“We discovered that it was OK to have a little high-brow as long you have a lot of low-brow. That’s entertainment value. The one thing you want to avoid is the middle brow, because the whole world is frigging middle brow at the moment.” – Jon Langford
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posted by George at 9:16 AM
George markets only for the forces of good for a living. He has a paid hobby that involves eating, drinking, and writing, things he’d do for free, which is almost what he’s doing it for. In a previous life he taught mostly illiterate and generally ungrateful college students how to write. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on dancer with French avant garde troupe Maguy Marin, a film programmer, a judge at an Iron Chef style competition, a political activist, a textbook author, a bassist in a band, a two-time league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a pr flack helping run a red carpet at an Angelina Jolie event, a janitor, a chauffeur to folks from TC Boyle to Andrei Codrescu, a delivery man to Plato's Retreat, a reluctant writer of a non-snarky intro for Colin Powell, a radio DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist, a lab assistant for a company that made everything from mouthwash to super skin lubricant, and even, once, a poet. His biggest brush with fame was when Julie Christie fondled his tie, a tie George Lopez belittled to 1000 people minutes later. The best thing about him is his wife. His dogs aren't bad, either.
5 Comments:
You're not gonna tell them about the chewin' tobacca' for $4 a tin?
I miss the idea of having grandchildren but then I would have had to have children and I wasn't exactly into that for some reason.
We're having a lovely little rainstorm here in San Jose, guaranteed to make everyone drive like an idiot. It just sprang up, I was gardening two hours ago. I think I have to leave for work early if I plan on getting there at all. Off to Sigalert.com so I can check my route.
I almost used that one as well, but I thought the depressing reality of $3+-a-gallon would dampen any possible humor that I might try to effect.
And I won't have any grandchildren to tell anything to, either. Funny how that not having children thing seems to put the kibosh on having grandchildren. Does it always work that way?
With college tuition looming larger and larger, we will be selling parenting shares in Princess Whackamole, which would contractually include proportionate shares in grandchildren, with option to buy in directly at the grandparent level.
Win win!
WV: aplongxy
WV2(!): pdgqoou
Hey, we'd take shares in the Princess any day.
aplongxy--that's how I feel when I read the headlines each morning.
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