Dean's World

You know, increasingly I find myself suppressing the urge to write a rant about why some other weblogger annoys me. The more often I suppress that urge, the easier it gets.

Well, now, that can only end up working out to my benefit.

You can make six figures from blogging? Wow, that's so awesome. I hope my blog gets that big.

I clicked through on the Malkin post to a Sullivan post about some "awards" he gave out. The post beneath that contained a link to "The Top Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time". Here's my favorite:

Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951)

In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his workshop, convinces Santa to go on strike. The special ends with the entropic collapse of the civilization of takers and the spectacle of children trudging across the bitterly cold, dark tundra to offer Santa cash for his services, acknowledging at last that his genius makes the gifts — and therefore Christmas — possible.

Prior to broadcast, Mutual Broadcast System executives raised objections to the radio play, noting that 56 minutes of the hour-long broadcast went to a philosophical manifesto by the elf and of the four remaining minutes, three went to a love scene between Santa and the cold, practical Mrs. Claus that was rendered into radio through the use of grunts and the shattering of several dozen whiskey tumblers. In later letters, Rand sneeringly described these executives as "anti-life."

This is what Ayn Rand actually said about Christmas. By the way, next time you complain about the Left being misrepresented, just think about the way they smear Ayn Rand all the time. A bunch of fucking Stalinoids, and I, for one, have had it with them.

I should have looked at the link and the context before I flew into a snit. Sometimes I have no sense of humor at all -- particularly when it comes to Ayn Rand. I've just seen way too many gratuitous, lame attacks on Ayn Rand by people who wouldn't be worthy to clean her toilet if she were still alive, who couldn't come anywhere close to writing anything comparable to "The Fountainhead" or "Atlas Shrugged". OK. The "National Lampoon" is supposed to make fun of everybody. Even the riff on Chomsky didn't strike me as all that funny. The whole thing was pretty tepid compared to the stuff I used to read in the "National Lampoon" back in the 1970s. That stuff was a riot! Maybe I'm in too intense a mood today.

Sean Kinsell:

Someday maybe I will calm down. That will be when I'm shovelled into my grave. Or are you suggesting a lobotomy? I have had it with people telling me to calm down.

Anyway.... This whole Sullivan thing. Sullivan vs. Malkin. Quite a pair. That's the kind of thing I find hilarious. The both of them, or either of them separately. And Derbyshire. I sure loved it when Sullivan got up in a bad mood and asked: "Did Derbyshire fart again?" Sullivan and Derbyshire. Quite a pair. My brother says that he read a book on mathematics by Derbyshire. Interesting.... I don't know any math, but Derbyshire does have an interesting _style_. I don't watch TV, but it would be funny to see a "sit-com" in which Sullivan and Derbyshire have to share a room. The thought of that cracks me up. Derbyshire once wrote that the word "Lesbian" made him laugh. Funny, I always have the same reaction whenever I see the name "Derbyshire". Quite a character. Sullivan, Malkin, and Derbyshire. Like Ignatz Mouse, Krazy Kat, and Offissa Pupp? Hmmm....