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June 21, 2005
I Hate Self-Revelatory List Memes

Posted by Bill

Can't stand 'em. While a dandy like Robbo the Llamabutcher jumps at every self-aggrandizing opportunity to proudly shout lurid details about his favorite books, personality quirks and psychological deficits, I find viral "me-me-me" lists to be a plague on the commentariat, reducing political blogging to the stature of the schlock-ridden, loopy tripe scrawled on a teenage girl's notebook.

That said, after completing one such list, the Cranky Neocon tagged me with the following implicit challenge:

Three people you are throwing this to next:
...
2. INDC Bill - Because there is just no way he's going to do this.

And since I'm a feeble-minded marionette when confronted with reverse psychological trickery ... well, let's just say that ...

... I'll show him!

Exhaustively honest details about my life to follow:

Three physical things you like about yourself:
1. My hands (especially my opposable thumbs) and
2. ... my feet (Because they're useful)
3. My vestigial tail (Purely aesthetics)

Three physical things you don’t:
1. My shoes. (the black pair)
2. My shoes (the brown pair)
3. My "Thug Life DC" tattoo

Three things that scare you:
1. Oliver Willis
2. Katana-wielding assassins
3. The disturbing fact that Cranky Neocon listed "The eighth rep when bench pressing" under his list of "Three physical things that turn you on" ...

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. Oxygen
2. Water
3. A bracing morning concoction of embryonic stem cells and rock cocaine

Three things you are wearing now:
1. The aforementioned black shoes
2. A small mustard stain
3. Brut 33 (by Fabergé) Containing 33% of the original Brut fragrance, it's less expensive while maintaining that same sexy PUNCH. Discontinued in 1984, but I stocked up.

Oh yes.

Three of your favorite bands or musical artists:
1. Rubber
2. UHF
3. Kajagoogoo

Three things you want in a relationship:
1. Absolute subservience
2. Obsequious, sycophantic adoration
3. An assortment of freshly-baked pies and cakes. On the double!

Three physical things that turn you on:
1. The smell of desperation
2. Cicadas
3. The disturbing fact that Cranky Neocon listed "The eighth rep when bench pressing" under his list of "Three physical things that turn you on" ...

Three of your favorite hobbies:
1. Staring at people on the Metro
2. Stripper aerobics
3. Orniphilately (Watching stamps with birds on them)

Three things you want to do really badly right now:
1. Go to the bathroom
2. Angelina Jolie
3. Break free from this accursed physical shell and roam the Earth as pure energy!

Three careers you are considering:
1. Ferret wrangler
2. Doctor
3. Chicken sexer

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. The Gaza Strip
2. Mt. Kumgang
3. EPCOT Center

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. Loads of ketamine
2. Kill a man with my bare hands
3. Destroy the Llamas.

Three people you are throwing this to next:

No one. I'd be too embarrassed to inflict this revolting viral time waster on another human being.

Oh, ok: Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds and Noam Chomsky. Why?

"Because there is just no way (they're) going to do this."

UPDATE: Robbo fires back at yours truly. I open up to you people, give you a little peek inside, and that's what I get.

Nevermore!

Posted by Bill at June 21, 2005 12:45 PM | TrackBack (1)

Comments

Did you see the last entry on Chomsky's blog?

Jusy 29, 2004 These are among the
reasons why permitting democracy in Iraq, even if the rhetoric were meant seriously by Washington and Western commentators, is hardly a likely prospect.

D'oh!

Of course, Noam being wrong is a much more likely prospect.

I didn't realize just how nutty Noam's political ideas were until I read his Wiki entry.

a society could function with no paid labor. He argues that a nation's populace should be free to pursue jobs of their choosing. People will be free to do as they like, and the work they voluntarily choose will be both "rewarding in itself" and "socially useful". Society would be run under a system of peaceful anarchism, with no state or government institutions.

Sheesh. Does even Noam really believe that?


Posted by: TallDave [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 11:56 AM

I'm sure he does. It's the land where there are lollipop trees and chocolate fountains and all the children are above average.

Posted by: rbj [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 02:25 PM

Bill:

Do you plan to do Angelina Jolie on Mt. Kumgang?

Posted by: Dave D [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 02:38 PM

Wouldn't filling this out require Reynolds to type more than "Heh"?

Posted by: Cybrludite [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 06:38 PM

Dayum Bill,
I didn't think you even read my site any more. Now I wish you didn't.

Posted by: Renn Glenolds [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 07:00 PM

Cranky -

You wouldn't happen to be lifting weights right now, would you? If so, would you mind describing it?

In detail? Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Posted by: Bill from INDC [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 07:07 PM

Let's just put it this way. That eighth rep...

hands free!

Posted by: Renn Glenolds [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 21, 2005 07:14 PM

This was more than a little disturbing.

Posted by: Roberts [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 22, 2005 01:09 AM

ah...who said blogging wasn't an intimate experience. I just feel so close to you now Bill. Thanks for sharing wiht us.

Posted by: Jane [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 23, 2005 11:39 AM

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