If you want the valuable perspective of someone who enjoys, and is able to write well about, these types of films: you are going to have to keep Joneser.
That Joneser is an immensely talented asset is not in question. However, imagine yourself in a management position, and an employee came up to you and said, "I just landed three very wealthy valuable clients! And? I strangle kittens."
I hear you; it's definitely a tough call. I don't envy the difficult position you're in. But I think you're in a good place in getting out in front of this before it becomes a bigger controversy. Maybe in the interim you can make sure Joneser adds a disclaimer to her postings, “the opinions of this blogger do not reflect the opinions of the Portland Mercury.”
I mean, if you can land three great deals and all you have to deal with is a few strangled kittens, I’d say you’re ahead of the game.
So apparently a friend of mine from junior high and high school is a semi-successful comedian now. My vanity hopes that the time I tied him up with duct tape and left him to rot in hallway makes it into his act somehow.
Completely off topic. But I have nowhere else to share this revelation.
Fire right now. I feel sick with disillusionment. And disgust -- it's hard to distinguish what exactly is mixed in the dark mélange of emotion moiling in my (less than half) brain.
Wait... I was thinking of Jud Süß. What's Love Actually?
I was kind of OK with the review until I realized it wasn't porno. Firing seems a little extreme though. Maybe a good talking-to? Or an intervention of some sort? Or maybe you should just both go get high, drunk, laid or some combination thereof and it will probably all be better on Monday.
@Fruit Cup: Do not apologize for enjoying Ginger Snaps. It is one of the better Canadian teenage girl werewolf films of our time.
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Also, Love, Actually might be a secret shameful horrible guilty pleasure of mine. I am filled with disgrace and sorrow, as I know it's emotionally manipulative dreck, but like it anyway.
I haven't seen Love Actually, but I have seen Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Hot to Trot and You've Got Mail, and I can tell you that not a single one of them was a perfect film.
Love Actually could be improved immeasurably by not having Hugh Grant in it (see also: all other films featuring Hugh Grant). Hence, it is not perfect at what it does.
I'm actually with Jonser on this one. This isn't a perfect film, but it's one I actually bought a DVD copy of and have watched quite often. Hugh Grant is way more tolerable here than in practically anything else he's in (I think it's the part he's playing) and several of the other story lines are well done too. Not to mention how everything gets tied together.
I CHALLENGE YOU WM STEVEN HUMPHREY! When was the last time you actually watched this movie? Do I sense a Worst Night Ever coming on?
OH! And Broseph Goebbels and Joneser? Don't try to pull your revisionist history bullpoop on ME! She didn't say Love Actually was perfect "at what it was attempting to do," she just simply said it was "perfect." And if the end result of that movie WAS what they were trying to do? THEN THEY SHOULD BE IMPRISONED.
I vote to keep, naturally.
I mean, if you can land three great deals and all you have to deal with is a few strangled kittens, I’d say you’re ahead of the game.
THE OPINIONS OF THIS BLOGGER REGARDING LOVE, ACTUALLY REFLECTS THE OPINIONS OF ANYBODY WITH HALF A BRAIN
Don't you dislike Parks and Rec? Now that's offensive.
SELF FIRE!
Completely off topic. But I have nowhere else to share this revelation.
Wait... I was thinking of Jud Süß. What's Love Actually?
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Also, Love, Actually might be a secret shameful horrible guilty pleasure of mine. I am filled with disgrace and sorrow, as I know it's emotionally manipulative dreck, but like it anyway.
I CHALLENGE YOU WM STEVEN HUMPHREY! When was the last time you actually watched this movie? Do I sense a Worst Night Ever coming on?
"I'm actually with Jonser on this one. This isn't a perfect film..."
Actually you're NOT with Joneser, because she said it WAS a perfect film—which the majority of people polled agree that it is most definitely NOT.