Maybe you should write the producers and tell them.

true dat. one of my most favorite writer's EVER, denis johnson, wrote this book called RESUSCITATION OF A HANGED MAN and i was incredibly disappointed when he introduced a lesbian character as the main character's (a heterosexual man) love interest. and then they fall in love. i couldn't even finish it coz it got more and more annoying. i LOVE denis johnson, don't get me wrong, (as well as lesbians and heterosexual men) but it really pissed me off that this story seemed to imply that the old "she's only a lesbian coz she hasn't had the love of a good man" adage is true. i don't know, i never finished the book. maybe there was some weird twist i never got to where the chick came to her senses and was like, "fuck you, mr. man. i'm a goddman lesbo! now get the fuck away from me with that thing."

xoxo, jared

I loves the queen...

Yeah, I thought the same sort of thing. Maybe the crip gets all crafty and runs out and steals the girl from the skillz-less able-bodied dude. That's how it would happen if it were real life and the girl was Audrey Tautou and the crip was me and able-bodied dude was, I dunno, Mark. I pick Mark cuz he won't take offense cuz he's all married to Marjorie and stuff.

I guess I'm lame...the show you are talking about is actually Ed, not Providence. A couple weeks ago, the guy in the wheelchair kicked another guy's ass playing basketball. I thought it was rather amusing.

what?! he's not even a crip. okay. i've got to not get worked up about this. at a client's. be professional, mike...

Actually, Daryl Mitchell (Eli in the show) was in a motorcycle accident a year ago that left him paralyzed from the waist down. No need to get worked up, he's legit.

Oh, okay. That explains why I've seen him before. Sorry, Daryl. Didn't mean to hate...

I still am pissed about the content, though.

BTW, I now get e-mailed when you kids leave comments. I'm not sitting here checking every 30 seconds.

EQ: that's sort of the reason i didn't like the movie, kissing jessica stein.

mrw: man. i had to shut that email notification because it was too damn annoying. you are so much more patient than i my friend.

oh and ps. EVERYBODY should love the Evil Queen.

yeah right. you KNOW you're just sitting there hitting refresh over and over again, waiting to see who commented. freak.

oh. wait. that's me...hee hee

damn. i should learn how to hit that nice little preview button before i post...

....had to shut down that email notification ....

pea - hee hee. i find it pretty useful when i'm on the road. that way i can keep tabs without opening the page every few hours.

yeah, i guess if i had the notifications coming to my work email it would be useful, but i don't so i'd have to actually remember to log into my webemail and yadda yadda yadda.

ha. i just yadda yadda'd email. such a waste of yadda yaddas. know what i mean jellybean?

but you said it didn't bother you that he wasn't really disabled??

anyway, all he really said to the "able-bodied dude" was that he didn't need his advice, that he should just be himself and everything would be fine.

i should just shut up i guess...

tiff -

i'll grant you that i'm overly sensitive on such issues but i think there was a lot implied in that scene. a lot. think about it. disabled guy's in the basement (or garage?) with his gloves on lookin' all eager to give his advice. "go get, 'em tiger!!" ok, maybe nobody but me "gets" this. i can live with that.

it wouldn't have bothered me if he was able-bodied in that scene but the basketball thing certainly would have. that needs to have some legitmacy. if it was an able-bodied actor people respond with "oh, well real disabled people can't do that. he's just an actor." the fact that he is a para is pretty cool to me. i think it's great that he's decided to continue in that line of work after his accident. go darryl!

gotcha! a little slow on the uptake, as usual. and it was a bowling alley. :)

I caught an interview with Tom Cavanaugh (TV's Ed) in which he talked about Darryl Mitchell getting hired. Evidently, Rob Burnett and another producer met with him but weren't really considering him for any specific part. They liked him so much they hired him and it sounded like he has a lot of input into his character.

Just FYI, I guess. god, I hate this keyboard (I'm at work).

amy!!! i'm glad you stopped by!

yeah, i think it's nice that they gave him that opportunity. that doesn't mean a) that i think that scene was appropriate or b) i'm gonna start watching more tv :-)