tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4279770972018545950..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Lenore From San FranAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-75503757204572885632014-09-07T20:53:13.923-04:002014-09-07T20:53:13.923-04:00Also (recently? may have been a rebroadcast) when...Also (recently? may have been a rebroadcast) when he tries to describe Baptists, or takes a visit to Nashville--dead flat. You have to both understand and like the people to make his kind of humor work, and it seemed as though both requirements were absent for that episode.<br /><br />We used to order Saturday so we could listen, but when he ditched his girlfriend to take up with an old flame and dropped off the air for a year, we reorganized time. When he came back, his humor was too bitter for me to bother shuffling things back, and I only hear him now and then when driving at night.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-28178886786280476652008-01-07T17:22:00.000-05:002008-01-07T17:22:00.000-05:00I had to give him up when I could no longer receiv...I had to give him up when I could no longer receive the broadcast, but it didn't hurt because I'd already given up on him--for his raging BDS (which started with RepublicanDS). I've heard the occasional bit when in range, and when he stays away from politics he's usually pretty good. Trouble is, he just won't stay away. He's addicted to BDS; fortunately for him, everything's Bush's fault now and ever after, world without end, Amen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-68907785503438314082008-01-01T11:36:00.000-05:002008-01-01T11:36:00.000-05:00I've read a couple of the Lake Woebegone books, an...I've read a couple of the Lake Woebegone books, and listened to GK enough to get the feeling that his most fanatical listeners haven't outgrown the adolescent attitude that they see *everything* in clear sharp focus, and everybody else is wearing blinders of ignorance and superstition.<BR/><BR/>He's tried to gloss over his contempt with the 'I kid because I love' excuse but the dyspeptic screeds of his that my local paper prints reveal a very bitter man.<BR/><BR/>He can turn a phrase at times, or make you chuckle, but the aftertaste usually isn't pleasant.Der Hahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05967487071137862252noreply@blogger.com