Monday, February 09, 2009

Quick Hits


It's Official; Miley's Apology Sucks - Miley's "apology" last week to Asian people just seems to have made them even more upset at Miley. I said last week that it didn't even sound like an apology, just her saying the word sorry and hoping that was enough. Well, executive director of the OCA George Wu said, "It's not a real apology. We're not backing down without a fuller apology."

And apparently George was not alone in his belief. The president of the Asian American Justice Centre, Karen Narasaki, said, "It sounds like Ms. Cyrus doesn’t understand the pain felt by those of us who grew up being taunted by insensitive people making fun of our ethnicity by making exactly these kinds of faces and gesture."

I also don't think Miley doesn't understand the pain felt by people forced to watch her show or listen to her talk for longer than two minutes.

Fore!! - Well actually two. That is now the number of children Tiger Woods has. His wife Elin gave birth to a son who they are naming Charlie which is an obvious breach of celebrity etiquette. I was hoping they actually would name their son Fore!!, but apparently they just decided to be normal. Although they did give him the middle name Axel. But they spell it like Axel Foley rather than Axl Rose.

Can I Have Fries With That? - Starbucks finally released the details of their value meal plan. Apparently they want to start competing with other breakfast places and are even willing to reduce their prices to do so. How would you like to start off your day with a Starbucks coffee and a bacon egg & cheese sandwich? At Starbucks it will cost you $4 and at McDonalds it will cost you $1.99. They might want to rethink this whole thing.