If there's one thing LiS has been saying for years it's: "Wouldn't life be a lot less stressful if Vicodin was available without a prescription?" And if there's one other thing LiS has been saying it's: "Man, we really don't see enough of the Palin family on TV." Happily, one of these issues is now being resolved.
The last time LiS saw Bristol Palin was when she and her intriguing father Todd did the US breakfast TV rounds in April last year to promote teenage chastity. Bristol, you may remember, has a child and had said herself only a few months previously that teen abstinence is "not realistic". Well, by this point the reprogramming was complete and she was sitting on a breakfast TV sofa, listening to her father refer to her son as "it".
Bristol has taken the next natural career step by appearing as herself in a programme called The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Although the programme will not be aired until 5 July, thrillingly, Bristol's scene is available to view on the web. Suffice to say that she seems to have extraordinary difficulty in playing herself, or maybe Todd's reprogramming has rendered her voice naturally robotic. The key moment appears to be when Bristol utters the sure-to-be-a-classic line, "You're the world's greatest French horn player and I'm Yo-Yo Ma."
No matter how hard LiS ponders that sentence, its meaning remains frustratingly opaque. This may be because Bristol says "Yo-Yo Ma" in a way that suggests she thinks she is talking about a toy.
People.com cruelly says, "As lines go, it's not exactly up there with 'To be or not to be'." Come come, People. Maybe it's no soliloquy, but at the very least it is surely a modern-day version of "To thine own self be true".
