(cue Kenny Loggins's "Playing With the Boys")
Smasher, I didn't want to sully your fancy art blog with this type of comment so I'll say here that you outdid yourself with the Quasi reference.
Saiselgy and Freud? No room for Einstein?
Well, it was in the context of devising tactics for waging the War on Christmas, so a Freud comparison was somewhat more appropriate. Not to minimize the astrophysics accomplishments of Saiselgy.
"Ezra was there just long enough to tell us that he was going to "make poverty funny again," and then he had cooler things to do.[...]
And yes, there were no women at all."
You understand, though, right?
Are you implying that the cooler things you went off to do involved no women at all?
Truly, a Mineshaft compatriot.
Cool, if Wehhtam spelled his name backwards he would be called Math-hew.
Not to minimize the astrophysics accomplishments of Saiselgy.
Nor the anti-Christmas accomplishments of Einstein.
Nor the anti-Christmas accomplishments of Einstein.
True, but it is hard to top Freud in terms of pure spite for religion.
The apostropher was another surprise, just because he seemed so damn normal.
Told you so.
It's always the ones that seem normal that have the severed head collection.
i don't think i have anything to worry about when you're the one calling my boyfriend well built! but, i'm glad you all had a good time. i was very sorry i couldn't make it - be sure to email me if you come to chicago again in the next 9 months.
Um...how come I'm not a good guy?
That's the kind of question you should be asking yourself.
how come I'm not a good guy?
Who calls himself a great Jewish genius, and has to ask this question?
Be glad, Wehttam, it means that Ogged won't be stealing your Libertarian girl.
Oh man, I so wish I could have come up for this.
She's a small-l libertarian. The Cato types hate the big-L Libertarians of the Libertarian Party. And I still maintain that a Bush-hating anti-war libertarian is less objectionable than her predecessor, a TNR-writing liberal hawk.
And I still maintain that a Bush-hating anti-war libertarian is less objectionable than her predecessor, a TNR-writing liberal hawk.
Agreed. But how am I going to go back in time and vomit?
Re: 20, I'll say. Hawk Girl claimed that she didn't like barbecues—code for her hatred of Saiselgy's barbecue-enjoying friends. Libertarian Girl is cute and very friendly. Though, to my knowledge, not a member of the Justice League.
Is that "very friendly" or "very friendly," IYKWIM? 'Cause I might have to call "bias," if the latter.
I feel like a character called Libertarian Girl should have been in this.
Note that if you spell both names in "Wehttam Saiselgy" backwards you get "Matthew Yglesias." I'm sure that's pure fortuity, just like "desserts" and "stressed." "Tsunami" backwards is almost "I am nuts" -- but not quite.
Dennis and Edna sinned.
A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!
Isn't libertarian girl a guy in his 30s who lives at home?
Not that libertarian girl, this one, an actual girl. And from Texas, to boot, which nicely fits the oddly Texas-themed lifetyle I've adopted since moving to Washington.
But I still want to know why I'm not a good guy, damnit.
Wow, super cute! Too bad about the crazy politics.
I didn't say you were't a good guy, you sensitive, sensitive man, I was just highlighting the most salient or surprising characteristics of the people gathered. For Tom and Kriston, that's their good-guyness, but for you, it's the high energy. For the record, Saiselgy is a good guy, and much smarter than Freud.
Jeez Wehttam!
You don't get to be both a multitude-containing prodigious talent and a mensch! You have to choose. (One can, however, be both a multitude-containing prodigious talent and hyper-sensitive, so maybe that's what is going on.)
Besides, if you think about, isn't it Tom and Kriston who should be offended. Something of a back-handed compliment, don't you think?
Yeah, yeah, back-handed compliment...that's the ticket!
you are dating the girl from the dredge report?! i did not know! i love her blog.
Hey! I've met her. Her Halloween costume was Roy, right? Excellent. At last, a friend's girlfriend who I'm unlikely to offend.
Yikes. This thread reads like the ghost of my Blogger Christmas Fete Future. Yikes. Note to self: Make that 4 bottles of champagne.