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Regina Cannot Explain It All

I'm Regina Small. I'm a writer and editor in NYC. I have a lot of opinions.

Interests include: sci-fi/fantasy, literature, summertime daydrinking, trying to be a better person, fancy manicures, philosophy, pictures for sad children, and the role of irony in the modern world. And fandom, of course.

I have another blog dedicated exclusively to science fiction/fantasy. Read it here.

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I would like to make a deal with Cafferty. Jack, you don’t tell people that a career in the performing arts disqualifies them from seeking elected office, and I won’t say publicly that your being convicted of leaving the scene of an accident in which you struck a cyclist and then ran two red lights while you were pursued by the police and were subsequently ordered to serve 70 hours of community service back in May of 2003 disqualifies you from posing as a “Man of the People” on a major cable news network.

-Alec Baldwin

Okay, I love Alec Baldwin. And when I say that, I don’t mean just the reinvented comic genius Alec Baldwin-as-Jack-Donaghy Alec Baldwin. I’ve loved Alec Baldwin since I was around six years old — Beetle Juice and beyond. For crying out loud, I’ve actually watched Heaven’s Prisoners. I had a VHS tape of his appearance on Inside the Actor’s Studio that I wore out from watching over and over again. I gasped (literal gasping occurred) when the supposedly liberal media gave him the business about “seriously” suggesting we stone Henry Hyde on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (context: Alec and Conan start talking about politics, Alec starts foaming at the mouth about Henry Hyde and how he’s awful, and Conan pulls out an oxygen tank from underneath the desk — clearly a bit.) I groaned as he went through a really nasty divorce from Kim Basinger and said all manner of indiscreet things.

Then he started hosting SNL regularly. The universal loathing he seemed to inspire allowed him to shed the leading man image and commit to comedy. The “Schweady balls” sketch was when the idea of Alec as a comic actor gained traction but Tina Fey restarted his entire career by giving him Jack Donaghy.

All of this is necessary for me to say: Alec, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? How is it that, even if he is right, even if he is a winner in the court of public opinion, he always manages to say or do something that makes me bleed in the brain? This is so classless and unnecessary and ad hom and beneath someone who is clearly intelligent and witty.

In conclusion: Alec Baldwin, why won’t you let yourself be great?

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