This week according to Chicago Tribune
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Oh, who cares about Chinese New Year right?
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Honestly, I would not have been so indignant if they hadn’t made such a big deal out of Nathan Lane’s 55th birthday as “THE BIG THING” for February 3rd. Nothing against Nathan Lane: Love him in The Birdcage. And it is very easy to forget about Chinese New Year when you are not surrounded by other Chinese people; I myself have done so a few times and forgot to call my parents even. But come on. It is not even his 60th! I even checked to make sure that I didn’t miss the news of his untimely demise. So the Chicago Tribune folks sat around in the News Editing Writing Brainstorming Room and Nathan Lane’s 55th birthday is what they managed to come up with.
FAIL.
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The year of the Rabbit is coming whether Chicago Tribune acknowledges it or not. Beware of Angry Bunny. Just sayin’
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Well Hoppy New Year! (Couldn’t help myself. Sorry.) You realize now we are all obsessed with that bobbling bunny… Any other, um… rabbits – up your sleeve?
BigLittleWolf recently posted…“It’s not my problem”
I’m putting you on notice, if that bunny comes to get me, I expect you to help me out!!
Nathan Lane’s 55th, really? Way to miss it, CT!
Yet they wonder why the blog world is taking over from the newspaper industry…………hmmmm
Wicked Shawn recently posted…sits quietly in the corner rocking and twirling hair
Write a letter to the editor. Seriously. It would be hilarious and would get your point across and would make you more famous than Nathan Lane. Well, not the last part, but you should write a letter.
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Give that Nathan Lane guy a clock and a Happy New Year.
Jack recently posted…Writers Write Right
That is ridiculous! Insane!
Life with Kaishon recently posted…‘For last years words belong to last years language And next years words await another voice And to make an end is to make a beginning’ TS Eliot
Hell, even I knew that the 3rd is Chinese New Year, and I don’t claim to be a source of news and information! What’s up Chicago Trib?
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I was aware of it. Mourning it a little in fact – tomorrow is the end of MY year of the Tiger.
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Gaaahhh!!! The angry bunny is coming! Save us, Nathan Lane!
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What? This isn’t the “Year of Nathan Lane” in the Chinese calendar?
Damn you Wikipedia.
Tom G. recently posted…The Snow Man
Typical! Way to stick it to ’em. Ridiculous.
Happy new year;)
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and they put a freaking dunce’s cap with balloons on his head. wtf.
let’s have a virtual celebration together on thursday!
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Nathan Lane isn’t going to take this lying down you know.
Happy New Year, two days early!
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Perhaps they base their choices on the greater fan base:
Gay white males with an affinity to The Birdcage
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Chinese who celebrate a long, rich traditional new year.
I mean, it’s a toss up, really.
NOT.
(Oh wow, just realized I broke out the “NOT”. That is so terribly uncool. I just… just couldn’t help it. Please forgive me. I bet ‘LOL’ is mad at me now.)
StephanieC | Seriously? Really?? Seriously? recently posted…Girl on Girl
You are so right; the Chinese New Year is at least acknowledged by more people than will be celebrating Nathan Lane’s birthday. Yes, we like him, and wish him well. But come on….
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The rabbit. . . oh, that rabbit! I’m going to practice that move today.
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That little bunny is so freaking cute. I’ve heard that the year of the rabbit–at least this one–is forecast to be kind of tumultuous? True?
I always used to have a big dinner party on Chinese New Year, just for fun. February is such a bleak month–why not celebrate anything you can?
Nathan Lane’s birthday? Puh-leeze.
The bunny looks like he has to go to the bathroom.
I personally hate those year wrap-up things in the paper. They usually turn them over to interns, who don’t know who Nathan Lane is and don’t know what Chinese New Year is either.
Diane Laney Fitzpatrick recently posted…Bye-Bye Miss American Pie
I think that bunny is tap dancing. Nathan Lane?? Isn’t that on everyone’s calendar? HA. Fools.
Happy Chinese New Year!!!
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