Kim Crawford, whose O’Connor-inspired post I linked here a week or so back, responds to his liberal “critics” — most notably James Wolcott and Andrew Sullivan.
– Both of whom, let’s face it, are approaching the latter Truman Capote-does-the-Merv-Griffin-show-in-the-hopes-someone-of-note-will-come-to-his-parties portions of their professional lives.
May their fine terrycloth housecoats absorb their weepy despair in cool cotton comfort, is all I can offer them by way of commiseration.
Though in a pinch, a beagle ear or an ocelot tail might do, too.
Comment by Techie on 10/31 @ 11:04 am #
Ouch.
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/31 @ 11:10 am #
Crawford Flames! Wolcott and Sully…Veerrrrry nicely done…
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/31 @ 11:32 am #
Wake me when they get to the “Murder By Death” stage. It’s more entertaining. Plus, it’s like a week away from the Muppet Show guest star stage, and nothing…nothing at all…is funnier than a lisping puppet.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/31 @ 2:09 pm #
I used to read Velociman regularly. The reason I don’t, any more, is because he doesn’t post often enough. When I’m reminded to check back there I always enjoy it, but since Acidman kicked the bucket I don’t get referred very often.
It occurs to me that, seen in the proper light, it’s possible we’ve got a brand here. Suppose you could get Crawford to post here, and talk Allahpundit into moonlighting some of his original-style schtick… Protein Wisdom: Jeff, Protein Wisdom: Velociman, Protein Wisdom: Allah
SpeaksLinks! And, of course, the Pub. Or, perhaps better, a new masthead — Drops of Acid perhaps, with the three (or more, if more can be attracted) “under” that. Not consolidation so much as organizing for mutual benefit.Others who might be attracted: The Brothers Judd (especially Orrin), Nicholas Packwood (Ghost of a Flea, for a Canadian connection), and, for a long shot, Norm Geras — one of the hundred or so living Marxists I mentioned the other day, just for flavor.
All of these are people who write well, espouse ideas compatible with Our Host’s, and get little if any linky-love from the Pajamas crowd, so might be amenable to the notion.
Just noodling, here. If it’s considered insulting, consider it withdrawn.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Silver Whistle on 10/31 @ 2:18 pm #
and, for a long shot, Norm Geras
That would be fine by me, as I read Norm every day anyway. Got to get my cricket reading in somehow.
Comment by Lisa on 10/31 @ 2:25 pm #
That. Was. Fucking. Awesome.
He goes on my Clever Wingnut reading list. Of course, the Perf will always be number one on that list.
Comment by Charlton Hawking on 10/31 @ 3:07 pm #
Wait, were the Sullicott from Deep Space 9 or Enterprise?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/31 @ 3:25 pm #
#4 Ric:
Might also ask Ed Driscoll to comment. He does linky stuff and his Silicon Grafitti is rather good.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/31 @ 3:26 pm #
#7 Charlton:
Just guessing, but it should be the one with the ‘wormholes’.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/31 @ 3:46 pm #
Mikey: Yes, Driscoll would be good, but his style doesn’t match. One of the things about the ones I mentioned is that you could drop their content into Jeff’s template and have it come out looking more or less uniform. I admit that shouldn’t be a major consideration, but the look of a blog is part of whether or not I read it; I may not be typical in that respect.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/31 @ 4:15 pm #
The last I heard from Ed Driscoll he was looking into getting me credentials for the Dem convention.
I still haven’t heard back from him, but I did notice Steve Green doing some field reports with a PJTV microphone and very conservative hair.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 4:22 pm #
I think I’ll dye my hair blue.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/31 @ 4:26 pm #
Let’s face it, Jeff, you aren’t going to be included in the Club.
The right response is to form another club.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/31 @ 4:39 pm #
The Club for the un-Clubables? The Diogenes Club, although I think this place may a bit too rowdy for them.
Sorry to hear that about Ed, Jeff. I like his work, too.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/31 @ 5:40 pm #
I wholeheartedly second Ric’s suggestion. Another club it is. But somehow talk psycho into posting too. I know it’s a long shot, but that surly bastard has to be involved, too. Shit, how about Ric, too? That would be awe inspiring, indeed.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/31 @ 5:48 pm #
Didn’t Mr. Marx* have something to say about clubs?
* Groucho, not Karl.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/31 @ 6:43 pm #
#16 SBP:
Hence The Diogenes Club. Composed of grumpy people and periodicals. No speaking except in the visitors’ room. It wasn’t a club so much as a private ‘library’ and a place to grump silently with other grumps – and a score on a misanthropic escutcheon. I am not sure, but I think ‘glower power’ was refined there for C.M. Burns to use later.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/31 @ 7:21 pm #
And Happy Hallowe’en everyone!
For the holiday and the politics….
Oo ee oo ah ah
ting tang
walla walla
bing bang,
Oo ee oo ah ah
ting tang
walla walla
bing bang!
I denounce myself.
Comment by guinsPen on 10/31 @ 7:27 pm #
grumpy people and periodicals
Who are George Will and Peggy Noonan?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/31 @ 7:45 pm #
#19 guinsPen:
They talk too much. They’d never get in. Too flighty, to ’shill-I-shall-I’.
I think the club motto is ‘Bah, humshit!’. Never spoken, of course.
But I could be wrong.
Comment by jmflynny on 10/31 @ 7:45 pm #
I’ve long thought the Velociman should compile his best posts into a book. And, any get-up that can get him to write more often is just fine by me.
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/31 @ 7:50 pm #
how ’bouts a baby seal club?
they is sooo cute when they’re alive…
kinda a shame that sharks eat em..
and our good friends the japanese eat the shark fins for big yen..
and kareoke their skinny butts..
and smoke/drink/screech elvis tunes…
the world sho’ be spinning..
which way?
i’ll have a “brue” x-mas-without u…
a “brue-brue-brue” xmas…
Comment by guinsPen on 10/31 @ 7:53 pm #
I beg to differ, M.
George Will is a grumpy people, and Peggy Noonan is a periodical.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/31 @ 8:15 pm #
Probably not any more.
Yes, I know. Fortunately I come pre-denounced.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by guinsPen on 10/31 @ 8:22 pm #
They need an excuse?
Me, too.
Comment by cynn on 10/31 @ 8:29 pm #
That pretty much sums you guys up, ric. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is malfunctioning somehow. And Velocipric speaks for himself.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 8:30 pm #
Peggy Noonan is dysfunctional. She needs to grow up I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 8:34 pm #
Hey. No one told me Hugh Hewitt looked just like Phil Donahue’s brother.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/31 @ 8:39 pm #
I watched my first PJTV thing yesterday. It was the one with the old man and his hat talking to a young geeky guy. I think his name was Ben. The young guy. The crawl said he was a syndicated columnist. They were talking about the Los Angeles Times covering up that tape for Baracky where he celebrates the death of Israel. I couldn’t watch the whole thing cause they just went on and on with what threatened to be dozens of iterations of talking about the Los Angeles Times covering up that tape for Baracky where he celebrates the death of Israel. Apparently the Los Angeles Times is covering up a tape for Baracky where he celebrates the death of Israel is what I learned.
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/31 @ 8:41 pm #
No, cynn, I’m just bitterly clinging to guns and religion. Your point was…?
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/31 @ 8:46 pm #
BTW Cynn, I recommend that you comment over there, and address Crawford as “Velociprick”. I predict that his guffaws will be audible as far West as Natchez and as far North as Richmond, and that he will adopt it as an occasional alternative to his normal nom de plume. As part of your effort to understand why that is, I suggest that you investigate the histories of the songs “Yankee Doodle”, “Dixie”, and an absurd drinking-ditty entitled “To Anacreon.”
Regards,
Ric
Comment by guinsPen on 10/31 @ 8:50 pm #
Hey. No one told me Hugh Hewitt looked just like Phil Donahue’s brother.
His much better looking brother.
Thinky linky.
Comment by Not Hewitt on 10/31 @ 8:56 pm #
Don’t forget younger.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/31 @ 9:10 pm #
And without the thick tongue problem.
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/31 @ 9:11 pm #
hugh hewitt got a creepy ‘clutch cargo’ mouth
kinda moves sideways…
disconcerting-
not as frustrating
\as tammy bruce playing with her hair-
now that pisses me off!
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/31 @ 9:17 pm #
is there a ‘mouth’ class i can sign up 4?
i can read a tele-prompter[gotta learn not to move my head]
i can lick stamps…
but i’m waiting for that ‘other’ testicle to drop before
i tackle the talk radio..
dulcet tones don’t ya’know [oh-u know-i know u know]
Comment by cynn on 10/31 @ 9:27 pm #
Ric: I have no doubt that M. Crawford would snicker and chortle endlessly. I’ll skip confronting the giant member myself; I’d rather hide and watch. I’m just saying he/she is dancing on a grave that is still empty. Have a nice fall.
Comment by geoffb on 10/31 @ 9:40 pm #
This place does better than PJTV.
Just a day or so ago hf nailed down the LA Times in one comment that made it appear to be Xanadu at the end of “Citizen Kane”. Perfection.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 10/31 @ 10:48 pm #
“Both of whom, let’s face it, are approaching the latter Truman Capote-does-the-Merv-Griffin-show-in-the-hopes-someone-of-note-will-come-to-his-parties portions of their professional lives”
Jeff,
I am in Kuwait, and I felt the reverberations from that blast over here. Someday, would you consider writing a seventeen page curse, ala Tristram Shandy(?)
Comment by pdbuttons on 10/31 @ 11:01 pm #
u f$king majors…
a 17 page shitstream handy
the gaul
kuwait?
wait…jffs writing a 2 word sentence 4 me on
my diction/my face
it’s a pop up book
[sarc]
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/31 @ 11:06 pm #
Jesus kid, get some sleep.
Comment by Darleen on 10/31 @ 11:07 pm #
Comment by cynn on 10/31 @ 8:29 pm #
Nobody checked cynn’s trick or treat candy and it looks like she got a tainted one.
Comment by McGehee on 11/1 @ 12:29 am #
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 11/1 @ 10:03 am #
McGehee – OK, fair enough. How about one aimed at someone other than the taxpayers, people who want to be left alone, those who believe in free markets and the Armed Forces then?
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/1 @ 10:14 am #
Apparently, cynn didn’t care much for the hatpin…
And this reads like something Jeff would write:
Comment by McGehee on 11/1 @ 10:24 am #
Ah. Yes, that would be good.
Me, I usually lack the patience to lay out curses in that much detail, but longtime readers here may have seen me go into multiple paragraphs when sufficiently provoked. I would imagine Jeff could probably go 40 or 50 pages if he wanted to.
Comment by Rusty on 11/1 @ 2:18 pm #
#26
Comment by cynn on 10/31 @ 8:29 pm #
That pretty much sums you guys up, ric. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is malfunctioning somehow. And Velocipric speaks for himself.
Well. It doesn’t stop you from telling people here to go fuck themselves when you don’t agree with them, does it. So ,then, there’s something wrong with us? That doesn’t scan, cause there’s Lisa who folks don’t agree with on a lot of stuff, but still get along with. Maybe because she doen’t hang around with a chip on her shoulder daring for someone to knock it off.
Ya walk into a bar lookin for a fight, guess what yer gonna get?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/1 @ 8:36 pm #
So she hasn’t called everyone here racist and stomped off in a huff in the last week?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 8:43 pm #
This is on topic. Tune in to hear Rich say…”Seriously, the black, male whores of the nation must be really tired of hearing some pasty white guy under them scream ‘Obama, no’.”
Comment by McGehee on 11/1 @ 11:18 pm #
She only does that when she thinks Obama is winning.
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