Just Giblets

Given the popularity of my previous post, The Wind, I just had to put this Daily Show clip up! These are the fools I dedicated the previous post to…

One bad thing about DVR: you miss the commercials. I’m bummed that I didn’t see this fantastic ad when it aired during Heroes. eHarmony totally deserves the slam, those right-wing Christian bastards.

Broadway actor Nelson Reilly dies

Old Stephanie good. New Stephanie very, very bad.

Just came home from seeing The Science of Sleep at the Coolidge, which I really dug. Then I saw this scrumptious YouTube vid posted by Susan on the [title of show] blog. Now I think it’s time for bed. What do you think I’ll be dreaming about tonight?

I’m shocked. Yesterday I received email confirmation from the domestic goddess herself that The Style Network declined last month to renew The Brini Maxwell Show. Well, if you ever needed proof that ([style] != [taste]), there you have it.

But on the positive front, Brini has a new weekly video podcast! I’ve already been subscribing to her popular weekly NPR audio podcast since the very beginning, but this is so well timed that I’m now positive Brini is my feminine alter ego. I just got a beautiful lime green Creative Zen Vision: M for my birthday and so now I can enjoy Brini on the subway or wherever I am! And it looks like she’s going to be showing clips from her original cable access show which is even more exciting. She actually gets a little naughty and sardonic. Is there anything this lady doesn’t do well?!

Maybe it’s that I’ve just been laying in bed for hours on end trying to shake this cold/flu/whatever I’ve got, but I had the craziest idea regarding everyone’s favorite Barbara Eden sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie. You know how Bewitched is often cited as a coded sitcom about a gay couple? Samantha has to keep her natural flamboyancies hidden and keep her friends and family out of the living room so Dirwood won?t be ?outed?? Well, even more prevalent are arguments about which magic gal could kick her rival’s butt: Jeannie vs. Samantha. It’s a tempting debate. The two shows are pretty similar. So, following the thought… is there also hidden homo-subtext in Jeannie?

It’s kind of hard to just lay the Bewitched template on top of Jeannie. Tony doesn’t have to explain to anyone why Jeannie’s a little wacky. He totally keeps her out of sight from everyone but his best friend, Roger. (Okay, later they get married and stuff, but I’m talking about the original concept for the show.) And while Jeannie’s fellow genies show up now and then, Tony’s not afraid that they won’t behave — he’s petrified they’ll be seen at all! Endora’s pretty eccentric at first glance, but anyone in puffy pants and a fez is pretty hard to take seriously.

So if Jeannie and Tony aren’t a gay couple, why is the Major so uptight? Consider this: his greatest fear is that Dr. Bellows, a military psychiatrist, will discover what he’s bottled up — something that his horny best friend would love to get at. He’d love to get rid of it (remember, this is 1965), but it just won’t go away! It could easily make his life much more enjoyable, but he’s in total denial.

Yep. Jeannie is Tony’s inner gay boy. I can’t wait for the movie adaptation. Much more interesting than Fight Club, wouldn’t you say?