Tag: Huffington Post

Friday

September 15, 2006 / Neil Kramer / 23 Comments

What a coincidence!Â I live in Redondo Beach, too!

Other more important things:

Danny Miller ofÂ Jew Eat Yet has a terrific piece in the Huffington Post (or asÂ Sophia calls it,Â “that vile Hollywood liberal rag”)

Jay Allen of theÂ ultra-popular Zero Boss has a funny video complaining about his hosting company, Dreamhost, and mentions me.Â (I’m with Dreamhost, too, and it is the reason this site has been down half the week)Â

Ms. Sophia Lansky sends regards.Â She is working very hard on the movie in New York — 16 hour days — but she is now getting paid more.Â Sophia is a Russian dialect coach toÂ an American actress (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and an American English dialect coach to a Russian actor (Semyon Strugachev).Â Â But she still gets to see “The Producers”Â on Sunday.

I am getting the bulk of my traffic today from Pantiesetc.com, the Men in Panties Community (I am not joking!).Â I’m not sure whether I should be happy or concerned about this interesting development with my blog.

And hear this, former “Bloggers With Biceps” membersÂ — we have a success story way better than any other phony one from Jenny Craig — Alison joined a gym back then.Â Not only is she now a sexy hardbody,Â but she’s going to WORK atÂ her gymÂ and inspire others!

And finally, since this post is really about nothing, I have a couple of real-life questions that might give you a hint of the excitement of my day tomorrow.Â Â What do people use that is most effective in cleaning a kitchen floor andÂ shower/bathtub?Â Â And do men still iron their dress shirts or do they usually give them out to the cleaners?

A Year Ago on Citizen of the Month:Â My First Attempt at Looting

Politics After Tragedy

August 30, 2005 / Neil Kramer / 59 Comments

In today’s Huffington Post, writer/editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel writes about Hurricane Katrina:

Like all Americans I have been horrified watching the destruction wrought on New Orleans by this natural disaster. And I suppose like others who share the name Katrina, it has been eerie hearing and reading my name all over the news. But when Fox News started calling the hurricane, Killer Katrina, I started praying some rightwing idiot wouldn’t stoop so low as to personalize or politicize all of this human suffering.

I found this statement a little odd. First of all, I doubt that this well-known liberal editor of the Nation was home watching Fox News. Even if she were, why is she assuming that someone would personalize this human suffering? Because the hurricane is called Katrina? And her name is Katrina? Right off the back, I know that this is someone with a big ego.

Of course, someone with a bigger ego, Rush Limbaugh, actually did stupidly call the storm Hurricane Katrina Vanden Heuvel and warned his listeners that the left would use this tragedy against the right.

Katrina Van Heuvel rightly takes Limbaugh to task, saying that this is no time for conservatives to use this tragedy as a political tool.

Of course, in the same Huffington Post, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes an article practically blaming the Republicans for energy policies that caused the hurricane.

As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2….This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.

Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and–now–Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

Can we at least wait until the LOOTING STOPS before we get into politics over this?

Letter to Diane Keaton

May 18, 2005 / Neil Kramer / 3 Comments

Dear Ms. Keaton,

We have a new mayor here in Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa. I wish him well as I know you do. It is unsettling that the election only drew 30 percent of the registered voters. I absolutely agree with you in your column yesterday (in the Huffington Post) about the city’s lack of interest in the local election.

Interestingly, this same disinterested town was extraordinarily energized during the presidential election. Which makes me wonder if the love of the blockbuster out here has infected the way we see everything. We no longer care about the mid-level anything. The mayor’s race is a "small" election. Apparently we’re all waiting for the next mega-budget political extravaganza — coming to a ballot box near you in the fall of 2008.

It’s a big problem in society. The media only focuses on the blockbuster. I think I can help.

Surely you must be tired of writing your opinions on that media-driven celebrity "blockbuster" blog that’s been talked about in every newspaper in the country because of famous bloggers like you. I am mid-level stuff here at Citizen of the Month. Actually, my blog has very little readership, although I’m well-liked by my five readers (not including my mother). Dump that Huffington Post machine and come guest write for Citizen of the Month. If you really care about the "mid-level," even "small" stuff, than I am your ticket out. (I’m also a big fan of your work and once saw you shopping in Santa Monica!)

Sincerely,

Neil at Citizen of the Month