time. They are stuck on the print edition (with all those wonderful ads offering GFE companionship.) Nick Denton's Wonkette and The Washington Monthly found Ana Marie Cox and Kevin Drum from the blogosphere. Both had established audiences and were well-respected. Cox was an ex-freelance journalist and Drum a former CEO. Both have written on the internet since the 90s.

Creative Loafing isn't going to get or afford a Cox or Drum. What they can do is provide more punditry. If people want links they will go to Metafilter. CL needs to update their blogs more often, that is one of the reasons The Buzz is so successful. CL does not have the staff to compete with the St. Petersburg Times. They can find their niche covering topics not touched by the local newspapers.

The CL blogs need to find their own voice and what I say won't matter much to them. David Warner should ask himself does Hitchens links pay for the bandwidth cost?