what the
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 10 March 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 10 March 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
does that have any point other then "lol trannies"
― bnw, Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm almost ready to start a thread on their commenters. That's where the fun is these days. K-Lo's retired until campaign season.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i know, the comments are pretty awesome. a sewer below the sewer.
i will say tho that they are generally better written and a little less overtly violent than the comments on, say, politico, or any newspaper.
― goole, Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah. I read a string of comments on a Goldberg column that came as close to a civil debate on the merits of conservatism versus liberalism as I've seen over there.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 March 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the chortling comedy stylings of mark steyn return!
today's immigration debate really demonstrated how sociopathic Derbyshire and Krikorian are (along with many of their readers)
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 11 March 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Beyond Their KenMarch 10, 2011 9:24 P.M.By Mark Steyn Bill McGurn turns up a revealing picture of two Hamilton College students and a “life-size” Barbie they created to illustrate how “body images” feed “eating disorders”. As you’ll see, it seems more likely that, entirely by accident, they’ve created a Barbie with the proportional brain size of the average Hamilton College student.
I would have thought two minutes on any American Main Street would dispel the notion that the republic’s womenfolk were in thrall to “body images” presented by Barbie, but don’t let that distract you from blowing a six-figure sum on moronic lethargic navel-gazing dignified as “education”.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 12 March 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Mark Steyn is a "douchebag" who should "put" a "gun" in his "mouth."
Fat people disprove eating disorders like winter disproves global warming.
― bnw, Saturday, 12 March 2011 06:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
"...moronic lethargic navel-gazing dignified as 'education'." Whoa! Sounds like SOME hirsute Canadian pundit woke up on the wrong side of the bed today!Hey, you know what belief system doesn't brook that kind of nonsense, Mark? ISLAM! Maybe you should look into it! Oh, wait, they don't brook Cy Coleman songs either. Oof. It's tough, when the world just refuses to adjust to your parameters, huh?
Hey, you know what belief system doesn't brook that kind of nonsense, Mark? ISLAM! Maybe you should look into it! Oh, wait, they don't brook Cy Coleman songs either. Oof. It's tough, when the world just refuses to adjust to your parameters, huh?
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Saturday, 12 March 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262076/rock-and-roll-hall-lame-mark-goldblatt?page=1
― goole, Monday, 14 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
it must've sucked coming up during the sexual revolution and still never getting any
― the Hogg who would be Boss (will), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
right-wing neil diamond fan! second page is comedy gold
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
. . . bet the farm that Charlie Daniels, who once published an open letter in defense of the invasion of Iraq, will never make the cut . . .
Maybe because he's uh not a rock and roll artist maybe?
― Ian Curtis danced like a tortured chicken DO U SEE (Phil D.), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
m coleman otm, the 2nd page of that NRO rock & roll hall of fame piece is lol
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Googled this guy. You know this novel is going to be something special:
Goldblatt’s first novel, Africa Speaks, was published by Permanent Press in 2002. It a satire of black urban culture told in the voice of a young black man named Africa Ali. In her blurb for Africa Speaks, Michelle Malkin stated, "With an uncanny knack for the hip-hop idiom, stiletto-sharp satire, unusual sensitivity, and unparalleled courage in tackling racial taboos, Mark Goldblatt has created a masterpiece.
"Unusual sensitivity"
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
good god
― the Hogg who would be Boss (will), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wow
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
he manages to be kind of otm
xp oh dear jesus i didn't know about that
― goole, Monday, 14 March 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
1.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable ear for idiom?, October 29, 2002By "paxpacka" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Africa Speaks (Hardcover)Goldblatt's book is certainly ambitious, but in the end, its satirical nature fails to fully materialize. Unfortunately, AFRICA SPEAKS rehashes the same things that cultural critics have been saying for years, putting forth very few new ideas. However, Goldblatt's characters are perfect in consistency and crafted with care. Still, anyone who feels that AFRICA SPEAKS displays a "remarkable ear for idiom" has lived a very insular life.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
With an uncanny knack for hip-hop stereotypes, limp satire, and unparalleled pathology, Mark Goldblatt has created a masterpiece.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
oh fuckin wow, the 5-star amazon reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars How long to the next stop?, May 31, 2005By G. G. Farrell (Watertown, MA) - See all my reviews(REAL NAME) This review is from: Africa Speaks (Hardcover)The highest compliment I can pay this book is to reveal that I stopped reading it for a few weeks. Why? Because Mark Goldblatt's uncanny ear for the speech patterns of the fictional (yet vividly and insufferably real) Africa Ali sent me searching -- so to speak -- for a quieter subway car. That's not to say that Africa and the sad segment of society he represents is irredeemable. It's merely to state that people like me -- successful white males with the ability to understand and perhaps even change society -- don't want to do the redeeming: Africa and his friends can either shut up and do their thing somewhere else or I can just move to the next subway car. In that sense, Mark Goldblatt gets us to see that we are all part of both a problem and a great societal failure: Africa and I may be drinking from the same water fountain nowadays, but that's where it ends.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the first chapter is quite something:
I waxed a chink once—I mean, you got to do one. Now, let me explain what it's like. Waxing a chink is like wearing butter underwear. Ain't nothing on God's green earth smoother than chink pussy. I think that's what heaven must be like, you know, smooth and snug. The best thing is, you don't even have to work the bitch. After she's twatted so many pencil dicks, it's like suddenly she's got hold of a damn black nightstick. So here's how you fuck a chink, You just lie on your back and let her do the fucking. Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her. You know what I'm saying? I spell M-A-N!
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?userid=54WCDTD44Z&ean=9781579620370&displayonly=CHP#CHP
― joe, Monday, 14 March 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
boy "uncanny" is a motif
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
and you know what? That's exactly what fucking a chink is like.
what the shit
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I would unretire the "Captain Butter Underpants" display name but... no
Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this guy is like the worst person ever
"If you dive head first into the cesspool of black urban culture, through the flotsam and jetsam of bling-bling jewelry, designer sneakers, and 'Free Mumia' T-shirts--through the Ebonic endearments of 'nigga' and 'ho' and 'dawg'--and if you struggle down past the snarling, muttering studio-menace of gangsta rappers and the haunch-spreading, butt-bouncing images of 'empowered' womanhood--and then if you plunge deeper, past conspiracy theories about the LAPD and O.J., about CIA agents and crack, and about Jewish scientists and AIDS--and if you descend deeper still, past the toxic notion of black authenticity as the absence of white virtue, you arrive at last at the thickest, rankest muck at the very bottom, the foulest exemplar of what's killing African Americans literally and symbolically--which is roughly where you encounter HBO's Def Poetry."
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
thread should maybe be tagged with a "we did it, this is now the thread that will piss you off for the rest of the day" warning
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Mark Goldblatt is a real winner.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Is HBO's Def Poetry really that bad?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Goldblatt currently resides in midtown Manhattan, where he keeps a low profile and varies his route to work often.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
don't know where i thought that paragraph was going but "hbo's def poetry" was not it
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I wasn't really expecting that.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Later tonight I'm gonna squirt lube on my pizza.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.greenpointpress.org/gb_book_sloth.html
his latest novel looks like some kind of satire of eco/calvino/borges type shit
john podhoretz liked it!
― goole, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lolling at all the racists in MA coming out in support of this book
xp: oh my god, I'd better tell my brother that he is the nadir of black culture
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
our cube walls at work are super low so I can't full-on belly laugh like I want to, but suffice to say NO, HBO's Def Poetry is nothing like what this dude is describing
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Does Holly actually exist, or is she a figment of the narrator's imagination? Does Zezel actually exist, or is he an alter-ego who takes over the narrator?s journal? Does the narrator have a name, or is he just an excuse to ask questions? (And who's writing this cover copy, come to think of it?) Nothing of the sort concerns Detective Lacuna.
detective lacuna
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"If institutional racism is defined as a concerted effort to deprive African Americans of basic human and civil rights, it does not exist. Let me repeat that: Institutional racism does not exist. Let me italicize it: Institutional racism does not exist. Let me set it apart, a paragraph unto itself . . . Institutional racism does not exist."
welp
― goole, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Monday, March 14, 2011 1:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
i know, right? i can just see this guy getting into a big argument in grad school with a very bright young woman who can't stand him, and it winds around to him screaming at her "FUCKING COSMICOMIX. I WIPE MY FUCKING ASS WITH COSMICOMIX. DO YOU HEAR ME."
― goole, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
he used "unto" in a sentence?
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
my father was threatening to write a satirical novel exposing the politics of state university English department after he retired (from, you guessed it, a state university English department)
ty NRO dude for living out my father's dream & for sparing me the embarrassment of him realizing it
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh why
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
From John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary: "Mark Goldblatt is one of America's most uncompromising literary iconoclasts."
basically all i need to hear
― max, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Theology
In a pair of essays for the British journal Philosophy Now, Goldblatt addressed the subject of rational language and the existence of God.In "Did the World Have a Beginning?"[17] he argues that the temporal world cannot always have existed. An actual infinity is impossible, he reasons, because infinity is a potential value that cannot be reached. A line, for example, may be extended infinitely--that is, without a limit--but at no point will the actual measure of the line become infinite. Likewise, time itself, whether measured by minutes or millennia, cannot comprise an actual infinity. Therefore, the temporal world cannot have existed forever.In a follow up article, "Talking About God", [18] Goldblatt teases out the ramifications of his conclusion about the impossibility of an actual infinity with respect to the concept of an infinite God. Since we know that the temporal world cannot have existed forever, it therefore must have come into existence "in the beginning". It cannot have come into existence without an efficient cause (since that would violate the law of causality, one of the basic laws of thought). That First Cause, Goldblatt states, following the Cosmological Argument of Thomas Aquinas, is what all men call God. But this realization leads to a paradox. On the one hand, it would seem God cannot be infinite either since an actual infinity is impossible. On the other hand, God cannot have come into existence since that would require a cause prior to the First Cause and lead to an infinite regress of causes . . . which, in turn, would comprise an actual infinity (which cannot be). Therefore, we must suppose an infinite God as the First Cause of the world--even though an actual infinity violates the laws of thought. But whatever violates the laws of thought cannot be subject to rational language; it cannot be said to exist any more than a sentient stone (i.e. a sentient non-sentient being) can be said to exist. (At the moment a stone becomes sentient, in other words, it ceases to be a stone.) Goldblatt concludes that two theological statements, which seem irreconcilable, are nevertheless necessarily true: 1) God created the world; 2) God does not exist.
― max, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
he probably should have put detective lacuna on the case
― max, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Though often classified as a conservative or even a neocon, Goldblatt has on occasion veered from right of center positions. He has been a steadfast supporter of the war against totalitarian Islam [1][2][3][4][5] and a fierce critic of hip hop culture, [6][7][8] postmodernism[9] and multiculturalism, [10] but he has also argued in favor of legalizing of gay marriage [11] and upholding the Roe v. Wade decision[12] and has written sympathetically about Barack Obama. [13][14]