So, clearly I haven't been blogging much lately. I'm not sure what my problem is, it most likely relates to the fact that my boss doesn't like me goofing off at work, and when I'm at home I have a busy schedule of WOW and book research to do, but I have to blog this...
Right now, Hussain is in the Bahamas, buying weed off the locals, and getting even more brown. I was suspicious that this was a foul deed on his part, since Munk and I have been WOWing away while his faggy Iranian girl-Paladin languishes at a pitiful level 15, thus creating a really annoying level discrepancy for us to overcome. Munk's Welsh priest, Amarydd, is level 21, and my mage, Guostav, is level 23. By the time that fuckin ripper gets back from vacation, we'll probably have passed his original character, Tsienne, as well.
But all that is digression. I knew Hussain's trip had angered the gods when I drove into work today, and heard Marc Maron announce his guest co-host on Morning Sedition, Mr. Anthony Lappe, from the Guerrilla News Network. Hussain loves getting more angles on shit like that, and so he was sorely punished for his selfish caribbean cavorting by missing the show.
In practice, Lappe was really pretty mundane and predictable. He had the standard radio-liberal voice, a little too youthful sounding for all the decisive and derisive opinions he was chucking around, and lots of laughs at all the obvious evils of the world. He was very upset with all the mercenary groups in Iraq right now, who he feels are war profiteers, completely ignoring the fact that mercenaries, by definition, are war profiteers. Beyond that, he really didn't have much to say, certainly nothing worthy of the madness I witnessed over the years at GNN, but then again he was always a voice of faggy reason relative to the borderline personalities that populated GNN.
The only really exceptional part of the show was when some guest Maron had on, some guy who had written about the end of cheap oil, started them all out on bashing “the suburbs.” It was a really exceptional degree of hate and loathing those guys put on display, made all the more exceptional by the pride and self-congratulation they seemed to think their insights merited. To paraphrase, after Maron says something about how all condos are the same, the guest (whom I'm not even interested enough in to look up his name) basically says something like “well, there's many villages in Tuscany that look the same, but the point is they're all excellent in the same way, whereas the suburbs are all horrible in the same way, and are terrible places to live, and totally dehumanizing and designed to steal from the middle class.” Just spectacular levels of elitism and hypocritical bullshit.
And Hussain missed it all.