the kind people at perez hilton(wait, can an individual be possessed of a group? i guess so. one could, for example, say ‘the kind people at martha stewart’. ok. glad we established that)reprinted my ‘god hates red states and decimates them with tornadoes and hurricanes’ journal entry.
the comments were interesting.
some people took the time to read the article and actually seemed to recognize that i was being mildly satirical and trying to draw attention to the flawed logic used by some(but not all. ok, most)evangelicals when they say dim-witted things like ‘god punished new orleans with katrina’.
other people referred to me as, well, suffice it to say that i don’t seem to have a lot of fans among the right wing nutjobs who took the time to write comments on perez hilton without actually taking the time to read what i had written.
fair enough, i guess.
although it does disincline me from writing anything satirical(for really excellent satire you have to go back to the source: A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, by Jonathan Swift. it’s excellent, even 275 years after the fact).
maybe i should take a page from my fellow musicians and use the mighty internet for clumsy and endearing self promotion.
like: “HEY TO ALL OUR FANZ!!! WE LOVE U!!!! OUR NEW SINGLE DROPS ON JUNE 10!!! CALL YOUR RADIO STATION AND TELL ‘EM TO ROCK DAT SH*T!!! HA! LOL!! LOVE U!”
musicians should stick to writing music, right?
leave politics to the politicians and religion to the religious leaders and ideas to the network pundits, because they’re all such good stewards of their respective domains, right?
speaking of which, the simpsons 400th episode was excellent. it still amazes me that the simpsons and family guy can get away with mercilessly skewering fox news and the fox network.
but i digress.
or, do i?
i guess it’s hard to digress from a bunch of random tangents.
thanks,
moby
