Sunday, March 25, 2007

Shudder: media personalities

After much hemming and hawing about whether or not it would be morally wrong and unethical to post this, I have decided to throw caution, and possible defamation lawsuits, to the wind.
The devil take it! Here is my blacklist:

Very Annoying or Totally-Hated Media Personalities

  1. Kim Sweetman. Seems like every damn week she is rabbiting on about some aspect of her life that doesn't suit, like how some schools have bad teachers, or how someone cut her off at the lights or something. Having a weekly column in QWeekend is a PRIVILEDGE: one should use it to entertain and enlighten, not to gripe. Very very annoying.
  2. Ruth Ostrow. Similar. All that hippie-weeping, sexually superior tofu-yoga becomes tiresome. And preachy. Her responses to the Modern Dilemma in The Weekend Australian Magazine have become the very definition of baby-boomer condescending predictability. Eat more greens. Have more sex. Everything is your own fault and karma will re-visit you tenfold. Yawn.
  3. Kathleen "I run 40km through the city every morning and I am totally awesome because I am all down with the kids and I am sporty and I see parts of early-morning Brisbane that you don't and I am into wildlife and I love Tom Waits SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU and I am totally spiritual and I weep for humanity" Noonan. Enough said.
  4. Mike O'Connor. Apparently, most of his hilarious domestic mishaps are made-up. I am waiting for some variation on the theme to emerge.
  5. Susan Maushart. Spare me the broken record: we all know you have ex-husbands (actually only one, if I recall correctly) and a bunch of teenagers and some issues with your fertility. We all read What Women Want Next, and now we are waiting for you to say something interesting again, not just spout about how motherhood has so un-fulfilled you. Possibly the least funny and most repetitive of all the female columnists.
  6. Frances Whiting. Borderline annoying. Was good when she started, but how now fallen into the comfortable well-worn persona of 'well-meaning mum who gets into awkward situations relating to her child and husband'. Been done, Frances. Oh, for someone to write scintillating prose each week that one might actually look forward to reading.
  7. Sarah Murdoch. Like a wax dummy come to life. There's a reason that most models aren't TV presenters, dear. Even giggly old whatshername who went on maternity leave was less dementedly vacant than this.
  8. Gretel Killeen. Thank the Lord that we haven't yet been subjected to this year's parade of mutton dressed as lamb, but only few more weeks of reprieve remain before BB07 begins. Giant hair extensions? Bizarre clothing combinations? 10-inch heels? Lest we remind you Gretel, that you are pushing fifty and that some of us still recall (unfortunately) one of your early publications: Every Girl's Geek Guide, back in 1992. Lame. And there is speculation that you were once a man.

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