Posts Tagged ‘outrage’
Okay, I am so conceited that I spend a bazillion dollars a frigging year just to have a place where I can read my own posts so I know a little bit about the subject of arrogance. I also write fan fiction about TV shows and stuff and put myself in them (Detective Acadia, SVU. Pleased to meet you, Olivia). I also consider myself more famous than Freddie Prinze, Jr. and I base that on the fact that he was in that Scooby Doo movie and I wasn’t.
But, I am no Michael Eric Dyson. This author and Georgetown sociology professor has his own show called the Michael Dyson Show. And that by itself is not bad. Plenty of people name their shows after themselves. He even has awards on his show named after himself. And I can get over that. But.
But.
But.
The name of his book up there is (emphasis mine) is: Can You Hear Me Now? The Inspiration, Wisdom and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson. Now, even after seeing the cover of the book, I hoped that perhaps it was a joke. Maybe when I looked at the beginning, he was going to say something like: “Okay, now that I have your attention with my ridiculously pretentious and arrogant book title, let me share some humble thoughts that I think might be something you would like to read.”
But nope. He just included a bunch of shit he said. Like, I don’t know if I can explain it right. It’s not really a BOOK. It’s like Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey but not funny (at least not on purpose). He says like a paragraph, then has a straight line, then another couple paragraphs and another straight line. Like this:
Something something
_________
In the adjectival way we measure racial progress, Obama is not a black president, but a black president.
_________
Something something
That’s not a book. One of his chapters is one sentence. And the sentence is not: “My mother is a fish.” Thus it can’t be a real book. Now, the sentence itself may be right. Every frigging word in the book may be right. That’s not the point. The point is that you do NOT call yourself inspirational, wise and insightful in your own book. You also don’t include four different pictures of yourself on the cover. And you certainly don’t watch old tapes of yourself on Tavis Smiley, Hardball and Charlie fucking Rose, write down shit you said separated by little lines, and call it a fucking book!
So after the jump, I’ve decided to publish my own book. Cover and excerpt after the jump.
This is not a story about Sarah Palin. However, her ears are goddamn huge and I'm not gonna rest until I get some traction on this big ear movement.
I got this email the other day and while I know it is like, partisan stuff (on the Republican Whip’s Channel) but I can’t decide whether or not it’s an outrage or a big fat taste of parliamentary awesomeness. The dude acting as speaker is John Murtha from PA who got the Federal Government to buy his district a whole airport! So the dude is a dickhole unless you live in his district. If you live in his district and get free airports then he’s awesome.
But the people he fucked over on this vote don’t think he’s awesome at all. Oh no. He’s a grade A dickhole. UNLESS. Well, you watch the video and figure out if there could be an unless. If the dude can cheat THAT badly. I mean, just flat out cheat, then why do we have to listen to people arguing over what passes in the House? I’m thinking there is more to this than meets the eye. Like that the vote was a foregone conclusion or some shit and each person had to play their part. I don’t know. It just seems odd. I mean, it really looks like flat out cheating. But could it be that the people stirring up noise with the video are banking on us dumb citizens being dumb and not investigating? Well, in response to that I will say: watch the video after the jump and holy crap look at all those potatoes on TV! I have to go!