Sigh...
Yes, Cherie. Dressing up like it's the past absolutely is
the best way to build a successful future.
Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd donned an antebellum costume Wednesday for the filming of a pilot episode of a program that will promote Port Angeles. "Positively Port Angeles" will air June 1st on Wave Broadband's public access Channel 21, and on the internet, Kidd said.There's already a comment about this on the Peninsula Daily News website that sums up the appropriate response to this Grandmother Guignol performance. I have saved it here, since the PDN will probably delete it as soon as their intrepid staff wake up:
Even for our Deputy Mayor, this is surreal. Port Angeles' most-distrusted woman has decided she's the right spokesperson for what's good about the city?
It's an interesting use of public-access TV, too - an extended infomercial for a failing politician, masquerading as an extended infomercial for Port Angeles tourism, being shown to the citizens of Port Angeles. "Ironic" doesn't even begin to cover this.
I agree! But I think "moronic" gets us a little closer to the truth, doesn't it?
Yikes. I sent the taffeta alert yesterday. She was in red and in this photo she's in yellow. That means the beast has been filming probably two episodes so far.
ReplyDeleteI can just see her in an insane asylum with her sitting in a room of mirrors playing with Cherie Kidd dolls that are also playing with Cherie Kidd dolls and so on.
She is the universe in Kidd land.
I hope there are warnings put out in the PDN when she decides to show up in her taffeta bikini.
DeleteFrighteningly enough, given the above comment, someone just landed here today by searching for "port angeles bikini espresso."
Delete6:39..Just like "Being John Malcovich", only less interesting and more cringworthy?
DeleteAnd she's with that moron Josh Rancourt!
ReplyDeleteI thought Josh was one a second generation intellectual, Port-Angeles-Style.
Deleteso many dummies in one spot make it look like a ventriloquist convention.
DeleteJosh wants to serve you, just like Cherie Kidd currently does.
DeleteAs we see, the so-called leadership in this town, represented in this instance by Josh, see no problem with having a City Council person lying openly. Instead of calling for them to step down, as is done pretty much any where else in the world (even if only for appearances), here we see them cozy right up to the liars.
DeleteDisgusting. And people wonder why there is no respect for authority, laws, etc.
Meanwhile, in the real world, we're being warned about the melting snowpack - fire alert, everyone. Water shortages ahead. Also the state is - uh oh, scamsters! - hesitating on doling out the big dollar grant to the Composite Technology Recycling scam team.
ReplyDeleteBut in Cherie's world, so long as she gets to play dress up, everything's fine. "It's another great day in Port Angeles!"
what is she doing for this "show"...make up tips for the elderly "she" buildings?
DeleteWhen is it on youtube?
Hey, give it a chance, outsiders who do not know of her reputation may be enthralled to come here and relive their halcyon daze. It will be on the internet you know. I bet she will develop a fan club out of Astoria. Then they will make annual pilgrimages to Port Angeles to bask in the glow of her new stardom.
ReplyDeleteStupid? Insane? Sad? Or is it equal parts of all of those?
ReplyDeleteNo matter, because it won't matter.
I was hoping that now that Cherie Kidd has her own zombie prom queen tv show, perhaps the majority of local citizens could have water without the addition of lead, arsenic and fluoride. You remember, what a majority voted for? Three times?
ReplyDeletePretty funny. She just thinks the world revolves around what she does. As if.
ReplyDeleteCherie: You're old. Bad facelift old. You make the town look old.
ReplyDeleteCherie: Dressing in old fashioned clothes isn't quaint; it doesn't make the town look quaint. It makes the town look old, and out of touch.
Cherie: Maybe your voice sounds different to you from the inside, but let me assure you, to those of us on the outside it is EXTREMELY unpleasant. It's scratchy, screechy and you stumble over even the simplest phrases.
Cherie: Finally, as has already been pointed out, you have zero credibility with locals. None. You're a laughing stock. An old, screechy laughing stock.
Is THAT the image you want for the town you profess to love so much?
....wait, you know, if she would put on a red foam clown nose, it wouldn't be so bad.
DeletePut her in one of those booths where you can pay to throw balls at someone's head sticking through a hole in the wall and you could raise enough funds to pay for the Turd Tank. The line would be...eternal.
DeleteI'd rather see her in stocks....and then we could throw rotten fruit at her. If this town wants to be in the dark ages, lets do it right.
DeleteHey, this could work. Anyone ever see the really nice Jeffery Dahmer promo video the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce put out? Cherie's not quite in that league, but still...This might put heads in beds.
ReplyDeleteI think I like Cherie Tyler Moore, uh, more.
DeleteMaybe Cherie can get a lamb hand puppet and start singing: "This is the song that never ends. It goes on and on my friends. Someone started singing it not knowing what it was,and they'll continue singing it forever just because....this is the song that never ends. It goes on and on my friends...."
DeleteAt least THAT would be entertaining.
Shari Lewis would not be amused.
Deletethankfully Shari Lewis is R.I.P
DeleteTotally off topic but...I just cannot get the homepage for the Port O Call to open. Just tried three times.
ReplyDeleteNothing.
They need to get a different host. Seems that the issue is if too many people try to access the page, it won't load.
DeletePort O you listening?
Thanks for the alert. I tried it and it took about forty five seconds but it loaded fine. My theory is we have everything ever published on the website and it takes a while for that much info to load. If anyone has a better theory please do let us know, thanks.
DeletePort O Call
45 seconds is terrible. It's glacial speed. That is like using DIAL-UP. All that is missing are the nostalgic sound effects.
DeleteFire your webmaster!
According to Kissmetrics, 47% of visitors expect a website to load in less than 2 seconds, and 40% of visitors will leave the website if the loading process takes more than 3 seconds. 100% of visitors will leave your website after 10-20 seconds. The fact that you are "boasting" of more than 2x that... YIPES!!
Get someone who knows how to do a webpage to design something that works, or move it over to Wordpress, or Blogspot. Wordpress has pre-designed templates for newspaper pages (for purchase).
The number #1 complaint anyone has about Port O is the load time. We NEED the alternative news.... NEED NEED NEED. Please?
I don't think, uh, you load ALL the "info" on the site every time someone goes to your homepage. I think it should just load, you know, like, the homepage. And have links to other things. Forty five seconds means you will reduce your website traffic down to less than a trickle. This blog doesn't have that problem, it always loads just fine. Get on the stick, POC!
DeleteThere are probably a number of things causing the slowness but some will be hard to identify without knowing more about your backend. I'm guessing you're hosted on a shared webhost and they are notorious for over-subscribing their servers.
DeleteThere are definitely some obvious problems though. You're serving up 20 megabytes of data through 300-400 requests on the homepage. That is an insane amount of bloat. The photos for each story are not being scaled down correctly. You're loading all the ad images at once instead of dynamically, and they're not compressed well. There's also a ton of CSS and Javascript crap being loaded that doesn't seem to be doing anything useful.
Throw in a half-dozen embedded youtube videos and the usual Facebook crap that's so far down the page no one ever sees it and it's a miracle the page loads completely in only 30-45 seconds.
Great feedback, thanks. Now of course all of you could purchase a subscription and it loads in no time at all and every month it arrives on your door in a plain brown wrapper so no one knows you are the first to get the best. BTW we could use the support. POC
Delete11:03 sounds like the guy to hire.
DeletePOC, I don't need a print copy, I do all my reading online. I'm not a fish monger, so no need for the last century newsprint.
Speed it up...reach a whole new generation.
Fair enough, just make a contribution.
DeleteI'm thinking that maybe regardless of how creepy, wrinkly, and lame this new program turns out to be, we must all endeavor to praise Ms Kidd and tell her how much we love her. (That's all she's ever really wanted).
ReplyDeleteIf we can convince her that the Cherie Tyler Moore Show is a big hit, she may abandon politics to pursue Kookie Local Celebrity stuff full time.
Sorta like Sara Palin with a bad dye job.
Shhhhh, that's the plan.
DeleteAllowing this to even come about is a direct consequence of this town having no provision for removal of incapacitated councilmembers.
Deleteinstead of "incapacitated" you meant to say petrified, senile, and impotent, right?
DeleteOr egotistical, sociopathic, bubble-occupying, denial-worshipping, grifter?
DeleteStupid is as stupid does.
ReplyDeleteOnly, Cherie wouldn't take Forrest's advice here: "My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on."
DeleteWho is paying for Cherie's follies? Is the city picking up the tab for her big girl dress up show?
ReplyDeletesure why not? We pay for her big smarty pants lawyer, and whatever else her little heart desires.
DeleteCommunity TV means she gets to have a show. Community TV means YOU get to have a TV show.
DeleteAnyone interested in doing a direct parody of what ever she does on her show? The "Port Angeles Unearthed Reality Check" show?
All you have to do it do it. The venue is there for anyone.
The parody idea is beyond sweet!
Deletewe need to find out the filming schedule, and show up to be the live out-of-studio-audience.
DeleteA few yellow and black signs and she's be stammering like the imbecile that she is.
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
ReplyDelete― Napoléon Bonaparte
I said once before that the city motto ought to be changed from "Where The Mountains Greet The Sea" to "That's Methed Up". I think you've got a better motto there.
DeleteCouncil fiddles about while Port Angeles burns with debt.
ReplyDeleteI don't get it. What do those ridiculous outfits have to do with anything in Port Angeles? Jesus she's like Vana White on acid.
ReplyDeleteThat's a howler, Vanna White on acid. luv it.
Delete43 comments on how moronic this is, yet no ideas for terminating the kaos that is Kidd? That's the problem here, most justifiably denigrating the crap that goes on, but then, no follow up beyond the mockery. That's the real problem around here, everyone complains but no one wants to actually do anything about these toxic people, esp. the council. I see a handful of folks trying various things (some successful, some not so much), but it takes the whole village to effect change. If you don't, the village idiot calls the shots. Is this what you really want for yourselves?
ReplyDeleteAsk not what PA can't do for you, ask what you can do for PA.
Port O call is doing its part...
Delete@ Anon 8:55
DeleteI think you mean well, but you have to know that a LOT of people have tried to do good things for PA. The state of things is not for the lack of a lot of efforts.
But you are right in that too few in Port Angeles take even the slightest effort to support those trying to change the status quo. And so, it continues.
But, we continue to work at it.
Can we try to tone down the sexism and ageism in the headlines and some of the posts? Personal attacks and remarks about health status or physical appearance detract from discussion and exposure of the serious mismanagement issues in local government.
ReplyDeletePlease don't appear to be using Donald Trump as a model for headlines and posts on this blog.
I get your point, I really do. And I know I could be perceived as not necessarily the best role model when it comes to the ageism thing, which I do have a little heartburn over at times.
DeleteBut, on the other hand, I don't let through the comments that are well and truly over the top. I try to keep the isms in check via moderation. And, for context, when I belittle someone like Cherie Kidd or Pat Downie for being old, what I am really intending to mock is the old ideas they embrace and represent. That may get a little fuzzy in the presentation here occasionally, but that's the intent. Getting older is great; embracing out of date ideas is not.
Or, more specifically, wise elder leaders are the best thing you can have. (Go Bernie!) The worst thing you can have? Doddering old fools who have never lived anywhere else and/or who are completely out of touch with the modern world and modern realities and/or who are taking their own community down with them instead of helping to raise it up.
cudna sed it bedder m'sef...
DeleteI understand what Anon @9:45 is trying to say but I've only seen you mock when the subject is already making a mockery of themselves. Cherie can't just let herself age gracefully and maintain any sense of dignity. She plasters on the makeup and hair color worse than Palin and then bandies about screeching in front of a camera because they just feel so entitled to the limelight. That's a fair target as far as I'm concerned. I'd say the same thing about Trump so it's not a sexist comment either.
Delete9:45AM
ReplyDeleteReally? You are basically saying "kids get out of the playground, you are having too much fun and making too much noise".
We are bonding as a community. Something badly needed in the outpost of misery.
Bonding anonymously ... riiiight.
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