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    Stop The Election, I Wrote for The New Yorker!

    By Michael Maiello on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 3:39pm | Arts & Entertainment

    Trump who?

    Seriously, there is no other substance to this post other than this.

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    Booyah!!!! Hilarious. Congrats, Mike!

    PS But you've sort of invalidated Shuts and Failures


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 3:58pm

    Yes, I have now entirely invalidated it.  Took 4 years, though!


    by Michael Maiello on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:06pm

    I once wore a toga to a party that I was assured would be a toga party. Ironies of ironies, high school can be most cruel. Except I brought the blender and the fixings for frozen daiquris, so I had the last laugh - right, I didn't share. Fuck them. And that's what you should tell New Yorker and McSweeney's. I'm sure they've heard that before, but it bears repeating. And well, now you're in with the in-crowd, so revenge is a dish best served cold. Like frozen daiquris


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:04pm

    Wow, the extreme nationalism of this post is pretty offensive. Tos violation? There is evidence, anecdotal I admit but powerful none the less, that when this article appeared in the New Yorker so many Russians and Syrians, both Assad supporters and rebels, stopped to read it that there was a lull in the fighting in Syria. Why this focus on the American election when this was a World Wide Event? I can only conclude the cause is xenophobia.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:42pm

    That's smart business I did, getting the Syrians and the Russians to stop fighting because of laughter. Sad!


    by Michael Maiello on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:46pm

    What's sad is in that moment there was an opportunity to bring the parties together at the negotiation table and resolve this crisis. You did your part but where was Obama? Another failure to lead. Thanks Obama.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:43pm

    Bravo and congrats!  Very clever -- even better than cat videos because there is:

    a). Dialogue (hard to do well, but you did it)

    b). A plot and a very deep message (as opposed to a deep massage, which is prevalent in those videos)

    Good for you!


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:45pm

    Deep massage? What kind of f-cked up cat videos are you watching?


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:56pm

    I wish I knew how to actually SHOW videos instead of just link to them:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIiaaF9sNs

    ​Michael, I'm thinking you need a cat!


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:07pm

    Wife's allergic. We'd get a dog if the management company let us. :..(

    PS That's the most boring cat video I've ever seen (not that I've seen many cat videos)


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:14pm

    Btw, to show a video, go to the Youtube page and click Share / Embed. Then copy the code in the little box that starts with <iframe>. Then in your dag comment, click the icon that looks like a filmstrip and paste the code that you copied. Click OK and save the comment.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:27pm

    Isn't "boring cat video" redundant?


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:35pm

    Terms of Cat violations all around!


    by Michael Maiello on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:37pm

    DUDE!!

    You are so awesome! Almost as awesome as genghis. 

    But I read it twice....where's the wrestling reference? What is spotify, btw....?

    (ack!)


    by bwakfat on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:09pm

    This commenter seems vaguely familiar to me. I checked the log. Her last comment is dated July 18,1973 (BC)


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:17pm

    I've been busy. Shut up.


    by bwakfat on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:46pm

    Hi!


    by jollyroger on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:14pm

    Hi!


    by jollyroger on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:14pm

    Not yet, give me a minute.

    =)

     

    Stay safe peoples.


    by bwakfat on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:28pm

    From henhouse to safehouse. Stay whole.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:43pm

    Make American hens wholesome again


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:55pm

    Feathers on the floor again ... always a happy mess.


    by barefooted on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 8:26pm

    Yeah, but did you have your shirt on?

    GOOD FOR YOU.

    ALL RIGHTY THEN!


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:11pm

    Did I have my shirt on?

    Did I have my shirt on?

    No.


    by Michael Maiello on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:37pm

    hahhahahhah

    You are still the funniest guy on Dagblog.

    FOR SURE!

    by the by, you lie. hahahahahah


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 11:34pm

    wailing otters—actual screaming animals.

     

     

    William Shawn is  pleased...


    by jollyroger on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:46pm

    I will have you know I was a full-fledged adult when I first listened to Smashing Pumpkins...and they used to be good, but I fucking hate Billy Corgan with a passion, that man is an idiot. He's like Trump, but bald.

    Also... congratulations you youngster!


    by tmccarthy0 on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 9:39am

    Not only is he an idiot, he's a junkie idiot.

    Still, his soundtrack for Spun, a movie by idiots for idiots, is spot on: (Hmmm, I may have just called myself an idiot...)


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 9:54am

    Stop calling Peracles an idiot.  Don't make me get out my TOS book.


    by Michael Maiello on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 10:06am

    *American* Idiot. Now that I live in Europe, I'm competing with a whole different class of idiot. They even pronounce it different.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 10:28am

    Hilarious, Mike! I'm kvelling!


    by Doctor Cleveland on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 11:15am

    No smart remarks. Just echoing all the others, congratulations. 


    by Flavius on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 11:57pm

    Holy cows and Hell's bells!  I go up to the boonies for a few days and I come back to the greatest feat ever by a Dagblog member!  (Except for Michael Wolraich, who has actually published a couple of books people actually paid to read and got to talk about his book on C-span.  That's big, too, but THIS! )

    Congratulations, MM, and I mean that sincerely, even though I m writing it through my teeth because I'm so damned jealous!  But the odd thing is, Before I even saw this, I was reading someone's story last night about how long it took to finally get a piece into S&M at the New Yorker.  Six years?  Seven years?  Something like that. But now I can't find it to share with you. (Okay, I found it.  It wasn't Shouts and Murmurs, it was Talk of the Town, but it was about breaking into the New Yorker.  http://contently.net/2016/09/23/stories/one-freelancer-broke-new-yorker-afar/)

    So this is a big, big deal.  Not that I didn't trust you, but I went to the New Yorker website and found you just three slots below Andy Borowitz.  That's big.  BIG!

    (Edited to add:  I don't know what any of it meant AT ALL but I'm still thrilled for you.)


    by Ramona on Fri, 10/07/2016 - 11:09am

    into S&M at the New Yorker? TMI Ramona.


    by ocean-kat on Fri, 10/07/2016 - 12:34pm

    I had to laugh when I wrote it.  I wondered who would be the nasty one to pick up on it.  Ha ha!  You're it!


    by Ramona on Fri, 10/07/2016 - 2:09pm

    Nasty? I've been golfing with Michael Wolraich and he's said far nastier things, not even close. I can't believe you've dragged this comment out of the past to insult me. This comment is more than 10 hours old. I've changed since then. But if anyone was offended I'd apologize.


    by ocean-kat on Sat, 10/08/2016 - 2:10am


    by Michael Maiello on Sat, 10/08/2016 - 7:54pm

    Trumpty-trump....I see where you're going here....


    by jollyroger on Sat, 10/08/2016 - 8:24pm

    Thanks, Mona. :)


    by Michael Maiello on Fri, 10/07/2016 - 2:15pm