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October 31, 2006
john kerry finally riled two years too late
Who'da thunk that I'd post a link to the words of John Kerry? But here I go. Kerry made a remark to some college students about getting "stuck in Iraq". Then the White House went all a-week-before-the-election on Kerry, accusing him of calling US occupying forces "losers" or some such something. They kick-started the outrage engines and made sure they're standing in front of thirty-foot flags, demanding apologies (and the flag's in the shot, right?).And then Kerry got all, "Fuck me? Fuck you," back at them. No, not really, but about as close to, "Why don't you come over here and say that to my face," as I'd ever expect a Democrat to be. Fo'sample:
I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq.
Sure, I'd wish those words could come out of the mouths of other politicians than John Kerry, but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully, this is a virus going around that the rest of the caucus catches.
Plus also, he called Limbaugh fat. How can he be wrong?
Posted by mrbrent at 03:23 PM
meet the new bitch
Remember last year's Marie Antoinette moment? That was back when a hurricane had wiped a city off the American map, and a couple thousand people drowned in their attics while the federal government stood around and slapped each other on the back. Asked about New Orleans refugees camped out in the Astrodome, Bush clan matron Barbara Bush snooted, "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."Which is why you should vote Republican this year -- they like the poor better in interment camps.
Somehow this casual monstrousness was passed down through her idiot son and somehow into her daughter-in-law. Apparently, Laura Bush has little tolerance for those suffering from debilitating disease. In her words, referring to the campaigning efforts of Michael J. Fox, "It’s always easy to manipulate people’s feelings, especially when you are talking about diseases that are so difficult."
That is a very impressive hateful little heart, Mrs. First Lady, but your arms are too short to box with Michael J. Fox. What could be more fair than for someone who actually has a disease to speak up for its cure? Attack the messenger all you want -- the voting public will no doubt be entertained by your beating up on a dude with Parkinson's.
Which leaves me to wonder: what's the word that connotes unkind feelings towards people displaying symptoms of degenerative disease -- you know, along the lines of "racist" and "homophobe"? There should be one.
Posted by mrbrent at 12:15 PM
October 30, 2006
tom the dancing bug
I've long been a fan of Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug. You may have seen the weekly strip in your local "free weekly", which you obviously only pick up for the funnies, yes, and therefore are indeed familiar. His work is sharp and sometimes political, sometimes meta (specifically in his "Super-Fun-Paks"). And we all like the meta, as we are of a certain age, one in which irony will never die.I am occasioned in bringing up how much I like Mr. Bolling's work by the fact that, in this week's strip, Mr. Bolling reveals that he and I share a vital trait.
An antipathy for Mallard Fillmore.
Well played, Mr. Bolling, if that is in fact your name.
Posted by mrbrent at 05:44 PM
snohomish high cross country -- hi!
No, I'm not making excuses for not posting. I had been posting. My host decided to reflect my life in general and eat another week's posts.Sadly, the host was (for once) actually polite about it, so I will not snark them in public. I've recovered most of them from search engine caches, so valuable writing-cleverly time will be subsumed with re-posting, because this shit is not an avocation, dammit, but rather a dark secret monkey on my back.
Oh, yes, while I'm here -- Coach Dan Parker, of the Snohomish High School Cross Country program? One of your alums blames you personally for not motivating the men's team this season. How do I know? This alum sat behind me on a two hour bus ride last night, talking on his cell phone the entire way, just like a teenage girl. It was the shittiest bus ride ever. So then, Mr [I know your name and current school -- the Internets work!], let this be a lesson about dropping personal details (repeatedly) in a conversation on crowded bus. Or, try this -- "manners".
Posted by mrbrent at 09:02 AM
October 26, 2006
"inside baseball"?
This is ironic, but only in the Alanis Morissette sense. Gawker has been posting a series of anecdotes concerning the alleged misbehaviors of long-time big deal magazine editor Joe Dolce. These posts accuse him of douchebaggery and asshattery. In the most recent post, the first commenter opens fire (reprinted in its entirety):Are you guys familiar with the term "inside baseball"? As in, "This topic might be too 'inside baseball' for our viewers at home, but [insert discussion of MLB salary arbitration]..."? I don't care if Joe Dolce is an asshat or douchebag (although I'd be interested in a detailed explication of the distinctions between those two terms) and this line of postings seems remarkable only for how esoteric and "inside baseball" it has become.
I am reasonably certain that the editors of Gawker are familiar with the term "inside baseball". In fact, I think it's in Denton's business plan.
Later, the commenter went on to send a letter to the editor of the New York Times, wondering why they publish "so much news".
Posted by mrbrent at 02:20 PM
October 24, 2006
crazy human space travel stunt
This is a cool little nothing. From the Ellis site that you're sick of me yammering on about, a very interesting couple of photos of the last shuttle launch.As you look at the photos, keep this in mind -- our current conception of trans-atmospheric travel is to put some folk in a little can, and then put that can on top of a building's worth of chemical explosives, and then blow up the explosives. This perspective, of course, is also Ellis-originating.
But it's still worth a ponder.
Posted by mrbrent at 11:50 AM
October 23, 2006
these are the stakes, sure
Dude, I so wish I was running for office this cycle. Just so I could have the honor of being the target of as insipid of an ad campaign as the GOP is running right now.Seriously, even the Crazified Twenty Percent will watch the ad, with the ominous music and the smiling face of bin Laden and the "Vote for us or else" vibe, and start to wonder exactly how stupid the GOP thinks he/she is.
Without the general sense of imminence that Republicans have grown accustomed to (and profited greatly from), their appeal is revealed to be divorced from any legitimate argument. Before, it was all, "Vote for us -- we win." Now that their fortunes are in doubt, the best they can manage is, "Here are some bad guys we failed to apprehend. Remember how you always vote for us anyway?"
Posted by mrbrent at 01:48 PM
October 20, 2006
mets lose right to lose to tigers
This is the obligatory post about the Mets losing. It sucked. But who among us hasn't watched, bat on our shoulder, as strike three wafts across the plate, stranding three runners in the bottom of the ninth? For me, it's the story of my freakin' life.And if that's not enough to take the "TGI" out of "TGIF", consider this -- tag is being banned from American schoolyards. The reason? Fear of litigious parents. Please, share in the nausea I feel:
"If the hands come out to touch, then the supervisors ask them to stop," McCarthy principal Joan Vodoklys was quoted as saying in the Boston Herald on Friday. "What we require is that children do not touch each other."
Yep, we should be lookin' at a pretty healthy crop of young adults in ten years time.
Posted by mrbrent at 12:51 PM
October 19, 2006
thinking about posting
Do I ever link up Deadspin? I know, it's kind of ubiquitious, but still, I do spend a measurable portion of my surfing day there, if only to wash the taste of politics from my eyes.And it's good for you, too! For example, this long conversation is exactly the reason I have been listless and postless today. (Sorry, Soosan -- M-E-T-S- Mets Mets Mets!) And yes, I hope that by referencing Game 7, I am in no way jinxing Game 7.
The next time I am listless and postless, I will just link up this shit here.
Posted by mrbrent at 06:01 PM
October 18, 2006
homophobe beware
Sometimes, I go against type and bring with the good news. I know, I'm more loveable when I'm cranky old Grampa-Boy, but some good news I cannot remain cranky inna face of.Like this good news -- undercover cops snuggle to bust gay-basher.
Govern yourself accordingly, gay-bashers of the Greater Metropolitan Area. Use ta be all you had to worry about was when the day would come that a Big Gay Dude put you in the back of an ambulance. Now, you also get to lose sleep over Shitbird City. Word.
I love it when evil gets out-sneakied.
Posted by mrbrent at 03:06 PM
he burns the constitution to win yer love
I let the signing of the morally-bankrupt torture bill pass yesterday without comment. Sometimes, without a straw man, it's hard to find the words to say. If only someone had walked into my office and snarled, "Morally-bankrupt? Is there anything more moral than visiting pain upon terrorists?" Then I'd have a nice launching off point. I could start with basic precepts of morality, and then move on to the futility of my career and the shittiness of my neighbors, etc., etc.But why wait for a straw man when you have the President of the United States of America?
"The bill I sign today helps secure our country and it sends a clear message," Bush said. "This nation is patient and decent and fair, and we will never back down from the threats to our freedom."
I've read a good portion of the bill that was signed into law, and I'm familiar with it in its entirety. If someone can point me out the patience, fairness and decency provisions, I'll make them sausage gravy and biscuits, in the kitchen of their choosing. No, the provisions I remember are the suspension of habeas corpus provisions, the allowance of waterboarding and hypothermia provisions and the "no Federal Court shall have jurisdiction over this law" provisions. I like to think of them as the "Bald Abrogation of the Constitution" provisions.
I remember a time when a lie had to be at least a smidge predicated on the truth. And I'm not exactly old.
However, I have serious doubts that this abortion of a legislation will stand judicial review in four different ways, even from Bush's hip-pocket circuits and the SCOTUS. But this is a conversation to have over wine, with legal scholars.
The press characterized yesterday as a "victory" for the President. I really don't think so. If it is, it's the "enough rope with which to hang oneself" sort of victory.
Posted by mrbrent at 08:36 AM
October 17, 2006
saddam: gimme somebody!
I think that all I want to do is sit around and write headlines. My friends in the "journalissimo" industry tell me that the dude responsible for that would be the "copy editor", whatever that is. Hopefully, it pays, because I would like it to be all "the Cuervo Gold/the fine Columbian" from here on out.Take, for example, this headline, from the A.P.:
• Saddam attacks prosecution witnesses
I wish that I would have written that. You see, I grew up watching Burt Reynolds films of the 70s, and there is no image I would like to project into the mind of the newsreader more than that of Saddam, Burt and Terry Bradshaw getting thrown through the courtroom window, into the street, laughing with each other. And then James Best smiles and spits a tooth out. Turns out those bar stools in the gallery of the courtroom don't hurt at all!
Though I would have maybe inserted "gropingly" between "attacks" and "witnesses".
And I truly can't wait to write the headline for this. It will contain the words "Victory" and "Freedom", and the subhead will be "Polls Open Tomorrow".
Yes, we will be making tonight a wonderful day from now on, with my "copy editing".
Posted by mrbrent at 09:32 AM
October 16, 2006
dumb congressmen
You may remember Holly Martins. Back in the good old days, Holly would chip in a post or two for Wonkette during the Ana Marie Cox tenure (before Ana Marie Cox went all Dennis-Miller for the Man). It was the good stuff, concise, funny, knowledge-y.Apparently, Holly has taken on a new gig in the long-form realm. (Aren't they called "features" or something?) Please read Holly's latest, about America's dumbest representatives. No, it's not a reality tv show, though now it probably will be. It's old-fashioned mean-spirited funny, in a bipartison vein. After all, the GOP may have evil locked down, but on banality and venality, it's open season in the Congress. The only questionable aspect about this very funny piece -- it's on Radar, but a gig's a gig, I guess.
How can you not enjoy a piece of writing making fun of actual dumb people?
Posted by mrbrent at 11:35 AM
October 15, 2006
snark in the hinterlands
I was driving through Maryland on US 15 last Friday. Somewhere around Hansonville, I think, I passed a diner, or, more likely, a "family restaurant". It was called the Shamrock, or the Cloverleaf. I was going pretty fast, and I didn't compute the name of the restaruant as much as I did the featured special noted on a sign in front of the restaraunt:With Mango Salsa
No, I don't know if they meant it like it reads either.
Posted by mrbrent at 03:53 PM
October 12, 2006
the president is not an itelligent man
This is an excerpt from President Bush's press conference of yesterday. In this excerpt, the President demonstrates that he is a man of letters.Q: Mr. President. You spoke of the troubles in Iraq. And as you know, we have Woodward and we have a shelf full of books about Iraq, and many of them claim that administration policies contributed to the difficulties there. So I'm wondering, is there anything you wish you would have done differently with regard to Iraq?THE PRESIDENT: Speaking about books, somebody ought to add up the number of pages that have been written about my administration. There's a lot of books out there -- a lot. I don't know if I've set the record, or not, but I guess it means that I've made some hard decisions and will continue to make hard decisions.
Thank you, Mr President, for whining and bragging at the same time.
The President's stunning lack of knowledge concerning the number of published books concerning specific administrations notwithstanding, I would like to assert that there is no causal relationship between making a hard decision and books being written about you. Why, not two hours ago I had to decide between pizza and sushi for lunch. That was a hard decision. And, sadly, no books about me yet.
Also, for a fun exercise, go to Amazon and search "George W. Bush". Then search "Stalin".
Posted by mrbrent at 02:31 PM
October 11, 2006
chris wallace is a dick
Chris Wallace is still a dick. Here, see for yourself. No other point, really. Just that Chris Wallace is a dick.I know, "Who's Chris Wallace?" Basically, he's that dick on Fox News.
Posted by mrbrent at 01:37 PM
October 10, 2006
this is that
If you're like me, the swirl of political news is deafening. Just deafening. So I give you a few links of pertinent novelty -- maybe stuff you won't hear by the water cooler.What exactly is a "water cooler", anyway?
First off, the what may-or-may-not have been a nuke test in the Korean penninsula. Apparently, the GOP line today was that the North Korean nuke capability is the responsibility of the Clinton Administration, all those years ago. Well, my layman's understanding is that Clinton engaged the North Koreans diplomatically, thus stalling their WMD development. And then Bush came in and broke every treaty that Clinton entered because, well, I guess he would have been a pussy not to do so, or something. For the more-than-layman understanding of this, read this bit here, and this, both from Josh Marshall's site, which is a fine, intelligent site even though it still links the "Bull Moose".
And you're probably about as sick to death of the page-fucking scandal as I am, but, it's fun to watch the bastards scurry to the appropriate dark corner to wait for the right moment to stab their caucus in the back. (Seriously, I am sick of it. Of the billion reasons to want these fine, evil men out of power, the cover-up of Tom Foley is much more symptom than disease. But, whatever works.) But this link (from Americablog) concerns a GOP water-carrier decrying "secret Republican homosexuals". What was their intention? To "to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus while they publicly postured as friends of family values and traditional marriage."
Dude, that was how they stole the vote for the past years? Because of the secret Republican homosexuals?
Well, don't get too comfortable with the impending Democrat landslide. From Wonkette:
Even if the idiot Democrats don’t screw it up by themselves, the Republicans will win anyway, because they own the voting machines.
Go with peace, unless you're my neighbors, in which case, turn the fucking "hardcore techno" down, please.
Posted by mrbrent at 08:23 PM
quick look busy the boss is
As the seasons change in Washington DC, so does the topic, the Administration hopes. Desperate for an issue that does not involve page-fucking, or an Abramoff-led slush fund, or a crazy North Korea armed with crazier nukes, the White House would very much like you to hey look, the Queen of France!Let us lead with the lede:
Compelled to respond to a spike in school violence, the Bush administration is hoping that a high-profile summit will get the word out about safety. President Bush called for Tuesday's conference after three shooting rampages in two weeks unnerved the nation. Communities in Colorado, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are still grieving.
Yes, that is exactly what I think the first job of the unitary executive is: to call for conferences when the nation gets unnerved. And also to get the word out about safety!
This is another glaring example of what passes for leadership in early 21st Century America -- looking busy. A "conference" achieves absolutely nothing but for to make the participants (and the organizer) appear first of all concerned, and second of all active. Old white guys in suits will be standing at some podium after this "conference", and they will be looking grim and determined into the cameras, and an anxious nation of parents of school-age children will finally sleep a peaceful night's rest.
Discussion of the efficacy of such "conferences" actually begs the question of the need for panic, or concern. The issue at hand is violence in a nation's schools. Unless the violence is the handiwork of a shadowy organization bent on killing every schoolchild in America, this is not so much a systemic problem. No one is raised thinking that shooting up high schools is acceptable; there are no TV shows or movies glorifying sex and attacking the student body. The problem is instead a problem of crazy fuckers -- crazy, school-shooting fuckers. And while it might be a profitable conversation to have ("Why are there crazy fuckers?"), this is not the context of the "conference". Instead there will be cracked-out suggestions of more cops in schools, and even more cracked -out suggestions to arm teachers. I say attack the root of the problem. No more schools, no more school shootings. Surely science can come up with some better, more chemical way to indoctrinate our children, while shielding them from the possibility of being shot by a crazy fucker.
Also keep in mind that schoolchildren are also endangered by meteorites, and errant taxicabs. More "conferences" please -- how can we sit idly by while meteorites and taxicabs threaten our kids?
Posted by mrbrent at 08:53 AM
October 09, 2006
now this is novelty
I just now noticed that everything I posted last week has been wiped. It's gone, man, gone.What did I write last week? I can't remember. Was it any good? Maybe there's a cache somewhere I can find.
Maybe this is not a tech issue. Maybe this is a "temporal anomaly" issue. Can someone please confirm that last week actually happened?
[LATER, THAT AFTERNOON.] I was hoping for a real interesting explanation, like "I got hacked" or "forget that last week happened. I did not get one. My host's dog apparently ate all the ones and zeroes, which I information I had to ask for, about which I am not pleased. I did however find the posts cached in search engines, which means that I get to spend today reformatting and reposting them. Whee.
So anyone on a feed, I apologize for the redundancy. Also, any links to anything last week will come up with an error page -- I am too stupid to figure out how to fix. Thank my host.
Posted by mrbrent at 09:49 AM
October 05, 2006
hello rep don sherwood
Finally, an honest answer to the age-old rhetorical trap:When did you stop beating your wife? (Or actually, that woman you were fucking other than your wife.)
Reality is slowly putting satire out of business.
Posted by mrbrent at 05:36 PM
October 04, 2006
international day against drm
How lovely the opportunity to describe oneself as "a day late and a dollar short" yet again. There is this thing called the International Day Against DRM. This would be a day where all the good-hearted tech-savvy boys and girls band together to raise awareness of the content monoliths and their anti-copying technology. As put by Cory Doctorow:Remember, DRM doesn't stop "piracy" -- the only people who get DRM infections are people who don't pirate their media. You get DRM by buying your movies, music, games and books through authorized channels -- the stuff you download from P2P or buy off of a blanket at a flea-market has already had the DRM cracked off of it. They say that DRM "keeps honest people honest" -- but all it does is keep honest people in chains.
International Day Against DRM is much better than Talk Like A Pirate Day, by a long shot.
Unfortunately, International Day Against DRM was yesterday.
So mark your calendar for next year.
Posted by mrbrent at 11:38 AM
October 03, 2006
ag to scotus: just you try
Last week was a whirlwind. I have never seen a political tideshift like that of last Friday -- the day before, progressives were on the ledge as the GOP bragged about shoving an immoral and law-breaking torture bill through the Congress. Twenty-four hours later, it was volcano/earthquake/tsunami time courtesy of Woodward/Foley/Abramoff.In fact, so many negative stories broke that you probably didn't hear about them all. So I'd like to call this specific one to your attention: the Attorney General gave a speech at a Georgetown Law Center conference. True, speeches are not in and of themselves newsworthy, but they are if therein the AG openly threatens the judiciary. Here's a big taste:
"Respectfully, when courts issue decisions that overturn long-standing traditions or policies without proper support in text or precedent, they cannot - and should not - be shielded from criticism," Gonzales said. "A proper sense of judicial humility requires judges to keep in mind the institutional limitations of the judiciary and the duties expressly assigned by the Constitution to the more politically accountable branches."
In short, do not check or balance us, because you do not have to worry about being reelected. Yeah, there's not a whole lot of logic in there, but there are dorky attempts at menace. And also the not-so-veiled threat:
And he said the independence of federal judges, who are appointed for life, "has never meant, and should never mean, that judges or their decisions should be immune" from public criticism.
In other words, the Administration has a couple hundred thousand conservative Christians that can be mobilized into "public criticism" at any time. And if you wonder what could constitute "public criticism", google Dr. Bernard Slepian.
Gonzales and his feckless Justice Department had better hope that the intimidation works. After a weekend to read/think about the new legislation, I really do not see how it will ever stand up to legal review. The actions of the Administration were found to be un-Constitutional by the Supreme Court in two cases -- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. So the Administration pushes for -- and the Congress passes -- an ex post facto law, a law that goes back in time and retroactively legalizes what were then criminal offenses. Forget judicial review, this doesn't pass the laugh test. And it's pretty clearly forbidden by the Constitution.
So yes, the passing of the legislation (dryly titled the Military Commissions Act of 2006) was a sad, sad day for anyone that believes in virtue and dignity. But, this matter is by no means closed, and the bad guys are worried, as evidenced by the AG's hamfisted attempt at browbeating the judiciary into prior restraint.
Good luck with that.
For smarter words than mine on this issue, go here. (Via Maud.)
Posted by mrbrent at 05:09 PM
roger ailes equals fat
This is good for a larf. I was surfing on TVNewser and I came across a short post -- "NewsBusters is tracking Countdown with Keith Olbermann's fat jokes (including the ones aimed at Roger Ailes)..." I thought that there must be some hook in there somewhere, so I clicked on through.And I was wrong -- there was no hook. The entire post is just a chronicle of Olbermann calling people fat. The lede:
Since last week, MSNBC's Countdown show has reached new levels in displaying personal insults as host Keith Olbermann, as well as regular guest Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly, have repeatedly made fat jokes about the subjects of their conversation.
Now that the presses are sufficiently stopped, let's go into this. The slogan of Newsbusters, as contained in the banner of their site, is, "Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias." However, the only bit of ideological taint identified in the post is that the people Olbermann calls fat -- namely Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and House Speaker Denny Hastert -- are conservatives. That's really about it. Everything else is just transcripts of the fat jokes. It is dry and obsessive. Also hilarious, in that way that you laugh at and not with someone. I just hope this story does not get out in the light of day, because once your average citizen sees it, the whole conspiracy of liberals against fat people will have been exposed.
Newsbusters, if you'd like to see some liberal bias on "Countdown", maybe you should look into this little segment he does called "The Worst Person In The World". There's not always fat jokes, but hey. Keep up the good work!
And for the record, Ailes and Hastert are both very fat.
Posted by mrbrent at 02:02 PM
they'd like their smug back, please
Today is the day of the year on which I complain of my birthday hangover. So, please, no sharp, sudden noises, flashing lights, etc. Also, no imagining what business a gentleman my age has getting drunk. The indignities suffered in the name of celebration.However, throbbing head did not prevent me from catching a few minutes of the talk radio on the way to work. There was a fascinating call from a Midwestern Rebpublican, referring (indirectly, ultimately) to the Mark Foley Inappropriate Contact scandal. This fella was very solidly anti-Foley and anyone who knew anything about it, but he wanted to remind the listeners that You Democrats got yer skeletons in the closet too. He sounded cheesed that people were talking about Foley as a systemic issue at all.
Yes, basically, we dislike Rebublicans for their corruption and immoral and naked aggregation of power for power's sake, and they dislike us because we hurt their feelings.
Don't worry, Republican guy, you're never, ever not wrong, as usual!
Posted by mrbrent at 11:45 AM
October 01, 2006
biscuits and gravy
For some weeks now, many of you have been asking me about biscuits and gravy. Not all of you, of course. Just the smart ones.Well, let me tell you about biscuits and gravy.
Biscuits and gravy is just about the most important meal of the day, no matter when you have it. In fact, as far as the universal love index of foods goes, biscuits and gravy is the second most beloved menu item ever. (Right behind bacon.)
You might infer from my willingness to champion biscuits and gravy, heedless of all the hatas, that I was born in Charleston, WV. You would be correct, and, geez, how'd you guess that? People born in other cities south of the Mason Dixon line that are not Charleston, WV, would probably tell you that Charlestoners, and West Virginians in general, don't know what they're talking about, biscuits and gravy-wise. Do not listen to these people. They are from the South. They lie. I know the biscuits and the gravy. My Mom taught me. And I have my Grand-ma's cast iron skillet. I am not fooling around.
Some of you residing in the general vicinity of North Brooklyn have wondered out loud to me, "Is there somewhere we can eat biscuits and gravy on a weekend morning?" The answer is yes. There are a number of establishments that offer the biscuits and gravy. However, you do not want to eat these. These establishments (who I will not name -- they are fine places, they just don't know biscuits and gravy) just don't know biscuits and gravy. If you eat these biscuits and gravy and then think of those biscuits and gravy as the biscuits and gravy that you've heard so much about, you will wonder why all the fuss?
The trick is in the gravy. And in the biscuits. If your gravy is watery, you have a problem. If the sausage is bland, or undercooked, also a problem. If the biscuit is crunchy, then that is a bad biscuit.
So basically, people of North Brooklyn, your best option for biscuits and gravy is to invite me into your home so that I may make biscuits and gravy for you. Because, really, the feeling you get after eating and paying for (seven freaking dollars?) second rate biscuits and gravy is not a feeling of happiness or fulfillment.
And the beating heart of biscuits and gravy is just that: happiness and fulfillment.
I hope you have enjoyed a weekend biscuits and gravy interlude. Thank you. Bye.
Posted by mrbrent at 12:53 PM
fake id use bla bla bla
I bet you all thought I was lying. That I was making up the West Chelsea information campaign, that I was imagining things so that I would have something to write about.Well, not so. It was true all true, as confirmed by Gothamist. Even with photos. How 20th Century.
Welcome to a month and a half ago, Gothamist.
Posted by mrbrent at 11:52 AM