Reblogging Julia
A critical analysis of the public ramblings of the creature formerly known as Ms. Baugher, who provides a manic amount of content to parse.
Every little thing she does is tragic.
Talk to me (juliabaugher at gmail) Always held in strict confidence.
Yes we can.
Our Lady of Introspection: Imagine that you get the opportunity to witness the inauguration of the 44th president, and because you once fancied yourself a journalist at a DC university, you think you have some bona fides. Your mother was a speechwriter, and because you once tactlessly blogged about shagging a politician and once met Obama at a BBQ, you think you could have been one, too. You then go to DC for the big event.
Do you (1) blog about the experience of attending being in the same city with the largest crowd gathering in history for a new president? (2) Parse the speech with your sound, college-level analysis of government and politics? or (3) Post a ton of pictures of yourself in yet another pink dress, sporting yet another pursed lips pose.
Yes, it was obviously choice #3. Not even an historic inauguration could dissuade our Lady from posting over 15 pictures of herself. YES WE CAN!
Our Handmaiden of Passive Aggression: Our Handmaiden wasn’t an Obama supporter - something about the proud Texas tradition of assuming your parents’ politics - but she was not above posting a few pics of her reaching across the proverbial aisle, to shake the unclenched fists of those who thought she might be able to set them up with Leven.
BUT! She caught the magic Obama rainbow hope-flu and gave us this:
We, as a nation of moral, democtaic (sic and hic) people, wouldn’t be where we are today if the leaders who had the balls to push the boundaries let themselves be silenced.
All men are created equal. That took a while. So have hope. One day, we’ll get there with the issues that continue to plague us today. Gay marriage, abortion - they will all be inherent rights. Keep talking people. In fact, yell!
You know, we will get there. Her hair went from 1960 to 1990 in the recent past, and that did take a while. YES WE CAN!
Our Handmaiden of Tragic Rebounds: Kind of soggy Cheerios after the backlash from their CES coverage, claiming that she was preoccupied by filming promo spots for their “sponsors.” Unfortunately, those “sponsors” weren’t sponsors, so sayeth Cisco on their blog (“Cisco did not sponsor NonSociety”) nor compensate them for being the CES equivalent of car show models.
Specifically, she was upset that her mother “found her way” (some tech geeks call this googling) to one of the sites that had some negative comments about her, and apparently, Mom promptly responded using a “code name” (she anonymously commented on a website, just like the detractors). And say hey to you mother for me!.
They got past it, and she just marveled that “we can now use the Internet to get information from various sources.” And, just like that, Meghan’s tech savvy caught up to Mary’s new hair. YES WE CAN!
