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Here’s the stage plot for all the upcoming Mount Eerie shows with a new band, playing songs off Clear Moon and Ocean Roar, and other stuff.
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Clients From Hell: Client from another century -
To be fair, this client is more of an old acquaintance that I’ve more or less adopted. He shows up every couple of years with a new idea he needs help with. The latest is a one page website for his wood sculptures. He does all his email and web browsing at the library and calls from a pay phone.
Client: I noticed down at the bottom where my email address is that when I click it, it launches some kind of email thing.
Me: What’s the problem? Is that the wrong email?
Client: No, it’s the right email, I just don’t want that on my website. That technology has got to be expensive and I don’t want to be paying for that. So just take it off. I just want my email there so people can read it. I don’t need any of this fancy stuff that makes things pop up.
Me: That’s how every email address on every site in the world works. It doesn’t cost anything. It’s just a hyperlink that launches your email client.
Client: You mean that doesn’t cost extra to make that happen?
Me: No. But now I’m curious. What do you normally do when you see an email address on a site and want to email them?
Client: I just get out a pen and paper and write it down. Then I go to my Hotmail account and type in their email. Isn’t that what everyone does?Me: Nope, you’re probably the only one.
Client: Okay then.
He paid me in a vial of gold nuggets, a mini-sewing machine and a fishing knife. He offered me a homemade surfboard, but I didn’t have room for it at my place.
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John seems like a real fucking idiot.
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Before HBO, Baron Cohen had a show on Britain’s Channel 4, where Ali G wreaked havoc on an English upper class conditioned by hundreds of years of colonial history not to walk away from the savage in front of them, no matter how strangely he was behaving. In America, the show took a more self-critical tone, as upstanding police sheriffs and Sam Donaldson attempted to school this dim foreigner before he hurt himself or someone else. But the gag was more or less the same — everyone was in on the joke, except the person with a microphone in front of his face.
In retrospect, it’s striking what a ’90s project this was — the last gasp of an alternative-minded culture that believed in a sharp divide between a small number of people who were in the know and the vast, ignorant, lamestain mass of everyone else. The show was brilliant because it so effectively corralled the cynicism of the moment under the guise of dim sincerity. (Ali G surely helped invent Stephen Colbert, whose show premiered a year after Da Ali G Show went off the air.) Baron Cohen spoke nonsense to power in a funny accent, and we loved him for it. The joke eventually exhausted itself, though, and so Baron Cohen retired Ali G, right as we, his audience, were retiring the delusion that we were somehow superior to the rest of the big, dumb mid-aughts culture in which we were even then enthusiastically participating.
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