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And Matthew Barney is one of those countercultural yuppies who's so damned succesful at every endeavor that it makes me want to hit him over the head with a brick.
I have never heard of Matthew Barney (first thought: the stock brokers?). Whenever she does anything other than sing I find Bork irritating in much the same way the buzz of a mosquito is irritating and I never find McSweeney's funny.
Yes, I am in for the beating of social conservatives. Mind you, there a couple of people here in my office that may or may not be social conservative. Can we beat them too? Then, I will demand to be laid off, with a fat severance package!
I hate emoticons, but they're necessary, dame. You'd be surprised how many people think you're serious when you say you're going to do something totally metaphorical, like shove their ill-logic and idiotic florid prose up their wazoo. I don't need any restraining orders, thank you.
Eh, I've gotten by without them. At the outside, I use [imagine apprpriate emoticon here], which is trading on the fact they exist, I suppose, but avoids the sheer wickedness somehow.
Then again, who the fuck listens to me? No one, that's who. You can tell by all those assholes blocking the escalator.
The escalator blockers as a group are why I think it should be legal to carry a pike. Short stop and get 7 inches of cold rusty iron in the kidney, pow.
Socially conserve and get 17 inches of dark brown silicon rubber to the kneecap.
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