Hey guys. I’m reading at this little event tomorrow night, a little variety show type thing that’s been running for at least fifteen years? Maybe twenty?
But if you are South-Brooklynish tomorrow night, I recommend it very much (for all the parts except for mine).
As a reformed DFW skeptic I sort of get it better now, viscerally speaking, I mean, but the homages are so over-the-top-religious in nature, and so almost universally written by people who answer to all of DFW’s demogaphic descriptors, that they make me… uncomfortable.
That said here’s a new one at GQ.
This tastes terrible. Here, try.
The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in “Don’t Tread on Me” T-shirts.
But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty, has vigorously defended the freedom of a giant Indonesian paper company to sell its wares to Americans without paying tariffs. The institute set up Web sites, published reports and organized a petition drive attacking American businesses, unions and environmentalists critical of the company, Asia Pulp & Paper.
Last fall, the institute’s president, Andrew Langer, had himself videotaped on Long Wharf in Boston holding a copy of the Declaration of Independence as he compared Washington’s proposed tariff on paper from Indonesia and China to Britain’s colonial trade policies in 1776.
” —Presented without comment. (via cajunboy)
Here’s a comment: Andrew Langer is a fraud.
I have the TV (Cablevision! Yay! Boo.) turned to on of the radio channels (Music Choice! 70s!), which is an okay radio stand-in, and I hear a song and hop up from the computer (not facing the TV) to check who that band is (Firefall) and they have these ridiculous ads superimposed over the slow sequence of publicity stills of the band in question.
Making money, sure, do that, but if there’s a fool that’s gonna actually purchase whatever LifeLock is offering because they got placed over “Just Remember I Love You” then the Dolans are right.
And the Dolans are never ever right.
1. Your eye.
I did too. That’s some good funny.
— Henry Blodget (via nusca)
Watching this unfold yesterday on Twitter was like watching a dog barking at a mailbox, but it’s a good story.
It is COLD outside and I DO NOT APPROVE. When I find out which one of you is responsible for this, there is going to be a SKIRMISH.
Bachmann and Gingrich and Trump, oh my!
Whenever I hear Bachmann speak, I always have the same thought: Agh, my fillings!
