Care Bears on Fire

Care Bears on Fire played the first night of CMJ at the Bowery Ballroom. Although girls have a lot of pop, no blow is not enough. Not sure if it ever taken seriously as a pop / punk / rock, or simply as a children’s band. I mean, they did it on Letterman recently. And they are a hell of a lot better than it ever was Kittie (Sorry Spiewak). Anyway, here are a couple of pictures below (thanks to Meimi Yeung).

David Letterman Extortion

David Letterman Extortion, So, here they are: David Letterman’s remarks on how he had “creepy” sex with an indeterminate amount of female staffers and was then extorted. Considering Letterman has long used affairs as punchlines, should we run him out of town?

During his tenure at the Late Show, Letterman’s made mad bank on using public figures and their public disgraces as his “comedic” inspiration. There could be a book of his Clinton-inspired knee-slappers, like this one, “No move ever goes smoothly. Today Clinton’s brand new desk arrived. He had to send it back, apparently not enough head room.” Oh, ha! Monica Lewinsky blew Clinton while he was president. And now we learn that Letterman banged his lady underlings.

Letterman’s admission makes us — and Howard Kurtz, sort of — wonder whether Letterman, who also admitted he’ll do anything to protect his job, should be shamed as he’s shamed others.

He’s a famous, rich and, to some, charming man — the fact that he screwed staffers should raise serious ethical questions, like “Did he use his power and influence to take advantage of the women?” Even if he didn’t do so intentionally, it’s certainly possible that’s the case and he’s just as guilty as those he’s lampooned. But perhaps we should give him some wiggle room here.

Although we’re not in awe of how he handled this, we’re surprisingly impressed by the amount of self-skewering he mustered while discussing the potential for embarrassment. That impression, however, was rapidly shattered when he revealed his “true” intentions: protect these women — oh, and his family, self and, yes, job.

The entire thing came off as more of a relatively humorous, if not laudatory, apology than a phony, manufactured plea for forgiveness, but isn’t the former better than the latter, especially since he’s been calling the kettle black this whole time? The audience certainly thinks so: they clapped and laughed and lapped up the entire bit.

Obama on Letterman Video

Obama on Letterman Video,  Add this one to the presidential collection: the heart-shaped potato.
By the time Barack Obama came on stage to the taping of the “Late Show” on Monday, host David Letterman had offered up 10 reasons why in the world the president had agreed to do it.
Among Letterman’s theories: Obama said yes without thinking about it, or as Letterman put it, “Like Bush did with Iraq.”
But Obama had other ideas. It turns out he was listening when Letterman had bantered with a woman in the audience who brought — yes — a potato in the shape of a heart to the show.