shakey mo collier has been falsely getting my hopes up for more than ten years now
epic troll
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
I’m officially a fan of this idea that DB has outsourced his column to a ghost, like Jim Davis or Garry Trudeau did with their respective predictable effluvia
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 04:23 (six years ago) link
jesus christ
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/what-sincerity-looks-like.html?mcubz=3
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 29 September 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
the only small consolation from that dreck is that he didn't turn it into a metaphor for Obama vs. Hillary, which is what I was expecting.
― evol j, Friday, 29 September 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
rolling worst music writing
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 September 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
i will never get over people thinking that a pop star's lyrics are like court testimony or something. when it was really some dude on the toilet texting back and forth with t-swift an hour before they hit the studio. "wt rhyms with drama?" "uh karma?"
― scott seward, Friday, 29 September 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
DB hoping to land at Pitchfork
(I skimmed that column bcz life is short)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 September 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
I'm sure there's something subtly insidious buried somewhere in that pap, but I don't have the energy to dig for it.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 29 September 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
how did his editor let him start two separate paragraphs with 'it's interesting...'
― j., Friday, 29 September 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
editor?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
[imghttp://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2011/07/05/05_davidbrooks.w710.h473.2x.jpg].img]
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2011/07/05/05_davidbrooks.w710.h473.2x.jpg
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
That 'sincerity' column was his usual half-baked near-nonsense, but I did like the description of Taylor Swift barking "see what you made me do" over and over, because anyone who says "see what you made me do" deserves to be kicked until they stop.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 29 September 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
fuego!
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 September 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
LOL @ "It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene."
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 September 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
surely that should have been "came on the scene"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 September 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
Didn’t the Dead Boys do that in the kitchens at CBGBs?
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Friday, 29 September 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
David Brooks on the sceneknow what I mean?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 September 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
OMG pic.twitter.com/X2xy8ha2qT— Marshall Steinbaum (@Econ_Marshall) October 4, 2017
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
David Brooks: the only way to combat Trump's hokey white supremacist narrative is with... another hokey white supremacist narrative pic.twitter.com/0dh0MaRnx5— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) October 3, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
"we are not a country of bashing immigrants & building walls. We are a country of genocidal westward expansion & butchering natives". Oh ok.— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) October 3, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNua0B0UQAAkajj.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
GAH mookie why did you inflict that on me??????
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Loooool
― marcos, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
rofl
also his 5-word proposal to his second wife
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
his ghostwriter is definitely a double agent
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
So you begin getting to know him or her better, first over a meal, then through activities.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
say what u like about brooks but this guy fucks
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
...up everyone's day
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
^^^could not be more otm
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 November 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
OK the excerpt posted above may be lol but I made the mistake of reading the full piece and now I am so fucking pissed and disgusted. This guy is worse than lol and pathetic. He is so fucking gross.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
yeah i barfed. horny prospector.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
just a horny prospector
*dead*
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
sung to the tune of "I am a Lonesome Hobo!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
"This time, for sure!"
Oh.
― JoeStork, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
every time this thread pops up I see the title and I *know* i'm going to be disappointed but I click anyway thinking "maybe today really is the day."
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/a-liberal-comity-show
Wherein Brooks and Robert George had a civility-off with Melissa Harris-Perry and Howard Dean held by a group unsarcastically calling itself “Intelligence Squared”
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
every damn time.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
^
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
One gets the feeling these days that we are all sliding towards certain bleak inevitabilities -- the final collapse of American democracy, for instance, or a David Brooks column on Cat Person.— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) December 11, 2017
― j., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
please tell me that doesn't actually exist
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:29 (six years ago) link
give it time, give it time
― j., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
David Brooks woke up Monday and was the 15,604,880th person to think 'guys what if EXTREMES on BOTH SIDES were the same--like a sort of horseshoe' and got paid roughly 3,500 for the article— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 12, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
doesn't sound like the horseshoe i know
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
Brooks is going to independently discover fishhook theory in 2020
― mh, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Thank you for your service, sir. I wasn't ready to talk about the power of touch before, but because of you, I finally am. David, you're the guy I want to have this conversation with. Please call me at your earliest convenience. pic.twitter.com/qP8SZsH2a3— eve peyser (@evepeyser) January 19, 2018
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
he’s still alive huh
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
And feelin’ virile
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
Love this dude like I loved Nino.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
don't you mean Sheev
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link