I don’t know if I’d call that an “attack”…
There are a lot of stories on BB about things that are, apparently, sufferably black. So…
And I would happily bash my skull against a concrete table covered in broken glass and fecal matter before I’d willingly listen to ten minutes of T-Pain and Kei$ha.
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Where “Nobody knows” is translated as “I thought about maybe googling it, but… eh, this song came onto spotify radio, and I read the band bio instead.”
This reads like Millenials react to the Domesday Book: First, it's written on sheepskin. Sheepskin is supposed to be soft and comforting, but this is pretty dry and crackly. Maybe because it's old? Then it's broken down into "shires." Is this a Hobbit reference? Nobody knows. It's a mystery.
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“But isn’t it pronounced Doomsday Book, like isn’t it that part of the Bible?”
(sorry, I totally japhroaiged this response)
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You mean you can’t tell the difference, in good ol’ white supremacist U S of A, between apples and oranges? Really?
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One of my favorite ever scenes from the Simpsons is when Homer & Bart run across APHC on TV. “Stupid TV!” Homer says, “Be more funny!”
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I love love love the joke show.
Two penguins on an ice floe…
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Y’ar’l domed. Dooooooooooomed!
With an o as in dome.
BoingBoing: where the women are strong, the men are white knights, and the trolls are all above average.
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Insufferably white, straight, normative, salt of the earth. Lake Woebegone seems to exist as the liberal resistance to diversity. There are no hispanic people. No black people. No gay people. No trans people. No Jews. None of that modern tolerance stuff. Just that time when things were better (for white, straight, Christian, cis men).
And if you think he’s not actually an anti-Semite, I really encourage you to google for his rant against Jews writing Christmas songs.
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You know, after some reflection I think I have enough time in real life to make silly jokes. I probably don’t need to make more online.
So I’ll be downgrading my bb account to ‘lurker’, and hopefully that drops the troll and white knight flags from my permission bitmask.
What?
The second part wasn’t directed at you, I was just trying to adapt the LW motto to BB. Not quite accurately, but whatevs. I’ve been listening to the show since it was on in the mornings, with Jim Ed Poole as the SFX guy. Not too much lately, though. My East-Coast wife "doesn’t get it.’
Didn’t help that I tried to watch the movie with her. If that had been my only exposure I would have had a different attitude.
Now if he would only acknowledge that he can’t sing.
I always imagine the performer contracts.
“5. Mr. Keillor will sing two songs with you of his choice. You will be required to pretend that his tuneless, reedy tenor harmonizing is contributing something to the performance, rather than destroying a piece of your cherished art that you undoubtedly worked very hard on.”
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I asked a program manager at a Chicago NPR affiliate why they ran APHC twice in one weekend. When they first tried it, they said, they thought they would split their audience. But instead, to their surprise, listenership doubled. Twice as many listeners, twice as many subscribers during pledge weeks.
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Have you ever listened to his Writer’s Almanac? He almost always reads a poem and the way he reads them, with that voice of his, makes me want to go home and read poetry. It’s that good.
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Writer’s Almanac is also informative. He talks about SF authors and their works when their birthdays come up.
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Writing here as someone about the same age as GK, I enjoy listening to his programs. He’s certainly not the most talented singer, but he blends homor into almost everything he does.
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Especially considering BB’s Disney fixation, and is anything more insufferably white than Disney?
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