Roundup
Roundup: In which we get religion, then get stoned, and are chock-full of hatred and family values
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Jewcy has an interview with Michael Muhammad Knight, author of Journey to the End of Islam. This one is a must-read.
Also in Islam-related news, the South Park guys finally got the death threat they’ve been gunning for, but it was kind of lame, and posted to a blog, and issued as a kind of speculation that Trey Parker and Matt Stone would “probably wind up like Theo van Gogh.” Also, it’s already been taken down from the site where it was posted. To learn less about this story than I’ve already told you, go to Gawker, where I got it from.
Slate’s got the latest installment of their title-like-a-Slate-parody-but-actually-pretty-fascinating series “Why I give my nine-year-old pot” (spoiler alert: he’s autistic and it helps him). In this latest episode, when Marie’s dealer goes out of town, she learns the hard way that not all strains of pot work the same. Her son J doesn’t respond to anything quite like he does to the White Russian that nobody in town seems to have in-stock!!!!
Speaking of great strains of pot, last night I got this email from Ronnie Scott of The Lifted Brow. Subj: “Too much bongs.” Text: “Whoops! I put about a fifth of our August issue online.” And it’s true, by God! Diane Williams, our own Jimmy Chen, Kim Chinquee and more!
Have you heard about Scott Baio’s twitter-based war with Jezebel.com? They’ve posted a handy complete timeline of their conflict with him. It gets really good when his wife Renee steps in, via facebook and calls the entire Jezebel staff “FAR LEFT lesbian shitasses!!!! No wonder you’re all lesbos because what man in his right mind could put up with your cuntness? Scott Baio has more class in his piss than all of you all!!!” Yes, because that’s how you prove classiness, with homophobic slurs and a piss joke. Big win for family values!
Speaking of family values, if you fell into a coma in 1995, and just woke up this morning, you may not want to read the rest of this sentence because it might make your heart and brain simultaneously crumple into powder under the crushing realization of just how much has changed. Okay, are you braced? Are you ready? Green Day’s Broadway musical is a smash hit, says Charles Isherwood in the New York Times. Also, this thing called 9/11 happened, but I’ll tell you about that later.
Tags: Green Day, Michael Muhammad Knight, Scott Baio, South Park, the lifted brow
fuck religion and violence
or something like that
fuck religion and violence
or something like that
Death threats? Seriously, South Park gets death threats? What the fuck is the world coming to?
Death threats? Seriously, South Park gets death threats? What the fuck is the world coming to?
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Your posts are great. Thanks. Especially that last paragraph.
[Completely off topic] I have to ask…Snapcase is such a weird band for someone to adopt the name of…is that based on experience at all?
Your posts are great. Thanks. Especially that last paragraph.
[Completely off topic] I have to ask…Snapcase is such a weird band for someone to adopt the name of…is that based on experience at all?
Hey, if you worried about topicality here, you’d be the first. Anyway, no, that’s not based on personal experience. I wanted something that would work on two registers- one, if you don’t know anything about punk et al, it would just seem like a weird name and then you hear the other guy say it’s a band name and you think to yourself “oh, okay, weird. people name themselves after bands in this world.” second, if you do know a bit about punk et al, you’d read that, presumably get the reference before it’s explained, and think “oh, okay, weird. this guy must *really* be into that band,” and hopefully that tells you something about the character, in terms of his orientation within the world of punk et al. So that’s why. And thanks for asking!
Hey, if you worried about topicality here, you’d be the first. Anyway, no, that’s not based on personal experience. I wanted something that would work on two registers- one, if you don’t know anything about punk et al, it would just seem like a weird name and then you hear the other guy say it’s a band name and you think to yourself “oh, okay, weird. people name themselves after bands in this world.” second, if you do know a bit about punk et al, you’d read that, presumably get the reference before it’s explained, and think “oh, okay, weird. this guy must *really* be into that band,” and hopefully that tells you something about the character, in terms of his orientation within the world of punk et al. So that’s why. And thanks for asking!
Not really a topicality thing, I was just curious. Really loved the book. “The New Life” kind of broke my heart.
Not really a topicality thing, I was just curious. Really loved the book. “The New Life” kind of broke my heart.
I really appreciate that, Christian. “The New Life” is my favorite story in the book. Thanks again.
I really appreciate that, Christian. “The New Life” is my favorite story in the book. Thanks again.