tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post5313169206544790403..comments2023-12-23T16:22:22.290-05:00Comments on alicublog: WHAT IS ROD DREHER WHINING ABOUT NOW?roy edrosohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161980502027888634noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22625980834379331752015-03-18T18:39:52.681-04:002015-03-18T18:39:52.681-04:00And "elitist" and "decadent."And "elitist" and "decadent."Rob NYNYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-77913422872514451032015-03-18T15:23:13.973-04:002015-03-18T15:23:13.973-04:00Murder in the Library of Babel.Murder in the Library of Babel.smut clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23607283229336007812015-03-18T14:45:31.575-04:002015-03-18T14:45:31.575-04:00I think Rod Dreher is like most of us, in the sens...I think Rod Dreher is like most of us, in the sense that he tells other people more about himself without intending to do it than he'd ever let slip deliberately. In that respect he's one with the rest of humankind.bekabotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-34313729826552438552015-03-18T13:32:09.632-04:002015-03-18T13:32:09.632-04:00Crunchy Cons Isreal.Crunchy Cons Isreal.J Neo Marvinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-16020112200791687232015-03-18T12:52:03.883-04:002015-03-18T12:52:03.883-04:00Yeah, it would have even been about eighteen years...Yeah, it would have even been about eighteen years ago that Arlene first went to work there. Kismet!mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-15736900120520387302015-03-18T12:39:24.780-04:002015-03-18T12:39:24.780-04:00I gotta baby that's oh so pretty
Dhimmi dhimmi...I gotta baby that's oh so pretty<br />Dhimmi dhimmi dum, dum dum da-dhimmi<br />I found her right here in the Windy City<br />Dhimmi dhimmi dum, dum dum da-dhimmi<br />Dhimmi dhimmi dhimmi dhimmi da-a-addy!J Neo Marvinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-91251822591025765162015-03-18T12:11:40.827-04:002015-03-18T12:11:40.827-04:00Wow. A double plus heretic score pun!Wow. A double plus heretic score pun!Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-33069708727331462772015-03-18T12:10:37.284-04:002015-03-18T12:10:37.284-04:00My god that would have been my dream job. If only ...My god that would have been my dream job. If only I'd had the good sense to bag Anthropology and go to work there. I used their Sarah Bernhardt cookies (almond macaroons stuffed with chocolate ganache) to bribe a professor from NYU to come and be my outside reviwer at my orals.Aimaihttp://aimaiameye.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-22241254467823624082015-03-18T09:43:47.941-04:002015-03-18T09:43:47.941-04:00Puts the "fundament" in fundamentalist.Puts the "fundament" in fundamentalist.DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-60867133440709407332015-03-18T09:24:29.050-04:002015-03-18T09:24:29.050-04:00“Project Veritas would never do anything that we b...“Project Veritas would never do anything that we believe would incite <br />violence against police officers. Anyone suggesting otherwise is clearly<br /> unfamiliar with our body of work,” Veritas spokesman Dan Pollack said."<br /><br /><br />Oh, Dan we ARE familiar with your "body of work"...satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-46194487291300989532015-03-18T09:05:44.808-04:002015-03-18T09:05:44.808-04:00I popped you a pair of emails. Anyone else interes...I popped you a pair of emails. Anyone else interested in a meet-up somewhere in the Northeast, please drop me a line at<br><br />bennforum at gmail dot com<br><br />Thanks!Derelicthttp://wildernesscatherding.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-47655411166897607502015-03-18T09:03:32.345-04:002015-03-18T09:03:32.345-04:00Look: Working at the pet rescue center does not ex...Look: Working at the pet rescue center does not excuse being a serial killer.Derelicthttp://wildernesscatherding.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-57417081614899803562015-03-18T08:46:55.646-04:002015-03-18T08:46:55.646-04:00I think few of us would have stumbled across Rod&#...I think few of us would have stumbled across Rod's writing if not for Roy's mining of the rightwing manure pile.Derelicthttp://wildernesscatherding.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-23541425216187904712015-03-18T08:46:40.023-04:002015-03-18T08:46:40.023-04:00I eagerly await your book on Milton. You could ca...I eagerly await your book on Milton. You could call it <i>Good Day in Hell</i>.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-46839833616587167382015-03-18T08:41:53.619-04:002015-03-18T08:41:53.619-04:00Your book has to suck major donkey dong and have n...Your book has to suck major donkey dong and have no marketing at all.Well, outside of this blog, <em>I</em> hadn't heard about his book. So those are both covered.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-65331258276389039722015-03-18T08:37:27.241-04:002015-03-18T08:37:27.241-04:00That's not cannoli.<em>That's not cannoli</em>.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-44931465215063232642015-03-18T08:37:20.968-04:002015-03-18T08:37:20.968-04:00I will hear NO MORE of this calumny!!11!I will hear NO MORE of this calumny!!11!satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-74627224934948183652015-03-18T08:36:45.394-04:002015-03-18T08:36:45.394-04:00Given how violently the Cathartics were removed in...Given how violently the Cathartics were removed in the first place, I'm not sure that's such a good idea.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-51873081748686102762015-03-18T08:35:02.451-04:002015-03-18T08:35:02.451-04:00Lemme give you my understanding of the state of pl...Lemme give you my understanding of the state of play, BBBB.<br /><br /><br /><br />Derelict: United Colors of Bennington<br /><br /><br />Aimai: Stuck in a Boston with Vanna White<br /><br /><br /><br />mds: City where William F. Buckley got his start. A total shithole. And so was New Haven.<br /><br /><br />BBBB: Yonkers. Without a "u," so it's not mistaken for the Midwestern department store.<br /><br /><br />Anyone else? (And no, Aimai, DC is <em>not</em> in the Northeast. Though I for one think the capital shouldn't have been moved from Philadelphia the second time.)mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-16800224003676989202015-03-18T08:29:18.138-04:002015-03-18T08:29:18.138-04:00I have an unhealthy habit of reading Dreher's ...I have an unhealthy habit of reading Dreher's blog, even as <br />his nuggets of genuine interest have virtually disappeared over the <br />years of his Jonestown-like existence in suburban Baton Rouge. <br /><br />Let's<br /> recap: Rod's first book disappears with nary a peep. Of course, this <br />is further proof to Rod that the world does not appreciate his mighty <br />genius. He dumps his job in Dallas, where he had articles written about<br /> how happy he and his family seemed, and moves to Philadelphia to take <br />his dream job discussing the mysteries of the universe, which he then <br />proceeds to sabotage by not being able to shut up for five bloody <br />minutes about the gays coming to force him into unspeakable acts. Rod's<br /> lesson from this seems to be that all of those highfalutin' science and<br /> theology folks just can't handle the truth he's dispensing. <br /><br /><br />So,<br /> he takes his family and decamps for the town of his birth, which, until<br /> then, he wrote about as a kind of "Deliverance"-esque cautionary tale. <br /> Now, though, it becomes the symbol of all that is pure and good. In a <br />happy coincidence, his sister happens to be dying, so he gets to work <br />out his personal emotional issues through her death AND get a new book <br />out of it, which passive-aggressively slams both his sister and his <br />hometown as a bunch of near-Forrest Gumps. <br /><br />Remarkably, his <br />second book doesn't result in the townspeople lining up on their knees <br />outside Rod's door to service him. So Rod has a really big sad. His <br />blog gets even darker, as he retreats into a world of his making, <br />complete with a church set up by him, Mel Gibson-style, as Orthodoxy, <br />like everything else, proves inadequate to feed Rod's bottomless <br />emotional needs. His forays into theology go over like a Snickers bar <br />in a crowded swimming pool. He excommunicates his heroes like Wendell <br />Berry and his man-crushes (he does have a lot of those) like Ta-Nehisi <br />Coates. Nobody measures up. Even the occasional trip sans wife to <br />Europe with his male buddies to eat traditional aphrodisiacs (!!!) doesn't keep the blues away for long.<br /><br />And here is where it gets really, really weird. <br /><br />See,<br /> Rod's had a lifelong battle with mono. Yep, that kissing disease that <br />lots of kids get. It sounds like a joke, right? Well, it's no joke for<br /> Rod. It's his unique cross to bear that leaves him bedridden for days <br />on end. This is why he can truly understand the great saints and <br />mystics. Apparently, while Rod's reading Dante, he has a spiritual <br />experience that transforms his life and allows Rod Dreher alone to <br />finally see the true meaning of Dante - which is to cure Rod's mono. <br />Yes, that's how Dante saved his life - by curing him of mono <br />(temporarily, alas). I am not making this up. <br /><br /><br />So <br />Rod's gone from WTF (you did what with your dream job?) to <br />ewwww (you're hocking custom kitsch about your book exploiting the death<br /> of your sister?) to Dwight Schrute-levels of pathetisadness (which is <br />what some of his the-gays-are-coming-for-me articles look like they're <br />written by) to laugh-out-loud ridiculousness, his current state. I<br /> feel bad for the poor PR flack who has to flog his newest book. How do<br /> you tell people what it's about without laughing uncontrollably? It's <br />like the scene with Pontius Pilate in "Life of Brian" and watching the <br />centurions try to keep it together as Pilate talks about his "great <br />friend".j_handeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-71851119911363610732015-03-18T08:26:50.017-04:002015-03-18T08:26:50.017-04:00Well done, Sir!
(Umm... if you have time, could ...Well done, Sir! <br /><br />(Umm... if you have time, could you take a quick look at MY manuscript?)satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-58034097495000852282015-03-18T08:26:04.565-04:002015-03-18T08:26:04.565-04:00I used to live across the street from Marjolaines,...I used to live across the street from Marjolaines, if that is still there.Yes, it's still going. Coincidentally, someone who lived across the street from it, and who started working the cash register when she was fifteen, wound up learning the pastry trade and buying the place. Whenever I think about that story, I feel like I'm mainlining the Hallmark Channel ... in a <em>good</em> way.mdsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-69904882904957933102015-03-18T08:18:35.867-04:002015-03-18T08:18:35.867-04:00"I hope you’ll buy good books, and I hope you..."I hope you’ll buy good books, and I hope you will buy my books."<br /><br /><br />Well, Rod, if I have any Bitcoin left after I buy those good books, I'll take a look at yours...satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-27230683045499732972015-03-18T07:57:27.447-04:002015-03-18T07:57:27.447-04:00I was pretty much skimming by the time I was halfw...I was pretty much skimming by the time I was halfway through. I could only take so much of the repetition of the last three pages of each chapter covering the same thing as the first three pages of the next chapter. Did he think he was writing a monthly serial and nobody would notice the padding?mgmonklewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191252.post-57462877563111177102015-03-18T05:33:13.097-04:002015-03-18T05:33:13.097-04:00No, you're normal.
I haven't been called t...<i>No, you're normal.</i><br />I haven't been called that for many decades. "High-functioning", more frequently.smut clydenoreply@blogger.com