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My seventh brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick

Merrick:  “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!”

Me:  “Dude.  People are dead in New Orleans.  You understand?  Dead!  How can you think about yourself at a time like this?  Why aren’t you wallowing in guilt and recrimination?  Why aren’t you abasing yourself—if only to show solidarity with those who are so very clearly suffering?”

Merrick

Me:

Merrick

Me:

Merrick:  “Uh, I AM A HUMAN BEING…?”

Me: “Oh. Right.”

Me:Man. That’s really kinda deep when you stop to think about it…”

23 Replies to “My seventh brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick”

  1. Jeff Goldstein says:

    People are dead in New Orleans and you are making existential jokes?  HOW DARE YOU!

    /gandhi

  2. BLT in CO says:

    BINGO!

  3. james says:

    People are dead in New Orleans and you are making existential jokes?  HOW DARE YOU!

    When Celien Dion makes a joke or speaks out of her ass, Gandhi and the liberals don’t make a fuss out of it.

    Did everyone catch her saying the following about the looters in New Orleans?

    “They are so poor they have never touched anything in their lives.”

    THERE IS MORE NON-SENSE IF YOU WANT TO LAUGH OR THROW UP

    What’s wrong with this woman?

  4. Wadard says:

    Tasteless Jeff. You’re one sad fuck.

  5. susan says:

    If We the People of the United States actually behaved in the manner in which Leftist Kos-sacks (central goverment rules uber alles) want us to behave there won’t be anyone around to help.

    If we were all Leftist then we would all be trapped in a hellhole of helplessness.

    Banana Republic no thanks I’m heading in the Right direction, they don’t wait around while heartless Leftist complain.

  6. Salt Lick says:

    Does Wad remind anyone else of a guy who can’t play tennis but dresses up in the most expensive tennis clothes he can find and attends the U.S. Open?

  7. B Moe says:

    I still think the mayor telling CNN that his chief health concern is mosquitoes feeding on corpses and spreading disease is the best bit so far.

  8. susan says:

    In memory of the dead in NO’s I wrote to LA Governor Blanco expressing my distaste for the human misery she encouraged by failing to perform her elected duties.

    Worst. Governor. Ever.

  9. susan says:

    How about this solution. Let’s give all power to The Holy Central Government Uber Alles and send the supreme ruler into Kos-sack’s States to seize all assets, including homes and businesses, in order to save the Louisana Welfare State.

    Is not this the solution the Kos-sacks are demanding?  That The Holy Central Government Uber Alles be given the power to seize Kos-sack’s assets for the purpose of re-distributing those assets to all the poor unwashed masses.

    Wadard

    How about The Holy Central Government Uber Alles come into your State first and seize your property.  Be a willing participant, step up to the plate, give up your individual rights….there are people who are suffering and your Holy Central Government Uber Alles needs your devoted form of ‘patriotism’.

    What are you worth Wardard, The Holy Central Government Uber Alles needs to calculate it’s Holy Net Worth.  Come on now fork it over! Heil Holy Central Government Uber Alles.

    (I know Jeff, this solution is beyond Kos-sack comprehension BUT, I thought I’d give it a try anyway)

  10. mojo says:

    Eat it! Eat it!

    Get yourself an egg and beat it!

    Have some more chicken,

    Have some more pie

    It doesn’t matter if it’s boiled or fried.

    Just eat it!

    — Wierd Al

    SB: persons

  11. SarahW says:

    Tasteless Wad?

    Just wait till that chest-burster pops out.

    /obscure

  12. RS says:

    Off-topic, but possibly worth mentioning because I don’t think it’s getting much coverage – author John Grisham, very quietly and without much fanfare, contributed five million dollars for victims of hurricane Katrina in Mississippi.

    Local news is carrying the story here, but I haven’t seen it on any of the major national media outlets.  Also, there is an amazing grass-roots effort taking place in Gulfport that was pulled together by a former ballet teacher, with, so far as I can tell, no experience in emergency management.  On her own, this lady has coordinated medical treatment and evacuation for hundreds of people.  I don’t have any links to post for this, but it was carried on MS news broadcasts over Labor Day.

  13. Charlie (Colorado) says:

    Man, jeff, you keep writing this deep thoughtful shit and passing it off as humor, and nobody is ever going to understand.

    Well, except me, I suppose.

  14. Katrina = Hitler says:

    CHICKENLOOTERS vs. CHICKENRESPONDERS!!!  grin

  15. AWG says:

    Put simply, this is the the funniest, most poingant, overall best John Merrick post you’ve done yet, Jeff.  I salute you, good sir!

  16. brian peppers says:

    hi everyone,

    this is brian peppers again. yup, it’s really me. i thing it is just horrible the neocons and theocrats caused this hurricane to hurt black people. it’s the same with me and how the government tries to hold down the little guy. when are are going to stop this maniac Bush?? as brave mom cindy sheehan has said, we need to end tax cuts now, stop Bush and make changes so people like me and the black people in New Orleans are helped. thanks and talk to you later,

    brian peppers

  17. mojo says:

    Have a banana, have a whole bunch!

    It doesn’t matter what you had for lunch

    Just eat it!

    — Ditto

    SB: function

  18. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Hi, Brian!

    Well, I’ve got a good idea why a convicted pedophile hates the theocrats.  But the neocons?  They overthrow countries and leave all the little kiddies orphaned.  Which, you have to admit, makes ‘em easire to diddle!

    Just say yes to Neocons!

  19. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Wadard, translated:

    “I don’t get this, really, but I’m OUTRAGED anyway!

  20. Salt Lick says:

    Well, whatever the deal is with Wad, I wish he’d quit, because I keep having flashbacks about this kid I knew in elementary school who was so desperate for attention he’d stand in redant antbeds at recess.

  21. SarahW says:

    It took one beat too long for me to figure out what “redant” is.  Off for a coffee them.

  22. SarahW says:

    Them = then.

  23. Cardinals Nation says:

    Jeff,

    You got that right; John Merrick is an absolute self-absorbed ass!  He talked me into going with him to a Cards/Cubs game one night last summer in St Louis; something about not getting out too often.  Then the jackass guilted me into dinner at Dulany’s by saying (kind of loud), “Oh, are you really that ashamed to be seen with me?” How can you say no when an old couple from Cape Girardeau turns around and gives you that look?  From there it was a bit of a haze, but in the end he stuck me with the dinner bill and the bar tab after hooking up with two GWU co-eds and disappearing out the back.  Friggin’ $68 in body shots alone!

    If you know where that prick is, I’d sure like to speak to him.

    Peace out.

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