The gallery about rabbit is stupid.
"Tender young rabbit", while amusing, is a pretty common description.
But then Lileks is also stupid and conventional, so.
Lileks needs a Gallery of Regrettable Wars.
I see that Heebie was just teleported here from early 2001. Who's going to bring her up to speed on current events?
7: She said she remembered something similar once. Clearly something has knocked out here memory of 2001. We need to review it quickly for her, because the last thing she wants is to go through the agony of the first Bush administration again.
Short version: Lileks is funny, and the pictures are fascinating. But it will soon come out that Lileks is a reactionary kook, specializing in militarism and syrupy nostalgia. After 9-11 comes, you will not want to hear from him ever.
7 to 6.
I'm not being a killjoy, I sparing you pain later.
6: I have high hopes that this George W. fella will be a compassionate conservative, like his pa. What'd I miss?
When I am sad, I pretend I do not know about Lilleks other thoughts, because the Gallery of Regrettable Food makes me laugh.
In an era when garlic was considered exotic, innovation was bound to be directed in odd directions.
Or: thank God for the INA!
Given Lileks's location, surely the name is derivative.
In all sincerity, I really wasn't online in 2001. I didn't really come online until I was working on my dissertation, in 2005. That was probably the first time I ever bookmarked a website, for example.
I didn't own a computer or have internet at home. I got a computer in 2005, and got an internet connection in 2006.
Help! I feel a strange urge to go shop at Target!
Yeah, I think that this is a place where we have to regretfully apply the heavy hammer (and sickle?) of aesthetic Stalinism, for the good of all.
The magic ingredient in truly kick-ass baked beans is Coca-Cola. Dr Pepper, OTOH, is foul.
C'mon- Lileks is at least found the mysterious secret about celery and fragile elastic waistbands!
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/index.html
This Lileks stuff is getting out of hand. Quick, someone close the comments and delete this post!
But now I am reminded that I not infrequently see copies of Lileks' book on regrettable food at Half-Price. Now I know what to get (C)heebie for Channukah.
Heebie is banned! That is what we say, right?: "banned."
5: Lileks needs a Gallery of Regrettable Wars.
Lileks needs a Gallery of Regrettable Lileks. Like the pooping columns.
13: I got a computer in 2005, and got an internet connection in 2006.
Are they here to wrap my mummy bandages on yet?
16: Dr Pepper, OTOH, is foul.
Communist. Fascist! Coca-cola gives one the bends.
max
['Bring back Howard the Duck.']
Yeah, I actually bought the GRF book, way back before it became apparent that Lileks was morphing into a miniature-sized, compensating-for-something-or-other Right wing kook. Such a waste.
Togolosh wins, heebie loses on "Dr Pepper" punctuation:
As a matter of record, I feel compelled to tell you that there is no period after the "Dr" in Dr Pepper. This fact is acknowledged in the Associated Press Stylebook. I know this because I am the person responsible for having it included back in the early 1970s. The reason there is no period is the result of an italicized type face used in the early 1950s. The period after the "r" appeared to look like a colon because of the font used. The result appeared to be "Di: Pepper".
- Jim Ball (Sr. V.P. Corporate Communications at Dr Pepper)
Lileks is really from Fargo, you know. Not Minneapolis. And the newspaper he works for won't publish his political rants. Just his lame personal stuff.
1: The writer of the post linked in one seems to share some stylistic preferences with W-lfs-n.
the newspaper he works for won't publish his political rants. Just his lame personal stuff.
That says more about the newspaper than about Lileks. ("Our readers don't want to hear about war, dammit! Get me some heartwarming family crap for page 4, NOW!")
That says more about the newspaper than about Lileks.
In fairness, Diaperbuyin' Jim doesn't seem to understand the role of a newspaper either.
The newspaper publishes stuff on the war, but not Lileks' demented rants.
We may still have the Gallery of Regrettable Food book somewhere around here. We had it for a while, but it may have been a gift for a friend that lingered in the house while we considered keeping it for ourselves.
We could, I suppose, vote for Most Humiliating Bleat. There was the one where Lileks confidently predicted that Iraq would be a quickly-forgotten bush war (a variant of all the "cakewalk" bullshit floating around at the time); and I remember another where he compared Bush's speech in the UN to that fabled kung fu move where a master rips his enemy's heart out of his chest and shows it to him, still beating. Truly cringe-worthy stuff. There are later Bleats, especially with war-related content, where Lileks just seems to lose the knack of writing a sentence altogether, as though some portion of his brain has melted.
I thought the Gallery of Regrettable Food was pretty funny, and still do. In a way it was Lileks at his most likable. I got no satisfaction out of seeing the guy degenerate into the raving kook he later became.
I got no satisfaction out of seeing the guy degenerate into the raving kook he later became.
Can a keyboard commando get PTSD?
Maybe he had a really traumatic version of carpal tunnel.
We could, I suppose, vote for Most Humiliating Bleat.
No contest. The last part of this one, where he, in essence, calls Salam Pax an ingrate and a coward. never mind that as a translator for the US military, Pax was doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world at the time, while Lileks was shaking his tiny fists from his home in Minnesota, after pushing his daughter;'s stroller through Target and the Apple Store.
That was the first time I wished I lived close enough to Lileks to ridicule him to his face.
34: I forgot about that one. It was staggering in its stupid lack of self-awareness.
Maybe he had a really traumatic version of carpal tunnel.
maybe he's just a cunt.
36 stripped my fake html
should have been:
< d2 > maybe he's just a cunt < /d2 >
Coca-cola gives one the bends.
That's why you're not supposed to use it intravenously, you mad drug fiend.
Never liked Lileks, even when he just stuck to mocking fifties recipe books published to promote the sales of 7-Up or Dr Pepper. Too easy and safe and none of the jokes are funny. It just shows his inherent bully nature was there from the start.