Open Thread

8 Comments

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   Meteor Blades on July 16, 2006 at 6:26 pm

   …to this:

   … You Became a Republican!

   Good God, man.

   A mod would’ve been bad. A headbanger or a goth or a skinhead–that would’ve sucked.

   But a young Republican? Wow.

   It’s like you got the chance to bone Debbie Harry, but you ran away screaming and stuck your dick in a pig. You fell in love instead with an aging, avuncular born-again Christian ex-cowboy actor and corporate spokesperson with twinkly eyes, a black heart and a mouth oozing satanic syrup.

   While the rest of us were bewitched by the twitching swagger of walking corpse Sid Vicious, or the hypnotic ferret-eyed Dickensian cynicism of John Lydon, or the subverted S&M ice-queen proto-goth chic of sinisterly sexy Siouxsie Sioux–you fell in love with the stiff Antichrist, the suburban Satan, Mr. 666 himself–Ronald Wilson Reagan.

   And this is the bit I really find hard to understand, Mike. You were–and still are–a practicing Catholic, with a keen sense of right and wrong.

   Yet you saw nothing wrong with the wholesale slaughter of liberal Catholic clergy by Reagan administration-trained Central American death squads.

   The rest of the article was great, too.

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     BooMan on July 16, 2006 at 6:30 pm

     you, my friend, are a speed reader.  

     I love that article.  He has some great run-on sentences, does he not?

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     BooMan on July 16, 2006 at 6:32 pm

     For example (in the run-on sentence category):

     I too was a massively unshaggable, totally uncool, fat-faced teen freak at the cusp of the ’70s and ’80s, ranting about politics and the state of the world while my cooler peers were dressing up like dogs’ dinners on acid and destroying their minds with amphetamines, glue and the irritatingly addictive stomp-rock music of super-bouffanted English bricklayers dressed like Liberace on steroids and gay drugs.

     Hard to touch that for verbosity with style.

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       Meteor Blades on July 16, 2006 at 6:37 pm

       …sentences as long as they’re comprehensible.

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       Izzy on July 17, 2006 at 2:38 am

       Oh, my — all of that and an X-Ray Spex shoutout, too!  Excellent.

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     Heart of the Rockies on July 16, 2006 at 9:34 pm
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   KNUCKLEHEAD on July 16, 2006 at 11:05 pm

   I love reading like this. One doesn`t have to even reread a sentence it`s written so well.
   That writer can rant. Good one.

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   ejmw on July 17, 2006 at 12:49 am

   just sent me this.

   Sunday Bloody Sunday, as sung by George W. Bush.

   F’ing brilliant.