Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Obsession
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2007 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Yesterday I read J. J. Weinman's insightful post on The Colbert Report. Like the Richardson/Harihareswara household, Weinman recognizes that Colbert is a farcical soap opera on the order of Arrested Development. I also watched an episode or two of Colbert while falling asleep.
So maybe that's why I had that really weird, possibly insightful dream about being in a Colbert live taping audience. And my old high school unfriend Suzanne R. was there. So now I have completely unfounded attitude changes towards the two of them. Intuition or hallucination?
Comments
Riana
21 Aug 2007, 19:20 p.m.
Today I watched the Report that features a Colbert homunculus made entirely of Lego. Eerie.
I got your voicemail! Thank you! I submitted a list of topic ideas. Four of them were other people's (from our Big List O' Topics), one was... well, I pretended it was mine but one of the CDT attorneys gave me the idea and I thought it was a good one. We will see what I end up writing about!