1) protein wisdom, bless his soul, gets a long overdue Norm Geras profile; and already his mother has emailed him to berate him for not wearing a tie and for calling “chips” french fries.
Take your pills, dear. And stop putting on airs.
2) The folks behind Institutionalized have started Blood and Treasure, where you can download and read the first chapter of their book. Interesting graphics, but sadly, no cartoon-rendering of yours truly on their blogroll—though Jarvis and Blair make the roster. Tellingly, the artist fudged the Blair illustration to make him look more friendly than he really is—and less like a bitter, besotted, Pacific-dunked dwarf.
3. If as a teenager you, too, shared “a series of incredibly messy dreams about a naked Katarina Witt doing slow triple sachow on the moon,” you are not alone.
Which should be no consolation. After all, that’s precisely the kind of secret shame you take with you to your death, no matter how many time unctious Dr Phil guy tries to drag it out of you with promises of “getting you backstage to meet Letterman.”
For shame, Bill.
4. And finally, our free press died suddenly yesterday at its home in Washington DC. It was 217 years old.
The unofficial cause of death is being listed as complications owing to BDS—though the DC District Coronor’s office will perform an autopsy later today to check for secondary causes, most notably, the set of three brushed-steel olive picks emblazoned with the Kennedy family crest that were found protruding from the decedent’s back like a cluster of blue-blooded blow darts.
I’m endlessly embarrased to know this, but the skating move referenced is spelled “salchow.”
I’m embarrassed, too, because I was just going to post what kyle said.
Maybe the strange makes you long for the familiar? One that has been bothering me lately is if ignorance is bliss, how do you explain Amanda Marcotte?
We have so much in common, according to your blogfile. For example, you’re reading Robert Ferrigno, and I loved him as the Hulk.
I think the odds of us seeing you come back in the armor are better than us ever seeing that land crustacean dance!
It’s Friday, Jeff. Check your fucking watch and get that poor excuse for a lobster out here – unless Garret has already skinned him and hiding his stash in the shell.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
Off the record though, she was quoted as saying “Glub”.
Nice to see a bunch of over-sensitive lefties tackle one of their own voices just for stating the truth. How can their be a dialogue if one side just keeps its fingers in its ears and shouts obscenities?
Perhaps the press is finally beginning to notice that much of the left has slipped into a really nasty psychosis.
I actually like when proverbs are at odds. For instance, does ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’? Or is it, ‘when the cat’s away the mice will play’?
Out of sight, out of (my freakin’
mind.
Unfortunately, the left is shouting, “Come on in, the dementia is fine!”—and the press wants to believe.
Are you sure you’re not a Dem. Dems love competing proverbs.
KERRY: “Many hands make light work”
HILLARY: “Too many cooks spoil the broth”
No, I’m afraid the left–or the WaPo–isn’t noticing the dementia in their ranks, they’re ignoring it by shutting down the blog in question. If the WaPo blog engaged in a little truth squaring with those posting the vulgarities, then we might be getting somewhere.
Kyle—I was gonna mock on ya for a girly man… then I realized ice dancers can jump higher than your head with steel blades strapped to their feet. Best to be polite…
The WaPo’s readers demand propaganda instead of news.
That has to give everyone else an information advantage, doesn’t it?
Jeff your taste is almost impeccable:
Bad News Bears, Judd Nelson, Bob Horner, Ken Stabler, Paul Molitor, Umberto Eco . . . yes, yes, yes, yes, true dat, double true . . .
But Billy Joel, and “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant? No!!!!! Make it stop.
(not that you should give two craps about my opinion, but, just sayin.)
Jeff, we’ve corrected our oversight and your Wanted Poster now resides proudly on our blogroll under Tim Blair (sorry, b comes before g)!