June 28, 2004
Shameless Promotion
Apparently I have taken over this blog by default. Excellent.
I recently attended into the publishing event of the year. Yes, that's right: the release party for my friends Joe Garden and Mike Loew's new book, Citizen You! (Exclamation point theirs.) No, it's not my biography. It's possibly the only pro-Bush book the traitorous left-wing American publisher The New Press has ever printed (no doubt to position themselves for their inevitable treason trials), but it was definitely an event. Honest cold American Budweiser was served, with tiny pigs-in-a-blanket sausages bearing tiny American flags, and even the walls of The New Press's offices were covered in patriotic red, white, and blue bunting! As Joe remarked to me, it was a wonder that it didn't all spontaneously combust.
In honor of the event, Joe was wearing one of his Killdozer T-shirts, the one with the big hammer and sickle on it. Killdozer is the best Communist Wisconsin band named after a Theodore Sturgeon short story ever. Mike, like myself, had a new haircut, but his was far more dramatic. I got to shake Doug Henwood's hand, which means that I now have cell samples by which I could either clone him, or engineer a plague targeted at his genome specifically. Or both! There were real live evil America-hating Hollywood people there too, as well as some of the Billionaires for Bush. And, you know, the usual gang of weirdos from Wisconsin. Just good stuff.
I'm buying a batch of "Blood For Oil" bumper-stickers right now! Should come in handy during the convention in more ways than one...
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at June 29, 2004 07:50 PMHey Bernard!
I'm buying a batch of "Blood For Oil" bumper-stickers right now!
Good! New York needs more street theater. Though I kinda liked the RNC's plan to put everything on a boat. But I guess the call girls would be too obvious on the ferries.
C.
Posted by: Carlos at June 29, 2004 10:49 PMWell, in some sense I'm trying to _avoid_ becoming part of street theater, if you catch my drift. But it should be a hell of a time. I think I have a final that week.
"But I guess the call girls would be too obvious on the ferries."
Surely you jest. This is NYC, after all. Having a few professionals around would merely be prudent protective camouflage. I think they should invite Larry in to showcase his new club...
I think Mr. Flynt probably would enjoy that, considering his outspoken statements regarding the current nature of the GOP. Also, I think he probably has his own set of dossiers on certain members of that party. Can you say "Fahrenheit 69"?
Still, it adds new meaning to "Coalition of the Willing". Boom chicka bow-wow.
PS Joe was peeved that, in the press of the crowd at the party, he himself did not get to eat any pigs-in-a-blanket. So he went to one of those wholesale clubs and bought a 60-pack. Would Victor Navasky do that? I think not. I think not.
Posted by: Carlos at June 30, 2004 05:16 AM