September 9, 2010
politics is not touch football
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- Sheila Ryan: Nice selection from Robin Gibb’s heyday as lead singer from Bill Crandall in Rolling Stone.
- Casey Cichowicz: And health, wealth, and happiness to those that eat them.
- Sheila Ryan: Eggs.
- Erica: Perhaps we can pick up John Waters.
- Josh Weichhand: Ugh… Yes, to all of the above. Miss you guys. Miss the time I was able to spend here. I miss...
- Sheila Ryan: In the back of my Honda Element, the moveable roadside attraction.
- Sheila Ryan: You are very good. Pray continue in this vein.
- Cooper: You are both very kind. Thank you.
- Erica Braverman: Where’s the world’s largest fork and stack of bacon?
- Casey Cichowicz: Also, I think the new Here We Go Magic album is quite good.
- Sheila Ryan: Also, it is a wonderful story, and I really want to believe it was not a contrived stunt. Damn. I want...
- Joel Bernstein: It was mostly for you.
- Sheila Ryan: Well, you just know I love that, Joel.
- Michael Grant Smith: Cooper’s entire collection of short-short stories in JMWW is a lesson of how to write...
- Sheila Ryan: It’s all in the attitude you take toward non-anecdotes — such as my not having seen the...
And a Master’s Degree in COMMUNICATION!
Thought you’d enjoy that.
That was you! I have never been so proud in my whole life.
Jesus.
Okay, I’ve gotta watch it again.
1. I would have paid big money to be in that room.
2. If I lived in Ohio, I would cross party lines and vote for this man 6 or 7 times.
YES! WHO SAID THAT? THANK YOU!!!
I wish Bill Murray were here.
I was seriously just thinking that.
I wish he’d stand still and not get so emotional!
Is it okay to be scared?
Drastic measures? Who said that!
Or maybe Chris Farley.
See y’all later–I’m driving to Ohio.
Infes-tation!
Hang on, cowgirl. The election’s not ’til November 10. I mean November 2010, excuse me.
Did they base Dale from King of the Hill on this guy, or perhaps he is impersonating Dale!
I began to feel motion-sick around 0:56. I’m a fragile flower.
I’m gonna see if he’ll marry me.
Phil, I was thinking more Joe Swanson from Family Guy.
I’m thinking that a few breathing techniques might help this guy – he really needs to breathe through his upper diaphragm, whatever that means.
Personally, I think a lengthy course of Lithium® would make all the difference.
Flannery, you are right – this man is a thief and as I’m English I can say a rogue and rapscallion!
Considering he’s running for Treasurer, those are probably not desirable qualities. Perhaps we should alert someone.
I just discovered that, alas, he did not get the nomination, despite his valiant efforts.
I am as sad as sad can be.
Man! I fear for his personal safety – I hope he doesn’t self harm.
what’s his name?
His name is PHIL DAVISON.
I’m guessing someone didn’t tell Randy Gonzalez.
He should make a guest appearance on The Family Guy as Joe’s brother, PHIL DAVISON. And he’s NOT going to apologize!
in terms of his education, in the history of the spoken word.
not satire.
I hope his failure won’t push him into burning the Qur’an or anything silly. He seemed to be on the edge.
I’m inviting Phil Davison and Randy Taylor to a press conference.
Hey y’all look what happened to the last Stark County (deputy) Treasurer
Davison – Taylor 2012.
I’ll make some bumper stickers.
Yeesh! I’m constantly reminded why I don’t vote!
I like the gesture he makes to indicate “tool.”
And I really wanted him to crush a coffee table.
Flannery, maybe make some that say Davison – Palin 2012, just in case.
No wonder he didn’t get the nomination. No stache.
How about Just Davison 2012: He’s All We Need!
yes, a stache is key. also, I thought he was too conciliatory in his closing remarks.
Yeah. What an asshole.
I’m glad I didn’t marry him.
He needs Mary Jeys to run his next campaign for public office.
Is he going to wrestle someone?
Yeah. This is a candidate just waiting for an action movie. I think I need to become his agent.
Mary, will you have buttons?
Did anybody else watch the WWF (now WWE) as a child? This guy has a future.
Hey, I just saw Aaron’s comment, but I’m not going to APOLOGIZE!
You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a treasurer.
can Amy lip sync this next?
I heard through the grapevine that he is a cousin of Andrew Simmons.
Peacock killer.
I’ll pray for him. Lauren might be busy.
I have attended, oddly enough, several Stark County Republican meetings and you should know that Phil Davison is one of their brighter bulbs. I’ve seen better Stark County Republican speakers but I’ve also seen worse. As a rule, Republicans there don’t just want to roll back the New Deal, they want to bring back McKinley. It’s the home of the Football Hall of Fame. And, it’s birthplace of the (now mostly gone) Hoover (vacuum) Company, Timkin Ball Bearings, and Diebold (of voting machine fame). All three of those companies made significant gravy on government contracts and spawned numerous psychotic anti-government wackos.
For reference only.
Canton, yes? (Canton, Stark County, Ohio.) I’ve not been to any Stark County Republican (nor other party) meetings, but time was I did a heap of consulting work in Ohio, and I got pretty good at matching town and city names with their host counties.
Diebold, eh? That’s right. That pretty much says it all.
Most excellent reference, by the way. For reference. Strictly.
Someone call his house to make sure he didn’t go home and eat his gun…
One upside of longterm conservative rule in, yes, Canton, the county seat of Stark County, is that you can buy a house for $10k, less than parking a car in Manhattan. This 90-year-old bungalow in a nice enough neighborhood, for example, is $9k.
I’m not sure it takes a genius, or even a master’s degree in communications, to do better than the current Stark County treasurer. Perhaps Mr. Davison has not fully risen to his level of incompetence as a 13-year Minerva city council member. The bar for Stark County treasurer is low. The chief deputy of the current treasurer is going to prison for embezzling $3 million (in a town that sells respectable houses for $10k). The current county treasurer said this in court yesterday about his former chief deputy:
Wow. I love ENTHUSIASM!!! IN THE MIDDLE OF DIFFICULTY LIES OPPORTUNITY! THE STAR COUNTY TREASURY OFFICE IS IN DIRE MESS!
Bless his heart, he needs a valium.
This makes me feel extremely igry.
a friend pointed me to this excellent comparison.
goddammit, Luke. that is so fucking perfect.
agreed.
Thank you, Luke and Luke’s friend. That’s hilarious.
When Flannery first posted this, I tried to find a good clip from SNL of Chris Farley as Matt Foley: Inspirational Speaker. The only good clips contain ads, and I refuse to post them. But damn–I think Phil D is ready to move into a van down by the river.
I don’t know. Wasn’t that style pretty much preaching du jour in the Deep South back when. Surely I wasn’t the only one who thought that. “Why is that man hollering at me from the pulpit?”