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pfarley

The Bush Years: All Circus, No Bread

Jan 20, 2009 14:42

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Jeebers Q. Croutons . . . anonymous January 21 2009, 00:36:17 UTC

. . . that was . . . sheeat. That was beautiful.

Clean up the language and you could submit that as an op-ed column.

In fact, why don't you?

Stefan

Re: Jeebers Q. Croutons . . . pfarley January 21 2009, 02:09:01 UTC

Thanks for the kind words.

In truth, on re-reading this entry, it all seemed so... dare I say it... Coulteresque?

Why? themusicgod1 March 2 2009, 02:55:35 UTC

Why give the legacy media more content?

They are dead, get over it!

zenmonkeykstop January 21 2009, 00:47:35 UTC

It all fell apart for them because truth did in fact matter ( ... )

pfarley January 21 2009, 02:15:00 UTC

Thanks! And I do have more Electric Sheep comics in the works, I promise you this. In the meantime I've also got a fill-in novella I'm doing for Jenn Manley Lee's Dicebox, titled "Don't Look Back" (my own little tribute to the Prog rock of my childhood.)

christinaathena January 22 2009, 18:05:01 UTC

those smartest guys in the room who came up with a gazillion ways to make money without making anything were just very bright idiots

No. Sadly, they were not idiots. They weren't the ones who got hurt. They walked away with lots of money, and the rest of us holding the bill. They weren't bright idiots. They were bright sociopaths.

crisper January 21 2009, 00:53:22 UTC

>Nixon was nudged out of office by a momentary gust of public disfavor over a botched burglary attempt

Al Capone went to prison for tax fraud. You take what you can get, when you get anything at all.

pfarley January 21 2009, 02:46:20 UTC

True that.

tensegritydan January 21 2009, 01:04:03 UTC

Re: your first sentence

( ... )

Where it all changed for me tensegritydan January 21 2009, 01:09:51 UTC

"What made 2005 the bleakest year of my life was the realization that I lived in a Post-Truth America. The Neo-Cons had created an environment where truth not only didn't matter, truth was outright impossible."

Oh yeah. I've been there.

You know where it all turned around for me?

Sitting in a dark theater, watching V for Vendetta.

Specifically, the scene where John Hurt's Chancellor rants on TV, warning everyone to stay the fuck home or else.

And then the movie camera backs up and shows us the pub, the living rooms, the old age home rec room, and we see that there's not a single goddamn person watching.

pfarley January 21 2009, 02:15:56 UTC

That rules.

tensegritydan January 21 2009, 01:13:00 UTC

d00d you got boinged!

pfarley January 21 2009, 02:00:36 UTC

Aw shucks. If I knew scads of people were gonna be reading this I would have made an illustration to go with it!

tadleckman January 21 2009, 07:46:18 UTC

Hey! It's the web, not a handbill! Draw something and update your post...
...ok, I'm just being a jerk because I want to see the awesome drawing that would accompany this awesome prose :)

pfarley January 21 2009, 19:47:55 UTC

I will, as soon as I get some free time.