Posted on 11/24/2004 4:18:51 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Iowahawk is one of the funniest satirists alive. I have been his fan since before either of us was a blogger, going back to the earliest stage of pre-Windows DOS-based internet conservatism. We have even broken bread together. Thus I am chagrinned to have missed until now his laugh-out-loud hilarious piece on the agonies of coastal parents living in trendy zip codes discovering that their children have been attracted to the dark side, the forbidden realm, and have taken to wearing trucker's caps, listening to country music, and going to livestock shows.
The tone is letter-perfect, and the examples chosen to breathlessly illustrate the dilemma of the elitists will crack you up. An excerpt:
"It was one day last spring," says Ellen McCormack. "My life partner Carol and I were in the garage, working on a giant Donald Rumsfeld papier mache head for the Bay Area March Against the War, when Rain walked by. I thought he looked kind of strange, so I stopped him and looked closely into his eyes. Then I realized the truth -- he was wearing a mullet. I was shocked, but he swore to me that it was only ironic."
"After a few months, it was clear Rain had lied to us -- that hideous Kentucky waterfall was completely earnest," she adds, choking back sobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
so, you are saying a mullet is a trucker's cap?
learn somethin' new most ev'ryday.
Very good, most subtle, nuanced and amusing. He really knows his Blue State BS too, i think the lib references are the best part, he really nails 'em all. Andover, Vasser, Park Slope! It's a truly brilliant piece, an instant classic.
You realize this just caused flashbacks of keying in modem commands while placing the phone handset in to rubber boot.
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