here's a nice article about Rachel--I love her now more than ever

[renate]

Hard working, brilliant, nice, blah blah blah, all the reasons we already knew she's awesome...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-243775

But I thought this part was especially appealing:

Asked what she does to relax, she offers: "I fish," and shows me a picture to prove it. In it Maddow is wearing a baseball cap and her black-frame glasses and holding a rainbow trout under her chin.
"I just bought a boat," she says. "Yes, I'm now so rich and famous that I bought a boat."
She scours her email and comes up with a picture of the vessel: a row boat jammed into the back of a friend's pick-up truck. "That's my yacht lifestyle."

[Botany]

1. Maddow & Trout

[renate]

9. something about "Maddow & Trout" just made me giggle

Like they're on a road trip together or something. :)

[Zorra]

2. It is refreshing to see someone

not turn into a wasteful, pretentious, materialistic pig after coming into some money.

Seems like a pretty rare phenomenon.

[gateley]

3. Don't you just wish she lived next door? I'd love to be her

friend! You'd learn so much, and laugh a LOT!

[mercuryblues]

4. I want her as a

bartender at my next party.

[gateley]

5. Bwah! I'd honestly go off the wagon if she was doing the mixing! nt

[HighContext]

11. ....

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0&ob=av3e

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The boat line is cute, but also cloying

She must make at least a couple of million a year, and she's been at it for a while, so if she's not rich, she's very wasteful indeed.

[renate]

7. ??

I don't think she bought a boat like that because she couldn't afford a bigger one. What's wasteful about not buying more than you want or need?

[FirstLight]

8. gawd, she so rocks!

I can't believe she's from castro valley...I could have met her back in the day... wouldn't have known it was her then...rats!

[HighContext]

10. Love her politics, but she seems fake to me. Despite the folksy trout pic.

I only mention it on the off off off off off chance she gets wind and, i dunno, quits fake smiling?
Quits jabbing Ed Schultz? How do you quit fakeness? ...without being even more fake?

My opinion.
Feel free to mob (or ignore) as you see fit.
=D


EDIT:
Oh, so hard parenthesis---> ] make whatever you put inside them invisible.
Huumph.