Josh Marshall: “The whole letter is written in a hyper-specific sort of pseudo-constitutional claptrapese to disguise the fact that what’s being said is complete nonsense.”
I think we should save that neologism for later use. It should be pronounced to emphasize etymologic ambiguity, as one might sing:
“It flew through the air with the greatest of ease/The daring young meme in the fine claptrapese.”
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The stress falls in the wrong places.
I wish you a meretricious and a happy new year.
In the movie version Hayao Miyazaki , who has shown no fear of flying or executing his own vision will replace fine with flying .
Sincerely :
Vincent Canby’s Ghostly Gangly Doppler
Critics beyond reason
Oxymoron Ltd
Observe Mr.Snow on the press claptrapeze
He’s such a glib master of mendacitease
Each word calculated his master to please
The truth he has hidden away
Apropos of nothing, “Everyone say his own kyrie eleison,” which Kieran used as a thread title and I took to be a fine Irish expression of Christian egalitarianism, is in fact from a Tom Lehrer song. I’m disappointed.
‘Everyone say his own kyrie eleison’
And genuflect genuflect genuflect
Doing the Vatican Rag, iirc
To the tune of The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, of course.
badjim—YM “wishing you a meretricious and a preposterous New Year.” With complaints of the season.
Also: 5 yrs ago today …
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