He's insufferable - more so than most. I can't stand the Prairie program and doleful host who pretends to like midwesterners but really can't stand them/doesn't want to stand next to them 'cause he's too good for that since he got his boot heels wandering over to NY and Yurp then got a movie made about himself. I read he'd just published an opinion piece defending fellow Minnesotangroper Franken. Haha.
I read that book, Lake Wobegone Days and I must say that I like it very well, but it was one of the strangest books I ever read for it being impossible to read more than one chapter at a time. His juxtaposition is excellent, sadness next to glee, success next to failure, tenderness next harshness. firmness next to silliness, and so on throughout the book. I laughed, I cried, I marveled continuously. But it could only be read in chunks. For some reason I don't understand I kept putting it down.
He's very clever. He's very penetrating.
His description about dating a girl from a non-nordic culture who completely misunderstood his internal unexpressed feelings is terrible. When she says to him, "You are the coldest person I've ever met" or something close to that, is like a knife going through your own heart because you are with him the whole way as struggles not to allow his emotions to surface.
Then another, his teacher instructing to never begin a paragraph with "anyway." He is marked down for doing that and his teacher makes an example embarrassing him while derides it meaningless filler that indicates the writer doesn't know what they're saying. It's dismissive and its lazy and its offensive to the reader.
So anyway. He begins his next paragraph showing the lesson failed to take hold. He's a very funny man.
Too bad he's also a dick.
A great big loudmouth stinking ass opinion socialist puny mangled pixie dick.
Because his stories really are fantastic.
I read an interesting essay yesterday. Wanna hear it? Okay, here goes.
The woman starts out with, she knows a specialist uniquely qualified to treat debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome. She referred very many patients to him over the years.
Problem is he beat his wife.
So she divorced him.
Then he remarried and beat his second wife. So she divorced him too.
Her remarried and beat his third wife. So she divorced him too.
The writer quit referring patients to him even though he was still the best specialist available.
This decision caused a conflict within her internal moral/ethical decision making process. Should she deny her own patients the best specialist available because of his shortcomings apart from his specialty?
If it got down to a matter of her losing the use of her own hands would she avoid turning to the best specialist available because of what she knows about him outside his clinic?
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Garrison Keillor goes down! I'm in schadenfreude heaven that that smug holier than thou has met his just desserts.
The hits just keep on coming - this morning's action alone is astounding.
He's insufferable - more so than most. I can't stand the Prairie program and doleful host who pretends to like midwesterners but really can't stand them/doesn't want to stand next to them 'cause he's too good for that since he got his boot heels wandering over to NY and Yurp then got a movie made about himself. I read he'd just published an opinion piece defending fellow Minnesotangroper Franken. Haha.
Even one of my progressive buddies from out here in Deepblueland who went to see his show a few years ago said Keillor was full of himself.
I read that book, Lake Wobegone Days and I must say that I like it very well, but it was one of the strangest books I ever read for it being impossible to read more than one chapter at a time. His juxtaposition is excellent, sadness next to glee, success next to failure, tenderness next harshness. firmness next to silliness, and so on throughout the book. I laughed, I cried, I marveled continuously. But it could only be read in chunks. For some reason I don't understand I kept putting it down.
He's very clever. He's very penetrating.
His description about dating a girl from a non-nordic culture who completely misunderstood his internal unexpressed feelings is terrible. When she says to him, "You are the coldest person I've ever met" or something close to that, is like a knife going through your own heart because you are with him the whole way as struggles not to allow his emotions to surface.
Then another, his teacher instructing to never begin a paragraph with "anyway." He is marked down for doing that and his teacher makes an example embarrassing him while derides it meaningless filler that indicates the writer doesn't know what they're saying. It's dismissive and its lazy and its offensive to the reader.
So anyway. He begins his next paragraph showing the lesson failed to take hold. He's a very funny man.
Too bad he's also a dick.
A great big loudmouth stinking ass opinion socialist puny mangled pixie dick.
Because his stories really are fantastic.
I read an interesting essay yesterday. Wanna hear it? Okay, here goes.
Still with me?
The woman starts out with, she knows a specialist uniquely qualified to treat debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome. She referred very many patients to him over the years.
Problem is he beat his wife.
So she divorced him.
Then he remarried and beat his second wife. So she divorced him too.
Her remarried and beat his third wife. So she divorced him too.
The writer quit referring patients to him even though he was still the best specialist available.
This decision caused a conflict within her internal moral/ethical decision making process. Should she deny her own patients the best specialist available because of his shortcomings apart from his specialty?
If it got down to a matter of her losing the use of her own hands would she avoid turning to the best specialist available because of what she knows about him outside his clinic?
No. She would not.
Libs, they don't believe/live any of that shit they spout off about.
Damn, the chickens are coming home to roost. Who knew?
By the way, who is this woman person on the video?
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