i so badly wanted to like amy poehler's memoir, yes please. because i love amy. i loved her on snl. i loved her on parks & recreation. i loved her when she hosted the golden globes. i loved her bits during the emmys. i think she is funny and smart and she has a lot of smart and funny friends. and she's been a comedy writer her whole career. you'd think that she would have written a very funny book, but she didn't. and for someone who talks about how badly she feels when a joke falls flat it's so disappointing that this was her best effort. it's like someone told amy, here's some money, write a book. but she had no idea what she wanted to write about and many ideas about what she didn't want to write about. for someone who seems to be open and committed to taking a bit as far as it can go, she does not do that here. the glimpses she gives us into amy poehler the person are too slight. and the stories she tells about the people she's met and how she got to where she is are too unfocussed and lack depth. one of the best chapters in the book is when she talks about the development of parks & rec. she gets michael schur to add footnotes to her memories of that time and the back and forth provides a light touch that the book desperately needed. she has so much affection for the series and yet it feels like she barely shares anything about it. for a memoir it's very strange because in many ways you feel like you know less about the person who wrote it after reading it than you did before you started.
instead it's probably best to think about moments like this on parks & rec. this moment felt more real than anything in the book. and that's saying something.
hmmm, it's been months since i've blogged about gh . partly this is due to the fact that i fell behind while i was traveling. partly because all the outrage lapsed into disinterest when i realized i couldn't bring myself to care anymore and everything that was happening was just so trite and boring. some days i still feel that way. and there are still whole storylines that i either hate or just fast forward through. but there are some good things too. in no particular order, here are my thoughts on the goings-on in port charles: 1. soras [and why re-casting roles works on soaps even if you do miss the original actors]: the new, older versions of sonny's kids are turning out to be quite enjoyable. [although hilariously, cameron whom i believe is older than molly is now younger. and because cameron is so cute, i'm kind of hoping they won't fix that. we also haven't seen spencer in ages, so he may be approaching 50.] in any case, at this point we've only s
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