So… last week I was involved in a sort of video “pilot,” part of which “aired” on Slate.com, and the other half of which can be seen here.
Fun, huh? I like the MediaCurves technology, and I personally think there’s a lot of promise in such a Felber-heavy format. [Also, being a slightly less-heavy Felber these days makes it easier for me to watch….]
But… as my biographical intro mentioned, I’m now a writer for “Real Time.” We start next week.
So, what does that mean for “Fanatical Apathy?” I don’t know. I’m not shutting the doors here, no. I may need to employ another contributor or two, though, or find a way to keep a hand in without giving away material that should rightly belong to HBO. Or maybe, to ensure that there’s no chance this site will overlap with “Real Time,” I’ll just make up world events, and comment on ‘em here. You know, like Fox News.
We’ll see. Stay tuned…
Fanny Roborat
32 comments
Jim (OJNTNJ)
August 10, 2007 at 11:33 am
1I’m assuming HBO will post your bio on their website once the new season starts. Otherwise, I’d be rumbling with dissent if I were you (rabble, rabble, rabble).
If they don’t, you can always contact Vinnie.
Vinnie
August 10, 2007 at 2:25 pm
2Yo!
Steve
August 10, 2007 at 2:59 pm
3Is it just me or did the audio suck really bad?
piglet
August 10, 2007 at 5:26 pm
4Adam, you look positively waiflike. Lohanesque even.
As for the future, I’m going to stick with “cautiously optimistic.” With a subtle shading of doom.
nick
August 10, 2007 at 7:05 pm
5it is not just you Steve, the audio was not good.
I was unaware of the incident Adam and Rob were discussing but I enjoyed their commentary.
I feel fine laughing at Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, but at some point with Lindsey Lohan it really began to seem like Lindsey has serious problems. Like really deep emotional troubles or psychological problems or something and I started having trouble laughing at her.
Now I’ve started to wonder that with all the people in the world that know about her, why doesn’t anyone help?
(oh and of course why doesn’t she hire a 24-hour personal driver?)
So with all that stuff, I still enjoyed what Adam and ROb had to say and also the way they said it - hoorah for content!
SeattleTammy
August 10, 2007 at 9:18 pm
6Yay! for the best hastily written satire in America!
Dirk's Diary
August 10, 2007 at 10:43 pm
78-10-07
Dear Diary:
Karl called the entire cabinet back to DC on Dick’s behest and performed the infamous Texas Mind Meld on the group - in order to keep all of us “all on the ranch”, as Karl put it. Actually, for some reason that has nothing to do with the ungodly heat here, I’m glad we did that exercise. I feel strangely invigorated and eager to do Karl’s bidding, the little scamp. He had found out (I think during the ceremony I confessed to him) that I had gone into Cheney’s office at 3:30 AM the night before with my third cousin twice removed, (Jimmy John Spraker - the safe-cracker) while Dick was in the bunker catching 40 winks, and freed Harriet Miers from the VP’s man-sized safe. I was surprised to find Barney in there, too, though that might explain why W was detailing Dick’s SUV on the South lawn yesterday.
Anyway, Karl said for us all to take off the rest of the month and come back in September for the booster session and the rewarding work of healing the country from the hateful politics of the Democrat Party. I can’t wait!!!
Dirk
SeattleDan
August 10, 2007 at 10:52 pm
8Have a great vacation, Dirk, and don’t take either your appointment book or a watch with you. We’ll give you a nudge when it is time to get back to work. I promise.
cooper
August 11, 2007 at 7:04 am
9An aside to Adam - it looks like maybe Billy Martin is writing the bios for the Real Time website. Just a guess, since most of the other guys are getting one sentence write ups. Get out the electron microscope and check your contract, pal. Maybe Mo’s completed his correspondence law degree and can come out swinging for you. Good luck with the show, Adam.
your pal, cooper
David
August 11, 2007 at 9:03 am
10Time to call in some chits and get some of your fellow travellers to get back to doing some posting, Adam. Meanwhile, making up shit the way Fox does certainly works for them and their demographic. Pity only reactionaries are allowed to make up shit which is passed off as actual, not fictional, and be rewarded handsomely for same.
If nothing else, throw out a statement or two that will incite Felbernauts everywhere, especially the lurkers. Maybe you could even get a good old-fashioned brawl going now and then in the lounge.
Murray
August 11, 2007 at 9:41 am
11I think it’s time to get Sienna Kirschenbaum to carry her weight. (Oh and we could use more of Chris, too.)
You could also hire Coop to write his stories.
dee
August 11, 2007 at 11:03 am
12No offense, Adam, but you could copy random sections of the telephone book as posts and the comments would still involve birds, baseball, sweet potato recipes, Al Gore, the weather, WWDTM performances and people who WANT TO CUT OUT HEADS OFF.
That’s the charm of this place.
Clive
August 11, 2007 at 11:45 am
13Wowl, Ah wou'’n't say it’s charmin’, ‘ere.
Dirk's Diary
August 11, 2007 at 2:14 pm
148-11-07
Dear Diary,
Jeffery had one of his college chums analyze the sports drink supply that Karl sent back with me and all the cabinet members as we returned home from the Meld. Curious stuff. Jeff, being from Idaho and all, took the 6 cases of drinks outside and riddled each and every one of them with his AK-47. Up until now, Patricia had always maintained that this machine gun had been an inappropriate birthday present for a 12 year old boy, but now she saw the genius in my decision. It was good that Jeffery lined them up along the fence line, since the grass died everywhere the liquid sprayed. Now I won’t have to use the weed eater out there tomorrow, which frees up the afternoon for the Nextel Cup Race. Plus, I’m feeling much more like myself today.
Dirk
Clive
August 11, 2007 at 3:39 pm
15Woit a minnut. Our bloke Adam’s on the telly? And a bonzer dag to boot? Crikey!
Boomer
August 11, 2007 at 4:33 pm
16gillian must be off with Heather again this weekend, touring VT. I am merely subbing for you, g. You’re the queen.
Only the best for you guys…
Harold
August 11, 2007 at 5:22 pm
17I’m still waiting for Fanny to start posting.
Gregor
August 12, 2007 at 5:38 am
18You know, we’re in the mess this country is today because the Republican controlled Congress, Supreme Court and Presidency marched lock-step in putting political points for the Party above the needs of the nation. The Democrats in Congress are doing the same thing now when they weigh the political costs of impeachment trials and bringing the troops home against preserving the status quo and using it to beat the Repugs over their heads in the next election. What this country needs is a viable third or, better yet, fourth political party, IMHO.
cooper
August 12, 2007 at 8:36 am
19Fanny posting here? YEESSS!!! I have quite a few bones to pick with that flea bitten rodent cyborg…
David
August 12, 2007 at 9:33 am
20cooper, I gather Fanny’s fleas are also mutants, and malcontents spoiling for a fight, any fight. A Rovian rodent cyborg with a gang of sinister siphonapterae (hell, I think that’s the correct plural)….I’m just sayin’.
Pope Benny 16
August 12, 2007 at 6:17 pm
21Cardinal Nigel brought to my chambers tonight a DVD of “Elizabeth” and with Father Guido and Pietro we watched this magnificent movie. Now there was a time when world events could be shaken and moved by the Vatican. Father Pietro was most taken by the cross-dressing French duke. The guards will be watching him most closely in the future.
Gregor
August 13, 2007 at 2:56 am
22Karl needs to spend more time with his family? Did someone check with his family to make sure that would be all right with them?
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1329903920070813
David
August 13, 2007 at 3:59 am
23Strange things at Election Corruption Central. Whither the other hand (besides in someone else’s pants)?
Harold
August 13, 2007 at 10:12 am
24So Karl Rove is getting repositioned to take a more active role in the attempted theft of the 2008 election. Stay tuned for more criminality.
SeattleDan
August 13, 2007 at 12:51 pm
25I dunno. I smell a rat. Or an indictment. But more likely a book deal.
It's Pat!
August 13, 2007 at 1:08 pm
26I think an indictment would be very appropriate. For several people.
Gregor, if you can figure a way to cut off the money, you could have a multi-party system. Right now, it’s like what Paul Newman said in the “The Sting” - the fix is in, it’s like a business. What the hell am I saying - it IS a business….
Anybody need some tomatoes? Mine are going absolutely bonkers in Minne-so-grow-ta. I got plants taller than me (that’s not saying much), and they don’t show any signs of rot (I do, but that’s another story). I make a dynamite salsa, by the way, if anyone’s in my neck of the woods. Free pint if you show up in person. Free quart to Adam anytime.
dee
August 13, 2007 at 1:26 pm
27Pat is my favorite kind of gardener — the kind whose ambitions overruled their judgments back in the spring and now they are up to their eyeballs in produce. So they bring bags of fresh tomatoes, corn, zucchini and peppers into work for the rest of us who are 1) too lazy or 2) too sun-deficient to put in a garden. Dinner practically makes itself.
It's Pat!
August 13, 2007 at 1:57 pm
28Dee, I don’t do zucchini. But otherwise, yep, that’s me. I can’t even see the stupid carrots the tomatoes went so nuts.
cooper
August 13, 2007 at 2:46 pm
29Yeah, Pat, but can you grow a watermelon as big as a zeppelin (okay a scale model of a zeppelin) with nectar as sweet as God’s own? I do have to admit that my Big Boy tomatoes are over the top of my 4 foot cages & down to the ground again with a foot left over, but falling prey to a fungus - in the middle of a drought; go figure.
Pope Benny 16
August 13, 2007 at 5:46 pm
30OK, I have to admit that I didn’t see that one coming. Several weeks ago I announced to the world that the Holy See was rolling back a number of rulings made by Vatican II, in particular a return to the saying of mass in Latin. Since 1965, the indigenous language has been used for worship, allowing the Latin Rites to fall into disuse. I strongly advocated for all priests to return to Latin. I didn’t realize that the only priests that had ever done that were pushing 90 years old. The priests of today don’t have a clue and have to sound out the Latin words phonetically. Now neither the congregation nor the priests know what the Hell is being said. Can I get a Mulligan on that one?
dee
August 13, 2007 at 7:06 pm
31Yo, Benny, too bad you still have that silly little rule about who can and who can’t be a priest, because some of us still remember our Latin
Introibo ad altare Dei
Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.
We learned it when our brothers were training to be altar boys. Just think of all those little girls who are not exactly pushing 90 but could rattle off the Mass in Latin in a heartbeat. Tua culpa, tua culpa, tua maxima culpa.
Father Sardonici
August 15, 2007 at 5:33 am
32Preggers priests? Preposterous, my pretty.