{"id":6759,"date":"2003-04-25T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-25T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/6759\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T15:44:15","slug":"6759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/6759\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did She Mean, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day. I notice a lot of traffic dropping by from IMAO<\/a>, and I wanted to clarify what my esteemed spouse<\/a> said in the comment to Frank J’s props for Michael Moore.<\/p>\n

Hey, I say The Big One<\/i> when it ran at the artsy Tivoli theatre here in St. Louis back in the 1990s. I liked it well enough. After all, corporate power abusers are the same fun targets for drive-by rantings as governmental ones, ainna? So when I spent my four bucks to join the Quality Paperback Club, I selected Stupid White Men.<\/i> I knew the basic plot, so it’s not like I was getting something I wasn’t expecting.<\/p>\n

It became a boon that I bought it in paperback. I could more vigorously “dialog with the text” without damaging the furniture or walls of my home. Highlighting? Marginalia? How about a schnucking drop-kick when Moore pillories the new attorney general for disposing of gun background checks as the law says he should<\/b>–which Moore calls ILLEGAL! How about a backhand expulsion of the tome the eighty-second time Moore describes Bush as illegitimate? I forget at what point I spiked the book to the floor and stomped on it<\/i>, but I made it all the way through.<\/p>\n

I’d recommend the practice of paperbacks when reading books with which you disagree. It’s not always the case that you’ll feel such vitriol that you’ll need to physically abuse a book, but when lies, quarter-truths, and whatnot cover most of the material between the title page and the “About the Author” section, it’s best to be safe from gouging drywall, concussing cats, or hurting yourself.<\/p>\n

Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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