There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.

ha i just read that, and was considering posting to us politics sans attribution and making people guess...

http://www.profile-comments.com/images/tuesday/images/appletini-tuesday.gif

to perv and project

Walking through lower Manhattan, sunny windy day, I passed several outdoor cafes. Kids at tables saying nothing. Everyone texted or checked email. Were they talking to each other through their toys? Or chatting with others far away? Whatever the case, they rarely looked up. Thumbs twitching. Faces blank.

Younger friends say I'm a reactionary fuck. Get with the program, pops. This is how it is today. They're right to call me out. I welcome it. I'm decidedly retro, embarrassingly so. But what is their alternative? Where does this text-tit sucking land? Are they bending corporate tools to express something uniquely theirs? Or are they docile consumers dazed by brands?

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/04/textures.html

i loved Mr Mike but posts like the above make perrin seem like a clueless tool.

Said kids texting were probably saying variants on "There's this weird old guy walking down the street muttering to himself..."

as you know, I have to restrain myself from ripping such devices out of ppl's hands and tossing them in the Gowanus, so carry on.

Transforming deadwood into rhetorical questions – his specialty.

text-tit sucking

i feel like perrin's weird fusion of acidic curmudgeonliness and obliqueness have had a wonderful influence on morbz's posts

Those crazy kids doing all that 'communicating with their friends' shit - why even have friends? Because our corporate overlords tell us to?

DP and I have some mutual friends (well at least one), so now that he's visiting NY regularly I may run into him and say hi for all of you. I think he would be delighted to learn of your loathing.

do you recommend tweeting or texting him?

He's doing standup in NYC periodically -- Alfred, come up for that! ;)

http://wedgeblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/andy_rooney_2-2006_05_02-11_09_521.jpg

did Andy ever say, "I'm decidedly retro, embarrassingly so"?

All I can tell you is JUST WAIT til you get middle-aged crazy.

why are tweeting and texting worse than blogs and message boards?

Why are gumdrops worse than a sachertorte?

Mordy asked.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/05/grave-dance-party.html

Not because I actually cared. Does he ever express sentiments that are recognizably human or are they all about how much more evolved he is than the rest of us?

no, it's kind of related to how we fucking murdered many times 3000 ppl to get the bad guy

and blow me

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It's redundant to note that only a Democrat could get away with this, yet it's all too true. That the liberal savior is overseeing the cuts must really sting his followers. I'm tempted to say they have it coming, but after Obama's debt deal with our owners' reactionary wing, we're all going to get it. Schadenfreude is dead.

This won't stop liberals from voting again for Obama. Nothing would. Obama knows this and serves his real base. The slaves will come crawling, thinking that their votes will stave off ruin and plunder. All they're doing is ratifying further political attacks on themselves. The brighter slaves understand and rationalize. The dimmer slaves smile and beg for more. Our owners remain untouched, free to milk the system anytime they choose. Their press agents insist that we're the envy of the world. Many of us believe it or want to, crumbling infrastructure to the contrary.

Old family photos portray a shinier past, when American power and wealth was at its zenith. Big cars, new neighborhoods, expanding consumer confidence. I bitch about today's tech toys, but looking back to my childhood, there were countless toys to go around. People bought the bullshit because they were able to buy things. For people my age and older, the steady American decline has been quite amazing to witness. It doesn't seem real, but that's the privilege of living in an imperial country. Fantasy is always an option.

I'm guessing this is why so many kids are jaded and cruel. What do they have to look forward to? What's it like to be a teen or young adult in this era? I haven't the slightest and desire none. I still believe another world is possible, but this may be age talking. Who can focus on alternatives when the life boats are sinking?

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Obama: Throwing Palestinians under the tank.

I can tell Dennis how young adults "in this era" are.

#DennisThePerrin
Is there anything sweeter than dancing to 70's funk in your underwear in a cheap hotel room at dawn while swigging vodka? There is? Fuck me.

couldn't afford a hooker eh

or would that be contributing to a system as diseased as capitalism?

Is there anything sweeter than dancing to 70's funk in your underwear in a cheap hotel room at dawn while swigging vodka? There is? Fuck me.

Dancing in clothes that make one look good?

read that as "throwing Palestinians under the stank".

#DennisThePerrin
Is there anything sweeter than dancing to 70's funk in your underwear in a cheap hotel room at dawn while swigging vodka?

Having friends?

Loving life?

#DennisThePerrin
Obama: Talks populist. Governs corporatist. GOP: Talks crazy. Governs corporatist. The choice is clear.

Coke?

Never knew he had shown up on The McLaughlin Group once.

Like so many before him, Qaddafi was an imperial speed bag. To be pummeled when needed. Qaddafi helped in his own demise. His personal flamboyance owed more to Siegfried and Roy than Mussolini. His violations of human rights were rewarded and played down until he had to be Hitler again. Then he was the worst ruler on the planet. Beyond civilized norms. A mad dog loose among peaceful nations. There's only one way that narrative ends. As we've seen.

A nagging concern must be, Who do we get to replace Qaddafi? Not in geopolitical terms, but as a propaganda savage. Syria's Assad seems like the next target, though that would be a tougher production.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/10/creeping-wreck.html

"Imperial" is a pretty righteous name for a fitness equipment manufacturer.

Qaddafi hadn't been used as a "propaganda savage" in decades. It's not a "nagging concern" for anyone.

He was used as one in, oh, the last 4 months for the prez to do his usual unconstitutional thang.

Tiger Woods is the Master of filling 18 holes.
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hold on now!!!

― the rural führer (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

i loved Mr Mike but posts like the above make perrin seem like a clueless tool.

― Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus (stevie), Monday, April 25, 2011 10:27 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

but no enemies on the left these days, i suppose.

James Wolcott likes him, good nuff eh

He was used as one in, oh, the last 4 months for the prez to do his usual unconstitutional thang.

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 October 2011 19:20 (2 hours ago)

The Obama administration never had to bother with any wartime propaganda because they experienced almost no resistance from the right or from the media w/r/t the intervention. The idea that they used Qaddafi to advance some political agenda and that now they need some new scapegoat is really silly.

mmmm, yer really silly

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Sort of like JFK lying in state -- except that JFK killed far more people than did Qaddafi. http://tiny.cc/anvw3

"Unconstitutional Thang" sounds like an Infinity Within b-side.

Can we add Ruth Buzzi to Morbs faves?

LIFE WOULD BE BETTER if our career politicians were limited to two terms: one in office and one in prison.

only if Arte Johnson is silent

He's doing standup in NY soon! All you fans should come out.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/11/soon.html

if that poster is a preview of the kind of lulz on display...