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26 January 2006

Oprah has a million little questions. She did her show live today, with author James Frey. But today's show was very different from the last time he was on. →[More:]Oprah opened the show by apologizing to her audience for defending James Frey and said she regrets making that phone call to Larry King. A key quote from the news story about it: "It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped," Winfrey told a startled-looking Frey who licked his lips often before speaking. "More importantly, I feel you betrayed millions of readers...As I sit here today, I don't know what is true, and I don't know what isn't."

Unfortunately, much of the show was pre-empted here in Chicago (thank you so much Bush!) but the whole show will be rerun at around 11pm. (This might be a must-Tivo for me!) Anyone catch it?

post by: sisterhavana at: 13:06 | 51 comments

oprah hasn't come on here yet, I think it comes on at 3 or 4. I'll being watching.

posted by puke & cry 26 January | 13:08

I watched a little bit of it before I had to leave for work. It was schadenfruederiffic from what I saw. Oprah also called out the editor of the book and made her squirm.

posted by krix 26 January | 13:20

Don't fuck with Oprah, it's up there with Never Whistle While Your Pissing and Always Save The Last Bullet For Yourself.

Fuck the bullshit it's time to get ambushed.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 13:22

This guy seemed like a posturing turd from the first, but out of curiosity I read the book, and was really underwhelmed. I loaned to someone I knew in AA, and he said it smacked strongly of bullshit.

I'm rereading Blue Blood myself. I'm actually a big fan of 'popular' writing, but Edward Conlon deserves Oprha-level publicity much more than that attention whore Frey.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 13:26

you're, you're.

Next on Oprah, O beats the holy shit out of Divine_Wino with a bar of ivory soap in a tube sock for pulling the most annoying of all the illiterate moves.

Blue Blood

That's a good fucking book, right on.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 13:27

Blue Blood. Thanks for the reminder. I need to buy that.

posted by arse_hat 26 January | 13:29

Never Whistle While Your Pissing

Divine One, the last two times I've been at our bar, I've witnessed a dude loudly berating a co-worker (phrases like "you fire the fuck," were used) while pissing, and some young buck rolling a fat blunt fulla sticky buds while whizzing. I warned him that stuff would lead to communism and he nodded sagely and thanked me for my concern.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 13:31

So does oprah suck his soul out ala Shang Tsung?

posted by puke & cry 26 January | 13:33

I've had Blue Blood sitting on my bedside table for a while, maybe I'll crack it this weekend.

posted by omiewise 26 January | 13:37

When do we next drink, then?

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 13:40

I quit drinking boyos. At least for the nonce, but I'll hang out and drink cokes. I'm high on life.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 13:42

I quit drinking boyos.

and the boyos are grateful.

quit drinking? are we gonna have to change your name to Blessed_Cola?

posted by jonmc 26 January | 13:44

So you quit drinking and smoking?

Wow. Maybe we'll have to go to a Pizza-Time Theater instead.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 13:50

Yeah
Last friday I sorta way overdid it and had a classic slow down buddy kinda moment (after I left you at the bar, in fact at five am saturday morning) and so I'm on a long hiatus, which actually has left me feeling pretty good.

maybe I'll write a james frey type book.

All capitalizing some Nouns and sucking Ass at writing.

Yeah, I quit drinking because I beat up a Cop. Beat him up. Beat. Cop. Cop. I ate ten pounds of Crack and smoked a bucket of Clams. Hate. Smoke. The FURY!

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 13:51

So you quit drinking and smoking?

I still curse, steal and loiter though.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 13:52

I think Chuck E. Cheese's allows cursing, stealing, and loitering.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 13:54

Dude I beat up a COP! With my inner rage and anger at my father, with rage, A COP!

Fuck the bullshit it's time to play skeeball!

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 13:56

mmm, smoked clams.

Great. Now I have to carry the flag for self-destruction and decadence around here all by myself.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 13:58

after I left you at the bar,

me or hugh? my memory of friday is kind of hazy.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 13:59

Let's say I stopped drinking, rather than I quit drinking. You know?

Hugh and I can smoke dope outside and then hugh can go in for beers with you jon and I'll drink soda water and bug out on people. It'll be nice, like christmas.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 14:05

Shit yeah, that's a plan. How 'bout tomorrow?

And jonmc, my memory of Friday is kind of hazy too, was I even with you guys?

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 14:11

I wasn't even sure I was with the Wino. I thought he was with you without me. I'm not even kidding.

(how bout today?)

posted by jonmc 26 January | 14:12

I love you boys. Today and tomorrow I am hanging out with my mom. Stopped drinking and hanging out with my mom. Jesus wept. Soon though.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 14:13

Gawker's live-blogging of Frey on Oprah.

posted by ericb 26 January | 14:18

Wow, that was a right bollocking, good, I hate that fucker. Oprah has a powerful ego, but at least she tries to earn it.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 14:26

A friend of mine this weekend was telling me how much she liked the book. When I brought up the fact that it was BS she got all defensive, "But it's GOOD. The people picking it apart have too much time on their hands. It's so stupid that people are getting so worked up about this."

I lost respect for her.

posted by jrossi4r 26 January | 14:38

Awesome, that jeek deserves what he gets. I hope he's made a damn sight more than "uncomfortable."

posted by omiewise 26 January | 15:00

I can't today, jonmc, but if you're around tomorrow, I'll head down after work. We don't need that wagoneer anyway.

Someday I'd like to meet Oprah and tell her how good she was in The Color Purple, and tell her I hope she does more acting.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 15:06

What, pray tell, is a wagoneer?

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 15:33

apparently he's calling you an SUV, wino.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 15:35

You're on the wagon.

But that was just sour (but not yet ferment) grapes talking; Of course it would be merrier with more.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 15:39

I was hoping it was a superhero.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 15:41

Your use of the phrase "Jesus wept" reminds me of someone, Divine_Wino.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 15:44

Wow that dude really likes math.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 15:51

I so want to come out to NYC and hang out with youse guys! I have a feeling that a night out with the Wino and JonMc would be the best way to understand a City that Never Sleeps, filled with millions of addled, angry insomniacs.

You all kick ass.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 26 January | 15:52

It's that pinhead dude from Hellraiser; he says "Jesus wept" in this crazy voice in the movie, and now whenever I hear or read someone using that phrase, I think of the pinhead.

What super powers would The Wagoneer have?

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 15:57

I have a feeling that a night out with the Wino and JonMc would be the best way to understand a City that Never Sleeps,

Oddly, we usually never leave our barstools.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 16:00

Hugh,
I know, I just thought it would be funny to pretend he was just someone who was really into Catesian coordinates. Hellraiser is an iller.

The Wagoneer would be really good at leading four wheeled things into a circle and bringing white people to the Northwest. Oh and getting shot with arrows, super good at that.

lipstick thespian

Don't listen to Jon, visit the city and we'll take you to all the great vice spots and sinkholes. Bellview, the Tombs, Peeing Opera Singer Alley, Stinktown, The Bloody Angle, Mustache Row, Bangers and Mash and that place where the bug killed that other bug.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 16:06

and we can still do all that without leaving our barstools. It's a really impressive bar. or maybe that's the delirium tremens talking.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 16:08

The Bloody Motherfuckin' Angle for Vietnamese food, yeah! 'Spode got my back, introducing the seasoned to the seasoning! You gotta come to the Nam nex' time, Mr. World Atlas.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 16:16

mmmm delerium tremens is delicioso.

posted by gaspode 26 January | 16:17

Hey we cross posted Hugh. Yeah, vietnamese food. Mmmmmm. I could eat like, all 38 of the appetisers at that place right now.

posted by gaspode 26 January | 16:19

You gotta come to the Nam nex' time, Mr. World Atlas.

It wouldn't be wise for me to go to a Vietnamese place. I'd end up drunkenly waving a toy M-16 and screaming 'C'mout and fight like a man, Charlie!'

Which would, you know, result in bad service and stuff.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 16:26

Nah, I do that all the time, they seem to love it.

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 16:27

The Bloody Motherfuckin' Angle for Vietnamese food

I found out they deliver to my office, needless to say I've been eating quite a bit of caramel pork with black pepper.

'C'mout and fight like a man, Charlie!'

Next time we all actually hang out in person remind me to tell you about "Charlie likes slow jams?". One of my best stories.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 16:29

Fuck the bullshit it's time to eat eel.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 January | 16:34

I've been eating quite a bit of caramel pork with black pepper.

I really gotta try that stuff.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 16:35

you so do, jon.

posted by gaspode 26 January | 16:37

If they deliver to the wino, they'll deliver to my job too, prolly. next paycheck, for sure.

posted by jonmc 26 January | 16:40

I'm looking at Moody's ratings for some of the corporate entities I swap currency with every day.

I wish Moody's ratings, instead of being alphanumeric (Aa2, A1, etc.), were moodier:

National Bank of Oz: Fine
Royal Bank of Brobdignag: Be that way
Bank of Laputa Corp: What-ever
Houyhnhnms & Co.: Just shut up
Lilliput AG: Real funny, asshole

posted by Hugh Janus 26 January | 16:41

Why on earth did Oprah stand behind him at first? That's what I don't understand.

posted by Orange Swan 26 January | 20:43

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