Just got the email. My short stint with AFF’s Brainwash is over.
I can’t prove it to be the case, but I suspect my history of controversy and potty mouthedness had something to do with it.
Not that I blame them. After all, not everybody has to be happy having their serious online political mag tied to a dude who once interviewed Jeff Gannon’s junk.
Thankfully, you all still love me.
Remind me to send you flowers or some shit.
Keep the flowers. And the shit.
No, really, I have plenty of both. Really.
What a bunch of stuffy prudes.
This really kind of brings that Verizon thing home.
I don’t know how you did it Jeff because Jeff Gannon’s junk will simply NOT return my calls.
You’ve been on another site?
Damn, I gotta start opening my eyes when I read your stuff.
Thanks, Jeff.
“cough”
Good shit, dude.
I guess it takes a while to take down that banner, huh?
Oh, please tell us you’re not going away….
Just as well, maybe. Looks like they were about to take JD to a very very dark place:
Jeff, there are times that I am either exceedingly lazy or just not interested (I never clicked on anything related to AFF while you were apart of it), but was your brief alliance with AFF borne out of ideological comradery or did the dillo stick you with them? I guess I’m asking, in your opinion, are they something to check out on a regular basis? Anyhow, I’m glad they’re gone and not you.
A little OT, well a lot OT, but have you had any good single malts lately? I’m looking for a Speyside (highland) and was wondering if you, or any of your regulars, had any suggestions. Thanks in advance. BTW, if anyone has ever had the Bowmore Legend (Isla, cheap!), it’s really not bad. I mean you won’t confuse it with the Lagavulin 16 or even the Laphroig 10, but for something to drink a little more often, it’s really not bad. A drop or two of spring water and it’s a very drinkable dram.
Ah, I could take ’em or leave ’em.
I’ll say it so you don’t have to: what a bunch of pussies.
Brainsnore.
They didn’t do anything for me. Certainly not an endorsement as far as I can tell.
I made an effort to read a good deal of their content. Given my experience, I’d proffer that they don’t like being upstaged.
Is that red banner called a “stint?” If not, I missed it.
Anyway — bad fit. The rest of their stuff I looked at is all earnest and Christian-school-newspapery. Stumbling on PW in the middle of it would be like having a consoling hug from your priest interrupted by a stab in the belly from his reeking boner.
Gee, Jeff, couldn’t you have taken the job as Communications Assistant at The Leadership Institute?
Tell ya the truth, I never paid the slightest attention to the AFF stuff; it just got in the way of my reading PW. Now that it’s — hopefully — gone, I decided to look around.
I wasn’t impressed.
I’ll bet they’ve never even heard of hermeneutics.
Psychologizer — eww….
I still think you are a next generation classical liberal leader though. Just less orangey.
“Remind me to send you, like, flowers or some shit.”
Do you have a wide stance?
What is “AFF’s Brainwash”?
Shit or apologies accepted. No on to the good stuff. My Phighten Phillies are tied for first place with the stinkin Mets. As a survivor or thr 1964 meltdown, I won’t get too carried away, but I am SO FREAKIN HAPPY! Could be a win-win all around: The Phils take the East, and the Rockies take the Wild Card or better. Then forgiveness all around for the botched grand slam.
maybe if we all sent them peanuts
Please forgive the typos in the previous post. They are due to my elation, not the martini (bone dry, gin of course, up, twist, stirred).
You didn’t explain it when you started it. I didn’t understand it. And, I don’t care about it one way or the other.
Really, I kind of wondered what AFF was all about. I wouldn’t be particularly concerned. Actually, I think you carried them longer than you should have.
It all depends on what your definition of it is.
Pussies.
Wowsers, it was over almost before I noticed it, and to think I was about to ask what that “G”rainwash banner was all about…
Hmm. Cheryl Miller, Editor, Doublethink. Previously, she was assistant to David Brooks at the New York Times…
I always liked David Brooks.
I always liked Foster Brooks.
Or was it Edward M. Kennedy?
Send me ‘some shit’ instead of flowers; ‘cuz after a while, flowers die and that makes me sad. Shit doesn’t do that–it just gets better and better…..
Wow, an eviction notice so soon? I hope you can get your security deposit back…
I pretty sure it because someone was eating other people’s lunches in the office fridge. That really seems to piss them off. You didn’t need them anyway. Besides, that assclown in accounting practically drowns his those roast beef sandwiches in Grey Poupon and it’s wrecking my low GI.
It’s ony fair that you give us as much shit as we so often give you..
Much like the oft-beaten wife, we keep coming back.
It’s not your fault, Jeff, and we still love you.
Hmm.. I’d intended to check out Brainwash one of these days, just never got around to it. Now, what’s the point? Obviously they have neither taste nor sense of humor in line with mine.
Hopefully, our rattlin’ coins in the tip jar will offset any financial loss suffered due to your courageous decision to take on the um… hard news.
That banner was creepy anyway.
happyfeet – Just got back from Day 2 at Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando. So now, not only do I have “It’s A Small World” banging around in my melon, incessantly, it now has company with your hordes of vengeful midgets.
Are you trying to take over BJ’s spot as the Devil Incarnate ?!
So why the fuck is the aff banner still there? Hmmm? Something to do with the Twin Towers, Rove, Bushitlerhaliburton and TRUTH, no doubt, at least for anyone who has the courage, COURAGE goddamit, to see … aw fuck this, Go Phils!
Hey, if they don’t want the traffic that comes with being Google’s #1 search result for “gay porn cock of lies,” that’s their loss. Sounds like a lack of due diligence.
Oh, and Jeff … fuck them like a Tiajuana whore and the donkey she brought along to film you. Not that I would know anything about it … let’s just say they do not think it is all that funny when you haul out the huge sombreros and have a mariachi band jump out of the closet at climax. Or so I have heard …
Comment by Challeron on 9/27 @ 7:01 pm #
Psychologizer  eww…
Yet an accurate enough analogy it seems to me, based on what I saw over there.
Jeff, keep the flowers, but I’ll take some of that “shit”. I’m betting you have some pretty good connections…
I always liked Bobbie Brooks and Mel Brooks.
Also Louise Books was smokin’, if a little scary. The Angelina Jolie of the silent days, you might say.
Hey, if you’re giving away manure, I’ll take some, as long as it comes from an ungulate.
The ‘dillo stuff would acid burn the tender roots of my perennials.
Dude. You have skillz. Set up your own shop. I want my own Protein Wisdom RSS feed. Make your own cash. I don’t know what AFF Brainwash is but they are clearly neither compelling nor coherent with their branding ergo I will write them off as a commi-pinko operation. You can always come write at the WoM blog as well.
I’m so glad that long, national nightmare is over. Ever since I saw that banner at the top of your site and went over to check it out, I’ve had to restrain myself from the urge to say that Brainwash is just a temple of pussy-ness. Like it totally pees sitting down or something.
All the same, I’m sorry Brainwash dumped you, though. You should totally go out and find a web mag that looks just like Brainwash, nail it, and them dump it.
Also, I totally heard that [redacted] chick gets more wood than a lumberyard, if you know what I mean.
[…] …but I couldn’t really find a handy picture of Jeff Gannon’s junk. […]
– Why do I have the feeling I missed a major episode in the never ending saga that is PW. On more important matters, how did Bill do on the Iraq gig. I havn’t had time to check his site.
Air Force Follies Brain who?
Forget your shit. I demand PIE!
As for AFF, I feel your site lent them cachet rather than the other way around. I’d rather you blog separately on their site or publish pieces in their magazine than hitch this blog to them. From a quick look at their stuff the other day it didn’t really seem like there were many other blogs with an arrangement like this one.
Jeff is a jackass who deserves to lose all sponsers.
To encourage Jeff to write tripe, when we all know he could devote a small bit of time, in an idiom of his own, and rival Orson Welles in content (if not characters) within the universe of theatre, means all of us lemmons suck sychophant’s sloppy seconds while enabling an exisentialist-deficit disorder, named Jeff.
You bastard. How normal we all are now. You could have made us all special.
That’s right, you’re no Limbaugh. And because of that, the good folks at brainwashedisorderfuck simply can’t allow you to drag, even dhimmis, down your self-indulgent hole.
I, for one, thank them for it.
And the Coen brothers, for writing a line John Goodman said that, by God, I liked.
And I’ll tell you one more thing.
I WANT HOLYFIELD!
I WANT HOLYFIELD!
HOLYFIELD V. SCHWARZKOPF!
I’VE SHOWN YOU WHAT THESE GUNS CAN DO IN THE DESERT, AND NOW IT’S TIME TO HIT THE RING!
THIS SUMMER, ATLANTIC CITY, HOLYFIELF V. SCHWARZKOPF, IT’S THE WAR ON THE SHORE BABY!
Uhhhhhhhh…what?
I’m reminded of a jacket that a friend’s parents bought for him in Korea when we were in Jr. High. It had words embroidered all over the back, and while they were English words, they didn’t make any sense at all when strung together into what were ostensibly sentences.
Wait…
You were writing for Adult Friend Finder?
Gotta say it, Jeff. That’s one ugly bitch anyway. Don’t know what you ever saw in her. Tear up the screen caps and move on with your life. My bleeding eyeballs are behind you 100%.
Lemons? Lemmings? Who can tell?
Dude. Ffffffffffffffftttt(cough) You, like , want us to, like, paint over it,……………………. the sign…………………………..what?
Jeff, My child
The PJM incident, now this. It’s my way of saying that you need to go back to your earlier, funnier stuff: Prison diaries, lists of films, peacoat wearing dolphins, five word film reviews, that sort of thing.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had to work in mysterious ways. Woody Allen didn’t take my hints either. He played jazz clarinet in New Orleans every week. Eventually, I had to do something to New Orleans.
Now – bang! – Sleeper 2 is in preproduction.
Just sayin’.
meh. I had never heard of AFF or Brainwash prior to it appearing on your banner. That could be more of a comment about me than it is about them.
wtf is “Politics & Prose” anyway?
Eh. Whenever I look at that Brainwash logo I feel like Criss Angel is screaming “Mindfreaakkk!!” at me. Not going to miss it.
So . . . what’d you get in your severance package, Bobbitt?
Maybe you should have talked more about the dirty Joooos.
Is it good shit, Jeff? I could use a pipeful.
Oh I thought it was Grainwash. First step in making good whisky. Glad I’ve gotten that cleared up.
Brainwash, eh? I thought those were Cyrllic letters, and that Jeff had been bought up by the Russian mafia.
The Borat-style fake Cyrillic? You know it made your eyes roll out of your head.
One is one’s own master on one’s own stove
When I grow up and run a foundation I’m going to get people to give me money so I can reach out to like-minded communities and … alienate them. I’m crafty like that.
serious online political mag
I didn’t even know such a thing existed. However let me join the others by saying that I never clicked a single link to AFF. I have a strange sense of fidelity in that way. Helps me stay married through the unintentional fuckups.
Damn. I thought I turned the bold tags off.
I just thought it was some weird Google ad running at the top of the site.
I guess their business model does not include circumcised junk.
Heh, heh… they made their “R” backwards… Dont tell ’em.. Just let ’em go on looking stupid..
Oh, and I looked in Room 101.. What I fear most isn’t even in there.. Not even close.. but then pics of Penelope Cruz as a She-male are hard to come by…
“He gazed at her darkly beautiful Spanish features that stood in stark contrast to the huge enraged tool jutting proudly out 8.. maybe even 9 inches from her downy nether hair and two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big She-Brother.”
Also, when I went to the main page, I couldn’t find a way back to PW. That kind of irritated me.
Can I have your rather extensive DVD collection instead?
Ok… How ’bout just your complete 70’s Emmanuelle collection? Just the Sylvia Kristel ones…
I’d prefer a nosegay, Jeff. And I like my shit in a sandwich, please.
Jeff was just a red headed step-child. The chops only went one way.
Jeff, you have the smartest blog on the intertubewebs.
Their loss, not yours.
I checked that Brainwash thing out the first time I saw it.
Was I supposed to go back a second time? I’m sorry, I didn’t realize.
So, McGehee, are you saying you treated Brainwash in exactly the same fashion as everyone else treats your site?
(ducks and runs)
“…I suspect my history of controversy and potty mouthedness had something to do with it.”
So I’m guessing I should probably not bother applying then, right?
Man, that banner is sticky.
Here’s a charming interview with Nick Gillespie, who is one of my new favorite people as of like today, irrespective of his like views and stuff, which I really don’t know anything about. He’s the editor of Reason, which as far as I know is sort of flaky but is determinedly not in the debannering business.
And Jeff, as far as the “or some shit” offer, BJ keeps me well supplied, thanks.
Well the banner’s still there but Protein Wisdom ain’t on it.
You think this is like Bruce Banner or David Banner?
This is lame, Jeff.
So is their logo supposed to be a Russian knockoff Mini-Cooper logo or something?
Hmmmm.
Honestly I come here to read your stuff. AFF Network? What’s that? Brainwash? Brainwerk? Whatevea.
I’m sorry if this means a loss of revenue for you, Jeff. You are such a treasure.
Yeah, I’ll second what MayBee said. Except for the treasure part, because, for me that would be kind of gay (NTTAWWT). But, you are a MUCH needed voice.
(Comment by Joan of Argghh! on 9/27 @ 8:39 pm)
The first time I saw it, I thought it said Groinwash.
Does that make me gay?
Seriously, Jeff, if there’s anything we can do to help that doesn’t involve a significant outlay of effort or money on your part, you let us know, okay?
We’re here for ya, man.
What’s AFF network and who are Tim Carney, Mario Fantini, J.P. Freire, Joann McNeil, John Tabin & David White? Are they famous? Famous like the Amboy Dukes without Ted Nugent? This blog already has an alpha male, it just took a little time for brainwashed to figure out it’d be Jeff.
This is the problem with having a totally unique product. What group effort would it ever fit into? And what a loss if it were ever squashed into a box to make it fit.
Unless PW could be like an “anchor store” in a big mall–the Big Deal that all lesser lights complemented and extended.
“Protein Media Associates”
Sheesh, well Doh!, well played Jeff!
That orange thing is still there, so this was obviously a ploy to get us all to notice it, since we refused to see it in proper conciousness on our own prior! :-)
What MikeD said:
“Really, I kind of wondered what AFF was all about. Actually, I think you carried them longer than you should have.”
And here I was thinking PW had joined some kind of People’s Collective Workers of the World or somethin’. “Hmm,” I thought, “JG isn’t sounding like he’s gone uber Marxist”. So …I see. Now.
But …they’re Christian? No. Shit.
…talk about yer biggest disconnect in font stylism evah!
Dammit, my brain really needed a good wash.
This is one of the organizations that twirls about in the orbit of AFF. Myself I would nominate their gatherings as ideal bioterrorism test environments.
Let’s just call it Goldstein’s Chris Gaines moment.
That’s a “b”? Appeard to me to be a “G” to me and correct me if I’m wrong but the “R” is backwards. Are you sure it’s not part of a marxist dyslexic commune who’s intent was to establish a site called “Brainfart”?
happyfeet:
Eeeew. I can just imagine what those meetings are like.
Eeeew. Maybe “brainwash” is what you need to do after…
Jeff,
It seems to me that a truly effective brainwash could have derived a profitable relationship from creative pottymouthedness. Maybe they just couldn’t see it.
T&T
I never understood the Brainwash thingy. I looked at it and said “whatever”. I’m only here for the free bagel chips and picante sauce. Oh yeah, and to talk football. Anyone here play FF?
Jeff–Some of us love you. For some of us it’s pure lust.