and feel like you’re pulling over a fast one on more again).

you really sarahed that line

there’s no need to go all princess palin in yer syntax just cuz ya got a day off

on a personal note, ain’t yer family Irish ???

and you’re worried about us

trashin this place ???

try not to trash the east coast, an we’ll try not to trash this place

you be nice to the NASCAR crowd ya might meet on the road, and we’ll try to treat the formula one people around here semi-decent, is it a deal ???

if the east coast runs out of Beamish, this could get ugly folks …

Yes Men Fix the World is soon to be released. This is going to be a good one to see

Tears of joy guaranteed.

I’ve stocked up the liquor cabinet

Whew. Mine eyes first read that as “locked up.”

I’m still working through the Time faux-new-journalism thread, which is very rich and often very funny. What an absurd piece of writing that article is. There’s a certain kind of msm narration that just gets my antennae quivering right away these days — too smooth, literary ambitions outrunning actual narrative skill, whitewash posing as truth — and that article is a good example. A lot of WaPo stuff is as well. Actually, the Starr report (somebody in Starr’s office thinks he’s Samuel Richardson?) and the 9/11 commission report are prime examples.

Somebody should tell people who aren’t Wolfe, Didion, Halberstam, or Hunter Thompson that the art depends on the truth, not the pretension.