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I still don’t have my very own page on David Horowitz’s website.  But I have something even better:  a coveted spot in the “write your own caption” series on the best designed blog in the world, where I am providing the occasion for much mockery and merriment.  Stop on by and find out why my new nickname is Dieter!

OK, back to the conference.  It’s fun to be in Urbana-Champaign again.

Posted by on 02/26 at 02:36 PM

  1. I think you’ve got a large dog (Lab? Golden?) at the end of your left arm, and it’s doing things which embarrass you (get off the lady’s leg, damn you!).

    Posted by Linkmeister  on  02/26  at  03:51 PM

  2. BREAKING……DEVELOPING……Must Credit Horowitz!

    Discover The Network!!!!!

    Posted by  on  02/26  at  04:03 PM

  3. Actually, I think I figured out what the linkage is between the Ivory Tower Leftist Mafia, the anal-sex-endorsing nudity-broadcasting secular-Jewish™ Hollywood Liberal Elite™, Atheist Scientists, the Aging Revolutionaries (Black Panthers, Weathermen, Sondheim Liberation Front), Young Anarchists, and the radical fundamentalist clerics who are down on anal sex, nudity, science and the rest of it.

    And? The secret?

    David Horowitz and his buddies don’t like you. Any of you. Therefore you all must be conspiring and plotting away against them, together.

    It couldn’t possibly be the case that a bunch of people dislike the Heritage Party Scholars [sic] for totally different and independent reasons, people who don’t necessarily like each other, or actively hate each other, in some cases, for personal or ideological reasons.

    That would be too mundane, and too sloppy, plot-wise, for Real Life.

    (Psst. You need to be wearing sunglasses with black leather trenchcoats to complete the scary Matrix look. --Just saying.)

    Posted by bellatrys  on  02/26  at  04:58 PM

  4. Thanks for the fashion tip, bellatrys!  But Condi didn’t wear sunglasses, and as corndog knows well, I’m taking my orders from her these days.

    Posted by Michael  on  02/26  at  08:05 PM

  5. Have you seen this ? It was making the rounds of the LBO list.
    Michael or Stephen And will you tell us about the conference when you get a chance?

    Posted by  on  02/26  at  08:46 PM

  6. "It’s fun to be in Urbana-Champaign”

    Yeah, well, you got tenure AND don’t have to stay…

    Posted by  on  02/26  at  09:35 PM

  7. You know, Urbana-Champaign lost what little lustre it had when the Blind Pig went teets up. And don’t even get me started on the Murphy’s Pub renovations.

    Posted by  on  02/26  at  09:47 PM

  8. We dance!

    Posted by Riggsveda  on  02/26  at  10:44 PM

  9. Christophe, no? Oh.  Never mind.  Hello Michael.  Can’t we at least call you Michae?

    Posted by nooneinparticular  on  02/27  at  12:43 AM

  10. While I’m sure you’re having a blast at MelStArCon ‘05, is it wrong of me to imagine that your talk ("Shame By Association") has something to do with being the hottest liberal blog Photo Caption target since “Mission Accomplished”?

    You may say that’s an unfair comparison.

    To which I say: Not fair? Who’s the fucking nihilist?

    Posted by Alex  on  02/27  at  04:25 AM

  11. I’ve been waiting for someone to state their distaste for the use of the phrase “left handed compliments” in your sidebar. Where’s the outrage?

    Posted by Roxanne  on  02/27  at  07:57 AM

  12. Hi Michael, just a general comment: I’ve been reading your blog now for a few months. Even as I sometimes disagree with you, your blog posts are always a delight to read. I like most the smackdowns and exchanges with people like Horowitz. You know you’re doing well when people put up blog posts to mock you.

    Posted by Suzanne  on  02/27  at  11:59 AM

  13. Michael, is that why the photo isn’t full length? But we *want* to see your spike-heeled boots and miniskirt!

    (okay, now I need a spork. Also I didn’t find Rice’s “dashing” coat all that dashing or sexy: it had a weird round collar, a bizarre droopy cut, and all in all the outfit looked like somebody was trying to Rediscover The Early 70s and got way too close to the tackily-authentic there.)

    Posted by bellatrys  on  02/27  at  02:08 PM

  14. you cut a very dashing figure there, Michelle! Kind of a Stasi meets Graham Greene meets Ronnie Reagan look. Continue preaching to those where common sense is all too uncommon!

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  03:01 PM

  15. I thought you were standing outside Zeno’s, avoiding the goal post being carried down College St.  Made me wonder what those orange things were.

    Central Park!  Oy!  Got it!

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  03:12 PM

  16. Am I the only one who likes the new Michael Look? It’s a perfect piece of agitprop—the menace of the leftist elite conveyed by the merciless knowing gaze, with a hint of S&M eroticism represented by the black leather, all backed up by an art work that only the initiates into the dark secrets of Effete Eastern Intellectualism can grasp. This is a portrait that will haunt Horowitz’ fevered dreams for years. Bravo!

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  03:43 PM

  17. Okay, okay, you’re gonna throw things at me, but I just *have* to ask:

    Are you an Old Monk, or a Young Nun?

    [d&rlh]

    Posted by bellatrys  on  02/27  at  04:39 PM

  18. Ack, that was the wrong link, I hate this keyboard (though it did make it more dadaist than usual.)

    But what the Summers story most illustrates is that American universities now seem like Medieval cloisters. They’re like a cloister without the messy God part.

    Posted by bellatrys  on  02/27  at  05:17 PM

  19. News Flash! Horowitz’s entourage has linked to Michael (and a few other similarly scurrilous individuals, koff koff) in a post on Moonbat Central. (Link tinyurled for your sanitary protection.)

    Posted by Chris Clarke  on  02/27  at  08:27 PM

  20. Dude is obsessed me with.

    Posted by Roxanne  on  02/27  at  08:59 PM

  21. I’m on the network too! He called me a “neo-Bolshevist.”

    Now I’m gonna purge me some neo-Mensheviks!

    Posted by Alex  on  02/27  at  09:09 PM

  22. Paul and Dude: methinks thou whinest too much.  You have the Cowboy Monkey, Baccaro, Radio Maria, Boltini, Sushi places, Krannert, etc. etc. etc.  U-C is NYC-like by comparison with its surroundings.  I miss it dearly.

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  09:30 PM

  23. I remeber being told by a former resident of U-C that the best thing about it was getting up very early in the morning, going to the railroad station and being in Chicago in two hours......

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  09:43 PM

  24. Alex: KR0N$T^DT BL^CK F|^G R00LZ PWNED B0LS|-|Y ^SS!!1! WE HAVE L33T C0||3CT|VI$M $K|LZ!

    Posted by Chris Clarke  on  02/27  at  09:46 PM

  25. Man Pedro, I want some of what yer smokin’!

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  10:21 PM

  26. I was driving down to St. Louis today, not having checked the blog since last night, thinking, “when is someone going to notice the ‘left-handed compliments’ bit?” Glad that question’s been answered!

    And don’t get on Paul’s case, folks.  He left Champaign in 1996, as I recall-- two years before the Dynamic Duo of Carlos and Tiffany (with whom I had brunch this morning-- and their lovely daughter Sophia) opened Jupiter, the High Dive, Cowboy Monkey, Two East Main, and basically jump-started the revival of downtown Champaign all by themselves at the age of 30.  (Yeah, Bacaro and Boltini are high-end bars too, but they exist only because C & T upped the ante, I think.) Now if only somebody would duplicate the feat in State College.  There really is a market for decent nightlife establishments around Penn State-- that is, as opposed to sticky-floor bars where Monday is “bucket of grain alcohol night” and Wednesday is “methyl jello shots night.”

    Paul’s right that the Great Blind Pig/Coppers Disaster was a disaster.  But Friday night at Cowboy Monkey (where the old Blind Pig used to be), I came upon some serious samba dancing.  In central Illinois.  And they tell me that in the summers that entire pedestrian mall turns into an open-air nightclub.

    And Alex, Chris, which one of you wants to take out Kerensky?

    Posted by Michael  on  02/27  at  11:19 PM

  27. Thanks for the backup, Michael. I’ve been back to Champaign a few times to visit family and downtown really is something these days. But I reserve the right to whine about the Blind Pig and Murphy’s. I MEAN, JESUS HALLIBURTON CHRIST, THEY GOT RID OF THE JUKEBOX!

    Besides, Laramie ain’t exactly a high-fallutin’ rip-roarin’ good time unless you’re a cowboy. And alas, I am not a cowboy.

    Posted by Paul  on  02/27  at  11:39 PM

  28. And Alex, Chris, which one of you wants to take out Kerensky?

    Dunno. I usually hate these kind of things. Is he cute?

    Posted by Chris Clarke  on  02/28  at  12:21 AM

  29. I done became me a moonbat, as well. Thanks to the centralization of the means of identifying moonbats on Horowitzises’ website for pointing that out.

    Posted by norbizness  on  02/28  at  12:27 AM

  30. I have to denounce Martov at 7 tomorrow, but I can probably fit Kerensky in the afternoon.

    Posted by Alex  on  02/28  at  12:47 AM

  31. I done became me a moonbat, as well. Thanks to the centralization of the means of identifying moonbats on Horowitzises’ website for pointing that out.

    Us moonbats should all get tattoos or speshul hats or something.

    Posted by Chris Clarke  on  02/28  at  02:37 AM

  32. I know somebody who heard Kerensky speak once. Does that make me a neo-Menshevik?

    Also, I’m just waiting for the Right to get the “Majority Party” joke. So far, none of them seem to realize it (but then they don’t understand the humor of the whole “politically correct” meme either, not even the doubly-ironic nature of the way they’ve orwellized it...)

    Posted by bellatrys  on  02/28  at  08:26 AM

  33. "I am Dieter and this is ‘Shhhchprokkets’,” my ass. Put a cowhide Harley cap on Michael and he’s 20 percent of The Village People. And, really, can the Village People be taken seriously as a plot to undermine America’s way of life and worldwide freedom? Wait. I lived through the disco era, and that just might be possible…

    Posted by  on  02/28  at  10:41 AM

  34. Alright, you two, get a room already.  wink

    Posted by Trish Wilson  on  02/28  at  10:15 PM

  35. Us moonbats should all get tattoos or speshul hats or something.

    Following up to one’s own comment is about the lamest thing one can do. But I thought I’d mention that I came up with a proposed Speshul Moonbat Logo that I’m offering to the world for uses good or evil.

    (And it’s not up to Horowitz to determine which one of us is a moonbat. If you suspect you are one, you are one.)

    Posted by Chris Clarke  on  02/28  at  11:07 PM

  36. Actually, the cover and title page of the first edition of Naked Lunch, the Olympia Press edition, have it as “The Naked Lunch.” And the publication date isn’t far off. The Olympia Press edition first appeared in France circa 1959 with the first American edition appearing from Grove Press in 1962, though work began on assembling and printing the Grove edition in 1960 (based on a substantially different manuscript that produced a radically different text from the Olympia Press edition), with the first 10K copies of the book printed and bound in 1961. Due to the publisher being charged with providing obscene material (he also put out “Tropic of Cancer” in 1961) those copies did not hit the shelves until 1962. Grauerholz and Miles have a good on the history of the text in their otherwise questionable ‘restored text’ of Naked Lunch.

    So, do we get to hear about the conference? And yes, St. Louis is a great city. The Red Sea is a good restaurant no? You really should try the burgers at Blueberry Hill as well. They are quite tasty.

    Posted by  on  03/04  at  01:01 PM

  37. Yikes! Wrong thread. Forgive the above.

    Posted by  on  03/04  at  01:04 PM

  38. This is truly innovative and insightful information- thanks a lot for the post.

    Posted by avandia lawyer  on  02/10  at  01:46 AM

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    Posted by Tulle  on  08/17  at  11:49 AM

  40. Well looks like you had a blessing in disguise..

    Posted by Orthotic manufacturing  on  08/21  at  04:27 PM

  41. What do you think about religious tattoos? (tibetan tattoo and others)?

    Posted by Fake Tattoos  on  09/23  at  05:17 AM

  42. I hope you make it big in 2010 in your Sports dude!Cheers to your blog!

    Posted by Persol Sunglasses  on  02/14  at  08:03 PM

  43. Naturally, our discerning staff found plenty to criticize about the IS F, notably high-performance Brembos that all too often emitted high-pitched squeaks (dealers either could not replicate the noise or told us it was a byproduct of the high-friction pads), a transmission with too many gears (“While its nice to see the revs under 2000 rpm at 70 mph and the accompanying fuel economy, downshifting to pass becomes a chore—to get to the real power, you have to drop four gears.”), and a stiff ride most deemed too firm and borderline harsh.

    Rethinking my comment earlier, I doubt she wasa a heterosexual woman out for liasons without shame since guys being guys probably wouldn’t have kept silence about her gender. The lesbian idea is more likely of the two. And CMG, she could have easily got caught up in a situation that had run away from what she intended and been forced to maintain her cover. You know, “Once you ride a tiger it is hard to get off” sort of situation. Not to deny the possibility of transgender, but it doesn’t prove it either.

    Travesti
    Travesti

    Posted by Travesti  on  03/19  at  12:27 AM

  44. mockery and merriment.  Stop on by and find out why my new nickname is Dieter!

    Posted by travesti  on  09/17  at  01:58 PM

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