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What Would Tami Taylor Do?

1 Jul

I quite often find myself asking “What Would Tami Taylor Do?” (see also Leslie Knope) and now there is a t-shirt emblazoned with this question. Connie Britton has teamed up with Planned Parenthood to support the pro-choice women of Texas. When casting the Lifetime movie of Senator Wendy Davis after last week’s monumental filibuster, Connie Britton was the first name on many lists and this felt like an appropriate time to use the Friday Night Light battle cry “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.”

Connie BrittonOver at The Frisky they have Connie Britton’s statement from Planned Parenthood which says:

“The character Tami on Friday Night Lights is a Texas woman deeply committed to her community and to standing up for what is right for her neighbors and the people she loves. I have been inspired by how people around the country have united to stand with the women of Texas, and I can’t help but think that, in this moment, we all have the opportunity to join with and become strong, powerful Texas men and women.”

This reflects the letter that Britton wrote prior to the 2012 election after Mitt Romney started using “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose” and Planned Parenthood is one of the factors that Britton mentions as this is where her character Tami Taylor got a pregnancy test in season 1 and Smash Williams’ mother worked as a nurse.

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A limited edition t-shirt in orange or white will be available throughout July and as you can see below it simply says “What Would Tami Taylor Do?” For more information on this t-shirt from Connie Britton and Planned Parenthood Action Fund head here.

I’m not normally one for slogan tees but this one is special enough to break my own rules.

 

The Why of it All

12 Apr

A long time ago (ok in 2009) I started writing a blog that focused primarily on TV and since then I have been lucky enough to start writing for several other websites, that also mostly focus on TV. The amount of words that are typed daily on this subject continues to grow and so I thought I would add a few more. The other sites I primarily write for give me opportunities to write about current shows including Mad MenNew Girl, The Good Wife and The Vampire Diaries (for TVOvermind) and I also get to dive into the past for This Was TV where teen shows such as My So-Called Life and Freaks and Geeks have been my focus.

So why start up a new blog? The simple reason is that I want to write more and quite often I’ll have an idea that I will either jot down it down in one of my many notebooks or start a word document and only get to the end of the first paragraph. To demonstrate this ultimate procrastination here is a sample of titles that are on my computer:

Friday Night Lights– why this show is important

I have learnt nothing from all the crimes shows I have watched

Sarah Lund as McNulty

The Comedy of Optimism

What Lipstick is she Wearing?

Some of these titles are self-explanatory (Friday Night Lights) and others seem more random – guess which one I wrote after my phone was stolen. Going back and reading these pieces (or intros to articles forgotten) I felt guilty for not having followed through, even if some of the ideas weren’t all that great to begin with. As I’ve mentioned above, I am quite the procrastinator and a lot of this is achieved by reading great work by other writers, writers that I admire and want to emulate but half of the time I should focus on what I am doing rather than wistfully working my way through half of the TV criticism online.

This is what I am going to and these half written ideas, that sometimes don’t even have titles will become fully fledged and live here. Why name this blog “TV Ate my Wardrobe?” Someone close to me has observed that a lot of my Twitter TV observations and Tumblr posts revolve around fashion and costuming in television and while this won’t always be the central theme of this blog, it felt like a good place to start. There will also be some jazzing up of the blog as time goes on and rather than let my procrastination get the better of me (like it often does) I wanted to launch this site before I talk myself out of it.

So enjoy and any feedback would be much appreciated!

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