Time for a lunchtime update.
There have been a lot of preorders for my new t-shirt, but I checked the number versus everyone, and everyone has not ordered one yet. Do some of you admire the French? Are you saving up to move there along with your leftists Hollywood friends? If so, you sicken me.
There will be a contest to name the official IMAO T-Shirt Babe, but I’m still working out the details. You may have to buy a t-shirt first to enter, as that will prove the photo is recent and actually of you. Well, I’ll figure things out as quick as I can and make the announcement along with what the prizes will be. Any good suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated.
Some jerk tipped off Jonah Goldberg to my evil plan, causing him to beg for his job. Then he calls me a blogo-scab. He is so going down!
I haven’t had a chance to read it all yet, but I saw this The Onion article lastnight, and, if you’re a Rumsfeld fan, it’s worth checking out just for the headline and photo.
Right Wing Stuff has renewed their ad for another month, so make sure to check them out or I’ll have Chomps fall off a tall building and die in the next In My World™.
Finally, I have someone set up for my next interview. Who, you ask? You’ll have to wait to find out, but it should be hella cool.
UPDATE: Got this letter:
Dear Mister Frank (if that is your real name!),
You have thrown down the gauntlet against Jonah Goldberg one time too many, and boy Chester, we won’t take it lying down!
http://gphiles.com/archives/1973.php#001973
You seem to have forgotten that Jonah has the might of an official fan blog behind him, and by fan blog I mean Coalition of the Willing. Further incursions on his livelihood or person will not be tolerated.
Cordially,
-Eric Spratling
www.gphiles.com
www.dirtycentaurs.blogspot.com
Hey! He stole my “cordially” (which I stole from William F. Buckley).
Anyway, I didn’t start this. If Jonah kept writing three times a week like he used to, there wouldn’t be cause to replace him with a younger, hipper, more productive version like me.
heh heh, blog-o-scab.
“If Jonah kept writing three times a week like he used to, there wouldn’t be cause to replace him with a younger, hipper, more productive version like me.”
That’s only because Jonah’s been busy working on his book, which will easily be worth ten IMAO t-shirts per chapter. Also, he’s further busy being married to a fine upstanding woman and raising little Lucy Goldberg, who will most assuredly grow up to be the most superb right-wing pundit on either side of the Missippi.
Now THAT’S what I call productive!
So what’s the deal Eric? Does Jonah pay you to defend him? Why don’t you find something productive to do, like strangling Lefties?
Frank… Please tell me I don’t have to buy a 3rd t-shirt to enter the contest..after all, I bought mine only a few months ago as a Christmas gift..for myself..and my one friend..
Oh, P.S. Did you really get on a plane to meet a woman??
In the “name the official IMAO T-Shirt Babe” contest, I vote for the name “Jessica”. It’s just a name I really like.
(Of course, I have to ask, why not just use the model’s real name?)
Because, Mr. Pumpkin person, Jonah strangles lefties (only in the metaphorical sense, at least as far as I know) as good or better than the best of us; exalting him is therefore a worthwhile activity.
Besides, I do my fair share of (again, metaphorical) lefty-strangling as the lone conservative opinion columnist on the newspaper of one of the four or five largest universities in the country, thank you very much (not to mention my two other blogs!). Arizona State forever, baby.
Hey, that Onion article is awesome. It’s not quite IMW-worthy, but it’s within sniping distance.
Hey Frank is there any chance of shipping your T-Shirts to other countries? The website which you sell them from doesn’t allow that, so I won’t be able to get one otherwise…:-(
I was worried for a moment. I thought I read “younger, hippier…” Close one.
I TIPPED OFF JONAH! IT WAS ME! Go back and look in the original thread! AND I’D DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!
Brit Student, if you want one, I’ll order it for you, receive it at my US address, and ship it to you. Just let me know.
Consider it a favor extended to US Allies.
he he, we found your limey replacement
Whoa! That picture of Rumsfeld ROCKS! I wish it was Halloween already so I could go as Rumsfeld…Master of Fang Island. All our troubles with furriners would be over in a heartbeat if Rummy would wear that outfit when “greeting” diplomats. By “greeting” of course I mean drawing his katana in a lightning-fast flash of silver.
Re: The Onion story
Why is Karl Rove competing?
If he wins, he’ll be working for Rumsfeld, not the elders.
Also, why is he calling himself “The Nameless One”? Isn’t that itself a name?
I wonder if Condi will be jealous of Rummy’s island fortress. It sounds so much nicer than hers.
CCinCali,
Any IMAO t-shirt would do, but I’m still working on the details.
Rummy and Ming the Merciless, one the good and the other the evil twin seperated at birth by gypsy ninja monkeys? The world wonders…
Frank just wants lots of pictures of sexy women wearing his shirt to flood his email box…
Then again…
who wouldn’t?
Well, if you’re a guy at least.
Still waiting for details Frank!
I’m sure all your male readers are just waiting for the competition to start…
Have you considered mud-wrestling competitions or something too? Because as your shirts are black, the wet t-shirt thing would probably be futile… wait, why am I talking about any of this? Just give me my free shirt! (I have witnesses, ask Amphy! :-P)
Rumsfeld with an “albino cheetah?” No way, man. Too pansy. They need Chomps.
Well BerkeleyGirl, you had to draw something to win it, but I certify that Frank said that he would give you a T-shirt. He even said that if you win, he would pay you the trip from California to Florida 🙂
CCinCali, I guess that you could try to get your third T-shirt by posing with the first one.
“Oh, P.S. Did you really get on a plane to meet a woman?? ”
At least he did it for his mummy.
all I’m saying is I better get a free shirt, whatever that may require… 😉
Oh oh, that’s a ticket Frank.
Hey Amphi, Just remember that not all the girls entering the T-Shirt contest will be single…wouldn’t want you running off to Florida after I’ve come over 3500 miles to see you BerkeleyGirl 😛
I won’t compete Brit-Student. I hate pictures, and the only thing that I know to make in front of a camera is grimaces. It’s not the sexiest way to be, but it is how I am.
I leave the competition for the youngest girls. Anyway, I would agree to be into the jury for the selection of the sexiest IMAO model.
And I cannot run off with my books.
Yeah, because 72 year olds can’t run very fast anyway. Can they Amphi? 😉
If I could run away, I would. It would be simple to take a plane and leave France, but I must bring my books with me and frontiers are not easy except if the military in Vicenza or Germany would take in charge my books so I could be free to travel myself. But that’s more like a dream, and it is far from the reality. No one will help me here. So.
When I say books, of course, I mean those written myself.
🙂