Anderson Cooper Article: Very Funny

[Nordmadr]

You know, I really like Anderson Cooper. The man just seems so damned genuine to me. Hope for journalism yet.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/nails/index.html

Never trust a guy with pretty nails.

My mom told me that, and while most of her advice isn't exactly practical -- I'm still trying to figure out what "Say yes to purple" means -- she's right about the nail thing: Guys shouldn't have well-trimmed, satin-polished fingertips with cutely cut cuticles. It sends the wrong message.

I know this isn't a particularly popular platform right now. But why must we pursue perfection? What's so wrong with just being real?

I'm not saying you should start biting your nails, but if you already do, why stop?

Nail biting isn't sexy or stylish, but it is at least genuine -- an increasingly hard-to-find hint of humanity.



Olaf

[FourStarDemocrat]

1. Thanks for posting that

I adore Anderson and probrably wouldn't have come across it otherwise. He's not a bad writer either. :)

[Lisa]

2. very funny indeed! -- and it's nice to see a pic of him smiling ...

I know it's probably pre-Katrina (like the article) -- but the guy's had such a painful and exhausting time since he went out to cover Katrina, that it's no wonder he looks kind of tired these days.


I confess that I bite my nails too (though not on a regular basis, and mainly to "even them out"). Enough to know that it takes real talent to write so entertainingly about a topic which has the potential to be gross, boring, and -- even worse -- self-absorbed.


But I've already spotted a couple of lines I'm going to steal, from this piece:

"I'm not ashamed, but it's like videotaping yourself having sex: not something other people should really have to watch."

" If the image of young Clay in a red leather jacket salivating on his big toe doesn't make you ill, I have nothing left to say to you."

[Iris]

3. "What's so wrong with just being real?"

Fine as long as what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

One of the ways I knew my husband was a keeper was when he said whenever he saw girls with particularly long nails, he figured they really didn't do very much.

[Suich]

4. If I had read that article first, then someone asked me who at CNN

wrote it, never in a million years, would I have guessed Anderson Cooper!

:applause: Funny guy!