tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post8009212261588679959..comments2023-08-20T21:14:43.398-07:00Comments on Before Nine: 's A Fair CopMongo, At The Momenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-21515469373138619122012-05-01T16:15:43.991-07:002012-05-01T16:15:43.991-07:00All that... and all you can ask after is the Taco ...All that... and all you can ask after is the Taco Commercial?<br /><br />It's an obscure film reference: Billy Crystal, teaching his creative writing class in "Throw Mama From The Train", is reading a list of chapter headings from the (cough) manuscript of Mr. Pinsky -- all of which are various girls, including "The girl in the taco commercial".<br /><br /><b>CRYSTAL:</b> Mr. Pinsky -- what is the connection between literature, and a list of girls you'd like to have sex with?<br /><br /><b>PINSKY:</b> Well, it's my fantasy; like Melville. It's my 'White Whale'.<br /><br /><b>MRS. HAZELTINE:</b> It's whacking material.<br /><br /><b>PINSKY:</b> Isn't that -- literature?<br /><br />How does the girl in the taco commercial relate to a list of morally bankrupt individuals, who may or may not be intelligent? Comic relief.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-72904387146640183422012-05-01T15:59:52.969-07:002012-05-01T15:59:52.969-07:00Which taco commercial are you referring to?Which taco commercial are you referring to?Freddy el Desfibradddorhttp://www.fafblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-4819877693152820842012-05-01T15:45:11.811-07:002012-05-01T15:45:11.811-07:00Well... anyone who is hobbled morally cannot -- in...Well... anyone who is hobbled morally cannot -- in my own small view -- assert intellectual prowess. That the two may not be conjoined, not halves of a similar coin, but operating each independent of the other.<br /><br />To follow the drunken weaving in this course of argument allows me to denigrate Little Rupert without admitting that he might possess a high-functioning, even erudite, intellect, while his spiritual compass may be all but negligible. I wouldn't want this guy's Karmic wad; I have enough trouble with my own, thank you.<br /><br />I freely admit all this may not be provable, or even true (I mean, whaddya want? I'm a Dog, for god's sake). But, to use a time-honored, Fox-Newsy trick, I appeal to the reader's emotions: "It just *feels* true". <br /><br />In that, I may be no more honest than Little Rupert. But my aim is true and my cause is just. Maybe. Possibly.<br /><br />But, think about it. Holy *fuck*: You really *want* to call the likes of "Dick" Cheney, Reinhard Heydrich; Condo Rice, Alfred Eichmann; the team who designed laser-guided 'smart' munitions; the people who wrote "Cop Rock"; the girl in the taco commercial; and whoever coined the phrase, "At the end of the day--"... as conceivably being highly intelligent? <br /><br />Where's the fun in that?Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-69442069099997764752012-05-01T14:57:49.912-07:002012-05-01T14:57:49.912-07:00Your photo alteration is well done. But I feel in...Your photo alteration is well done. But I feel inclined to quibble about your description of Little Rupert: how can one who became a self-made Oligarch be "essentially stupid"? He has succeeded in his aims; whether he should have had different aims is a moral question, not an intellectual one.Freddy el Desfibradddorhttp://www.fafblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com