August 14, 1996
laura's data entry gossip newsletter
Special Edition Volume 3, #2
Hi readers, and some new readers who I just put on
here. LDEGNL is back for now because I am a special
contributing reporter for Margaret Crane and Jon Winet's
big project Conventional Wisdom So these articles will probably be showing up in
there, but since I know all my busy readers don't have
time to keep up with the conventions and they are pretty
tripped out events and since I am basically unemployed
at the moment I have time to put these out for your
reading pleasure.
Remember I always like to get reader contributions so
send me email. And I will try to run a contest soon!
August 13 and 14, 1996
Well I am writing this even though I have only
been able to view the Above the Fold Section of
CW from the document source, since the beta for
Mac of 3.0 seems to hang on loading some of the
java or something, but from the source code it looks
pretty darn exciting.
I am becoming a regular tuner inner of the convention,
last night I watched alot of it until i got really
bored and went to see Trainspotting which is a
really good movie and you should go see it, I would
recommend it to just about anyone except maybe little
kids. My boyfriend's daughter Laia is 10 and I don't think
I would have brought her. They went to see Independance
Day at the same time as Trainspotting, which incidentally
burned up and melted with 5 minutes to go at the end and
they were really mad. The president had just shaken Will
Smith's hand for saving them from the aliens and if anyone
knows what happens at the very exact end could you please
email me because
I couldn't remember enough to fill them in. I bet the
Dole contingent wishes BobDole looked like that president
and could fly a space ship. I thought maybe they would
show clips of it on the video wall every so often.
BTW Laia is the only 10 year old i know who has written
a 108 page crime/mystery/thriller about espionage in
the White House and i invited her to help me with my
special convention articles and she watched some of
the convention and got really bored so she has decided
to put her future career as an investigative reporter
off and keep concentrating on the fiction writing for now.
So anyways before i left for the movie I got to see the
trotting out of the old musty well preserved republicans
and i wonder if Disney would ever put them in the hall of
presidents or maybe they are already there at Disney World,
where I have never been, being a Californian and sticking
with Disney Land. Nancy's frosted hair nest with her little
bangs bouncing around as the tears sort of rolled down her
extremely tight face skin sure topped it. Only her bangs ever
moved. I wonder what she thought about the final shot of
her in the Happy Regan Movie of her and Ronnie cavorting
up a little hill, presumably on a ranch, and she had on
these pretty unflattering jeans. I mean, I guess she's in
good shape for someone who is like 90 years old or whatever
she is but still not a good ending shot.
BTW the little suits all the republican ladies are wearing
also look really bad from the side camera high angles
that they use sometimes and I wonder if all the ladies
know that because they look like little fat puppets with
stick legs from that angle. Robin Dole in rehersal looked
especially bad and I don't know why she was wearing white
since Nancy wore white last night and it seems like a
etiquette sin or something.
The nice thing about the Regan homage being followed by
Colin Powell's speech was the random camera cuts C-SPAN
uses. Of course I expected to see all the tears
and stuff during the Regan movie which I hope you all
saw because they sure did a Good Job with that but during
the General's speech, or ex-General I guess, people were
sure looking really bored and there were 2 shots of people
checking their watches, and I know he was at the end but
for all the screaming and shouting and him supporting
abortion rights and affirmative action I just didn't think
all those clean people would look so bored. He did inspire
some suit fashion statements though, because the next
day alot of various interviewed congressmen etc. had on
the dark dark suit red tie look that he wore.
I watched this afternoon some since i am currently unemployed,
C-SPAN being conviniently next
to Oprah on my channel changer, and now I don't know if
this is a coincidence or what, but Oprah was about 3 girls
who go to a fat girls camp to lose weight in La Jolla
and they were having this super fun and expensive overweight
kid fitness party the whole time and then did on air counseling
with their moms and cried alot and Oprah didn't act very
concerned and it was sort of like the convention I guess
because it seemed very well acted and coached and you could
practically see the stylists coming out on the breaks and
fixing their tear stained makeup and production assistants
running around making sure the pacing is going right and stuff.
The other thing about watching during Oprah hour was I
saw the clue to who makes the cheesy painted signs with
slogans like Dole Rocks and Dole Rules. They're all painted
by the same person in blue and red poster paint and you
are only allowed to wave one of these by the official
sign painting artist or the regulation Dole/Kemmp 96 signs
or of course, during the Newtsters rousing (snore) talk
an I Heart Newt poster. Well i didn't actually see anyone
making them but I did see the Young Republican squad, the
boys with round glasses, red white and blue patterned ties
and blue suits, short hair who Love Planet Hollywood, passing
them out around the seats down on the delegate floor. So
there is probably another one of them in the back somewhere,
maybe near the hair and makeup people's booths, sitting there
painting them very neatly.
I bet Susan Molinari hangs out with those guys and uses
them to baby sit. Her husband Bill Paxton looks like one
of them. I bet before she had her cute little infant that
wants to grow up to have a hero like BobDole (like does
that make Any sense?) Susan and Bill used to go to place
like Planet Hollywood all the time and when they had
extra special good clean fun her nose would Really crinkle
up like a permanent bewitched and she would look like ET.
Did you notice she had a little lace top under her tan
suit that just screamed republican WOMAN which was the
whole point of her being there. Hard sell stuff.
So I hope this isn't too long. I will try to do a better
job of watching today. I want to keep track of lighting
backgrounds and see if there is a pattern of who gets lavender
lighting behind them and who gets the blue. No one ever gets
pink though, that's just used for the long shots from the
skybox cam. Maybe it's some kind of message.