CP Cover On The Nutters Bends Over Backwards Not To Utter The True Name Of Our New Leader, BIZARRO NUTTER!
On one hand, you have to admire the extreme deference of Doron Taussig‘s cover story for City Paper this week, “The Nutters.” On one hand, Doron pretty much will do anything to step around the “Bizarro Nutter” concept this blog and its readers have pretty much owned for a month or two now. On the other, by not even doffing his cap to what the people already know, the guy goes a looooooong way around the block to identify all these other Nutters: Nutter the Oligarch, Nutter the Incompetent, Nutter the Responsible Grown-Up, Nutter the Same-Old and Nutter the Unlucky. All of which basically obscure the fact that when you get right down to it, there are really only two Nutters: The Dude, who you voted for, and Bizarro Nutter, who you didn’t. Doron, we’d tell you to forget about it and just buy us a six-pack and call it a day already, but we’re afraid that you’d just pretend to ignore us, buy us a bottle of wine, and act like you came up with the idea all by yourself. Whatevs.
CP: Some Other Nutter’s Problem
December 12th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Yea this has Philebrity written all over it. Not too long ago someone at City Paper rewrote something I wrote on my blog as their own with no reference to me, but you know me I don’t want to rock the boat, that’s why I read you, you have no fear.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
On one hand, You have pretty weak case in Taussig’s lack of acknowledgment regarding attribution of ‘your’ pretty generic point. One one hand you have the irony of pointing out weakness in that story with your inarticulate language and techniques (in this post, at least).
Then on another one-hand, your main argument that Taussig’s device of Psychophrenic-Nutter over complicates the real issue of ‘the dude you voted for vs the dude you didn’t’ is absurd. Maybe if there wasn’t the incredibly complicated setting of the budget crises, it would just be a silly criticism, but the variables involved here call for much more thoughtfulness then you are suggesting.
And finally, on the other hand, you blew it in the end regardless; if you were going for anything other than snide and corny, you whiffed.
December 14th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Let me guess, Joe: You’re a friend of Doron’s. And actually, we weren’t going for anything other than snide or corny. Because that’s all this shit merited. But on the other hand…
http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2008/12/12/how-michael-nutter-screwed-me-slightly/
December 15th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Far enough; but lets clean up the blogs in 09. Eradicate the Jilted bitchiness.