I don't "demand" anything, you pernicious prick. I just throw it up there and see who laughs. Some people do; in fact, MANY people do (I just wish the "likers" would leave as many comments as the "haters"). Now go soak your head...preferrably in carbolic acid.

I can't really draw, or write, or speak. I have no imagination, either, having to leech off of current events - including live audio recordings of same - in order to decorate my idiotic cartoons. I should shoot myself in the head, but like most annoying morons I never will.

And I'm FEATURED ON SALON!!! Who'da thunk it???

And I can't read, because if I could read I would have realized that Rob Anderson's blog entry about the "This Is Spinal Tap" volume 11 scene is not about "getting" it. I would have also realized that what he DIDN'T get is why so many people think it's a moment of classic comedy WHEN IT CLEARLY ISN'T.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go mine some boogers to garnish my salad.

Better known around these parts as "Red State Update." Neither of us can act, tell jokes, sing, recite poetry or even pick our nose in an interesting manner, and yet here we are featured on Salon's Video Dog. Strange, isn't it? We thought so.

...can you fuck it.

A nice, rich hossenfeffer stew perhaps? Not to spicy, but hearty and filling??

I have it on good authority that you too gentlemen are experts at cock smoking. Is this information true and correct to the best of your recollections?

I once grabbed Jennifer Connelly's ankles from beneath a table at Spago's. Does that count?

Though it's hard to believe so many New Yorkers are so...dumb.

SHUT UP.

But this ludicrous "book review", along with granting the reviewer his own customized daily blog, is yet another example of Joan Walsh's on-going campaign to turn Salon into a House of Dreck. Manjoo is an incredibly stupid writer. Just check out his blog from yesterday, comparing MySpace and Facebook. Full of inane observations and manufactured contrasts (MySpace is for teenagers and "freaks", whereas Facebook is for the "elite" - riiiiigght). I mean this guy really just eats it. So of course he was wrong about both Fark and the real problems with the MSM.

But apparently he makes Joan's tiddly wink, so expect a whole lot more of him.

Having buzzed around Facebook, and been a member of MySpace since 2005, I can confidently state that the former is made up of snobs and the latter is made up almost entirely of creative, talented and sometimes simply amazing individuals and groups. There's a reason that MySpace is approaching 200 million members, and it's not teenagers swapping MP3 files and "pimpin'" their pages. It's because MySpace, unlike Facebook or, God help us, Friendster, offers the tools one needs to create a home page that expresses one's creative essence, to share music, video, photographs, artwork, and writing both literary and journalistic, with an enormous community of like-minded, like-talented people.

Facebook can't and probably won't touch that any time soon. Add to this the fact that MySpace is manifestly easier to use and, like Google, is constantly adding new features and improving old ones, and the idea that Facebook is superior and/or will "overtake" MySpace is, again, nonsense.

The friends list of my MySpace page is filled with genuine artists, working musicians, outstanding comedians, talented (and working) filmmakers and just plain friends. It is, in effect, my cyber-shingle, how people can get to know my talents, skills and beliefs. I can't imagine bothering with the insular world of Facebook.

...is just kidding themselves.

I kid you not.

You - and every other person who poses similar arguments - do such a good job of proving my point that I need write nothing more.

Except this, to the lit grad student: Please do this country and its culture a favor and drop out. Based upon your letter, you're not going to teach anyone anything of value.

Someone asked me "who I like." Nobody. There is not a single writer I can think of who is alive and writing who is worth a damn except, perhaps, Philip Roth. But then I'm a great admirer of Saul Bellow, and was a student of his friend Leo Litwak, so perhaps I'm "out of date." If I am, God help us.

Allow me to quote Jerry Lewis - visiting professor of film at USC - on television writers:

"Television is bad for writers because it eats talent. You have to crank it out, week in and week out, and eventually you burn out."

The fact that "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay" won the Pulitzer Prize is proof positive of my very point. Oprah Winfrey wouldn't know great literature if it bit her on her ever-shifting ass. Ditto the Pulitzer committee. And let us not forget that Toole's mother had to work for ten years to get "A Confederacy of Dunces" published. Meanwhile, her son, the author, lay moldering in his grave. God Bless America.