by snarly | Nov 25, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Historical Apologies
I am addicted, hardcore, to the Fox show Sleepy Hollow. It is utterly insane. Ichabod Crane is a former Revolutionary War soldier who wakes up in modern-day Sleepy Hollow and fights demons and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (one is headless, btw) with a...
by snarly | Nov 14, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Personal Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Comic Franchesca Ramsey (aka Chescaleigh) is best known for her video “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls” (SWGSTBG). But this video is serious-serious rather than funny-serious; it’s about how to respond when someone is offended by your offensiveness. I like...
by snarly | Oct 31, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Historical Apologies, Media Apologies
77 years ago today, Welles apologized for the War of the Worlds radio broadcast that terrified a nation. Facing a scrum of angry reporters, he explained, “You must realize when I left the broadcast last night I went into dress rehearsal for a play that’s...
by snarly | Oct 30, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Musical Apologies
From SorryWatch’s close personal friend Naya Rivera. (Maybe you want to turn the sound down if there are kids or bosses in the room.) Now you showing up at his house looking like a hot mess, honey I think it’s time for you to cut it out, trying to save...
by snarly | Sep 10, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Youth apologizes
In 1992, young James Franco — his years of heavy-lidded Oscar-hosting and “amazingly underwhelming” fiction-writing still ahead of him — egged a house in his hometown of Palo Alto. The boy who lived in that house grew into a man who runs a...
by sumac | Aug 16, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Scientific apologies
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and plays a neurosurgeon on TV. That is, he’s the chief medical correspondent at CNN. He’s a bestselling author (both fiction and nonfiction) won an Emmy, and has been discussed (in 2009) as a possible Surgeon General....