Thursday, January 19, 2006

Attention time.com newbies

Readers of Time magazine's website are getting used to their new web logger, or "blogger", if you will, in the form of Andrew Sullivan's blog, recently moved over to their site in Time's biggest acquisition since the purchase of AOL, and we all know how well that turned out.

Anyway, in a well-timed promotional appearance, Sully was on the The Colbert Report on Tuesday night, and turned in a pretty feisty performance, including the announcement to the TV audience that he is engaged (the BF is from Michigan). But there were a couple of weird moments, one when Sully seemed to go on much longer than Colbert had intended -- which turned into the engagement announcement -- but also right at the end of the show, when Colbert said (working from memory)

"See you tonight in your dreams, America, I'll be the shirtless one riding bareback on a white stallion"

Which is an interesting choice of word having just had Sully on the show; go to Sullywatch to see why.

One other thing time.com readers should know. When Andrew provides a link to the video of William Shatner doing a spoken word performance of Elton John's Rocket Man, the beagles must have stepped on the delete key at the part where he provides the customary hat-tip to Gawker, where like everyone else, he saw that link.

UPDATE: Colbert quote slightly adjusted following 2nd viewing of the segment.