dude was funny, but I didn't agree with him much. rhetorical skills were first-rate.
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
uncountable favors for the unimportant graduates of elite universities
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
he got college kids drunk--awesome!
― flexidisc, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
"my first sanctimonious opinion" for kids to young to have lived through bill hicks
― one pug (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 16 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
otm http://coreyrobin.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-the-most-provincial-spirit-of-all
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
RIP, Opinionator.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
BigBossOgg : 12/16/11 11:10
Yes, he is certainly in for a surprise, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it glorious.
In fact, I am betting my immortal soul on the probability that he's begging for a chance for just one moment, to warn his brother, warn his friends back here in the realm of the living, of the horrors awaiting non-believers.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Spending eternity in heaven with someone called BigBossOgg sounds like hell to me, so.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
c'mon, you could spend all of eternity chasing those goldurned Duke boys thru the swamp
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
till they crossed county lines
― silby, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
which is apparently some sort of force field
The glee among believers in eternal damnation was utterly predictable here. Now they get to let their imaginations run wild devising gory punishments for Hitchens, for daring to question what they imagine to be true.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
foster the sheeple
― one pug (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
― OH NOES, Friday, December 16, 2011 12:45 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
i believe you mean the uke boys
― max max max max, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
hahah I did almost write that
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Well I wondered what the other Hitchens was going to say:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2075133/Christopher-Hitchens-death-In-Memoriam-courageous-sibling-Peter-Hitchens.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
ding dong the hitch is dead
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
A letter from Sully's blog:
I've been reading and enjoying your work for years, but I've never felt compelled to write until now. I know you'll get a million of these, but here's my Hitch story:
I once went to hear Hitchens speak in San Francisco. Afterward, he was signing books. I was broke and didn't have enough money for a book, but I got in line just to thank him for his articles denouncing Kissinger, which meant a lot to me and my parents, who were both deeply affected by the Vietnam War. I told him all this. He listened - he seemed as good at listening as speaking - and he asked me all kinds of questions. We talked for a bit, and finally he asked if he could sign something. I told him I didn't have enough money for a book. Without hesitating, he pulled one off the pile, asked for my parents' names, and inscribed the book to them. One of the best moments of my life. I loved the man. He's left the world to a bunch of fucking lightweights, but we have to try our best.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Similar to my experience.
One of the best moments of my life.
:( :( :(
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, why couldn't that person have had a better life.
― William (C), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
seriously
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
must be all the fucking lightweights
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Looking back, I realize now I should have fucked more lightweights.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Perrin has a new piece up:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/12/letter-to-lost-friend.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
We then went to HBO Studios where you were to debate John Podhoretz on Comedy Central. It was a live show. You said "fuck" several times. Moderator Al Franken told you to stop. You replied, "I thought I was allowed to say whatever the fuck I wanted!" The segment ended early.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol ned p sure perrin is just some guy morbs made up
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
We are all Dennis Perrin.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
its full of stars
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not DP but we have the same initials
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
hitch taught us how politics could be rocknroll
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
who will teach us how politics can be rickroll
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Obama
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
"Never Gonna Lock You Up"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
i remember one july afternoon at a convention center in san antonio the louche figure of hitch was draped over a sedan wth two vassar girls, smoking rollups and downing a magnum of pol roger
a hieratic silence prevailed
'never let the islamo-nazis win', he intoned to the assembled press corps
everyone cheered
hitch was inspirational like that
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, 16 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thedialecticalplaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Hitchens1.jpg
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
sweet christ
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
mine eyes
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
paging dom
― one pug (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 16 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
You guys never read his VF piece on his makeover?
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Died the day the Iraq War ended, his work complete I guess...
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, December 16, 2011 11:00 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark
"Only a writer of Hitchens’s talents could do justice to the culture that now so shamefully mourns him."
what sanctimonious garbage
― river wolf, Friday, 16 December 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
eh supporting the Iraq War is pretty unforgiveable imho
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 December 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
dont be so sanctimonious abt this war that killed hundreds of thousands of people guy jeez
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
He contained multitudes. Righteous truthsayer, imperial asshole.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
no i meant dont be so sanctimonious about ppl expressing (possibly conflicted!) regret about the passing of an interesting and forceful personality
― river wolf, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
let me do the next part for you:
"did u kno hitler was an interesting and forceful personality mmmmmm ~think about it~"
― river wolf, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
"a bunch of people got bombed by people that weren't this sad drunk blowhard oh well its sad, he was a alcoholic"
― river wolf, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
christopher hitchens was a total asshole!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 17 December 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link