…”they don’t boo nobodies.”
Which, if that’s the case, who knows? — maybe there’s hope for me yet…
Here’s wishing you all a great remainder of the holiday weekend. Now that I seem to have both the pragmatic right and the progressive left aligned firmly against me, I figure I’ve earned myself a bit of guacamole on my vacation burger.
OUTLAW!
(h/t Dan)
Sooo, the VV guy is a…dope? He couldn’t figure out what you were saying, and he says so publicly? Geez.
Great defenses from Dan, serr8d, and Treacher, btw.
The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.
Good work, Jeff! Maybe you can get Rachel Mancow or Keith Olberdouche to hold a Two Minutes’ Hate for you on national television.
dicentra
That’s because of the left’s cranial::anal positional inversion.
Roy knew what I meant. He just wanted to take a shot at the italics and then pretend, along with all his friends, that I wasn’t inside their noxious heads.
Having commenters assure themselves that they’re all willing to pretend together means that the emperor with his dork out is still safe from public scrutiny, at least for the time being.
On the other hand, that Edroso has a gig with the VV is one of the signs of the coming apocalypse.
Were they interested in convincing anyone outside their cadres, they might try a different approach.
Oh looky, another Leftwinger giving advice to how the NeoConRethuglicanZionistPatriarchists should act … I mean I’m convinced he has our best interests at heart.
Not to mention, Darleen, that I was writing for people supposedly inside my cadre.
I don’t try to “convince” the dishonest. I try to expose them.
You’re not who he thinks you are.
If you are opposed by the Village Voice you can be pretty sure you are doing something right. Congratulations to you all.
I don’t try to “convince†the dishonest. I try to expose them.
You would think after the last century of outright evil horrors, the scale of which mostly evolved because of “compromise” (Peace in Our Time!!) that people would become discerning in separating mere policy disagreements from invitations to slavery.
North Korea fires missiles, then yesterday does an underground nuclear bomb test and Obama’s response is to furrow his brown and promise to lower his voice a full octive if NK won’t stop being naughty.
That’ll show ’em!
The Village Voice is still in business. That’s remarkable. They have what looks like a great deviled eggs recipe in the comments but there’s some kind of Yucatan sauce and I don’t know where I can get it and I guess I could google and find something maybe a lot like it but that seems like a lot of work. I’m just gonna make pasta salad I think cause of I have stuff thawed already. Have a great holiday all yous. This is my new thing on my youtube playlist. This one is I think a rendition of what is a Rufus Wainwright song. That blond guy with the unusual teef what sings is a Norwegian named Kurt Nilsen that I’ve been listening to and waiting to see if he grows on me. He’s a plumber what became the Norwegian American Idol or whatever in 2003 and now he’s famous except I just heard about him this week.
The Village Voice is still in business.
Well, sort of.
They’ve cut half their staff since December, so I’d advise against blinking if you want to be sure to catch their disappearance.
The Village Voice…ain’t they cute…
Isn’t the VV the home of Musto, who does the fellatio segment with Olbergasm?
Edroso is either unable or unwilling to actually address the points raised.
oh. That was a Leonard Cohen song not a Rufus song.
Have a good Memorial Day everybody.
Jeff. Climb off the snark wagon and write a real book. You’ve got some great ideas and you can usually communicate them pretty well, but daily occupation with the poli-blog tit for tat BS isn’t useful or making near the contribution a book would.
I’ve done some creative stuff in my time, and one of the pitfalls is getting hooked on the ego-boo of the short term commenters and the arguing with critics. Screw that, get your work in print. Make it readable and entertaining. Work it till it’s very good but publish well before it’s perfect.
Do it.
Yes. Book, Jeff. Book. Book. You have nothing better to do, I’m sure.
Edroso and Wolly should start a fan club. I’ll send ’em a pair of my undies.
The people who encourage one to write books the most normally read the least. Except for publishers…who can’t read at all.
Edroso is “exploring” the “right-wing blogosphere”? I could have some fun with that notion.
I have swum in the Atlantic Ocean, therefore I have explored it.
I have eaten at Taco Bell, therefore I have explored Latin American cuisine.
I saw David Duchovny in “Twin Peaks,” therefore I have explored life as a transsexual. NTTAWWT.
I’ll admit that since I all but stopped blogging I have begun making real progress for the first time in years at writing something book-length.
But I’m writing fiction, and for pretty much the same reason I (sorta) quit blogging. That’s different from what “K” has in mind for a number of reasons.
So this guy go to the doctor for a complete checkup fo a new insurance policy.
He’s talking to the nurse who says they’ll need a urine sample, a stool sample and a seman sample.
The guy says “Look, I’m in a hurry. Can I just leave my underpants?”
So is this Edroso fellow easily flummoxed by italics or something?
It’s funny how Jeff writes several posts about how the left is changing the message and intent of the speech from the right to fit their own agenda, and then this idiot comes along and completely proves Jeff’s point.
I expect to see more of this as the issue of controlling the message gets further explored during the Obama administration. Obama has been flailing straw men mercilessly, and more people are beginning to take notice.
The Village Voice serves an important ideological service for very smart people. It exists to assure those of the right sort that they don’t need to examine opposing arguments because since they are made by the wrong sort they are vile, incoherent, and wrong. It’s like a nice pat on the head and a warm glass of milk. WINGNUT!
I find it amusing that there are some who believe that there is any ad or message that the RNC could create that wouldn’t be distorted to fit into the 2 minute hate.
No. He was saying I overuse italics, Tman. It’s a bit of, well, drollery, on Edroso’s part, you see. Very hip to question the overuse of italics.
Separates the writers from the writers.
Ah.
I thought he was saying “I’m a semi-literate douchebag”.
That’s my interpretation and I’m sticking to it.
“Now that I seem to have both the pragmatic right and the progressive left aligned firmly against me…”
Heck, they’re both pretty much the same thing in the end, near as I can make out…
Uh oh … you struck a chord (B#). Which, is why you need to continue to strike.
They play so dumb. It’s kinda cute, except it’s annoying. A back view of a woman with bra straps? “She’s NAKED and the Rethuglicans are insulting women!” Write a teasing one-off about Andrea Mitchell’s fuzzing-out on Obama’s dijon-use? “OMG! The Thugnecks hate dijon mustard! Laura Bush used dijon on a devilled egg recipe! Those dumb thugniklans!”
Miss CA poses in panties? “What a hypocritical slutcuntwhore!”
As I said, cute, but really too annoying. Where do I get my license?
It must be something about living in a converted warehouse that drives ’em insane. All the light and space really puts a twist on their latte-soaked brains. That and the Arugula (shudder)…
Jeff. Climb off the snark wagon and write a real book.
“Enter The Armadillo”
But make sure the title is in italics.
yea for real jeff write the book and all of us willbuy it. You can’t do any worse than yglesias. For teh gravitas.
It’s the urgent need they have to appear aloof, as aloofness indicates the tacit superiority of I-can’t-be-bothered. Dumb they don’t have to play at when intellectual dishonesty comprises the entire toolkit.
It’s all part of the keeping up of public appearances, that being the symptom of their political equivalent of character disorder. The left attracts that.
Had the writer expounded on the finer points of American leftism — and somehow avoided the eternal dilemma that side has with property and rights — that would have been impressive. The next leftist to do so will be the first. But he didn’t. Oh.
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Or they could just be laughing at us because we so funny.
No…they fear us!
That’s it.
Gotta run and tell my wife…Morgan Fairchild.
First Wooly, then Roy. Now this guy says he can whoop Jeff’s ass.
Uh. this guy.
I’ll admit that I’ve expressed before that I think Jeff would write a fine work of fiction or an insightful work of nonfiction.
And, vicariously, I get the feeling that blogging at the level where people actually read your stuff and know who you are comes with an insane bullshit to compensation ratio.
That being said, comments like, “daily occupation with the poli-blog tit for tat BS isn’t useful,” fall into the bullshit category.
People read the VV. People real Wolcott. Same for the writers on the right. If they make statements about you, you can either retort or let it stay on the record uncontested. There’s not much of a middle ground.
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newsrouter, that Yucatan Sunshine is great on scrambled eggs. But I’m indifferent to Cajun-style blackening, unless I’m in New Orleans, where it’s unavoidable.
I’ll look to find at Ralph’s the Yucatan Sunshine but I still want to find that Barabados one I had in Texas last year. I have a link for it somewhere probably on the laptop. I can take or leave the blackening I think. Cajun food isn’t something I get too excited about. I usually pretend I like it a lot more than I do cause usually when I have Cajun it’s cause there’s one of those people around what’s really enthusiastic about the food of the Cajun peoples. Like how they want to tell you every minute of how it takes like 870 hours to make gumbo and they always have to tell you that the key is the rue. Like I give a good god damn.
Rue, Britannia.
Rue Roux, do you?
rue the day cajin hater
blackening catfish is good but blackface catfish not so much
Jeff: to hell with the both of them. I’m not sure I really like the left or right all that much. Both seem miguidedly intent on self-agrandizement, rather than the best interests of the nation.
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Congrats on the full spectra criticism this week Jeff G…
If VV wasn’t such a niche rag it might be sweeter; NYT or WaPo it’s not…
I mean, they have to put NSFW photo spreads as teasers in the sidebar…
But still, It’s about as far left as they come…And your R4ggie J. quote is soooo apropo…
Best Wishes on Memorial day weekend. And keep it up! As SBP said, you may draw the ire of Olberdork or Dartmouth Racheal…
And consider the folks that they hate, you couldn’t be in better company!
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Jeff,
Why not challenge Allahpundit to an ad contest? Challenge him to write an attack ad that he thinks would be suitable for the GOP. I would be curious to see if he could write one that does not have potential openings for Lefty hysteria but my suspicion is that he can’t help but step on his own fingers. This is too easy, Jeff. Do it!
If you can’t find Yucatan Sunshine then either Melinda’s Habanero hot sauce, or Marie Sharp’s mild is a good substitute.
it takes a village voice idiot
to raise debate with jeff
And carp are very good smoked but they’re hard to keep lit..
Back before there was an internets as we know it, I was interviewed for a Voice thingy. Their fine journalistrix and/or her editor assembled her whole “Who are these yappin’ fucks?” introductory text from the good parts of my responses to her questions, and left me with only what looked like “What she said!”-type repetitions of stuff she’d just said for quotes.
I was peeved. Because she was hot.
RABID
But surely the funniest part is that the VV includes Protein Wisdom in and exploration of the right-wing blogosphere. Better dig out the red pills and wake the ‘dillo, might help ’em relate. Assuming you want to help them relate. Might also make their little heads explode but I think that would be a good thing, they really should get out more. Unless you want to be part of the right-wing blogosphere, but wouldn’t all those obligatory Rush quotes get tiresome?
Whatever
But if you were a member in good standing of the right-wing blogosphere you could interview Hugh Hewitt’s mighty man-teats. Gotta admit there’s huge potential there.
Huge
Probably sweaty and jiggly too, but there’s things we don’t need to know..
Jebus Cripes, Swen, what a hideous mental picture.
And Andy Sullivan needs something to do. He’s a conservative you know.
No, really.
Yeah, I know. I can’t picture myself as part of the right-wing blogosphere either. Sends chills down my spine.
Although the jackboots would be nice..
Polishing boots sux though and only Sully would wear patent leather jack boots. OTOH, Hugh Hewitt is probably a wood peg nazi..
The Jackboots appear to be more in fashion on the left these days. And those days.
Help me, I’m channeling happyfeet and I can’t seem to stop!
Said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m not going to join unless I get one of those bitchin’ Hugo Boss uniforms.
Indirect Instalanche!
Whoopsie! This link
Heh.
That’s the funniest post the Orange-Bleeding Professor’s ever written. That I’ve read.
@64 Swen Swenson
Your link provides much hilarity! From the About page..
and
As I told Jeff in an e-mail, a visit from our scaly mascot in a Rumpleminze moment might be just what the VV needs…..
I’d pay good money to see that on a hidden camera!
Hifalutin’.
If you really want top confuse the State-shtuppers at the VOICE, use the word “liberty” frequently. They don’t have a clue what that means.