have you read about it? i bet you have – kevin smith got on a southwest flight and tried to fly standby but he normally books two seats on a flight, but he couldn’t do that on standby, and some bonehead southwest person made the poor judgment call to make him get off the plane, and then kevin tweeted about it and it has created a big FUROR.
these are the basic facts and i might not be completely accurate in reporting them but if you care that much you can read about it yourself. you probably already have.
but then i read the southwest airlines blog, and on it a couple of their people wrote these apologies and explanations and stuff.
the thing that intrigued me, though, was the AVALANCHE of reader comments. I HATE YOU SOUTHWEST AND I’LL NEVER FLY SOUTHWEST AGAIN AND YOU SUCK AND NOBODY I KNOW IS EVER GOING TO FLY SOUTHWEST EVER EVER AGAIN AND I’M SURE THIS WILL CAUSE YOUR QUICK DOWNFALL YOU PREJUDICED MORONS BASTARDS!
and also lots of THANK YOU SOUTHWEST AND FAT PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GETTING ON MY NERVES AND OOZING INTO MY SEAT AND ALL YOU WHINERS SUCK AND YOU CAN ALL JUST GO TO HELL AND I HATE YOU ALL AND GET OUT OF MY SIGHT AND I HOPE THAT EVERYBODY I HATE BOYCOTTS SOUTHWEST SO I CAN FLY ALL BY MYSELF.
i know i shouldn’t be surprised about all these crazed comments SO FULL OF ANGST AND ANGER because sometimes i read the comments posted on my COMICS website – people there are saying all kinds of crazy things ABOUT THE FUNNIES!
hey, dude, they’re FUNNIES. you just need to LIGHTEN UP AND CHILL OUT.
it seems that some people just HATE the characters in some of the comics and of course some people HATE the other commentators and it’s really just a bit RIDICULOUS in my opinion. if you have the characters so much, WHY ARE YOU READING THE COMICS? And why go to the trouble of hating a comic? aren’t there more worthwhile things to hate? i mean, i’m not so crazy about some of the many many comics out there, but guess what – i DON’T READ THEM.
but when i read all this stuff about kevin smith, i remember hearing that he has a movie coming out so i looked it up on IMDB – it’s the movie COP OUT and it’s opening february 26th and isn’t all this HOOPLA really really getting kevin’s name out there? i mean, i know there are plenty of people who already know who he is and like his movies (or they don’t), and i know the trailer has been playing a lot and the movie looks really funny…but isn’t this GREAT BIG DEAL just ramping up the publicity?
so even though i never comment on anything, i just posted a comment to that effect on the southwest blog.
i then read yet another story about him and found this in an LA times article…
The predicament (that some ‘Net wags have taken to calling “Fatgate”) provides Smith a windfall of exposure at a transitional time in his career — namely, just before Smith’s new action-comedy, “Cop Out,” reaches theaters Feb. 26. Starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, it’s the first feature in the Independent Spirit Award winner’s 16-year career for which he served as director but did not write his own script. Worse, many in the entertainment industry have consigned Smith to “movie jail” after his last few films failed to launch at the box office.
For his part, the director continues to use the Tweet Deck to deny that Fatgate is any kind of promotional stunt. “Sometimes it baffles me how little people think things through,” Smith tweeted Sunday. ” ‘Free Publicity!’ = 200 new articles declaring I’m fat. Yay, me. Epic win.”
i get kevin’s point…but on the other hand, sure, maybe people are talking about his rounditude….but they’re reading about him. his name is all over the place. i guess the non-cynical is saying, give the guy a break, i’m sure he’s legitimately upset about the whole thing…but the cynical me is saying, nice move, kevin, you really got people sitting up and noticing you.
i must watch the olympics now.
ok then,
monday night grace.