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• Achewood’s Chris Onstad admires the King of Angry: “If you’re like me, you know the power of watching Gordon Ramsay yell at people. He is truly fantastic at it. He is the Jimmy Page of becoming angry.”
• Jim Treacher is angry too.
• A person may become angry when trying to access the sometimes-OK LA-based Defamer, only to be redirected to the incredibly weak Australian version.
Coming up in the next weeks: updates on the status of the Great Outdoor Fight hardcover I’m doing with Dark Horse, Achewood Cookbook II, the “how to make a living off web-comics” book I hope to distribute as a PDF soon, and a really kickin’ version of the 1969 GOF announcement poster. (I am trying to at least do one of these from each decade.)
Too much awesomeness.
:^D
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 28 at 01:52 PM • permalink*This headline combines two more things white people like: referencing indie films you haven’t seen and whining that nobody reads your blog. Actually three things, since it’s an indie film about an alt-country band. And this “ironic” footnote makes four. We really can’t help it, can we?
Umm… more like “Things Urban White Leftist Snobs Like”.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 28 at 02:00 PM • permalinkGordon Ramsey, Sheesh.
Those shows only work because people are paid to take the abuse.
In real life Gordon would have a 6 inch ceramic de-boning knife shoved up his ass so fast he wouldn’t have the time to complain about the demi-glace being over-cooked .
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 02 28 at 02:23 PM • permalinkThe one thing I do like about Gordon Ramsey is his refusal to put up with excuses and such.
Sometimes it can be a bit harsh, but dang… these are people who’ve made a mess of their business so need to get shook up a bit.
And, there is some value to him having made many of the same mistakes in his career, and then gone through a recovery. Makes him more suited to see the patterns promoting failure from more than a theoretical angle.
Gordon Ramsay gives me hives. If he talked to me the way he talks to the people on his show I’d punch him in the face. Sure I’d get jailed and sued and stuff (probably), but I’d have the satisfaction of having punched Gordon Ramsay in the face.
I’d like to kick that French chef guy on Last Restaurant Standing in the nads too. By the way, what is it with all these stink-of-desperation, I-must-have-a-restaurant shows anyway? Do people really dream so obsessively about owning and running a restaurant that they are willing to be humiliated on tv in front of millions of viewers? I think it’s pathetic, not to mention a troubling indication of just how far down the slippery slope to oblivion Western society has fallen. Whatever happened to the mean ex-Sarge running the greasy spoon diner whose only reply to complaints from diners was “If you don’t like what I serve you don’t have to come here”? I’d like to sic a guy like that on Ramsay.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 28 at 03:11 PM • permalinkAudiences looking for non-addictive insomnia cures and lovemaking soundtracks clearly prefer Leno’s middling presence and chirpy joke-delivery over his more cantankerous competitors.
The idea of Leno as a “lovemaking soundtrack” makes me want to rip out my cerebral cortex and put it through the dishwasher. I just wanted to share the pain with all of you.
I’m with Joe, but I would use a Zulu spear. Would give his demise a touch of “How do you like that, you pompous, snotty a%@$%^$?”
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2008 02 28 at 04:13 PM • permalinkUmm… more like “Things Urban White Leftist Snobs Like”.
#77: Being Overly Literal.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2008 02 28 at 04:22 PM • permalinkCan’t stand the idea of people being humiliated or abused for my entertainment, but frankly I feel like cheering when Ramsay goes through those idiots who think they can run a kitchen like a Bangladeshi rug factory. Like the guy on last night’s show who barbecued kebabs and then served them up re-heated the next day. Reminds me of friends who were staying in an English B&B - they snuck in late one night and found the owner - at midnight - frying the eggs for next morning’s breakfast.
Defamer Australia is written by Jessica MacGuire (sp?), who used to write her ‘Ausculture’ blog. She’s the biggest leftie, like, evah. I think Clem Bastow also contributes to Defamer Aus. Clem briefly had a ‘noise pollution’ blog for Fairfax and wrote a column about - music? something? - for one of the Age liftout magazines. She also had a leftie, self-indulgent blog lightningstruckitself.blogspot.com.
Anyone that can build a 100 Million quid empire from tellling people to “fuck off” and informing them correctly that they are wankers is all right by me.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 28 at 09:58 PM • permalinkClearly I need a tv show. There are so many people in every profession who need to be told they are wankers. And then slapped across the face with a dead fish. It’s a sure-fire hit!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 28 at 10:52 PM • permalinkAndrea,
Always glad to see you join in, can’t remember how long ago it was when your blog was a daily read, waay before “Administrator” and Tim Blair.
Anyway, I love Gordon! Like all his “victims” didn’t write BBC to say they’ve got a failing resturant and “please!” send Gordon to rescue me.
The “victims’ of Ramsay remind me of the pet owners on “Animal Cops” programming who say their emaciated pet has been fed every day!
Right!
MikeThe great thing about Stuff White People Like is that it’s making fun of people who are totally sure they set the standards and ordinary white people (and pretty much everyone else in the world) just think they’re wankers and laugh at them.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2008 02 29 at 12:49 AM • permalink#15
“I’m angry at all the “reality” dreck littering TV, like for instance, Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares”
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I can’t see how such frequent foul language is entertaining or educational, or anything but the symptom of an emotionally crippled brain.
And as for all these reality shows.
Phhht#22 Andrea
Clearly I need a tv show. There are so many people in every profession who need to be told they are wankers. And then slapped across the face with a dead fish. It’s a sure-fire hit!
Do you mean like this?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 29 at 11:54 AM • permalinkCuckoo 16 /
Can’t stand the idea of people being humiliated or abused for my entertainment,
Being a bad person, I like to watch YouTube videos lifted from “To Catch a Predator” or whatever that pedophile-entrapment show is called.
Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 02 at 10:49 AM • permalink
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