Are you ready for the next round of Taibbi? The Goldman Sachs vampire squid arguments stretched out for well over a month around his last piece, which is something like 9 years in Internet time. Now he has been interviewing doctors with horror stories. (They are horrific!) So this is how they're still doing it: Rolling Stone hits newsstands now with the piece. The website posts unembeddable video of a backlit Matt Taibbi talking about the piece. Which are kind of good videos actually! But are still not the piece. Right now, in some suburban basement, someone is typing it up, and they will illegally (sort of) post it on the web, and we will all read it and feel bad that we are STEALING. Then maybe some of us will go by the magazine in shame. Also there is something slightly disjointed about Taibbi's video v. text persona? (Or, sorry, actual person.) In person, he's a big and large friendly man with lots of chest hair, and, in video, uses grandma-stern words like "ridiculous." This is as opposed to the sort of post-gonzo super-angry writing thingie. Anyway. Just thinkin' out loud here, pretty much. Kinda hot out there, right? Update: OH and also he is beginning the healthcare talk all up on his True/Slant page!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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Hey...I kinda crush on Taibbbi as well. I always listen to about half of what he is talking about and the rest of the time I'm thinking about our house on the Cape we share with our two dogs.
I WANT TO LICK HIS FACE OFF.
ALSO HE CAN GRANDMA STERN ME ANY TIME. (Sorry. I've got it baaaad for that little scamp.)
It's like he's all shy and bashful and shit.
fun fact: he played professional basketball in the 90s in Siberia. True!
I thought it was Mongolia.
I feel Grandma Stern about all that flyaway hair. Don't they have some of sort of singer-payer system (a stylist, perhaps?) who could keep that Taibbi pate under control? Surely such a claim would never be denied.
He waited until NOW to talk about single payer? This might have been useful three months ago, but not now.
Agreed. At the same time I understand what with all the research he does and it being on-parchment Rolling Stone it's hard t get that far out in front of something. Like with GS. Plus, just a few months ago NOBODY saw this whole town hall clusterfuck of tea partiers actually capable of blocking health reform. In a way, Matt functions more like an angry ombudsman than anything else.
I want to tug his forelock.
Hah, I'm seen as manic and silly in person by a lot of people who don't know me too well, but my writing is full of angst and depression. There'd probably seem to be a disconnect there, too, I would think. Both sides are equally who I am, though.
I've been reading "Spanking the Donkey" poolside all week with zero effect until today when my bikini top spontaneously exploded. I don't know what would happen if I read this article...