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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:10 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@ J. Walsh

As a lover of Godzilla movies goin' back to my kiddie days in the early '70's, when Godzilla was the way Godzilla was/is always meant, and always should be shown on the silver screen (a guy in a rubbery reptile suit) I gotta say you're kinda off on the Zilla analogy.

Palin is more of a Kong than a Zilla. More in fact like the malfunctioning Meca-Kong in Inoshiro Honda's, extra-cheese classic - "King Kong Escapes."

I wanna refer all who are interested in how things might turn out between Palin and her Republican handlers, to Japaneese monster maker Inoshiro Honda's, Toho Studios, Giant robot ape epic.

Lots of toy ralroads get blown up, there's an arch-villain bent on world conquest, a pretty damsel, a dimpled Dudley do right hero dude, and a giant robot ape, built by the malevolent Dr. Who - PLUS the REAL King Kong (played of course by a guy in an ape suit).

Yeah, this is gettin' a little confusing.

Rent the movie and I think this flick will open some eyes. Keep a keen eye on Dr. Who the evil Frankenstein creator of Robo-Kong. Watch this ambitious cat especially close. He might remind you of somebody. This guy's got mcCain & McCampaign written all over him.

The movie's climax between dueling dudes in ape suits, trashing tram cars, sky scrapers, toy cars, trains and plains, and just generally makin' a metropoltan mess out of Tokyo, might be a potent portent of what a McCain presidency might be something like, should, god forbid, such a thing come to pass.

As for Palin, I think Palin is personified in the picture by both Kongs. Flesh 'n blood Kong, and Robot Kong. I dunno, some people might disagree. What do I know! I see kind of a ying-yang thing goin' on between the two Kongs. Crazy I'm sure, but Kong is more complex than you might imagine.

Anyway, I dunno. Check it out. "King Kong Escapes."

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:26 PM

'Lil Sprouts

Sproutin' up from Celery Seed

Good daze Indeed...

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:43 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

I guess I'm too old school in some areas of pop culture.

I don't watch TV anymore, like my monsters to have a guy inside 'em, shun the shit out of CGI, and I dunno, Godzilla's got a lizard brain, while at least Kong is a furry forebearer of us humans, albeit an oversized one, so I dunno, guess I've gone all Mr. Softy on Sarah.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:00 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

"Joe Middle East?"

I'm not up on that one. All Mid-East experts are anything but. You can't slap a bright n' shiney barometer on a geographic area as old and diverse as the Mid-East.

Winds always blow arbitrarily in the desert and it's the same in Mid-East politics.

Obama is always on the receiving end of the ignorant slander of the goons of the doom platoons. The Red Sea is gonna turn into green creme cheese if Obama takes office!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:41 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@ J. Walsh

If by "expert" you're talking about Bill the Pistol Kristol, hasn't anybody yet figured out, that like Thom Friedman, this guy fires nothin' but blanks?

Back when I used to watch the tube I used to watch Friedman pontificate on how he figured the political pieces would all fall together from everything from the Gulf War to the Lebaneese civil war, and the pieces would always invariably fly out of his arrogant "educated" hands, and gust out into open, empty space.

I never cared much for him, but what ever happened to Fuad Adjami? Still, if you want iron insight, Christianne Amanpor is still I'm guessing (if she's still around) the smartest and most meticulously informed of all Mid-East "experts."

Krystol though, is the creme de la creme of the crooked Mid-East political forecasters. Krystol had the actual gaul to get up with his gung-hoing, and say completely unambiguously, that invading Iraq, would be an in and out, cake walk.

Fox viewers evidently aren't as clever as a fox to not take notice of the fact that Kristol has phonied ever factoid he's foisted on a gullible television audience about Iraq.

Kristol is your Godzilla, a lying, lizard brained, war cheerleader, who's paid none of the personal consequences, of a mayhem, that he urged millions into.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:57 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@ J. Walsh

I Don't think Joe's gonna part the Red Sea with his plunger, but stranger things could happen.

I mean, if Bill Krystol, and other flashing video entities, can ease people into the easy urge of invading Iraq, who knows what people will buy.

One thing I do believe, is that people are more keenly interested in domestic matters at THIS moment in time.

Israel, Iran, and the state of modern plumbing in the modern Middle East, is probably not foremost in the minds of many Americans, except of course Joe.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 02:57 AM
Original article: Hot for the "First Dude"

This guy's hot?

He looks like a fuckin' gorilla.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 09:23 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@D. S. Zink

Correct and succinct:

"Wack job's" a "hit."

"Whack job's" a sanity miss ~ a "loopy"...a "loony."

A hails from Metro Mars, and follows Sun-Yung Mooney.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:01 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@Elephantitus

Viet Nam & Iraq

Two wrong turns

Don't make a Right-us.....

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:28 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

Kristol Ball Bill

Has Uber-Mention

Aluminumn Will

The Escape of King Crab Kong.

Kristol

Again Twitch-Pitchin' Wrong.

Thus the Zarathustra Spake

On behalf of the Mark of McCain's

Belated Sake

Obama finds a friendly Nitch-ee

Things are closin' in

Folks are gettin' all Watchful 'n Itchy

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:42 AM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@auntiecairo

Perhaps Fey Ray is maybe a metaphor for an American public pressed in by the furry fingers and palms of an enormous, lumbering, 8 years gone up the Empire State Building, republican ape.

I dunno. Get the Cliff's Notes to the Classics for all the key clues to this Cliffhanger.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:38 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@blue oyster bongo pony

A masterful Zilla-thrilla. Hold on to your snowmobiles!

Thanx for that.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:51 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@Quiet Type

Is that pronounced like "galleria" with a strong "KH" inflection on the first syllable?

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 01:04 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

Hebrew & Arabic both have "KH"

Sounds like Johan Sebastian Ba(KH!)ch.

Galleria is a big mall in Houston, Texas.

Gal-er-E-a

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 01:14 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

@Quiet Type

chaleria = KH-al-er-E-a?

mazbut?

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 01:18 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

Hold the cynicism

And cannibalism

If you please

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 01:27 PM
Original article: This Modern World

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

General Ursus, commander in chief of giant a guerilla army, comprised of angry, avenging apes, was heard to say:

"The only GOOD human, is a DEAD human!"

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 01:34 PM
Original article: Veepzilla!

"You can prick your finger

But don't finger your prick"

George Carlin

"Class Clown" Nineteen ~~ I forget which.

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