"Someday, I'll be rich and famous, and I can move somewhere nobody knows me and spend nine hours a day wandering around with a bag of garbage!"
Huh, he's speaking in Provincetown tonight. SOld out.
Dude, the English countryside has way more litter than most of the US (anecdotally). I think it might be down to lack of prisoners/people sentenced to community service/etc picking it up? I can't imagine that Americans actually litter less than the English.
People know who he is. He's fairly regularly on the radio, and now and again on TV. Not famous famous. But not a total unknown.
5: not the people who run the paper in West Sussex, apparently.
Or, I mean, now they know.
I can't imagine that Americans actually litter less than the English
I don't have any trouble imagining that.
The English might have never had a crying Italian guy shaming them.
South Downs and the Orange Vest of the Eponymous Sedaris.
Although presumably he doesn't wear one.
The English might have never had a crying Italian guy shaming them
I assume Fabio Capello doesn't count for some reason.
And yet they paid him no attention and gave him a homely sans serif font instead of Roman
The best part of this is the update the paper published the next day when they learned he was famous, entitled "World following for Horsham district litter picking 'hero'".
Sorry, who's the eponymous Sedaris, and what's named after him (apart from a garbage truck in Sussex)?
Sedaris was once Crumpet the Elf in the
Macy's Christmas display. He tells the story in his Santaland Diaries.
14: He gained fame for his humorous autobiographical sketches on the american radio program This American Life. Then he moved to France with his boyfriend. They moved to England. He does seem to be on the radio some; I heard him on Start the Week once.
I love 15.1 as a response to 14. Blah blah, author, whatever: he worked at Santaland! In New York!
Also grew up here in North Carolina.
Also Amy is truly the more comedic genius sibling.
Humorous autobiographical sketches is fair, I suppose, but understates how interesting he is.
New Yorker humor writer notably cleans up trash is not a new story.
19 is true but David is still pretty funny.
I thought chris y was making a joke, but if not, the answer is: the least funny person alive.
It occurs to me that he has assimilated perfectly by becoming a classic English character, the good-natured eccentric.
20: Well, I didn't say that's all he does--just that that's how he got to be really well known.
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Oh my god: Grover Norquist is going to Burning Man this year.
Burning Man relies on a "giving economy" where attendees are encouraged to give goods and services free of charge--a system that Harvey has called "old-fashioned capitalism." And this is hardly the first instance of capitalists like Norquist being drawn to Burning Man. In recent years, Silicon Valley's elite, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have flocked to the event.
Norquist says the festival is a good example of the theory of spontaneous order. The theory, which was promoted by Austrian economists like Friedrich Hayek, holds that a natural structure will emerge out of a seemingly chaotic environment without need for outside intervention.
"There's no government that organizes this," Norquist said. "That's what happens when nobody tells you what to do. You just figure it out. So Burning Man is a refutation of the argument that the state has a place in nature."
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29: Yes, no govt. It's just put together by an organization that collects money and coordinates the building and removal of a temporary city long with the necessary services such as waste management, fire, and law enforcement. Totally different!
30: Right, plus fire fighting staff, first aid stations .. oh, but you said that.
It's a case of people mistaking anarchism (properly understood) for a libertarian utopia.
Holy crap, I hope he's ... offended. I guess I hope he's offended by the non-Christian sensibilities on display.
30: And on federal land, under a permit from the Bureau of Land Management, no less!
24 is right, but I guess once he got Alfonso Ribeiro to dance funny on television there were no more worlds to conquer.
Sorry, who's the eponymous Sedaris, and what's named after him (apart from a garbage truck in Sussex)?
It may help to imagine Alan Bennett, but American.