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December 18th, 2008
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Um, what?
I’m guessing this is supposed to be “Gorilla Grod” from what I remember of the Superman cartoon?
My first reaction was, “Power to the People! er Primates!
Good on ya…little guy with the stick!
Three Cheers for the Monkeys.
Enjoy.
BTW, my latest blasphemy.
The Santa Claus Delusion:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/timtimes/2008/12/the-santa-claus-delusion.php
Enjoy.
Have fun with your relative obscurity. I can assure you it will continue if you block comments from loyal readers. Bye bye.
Enjoy.
Does anyone have any idea WTF this Tim person is on about?
Isn’t there a Chinese legend about that? The one that Dragonball is based on (the original Dragonball)?
See also Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewitt.
Does anyone have any idea WTF this Tim person is on about?
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Censorship on liberal blogs. Ask Oliver why he chose to ‘moderate’ a previous post I made in this column earlier today. I presume it was because of some atheist leanings I might have shown? I’ll continue to monitor this thread, but otherwise there’s no need to waste my time trying to connect with the greater liberal blogosphere when people I generally agree with decide my opinions are irrelevant or otherwise don’t fit exactly within the paradigm of their reality.
Enjoy.
Jeez, Tim, chill. Posts get hung up in moderation sometimes. It’s happened to me occasionally, and I hardly take it personally.
Perhaps that’s all there is to it. I’m just wired too tight for my own good sometimes.
Enjoy.
Your first post will always be moderated. Why? Cause I get a lot of spam and weirdos.
“Help, Help, I’m Being Repressed” much?
“I’ll continue to monitor this thread …”
I’m gonna continue to monitor this thread too!
Is anyone else out there monitoring this thread?
If so, please identify yourselves! This thread is being monitored!
I too, continue to monitor this thread…
Alright guys. I probably deserved that…and more…..
however….
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Your first post will always be moderated. Why? Cause I get a lot of spam and weirdos.
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I may resemble that remark, but if you look at this thread you’ll note that my FIRST post in it wasn’t moderated, whereas my second one was. Another thing of note. This is hardly the first time I’ve commented here.
That said, I am sorry for going off in such a quick manner. I’m specially prone to see conspiracy everywhere, given all the bullshit we progressives have had to deal with over the last umpteen years.
Enjoy.
NSA monitors all the threads.
Enjoy.
Dude. If you sign off one more comment with “enjoy” I’ll vote for Oliver to ban you for life.
Does anyone have any idea WTF this Tim person is on about?
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Censorship on liberal blogs. Ask Oliver why he chose to ‘moderate’ a previous post I made in this column earlier today. I presume it was because of some atheist leanings I might have shown?
I’ve been commenting here for months and still, on occasion, my postings get caught up in the moderation queue. Just last week, for some reason, none of my postings were showing up, even after some time had passed. A brief note to OW asking what might be up and he found out, for some unknown reason, all my comments were getting tagged as spam. Even worse than hitting the moderation queue.
Things happen. Best not to assume it’s intentional.
Well, links also trigger the moderation.
I also think its kind of funny when people act as if this blog is a front for some GE/Halliburton Corp. when they can just email like Sean did if they have a problem.
And this site is a front for the Dominators, anyway.
I end all my correspondence with ENJOY.
Why? It’s a tribute to Peter McWilliams.
Peter and I used to correspond with each other years ago, before the federal government arrested him (and eventually killed him by denying him the use of medical marijuana for his AIDS nausea).
He died choking on his own vomit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McWilliams
Peter used to sign all his correspondence in the same fashion, even when he was writing from jail.
Feel better now?
Enjoy.
Peter, on being diagnosed with AIDS:
“In March 1996, I opened the door to death and stared the Grim Reaper in the face. There was a pause. Then he suddenly smiled and said, ‘Enjoy yourself! It’s later than you think.’”
– Peter McWilliams, from his essay Joy is Good.
The end of his last letter requesting public support for leniency in his sentencing hearings:
If you cannot post the entire message of this missive, the online address of this request is http://www.petertrial.com/letters.htm.
Thank you from the bottom of my weary but very grateful heart.
Enjoy.
Peter McWilliams
peter@mcwilliams.com
Sadly, the only copies of my emails to him reside in the vaults of the DOJ (who confiscated the computer he used to email me during his arrest) and a crashed hard-drive that I may someday pay to have the files retrieved from.
In all his travails, Peter remained a non-violent lover of life. We could all do worse than to emulate his enthusiasm for living.
You may note that I don’t even attempt to hide my true identity. You either stand up for something or you’ll bend over for anything.
Enjoy.
Indeed, I think the links are the problem.
I answered the critic on my use of ENJOY with a rather well referenced link to wikipedia.
Perhaps we’ll see it appear from the ether at some future point in time? I am amazed that the NSA computers slow the process down so much since they have the world’s best supercomputers at their disposal. (snark off)
Enjoy.
Oh, and thanks for the well deserved (and received) ribbing Oliver. I should have addressed my initial concerns to you via email. You’re not hiding either since the NSA already has an eye out on you. My bad.
Enjoy.
And one last thing. Special thanx to J.D. Rhoades for this initial gem:
Does anyone have any idea WTF this Tim person is on about?
Indeed, and yet somehow you’ve endeared yourself to me by not somehow injecting the term ‘crazy bastard’ in your question! You are definitely in the running as my new BFF.
Enjoy.
Is it too late to add my three cheers to the monkeys?
Oliver,
You have the patience of Job.
Tim Fuller: You may note that I don’t even attempt to hide my true identity. You either stand up for something or you’ll bend over for anything.
And three cheers to you for that. While there are certainly people who use aliases online responsibly, there are vast numbers who use them just so they can be jerks. I always have a slightly higher level of respect for those who sign their actual names.
“Oliver,
You have the patience of Job.”
And the unsightly skin blemishes.
(That was a joke.)
“Oliver,
You have the patience of Job.”
On a side note, Satan won that bet.
Feel better now?
Um, do you?
Absolutely. It’s much more liberating than standing anonymously in the dark casting hand shadows for fun and amusement.
Enjoy.
Sure. Tim Fuller. I have no idea who that is. Which is to say, I know about as much about you as you know about fafaroo. Hell, for all you know, that could be my real name.
I don’t think anyone is any more responsible for their own words just because they use their real name than people who don’t. I’ve seen people give out their names and home freaking addresses on these threads in a flame war because they were completely nuts while some of the most responsible, rational and reasonable people here are totally anonymous.
I’ll tell you what’s really liberating, though. Not taking myself as seriously as you do. It took you all of two posts for you to out yourself as a smug, self-righteous, paranoid ass.
Whoever you are.
Oh, and Tim, whatever your personal reasons for ending every post with “enjoy,” I can’t help but notice the rather glib image/text juxtaposition at the end of this post of yours: http://thetimchannel.com/?p=325
Are you self-aware enough to recognize this or are you just a total idiot?
The really important question, Fafaroo, is whether you’ve styled yourself after the Papua New Guinean delicacy.
To be honest it was the first nonsense word that came to mind when I had to come up with a screen name. I had no idea it was phonetically similar to an actual word, let alone that!
On a vaguely related, if not quite rotten, note, the other day my wife made this: http://www.japanesefoodreport.com/2008/10/roasted-tuna-collar.html
Oh my god. Best. Tuna. Ever. I urge all fish lovers to try this immediately.
I cannot vouch for fafaru, the meal, however. Although I am intrigued: http://www.gonomad.com/features/0101/brash_fafaru.html
Thanks for the tip, Parthenon, you anonymous bastard!
fafaroo: Oh, and Tim, whatever your personal reasons for ending every post with “enjoy,” I can’t help but notice the rather glib image/text juxtaposition at the end of this post of yours: http://thetimchannel.com/?p=325
Are you self-aware enough to recognize this or are you just a total idiot?
Are you familiar with Speigelman’s Maus and Maus II. Both are, as Tim notes, a very emotional and personal story of the Holocaust. To then use an evocative illustration from the work to accompany this point doesn’t seem out of place to me.
“To then use an evocative illustration from the work to accompany this point doesn’t seem out of place to me.”
Uh, Sean, go back and read my comment again, then go back and look at the last word of Tim’s post, the one just beneath Spiegelman’s typically powerful representation.
The representation of Holocaust victims pressed against a death camp fence and the word “enjoy” is not an association I think most sensible people would make, either as a caption or as a sign off to a post about Spiegelman’s work (which I am quite familiar with BTW). Indeed, some people might be considerably offended by it.
I’m not so much offended as curious as to whether Mr. Fuller was at all aware of how his usual sign off might be perceived in a such a context.
Would you say that you “enjoyed” reading the Maus series? I was certainly profoundly moved by it, but I would no sooner say that I “enjoyed” it or that others might “enjoy” it, than I would say I enjoy watching Resnais’ Night and Fog or Ophuls The Sorrow and the Pity.
One of the great challenges for any artist who seeks to deal with the Holocaust is to represent the reality of its horrors without, at the same time, reducing them to some sort of comodified pleasure, something we can passively “enjoy.” Indeed, Spiegelman’s great triumph is that he accomplished in a medium — comics — that most people felt, at the time, was utterly incompatible with, if not antithetical too, representations of such serious subjects as the Holocaust and remembrance. Comic books, they thought, were for pleasure and “enjoyment.”
So here we have Tim essentially captioning one of Speigelman’s typically powerful images “enjoy.” My question is whether Tim was being deliberately glib or ironic, or whether he’s too fucking dense to realize what he’s doing.
Which do you think it is?
Both are, as Tim notes, a very emotional and personal story of the Holocaust.
And BTW, we should just leave aside the actual content of Tim’s post in which a straight guy challenges gay artists to step up and represent the experience of “homosexual oppression and suffering in as expressive and emotive a fashion” as Spiegelman’s.
Am I missing something here? Is Tim really suggesting that there are no gay artists whose statements on the gay experience of oppression are the equivalent of Spiegelman’s about the Jewish experience during the Holocaust? Seriously? Is he fucking kidding?
I hope he is, because if Tim isn’t parodying the words an arrogant pissant, he is one.
Has Tim really not been paying attention to the art world for the past, oh I don’t know, 40 or 50 fucking years? Let alone the worlds of film, music, literature, theater and yes comic books etc. etc.
And what the hell does he mean by “Who will carry the burden of moving beyond Maus and Maus 2?” I wasn’t aware that Maus was something that needed to be left behind or moved past. Maybe for Speigelman personally as an artist but collectively, culturally? Really? Art evolves and changes and styles and movements which were once liberating can become oppressive and stifling over time, but I’m not aware that Spiegelman or Maus</i?, specifically, have become so monumental that artists, and more over, specifically gay artists, need to free themselves from their domineering influences.
Indeed, I had no idea that gay artists, specifically — and not straight artists — were living under the burden of Spiegleman’s work. After Maus II did Spiegelman throw down the gauntlet, “OK, Gay Artists! Let’s see you top that?” I must have missed that article in Art Forum. Tim, got a link?
Jesus. Don’t even get me started on this moron.
close freaking tag
fafaroo: then go back and look at the last word of Tim’s post, the one just beneath Spiegelman’s typically powerful representation.
Ah. I didn’t scroll down quite far enough to notice that last word lingering below the picture so mistook your “glib” to refer to the tone of the previous paragraph. My bad.
They were serving it when we were in Fiji, but my fortitude failed me at the smell… just as the online guides say it will… And I may have been wrong; Fafaru may actually be Tahitian in origin.