An American Prospect intern collaboration, feat. Justin Charity, Rebecca Delaney, Dia Rasinariu, and Mikhail Zinshteyn.
We can't remember what this blog is about.
Michael: Hi, I’m calling from a magazine and I’m trying to confirm a figure, the amount of money HUD gives Philadelphia…
Man 1: Let me transfer you to our Freedom of Information Act liaison officer…
Michael: I don’t think…
…..telephone rings….
rings. rings. rings. rings.
“…Today is Friday, April 30th and I’m out of the office.”
— Rebecca
One drink for every wind turbine and fledgling cake business you see in a credit card and car commercial. Two drinks for every redheaded kid in a commercial selling environmentally-friendly cleaning products or biodegradable snack bags.
Okay, so that’s not exactly how it happened, but it was pretty close. #progressivefail
— Rebecca
Ke$ha, ‘Glitter Puke’
Michael: Hey [Rebecca], remember in our lightening round when you made a point about Slate jumping on the bandwagon of featuring the strange habits of millennials?
Rebecca: Yea…
Michael: Well they did it again, this time pointing out the strange habit of girls showcasing their newly purchased clothes on youtube.
Rebecca: [Hand over face with slung shoulders and the rhythmic pounding of her head along an imaginary wood plank] Howabout Slate’s trend of incredibly pissing me off!
Commenting on the death of Rockies President Keli McGregor, Detective Rick Wall said, “there are no signs of foul play. … Based on the initial investigation (police and fire officials) did not see anything suspicious,” Wall said. “There is nothing suspicious. At this point it would look like it was some sort of a natural cause or something along those lines.”
What else other than natural cause can be along those lines? Did the man die of a tautology?
—Michael
Opening an e-mail from the Center For American Progress inviting me to a “progressive Party” at the Newseum, I had certain expectations of affordability. The page layout boasted a classic King 668 font, with requisite images of typewriters. I imagined an event for the humble class warrior, not for the pecunious. Not for 1000 dollars a pop. This is why, in general, critics of market capitalism lambaste liberal democracy—it co-opts terms, memories, and narratives of the disenfranchised, defanging the threat of poverty and propping up only the aesthetic.
The next great post-impressionist art show must be held at a city squat house. Out of the marble lattices, away from the spendthrift benefactors, away away away from civility.
Let’s get drunk off cheap wine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJHQmJAiKA
-Michael (though Rebecca approves)
Writer: “It’s insanity, it’s the definition of insanity, it’s the very definition of personal responsibility.”
Other Writer: “You’re losing it”
Writer: “Of course I’m losing it, it’s insanity!”
—Michael
