Thank you for beating me to the punch. But I had the same thought.
On the other hand, as someone who is acquainted with some lesbians who live in the Middle West, I think I know the qualities he alludes to. They're: Straightforward, competent, no-drama --
--Wait, is that really Kurt Andersen?
I also don't think they'd fire a longtime employee by fax.*
@1.1.1.: Seriously. The small midwestern college I went to was a wonderful, efficient place, thanks to the straightforward, competent lesbians in key administrative positions. Ditto for the law school at the university I went to later.
I can understand about the Seinfeld/Michael Richards issue. It does flare up for me, and I've seen those episodes about 6 times each, the Gum way more than that.
Richards's "act" was so vicious and pitiable, it was just weird hearing those words and the intent coming out of his mouth. While the effect has faded with time, there are times it just takes me out of a scene.
@OrneryBabe: Ha, I was just thinking to myself the other day, "Remember all the awkwardness about watching Seinfeld after Michael Richards' tirade? Totally gone." Seriously, that observation is so very 2006.
Well Joanie, I hope in your dull Salon meeting you all finally decided to fire your pet contrarian columnist, Camille Paglia. She doesn't belong on Salon.
I believe I'm stealing this from someone else on another one of Owen's Twitterati posts, but it bears repeating:
We Gawker/Valleywag commenters have no business ripping on an Web-based forum wherein people share random thoughts that may or may not be read by anyone else.
@Social Crimer: Well, the anonymous, faceless masses here just do it for the shits. But people on Twitter actually put themselves out like they're a fabulous new brand of rice cracker. Then they whore themselves out to as many people as possible while providing no actual material of their own. So it's a giant stream of contentless vanity. I actually think it would be an honest improvement if Twitter were just a single button that posted the phrase "pay attention to me".
Remember the good old days, when regular as-many-characters-as-want blogging was considered an ADD form of bastardized writing?
Eventually, there will be a platform called "." and will consist of nothing more than people posting punctuation marks. I have seen the future of stupid.
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I don’t work for Gawker, so that’s about as far as I could go to help you. You can try the "Report a Bug" link at the bottom of the page. Good luck!
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06/22/09
Thank you for beating me to the punch. But I had the same thought.
On the other hand, as someone who is acquainted with some lesbians who live in the Middle West, I think I know the qualities he alludes to. They're: Straightforward, competent, no-drama --
--Wait, is that really Kurt Andersen?
I also don't think they'd fire a longtime employee by fax.*
*Or so said the article.
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Richards's "act" was so vicious and pitiable, it was just weird hearing those words and the intent coming out of his mouth. While the effect has faded with time, there are times it just takes me out of a scene.
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06/09/09
I'm sorry, is there a problem with vibrating cock rings? And who cares what Trojan calls it?
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I also want you to recite that at Thanksgiving and when the Feds put you on trial.
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We Gawker/Valleywag commenters have no business ripping on an Web-based forum wherein people share random thoughts that may or may not be read by anyone else.
Do you read me?
Hello?
Anyone?
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01/22/09
Eventually, there will be a platform called "." and will consist of nothing more than people posting punctuation marks. I have seen the future of stupid.
01/22/09
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