it does work!

her death really bothers me, for some reason. i feel all angsty and sad about it, which is weird.

maybe because there are so many whiffs of dark acts in her life. and tragedy, as i said. was her son killed so he would not be an heir...he was the last string she had left to that fortune she was fighting for. and look at the timing...and of course its horrible that she had to lose him that way at all. then, to see a mother die shortly after, you wonder if she killed herself. fortune and son gone. what's left?

in the end, i just feel bad about it...even though i hardly know what really went down. i try to cheer myself up with a digital cookie. and it works!

It's sad because she got chewed up and sucked dry and spit out by American pop-celeb culture, just as she was always meant to be, right in front of our eyes, in front of the voyeuristic camera lens: a Marilyn flashback, a projected fantasy, a flesh Barbie doll with a shelf life, a cartoonish object of derision, a circus, a tragedy. The morbidly sensational entertainment media and the celeb-voyeur public got what they want, played out on news-reality TV.

And yes, the cookie thing is most convenient!

Strangely, her death really bothers me too. She's not usually on my radar, but recently my mom has been watching Entertainment Tonight, or something like that, and they've been talking and talking and talking about her (and I'm sure they'll be doing so still, as they had an interview with her that they've been playing out).

I felt sort of sorry for her (as well as thoroughly tired of hearing about her), for various reasons, and now this. Weird.

This does bother me as well, even though she did come across as a trainwreck (and who am i to judge,) she seemed to care about her son a great deal. He baby will never know her own mother and that is a very sad thing.

With or without a fortune without those you love around you what is the point?

That poor woman had little privacy, no peace, and she carried the full weight of misogynistic and patriarchal waste dumped on her head. I hope she rests in peace and that her child will be aken care of well.

Your comment form keeps doing this weird thing where if I type past the form, I can't see the words after a certain point. I can't see "the words" in that previous sentence. lol

And I couldn't see "taken" to know I left out the "t." It may not be a site glitch, just a Firefox glitch?

if anyone has feedback on what Sylvia is saying, please let me know here. i can type all the way across the text box and onto sequential lines (as usual) with no visual glitch. i am using firefox, but a mac version.

graz, ustedes.

Although her claim to fame is tenuous at best, it is indeed a tragedy for a child to grow up without a mother.

Far less so, but a tragedy as well that all news networks will now set their mendacious hands to ballyhooing every nebulous detail of her sordid past and (presumed) tawdry demise that they can glom from the remoras of celebrity, as a ruse to ensure that any meaningful information on world events is stifled.

Same as it ever was

On the comment box thing, I can type all the way across with no problem (firefox, XP), *as long* as I don't have the text size increased even a little. Being fairly blind, I usually have the text size larger (ctrl +), but make it smaller to type into the comment box and then enlarge it again to read stuff ;).

Dunno if that helps.

Whoa! It already remembers me. I'm sorry that it was so difficult and took so long, Nez, but it is appreciated. But I'm also getting this thing (using Firefox on a PC), where I apparently just keep typing beyond the end of the white box, and I can't see the letters beyond that. I don't know why. But, in any case, thanks again for setting up the cookies.

hello this is a test only a test. win2000 and firefox looks ok to me trying
it did not change to this line automatically and I do have the type a little larger
than normal. had to manually change to this line too.

yo soy Horsedooty!

hmmmm. okay. seems i have to mess with that text box. i'll do that in the morning. see if i can fix it. further feedback is welcome. thanks.

Anna Nicole Smith doesn't jump to mind when you think of "political" blogs, but we do owe her some gratitude. She wasn't just a "ditz with tits", but any blue-collar working woman who challenged our ideas of marriage and women's rights (and, in an odd way, gay rights).

She is not the first woman... even in our time... to marry for security and status. What's the difference really, between the former Texas stripper marrying an oil billionaire and a English kindergarten teacher named Diana Spencer marrying a big-eared jobless 40 year old with a sizable inheritance? Does the treatment Anna Nicole received mean the rich are better than us, or that we still accept monarchy?

As a widow, of course, she deserved her inheritance (hey, she worked hard for the money). The way the media treated her suit against the Marsh family says volumes about how we think about the law and justice. She was the widow and the law said she should get 50%. BUT... oh, dear... she was a 2o-something widow so married for the money. Were we saying we wanted some state controls over our personal lives? That's why, an an odd way, she's a gay hero. She represented the right to marry and run her personal life any way she saw fit.

Anna Nicole, RIP.

Hey... it likes me! It really likes me :-)

Shocked and weirded out....why I don't know. Yeah she married for money, probably was not
the best mother, etc. But there is something bittersweet about this. As if a part of me
wanted to pull her out of the whirlwind and say that everything would be ok.

Weird...just plain weird.

Experimental comment to test form. Testing... testing...

And on Smith: we're cannibals, it seems, or in other words, celebrities get eaten alive.

the text box for comments works fine for me in xp and firefox. :)

i was a bit sad when i seen that headline online today. she was still young and had a baby at home. things couldn't have been easy on her having a new baby and losing your only other child within days of each other.
very odd and sad. we'll all probably never know what really happened. it's going to be spun in fifty different directions by morning.