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We’re bobbing along in our barrel…

The Gormogons Posted on July 28, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 28, 2008


Hey, for the six of us who were lucky enough to get into Wonderfalls in its all-too-brief life on Fox (and enjoyed its DVD afterlife, which has more episodes than ever aired on TV), this last item is neat. And you should watch Pushing Daisies. Very clever show.

Posted in Pushing Daisies, This TV show really sucks, Wonderfalls

Where’s Ghettoputer?

The Gormogons Posted on July 28, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 28, 2008

“On vacation.” But we really know he’s scouting out a cheaper place to live.

Posted in Beirut West

Tr2n

The Gormogons Posted on July 27, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 27, 2008


I’ll reserve judgement on its suckitude, and certainly for GorT’s sake, I hope it’s good. But what the hell is up with that title? I blame David Fincher or whoever came up with the idea of spelling Seven with a numeral. That went even further downhill to the proposed De2cent which has happily been changed. And now Tr2n? Wilco Tango Foxtrot? It’s 1337, which is lame enough, but there’s no visual correspondence between a 2 and an o! Not even close! Grrr.

END OF LINE

Posted in This movie really sucks

That movie might Suck, But…

The Gormogons Posted on July 27, 2008 by GorTJuly 27, 2008

..this one hopefully won’t. I think you can safely sign up ol’ GorT for seeing this one.

Posted in T2on, This movie really sucks

O, say, can you see?

The Gormogons Posted on July 26, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 26, 2008

I can’t see my man Silent Cal. But pretty entertaining. As with most things from JibJab, who have a right Gormogonical temperament about politics.

Posted in Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, JibJab, We forgive Adm. Sir George Cockburn 10th Bt.

“Bianca Jagger advocates Tridentine Mass”

The Gormogons Posted on July 26, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 26, 2008


Hmm. Can’t say I saw that one coming.

Posted in Missa Tridentina

In my defense (and, remember, I’ve got a sawed-off)

The Gormogons Posted on July 26, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 26, 2008

The lawnmower had it coming. And hey, my name is long, sure. And rhymes with an Umpty. But come on, know your Gormogon history! Who was the Œcumenical Volgi back in the day? That’s right, Confucius! And writing 孔夫子 is a whole lot more Œconomical than “Confucius” or “K’ung-fu-tzu*.” You can just call me ŒV, though, GorT. (GorT! Klaatu barada nikto! Which reminds me, how much is this gonna suck? I’m thinking “muchly.” I do like that inadvertent highlighting of Keanu’s wooden acting style, “Derrickson felt Reeves could portray a lack of humanity…”)

*Wade-Giles is the Official Chinese Transliteration System of the Gormogons.

Posted in Confucius, Gormogonica, Guns, Klaatu barada nikto, Ted "Theodore" Logan, The Lawnmower Man

Making the Blog More Funny

The Gormogons Posted on July 26, 2008 by GorTJuly 26, 2008


We’re here to mock, so I’ll mock away: Apparently, 孔夫子, the Œcumenical Volgi (The Notorious ŒV) – could he have a longer name?, took matters into his own hands to make the blog more funny. See the news report here. Maybe he found a way to make his iPhone a sawed-off shotgun.

Posted in Guns, Mocking, Wisconsin

Technomonology

The Gormogons Posted on July 26, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 26, 2008


Though this is encroaching on GorTechie’s territory, I realize we haven’t talked about technology. Also, it’s been too damn serious around here. So, killing two birds with one stone, I hereby order, BLOG, BE MORE FUNNY!.

(God, I want that program to the right.)

Posted in Uncategorized

When “service” means “serving the state”

The Gormogons Posted on July 25, 2008 by Confucius, Œc. Vol.July 25, 2008


Here is a great essay by the brilliant Andrew Ferguson on McCain and Obama’s egomaniacal exaltation of politics as “service” greater than leading one’s “self-interest,” which is to say one’s own life and doing good in service to one’s family, church, business, etc.

Condescension lies behind the call to a [Cause Greater Than One’s Self-Interest]. Why does a candidate feel compelled to exhort his nation to a higher cause, especially a cause that’s purposely left gauzy and undefined? He reveals a low opinion of his countrymen by doing so. He implies a population lost in self-absorption and narcissism, each member ignoring others in pursuit of selfish ends. It takes a lot of nerve to say that, even by insinuation—and since Obama and McCain want to make it personal, let’s do.

It gets better from there.

And, not to get too highbrow, but it never hurts to remember…

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.” — Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk. I, ch. II.

“Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the publick interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it…. He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.” — Ibid., bk. IV, ch. II

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