Comments on: Teh Paranoid Style

By: Sadly, No! » Cue Yakety Sax [Updated]

Sadly, No! » Cue Yakety Sax [Updated] — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:50:45 +0000

[...] the comments to savor some classic Teh Paranoid Style — sinister metanarratives and wheels-within-wheels and all that timelessly imminent [...]

By: PK

PK — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:04:14 +0000

Yep, before we needed a police state to protect us Teh Evil Commies, now we need a police state to protect us from Teh Evil Mooslims. Odd how the common feature is the need for a police stateâ€¦ Hmmmm.

By: Confederate Yankee

Confederate Yankee — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:30:56 +0000

Ezekiel saw a wheel, way up in the middle of the air.

– Woody Guthrie.

By: Confederate Yankee

Confederate Yankee — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:29:50 +0000

Hurricane Blues by Linton Kwesi Johnson is stupendous song.

John Kpiaye on guitar is astounding.

Just saying …

By: Sadly, No! » Cue Yakety Sax

Sadly, No! » Cue Yakety Sax — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:06:48 +0000

[...] Gavin adds: Check around in the LGF comments to savor some classic Teh Paranoid Style — wheels-within-wheels and secret media conspiracies and the like. Here’s Malkin, plying a similar tack: Update: A hoax. [...]

By: linda

linda — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:03:33 +0000

who knew ;)

By: darrelplant

darrelplant — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:56:27 +0000

I don’t know why anyone would be surprised that nothing about the wacko far-right has changed in forty-odd years. Don Rumsfeld was 32 (and in his first term in the House) when Goldwater ran for President. W was in his first year of Yale for the election. Cheney was 23 and had just married Lynne. Those guys grew up or came of age during the height of the John Birch/McCarthy era.

I have another book that dates from a couple of years before Hofstadter’s, by Richard Dudman called Men of the Far Right. Barry Goldwater, William Buckley, Everett Dirksen, Strom Thurmond, Robert Welch (candymaker and founder of the Birchers), George Lincoln Rockwell. John Tower! Even a younger Phyllis Schlafly makes an appearance.

Le plus ca change.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:26:22 +0000

Back in the seventies, I once went to a halloween party dressed as a four and a half foot quaalude.
It must have been you who inspired the Doonesbury cartoon where Zonker is in the kitchen at a party, chatting with a giant tab of acid.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya

ifthethunderdontgetya — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:23:27 +0000

Damn mikey, great minds think alike.

Those costumes do make fine dorm wall decorations, for those who happen to live in one.

By: mikey

mikey — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:24:13 +0000

I vote for bootleg quaaludes – big ones, each about the size of a hockey puck.

Back in the seventies, I once went to a halloween party dressed as a four and a half foot quaalude. I made the costume out of two large cardboard disks (used the top of the dining room table for a template) with an 18″ cardboard strip stapled in between. Spray painted the whole thing white and used a black magic marker to do the split line and the Rohrer 714 text. But the law of unintended consequences kicked in – you can’t spend a whole night with your arms stuck straight out, and it’s hard to really party when you can’t reach your mouth. So the Quaalude costume got tossed in the dustbin of history…

mikey

By: liberalrob

liberalrob — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:44:15 +0000

How could you not like a band that does that, a song about Giant Robots, and then a â€œcoverâ€? of the â€œSanford and Sonâ€? theme done to a huge break-dancinâ€™ beat?

Sounds great!

I just thought a Styx cover band called Libertarian Nanobot Orchestra would naturally pick Mr. Roboto for their finale. Maybe change the lyrics a bit, “domo arigato Mr. Nanoboto” etc.

I saw this mention of Styx and immediately thought of “Miss America;” a great song, on various levels (Miss USA “scandal” being the most relevant today, I guess).

By: RubDMC

RubDMC — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:39:08 +0000

“we need to spike their food with Zoloft “

I vote for bootleg quaaludes – big ones, each about the size of a hockey puck.

By: Strange Forces

Strange Forces — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:56:36 +0000

liberalrob – some friends of mine are in a crazy techno-ish band here in DC. They have done a high-powered cover of Mr. Roboto, which often does bring down the house. They then use copious amounts of N2O.

How could you not like a band that does that, a song about Giant Robots, and then a “cover” of the “Sanford and Son” theme done to a huge break-dancin’ beat?

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:40:25 +0000

Vervet monkeys share a ‘vocabulary’ of somewhere between a dozen and 20 different calls. Baby vervet monkeys learn these calls from their mothers, and just as small children start by babbling and only gradually become intelligible to adults other than their parents, baby vervets’ early vocalizations are imprecise, and adult members of their troop other than their mothers do not respond to the infant’s ‘words’. Eventually, however, an infant vervet learns the ‘word’ for hawk — the vervets’ most dangerous natural predator — and discovers that any close approximation of the ‘HAWK!’ cry causes every member of the troop to scatter for cover. Some infants become fascinated with the effects of this word and have to be forcibly discouraged by their mothers from screaming ‘HAWK!’ every few minutes, just for the entertainment value of watching their elders cower in terror…

I think we can draw two parallels here between the modern Reichtwing proponents of Hoffman’s Paranoid Style and our humble primate cousins:

1) A certain percentage of the human population never does learn to distinguish between a serious alarm-call (HAWK! COMMANIST! TERR-IST!) and the verbal manipulation of their inbred primate terrors by (infantile?) group members with their own agenda; and

2) Certain conservative pundits should have been smacked more by their mothers, back when they were young enough that it might have taught them something.

By: Colonel Cathcart

Colonel Cathcart — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:25:27 +0000

Ginger, if it’s REALLY an Insta-futurist Manifesto, it’s missing one teensy thing:

12. GOTO 1

there, perfect!

By: kiche

kiche — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:20:36 +0000

grrr… your marinetti quote reminds me of my copy of the futurist cookbook i lost in katrina…

By: liberalrob

liberalrob — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:04:08 +0000

Yes, we are an all-Styx cover band now.

I bet your set-ending performance of “Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto” brings the house down.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:02:49 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hPbYIpSuro&mode=related&search=
future times!

By: The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:50:48 +0000

Did someone mention blood?

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:42:45 +0000

Let’s not bicker and argue over who drank who’s blood.

Boiler explosion.. set by MUSLIMS!!