19 Replies to “because protein wisdom is watching the Cardinals-Astros game and eating chips, he decides to post something from his archives that he kinda likes, and that he suspects many people never read”

1. Jeff Goldstein says:

   October 20, 2005 at 12:22 am

   Now tell me I ain’t weird…

2. gail says:

   October 20, 2005 at 12:56 am

   That depends on who you’re comparing yourself to.

3. harrison says:

   October 20, 2005 at 1:39 am

   Can I read it later?
   
   I’m watching baseball.

4. JWebb says:

   October 20, 2005 at 1:52 am

   I remember this post! This is when I started keeping a roll of silver duct tape by the monitor in case I needed to tightly wrap my head to keep it from exploding. Bravo!

5. me says:

   October 20, 2005 at 2:02 am

   GO ‘STROS!!!

   (no dis-astros this time…i hope)

6. slickdpdx says:

   October 20, 2005 at 2:14 am

   Not enough self-abuse involving religious items.

7. john(lesser) says:

   October 20, 2005 at 2:31 am

   “She sounded like Kathleen Turner on ludes…”

   classic

8. David Ross says:

   October 20, 2005 at 3:19 am

   GO STROoOS!

   BECAUSE OF THE COCK!

   Err, I mean, BECAUSE OF HOUSTON’S FIRST SUCCESSFUL PENNANT WIN!

9. Chrees says:

   October 20, 2005 at 3:26 am

   Great piece. Two words. Dorian Gray.

   Which encapsulates the mindset I see in the Democratic party. Without Oscar Wilde’s wit. Or intelligence. Or masculinity. We’re left with everything/everyone else as a choice.

10. Jay says:

    October 20, 2005 at 3:48 am

    I hadn’t really thought about it before this post, but if you add up all of your archives, you’ve got a considerable body of written work here. 

    When this Internet fad inevitably fades, you could probably put all this together and publish it in a giant book that no one would read.

    Hmmmm.  Here’s an idea.  Publish this stuff, but hermetically seal it, and bury it where it won’t be found for 2000 years.  It would be like the Nag Hammadi library. 

    Future historians would go crazy, wondering about the 21st Century Cult of the Protein Wisdom.  Were they outcasts from society?  What were their rituals and ceremonies?  What was the nature of this strange deity they worshiped?

    I think it’s important that we make life difficult for future historians.  If we make the 21st Century too easy to understand, they’ll ignore us.  Like the 17th Century.  Who cares what happened then?

11. Robert says:

    October 20, 2005 at 3:59 am

    “Accommodate” has two Ms.

12. c says:

    October 20, 2005 at 4:10 am

    Jeff, You wrote this great piece just a few weeks before we didn’t elect Kerry.  Maybe it played a seminal yet curiously flaccid role in making JFK the unPresident. 

    Had to look up “mentation”, which shows that you have at least one reader with no mental activity.  Plus you made me spill crumbly goat cheese all over an old Persian just now, because I got to thinking how “Masks” sounds a little Lewis Carrolly and that reminded me of when I went to see Alice in Wonderland at the university only to realize a few minutes into the film that no one was wearing clothes and maybe that’s why the theater was packed that night. Seemed it was a liberal adaptation for illiberally sexist males.

13. Sean M. says:

    October 20, 2005 at 4:36 am

    I read it before it was cool.

14. T. Marcell says:

    October 20, 2005 at 4:53 am

    Sure, that is slightly, oddly, guilt-enducingly enticing…still…

    ASTROS WIN, BABY!!!!!!!!!!
    
    WORLD SERIES!!!
    
    YEEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    So, who’s ready for Jaeger?

15. Dog (Lost) says:

    October 20, 2005 at 12:33 pm

    For a couple of seconds there I thought you were going to break into “Ladle Rat Rotten Hut”, but alas, ‘twas not to be…

16. lost my cookies says:

    October 20, 2005 at 2:14 pm

    Go on, kill that sacred chao.

17. dario says:

    October 20, 2005 at 2:54 pm

    I STILL don’t get it.

    Sincerely,
    
    Hugh Hewitt.

18. xj says:

    October 20, 2005 at 7:44 pm

    I think “Masks of the Liberal Illuminati” was the first post I ever read on this blog. ISTM there’s something about using a parody of a first-rate liberal writer to ridicule a third-rate liberal politician that kind of sums up the whole _protein wisdom_ vibe.

    TW “been”, as in “this blog has been on my list ever since”.

19. ss says:

    October 20, 2005 at 7:45 pm

    seminal yet curiously flaccid

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