“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 9:23 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.
7 Comments:
It takes someone "of a certain age" to know the Ethel of whom you speak.
:)
I am in that group of course.
eyes ... burning ...
Brave Sir Robin, thank you for getting the reference I was afraid most would miss. (But that might be all the better for them, to be innocent of Ray Stevens.)
And to think I didn't get it because it was late-period Ray Stevens instead of the earlier stuff with which I'm more familiar. You whippersnappers and your crazy music!
If Ray Stevens' oeuvre has periods, the world is even more frightening than I think it is.
If Ray Stevens' oeuvre has periods, the world is even more frightening than I think it is.
LOL!!!!
:)
I'm just hoping that there is a period ending Ray Stevens' oeuvre, and it's not just a comma.
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