Carnival of Mel

August 1, 2006 4:51 PM

Carnival of Mel: Moxie and Steve H are getting drunk and blogging it in real time. It's a controlled (ha!) experiment to see if it makes them anti-semitic, the way Mel Gibson says it does.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste (29 comments total)

Steve is doing boilermakers. I wonder if he'll last ten hours before passing out?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 4:55 PM on August 1, 2006

I see a new t-shirt in the making

"It's not the Jews
It's the Booze
-Mel Gibson 2006"
posted by nomisxid at 4:56 PM on August 1, 2006

Somehow I read this as Mel Brooks and Steve Martin are blogging drunk.
posted by mrgrimm at 5:00 PM on August 1, 2006

I love it when a linked site, the sole link in an FPP, has "an antidote to the mental disease known as liberalism" as its banner.

Seriously, that rules.
posted by scrump at 5:01 PM on August 1, 2006

Yeah when I get drunk in the afternoon on a Tuesday I like to pretend it is for a great creative experiment.
posted by geoff. at 5:02 PM on August 1, 2006

Maybe not the funniest thing ever, but I'm going to try to work, "I've had one beer and I feel like slapping Jackie Mason," into every drinking conversation I have from now on.
posted by Cyrano at 5:07 PM on August 1, 2006

Ok guys get screwed up to see if they act screwed up...?
posted by scheptech at 5:12 PM on August 1, 2006

I'm guessing the updates will...uh...start to slow down.
posted by jimmythefish at 5:21 PM on August 1, 2006

I love it when a linked site, the sole link in an FPP, has "an antidote to the mental disease known as liberalism" as its banner.

I was about to say, 'Hey, who cares, getting drunk to see if it makes you go Gibson is almost mildly amusing', but then I read some of the site. What a total mouth-breather, I can't believe someone would spend that much time arguing against the left entirely on the basis that they're fat, ugly and smell funny. Though it could be a fiendishly accurate satire of a frothing right-winger. I find it increasingly hard to tell.
posted by jack_mo at 5:21 PM on August 1, 2006

[this is not funny]

[not offensive, just not funny]

[in the least]
posted by dersins at 5:21 PM on August 1, 2006 [1 favorite]

Somehow I read this as Mel Brooks and Steve Martin are blogging drunk.

Now that would be awesome.
posted by brundlefly at 5:24 PM on August 1, 2006

I enjoy making fun of crazy-ass, antisemitic Xtian-loon Mel as much as anyone, but this is not an entertaining post.
posted by everichon at 5:32 PM on August 1, 2006

Christ, I dunno how many times I've gotten drunk and blogged it in realtime.

I never got anti-semitic, but I did get overly sentimental a few times, and had a marked tendency to sing along with early Tom Waits and end up dancing in my underwear.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:32 PM on August 1, 2006

This picture was brought to you by the other, less famous, Moxie.
posted by bjork24 at 5:38 PM on August 1, 2006

...if it makes you go Gibson...

Okay, I am really hoping that this concept of "going Gibson" enters popular culture.
posted by nightchrome at 5:46 PM on August 1, 2006

This would be funny if it were funny.
posted by padraigin at 5:47 PM on August 1, 2006

posted by c:\awesome at 5:57 PM on August 1, 2006

I found it slightly amusing
posted by Megafly at 6:15 PM on August 1, 2006

Flagged as "noise". Absolutely nothing like "Best of the Web".
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 6:39 PM on August 1, 2006

I suppose you can't really pass up this opportunity. I mean, if you support Israel, this is like paydirt: a chance to burn an honest-to-God anti-semite! This is a real opportunity. The longer you keep this in the news, the bigger it gets blown up, it sends a message, loud and clear. It's like those poor Jews--Mel Gibson hates them! See?! Do you see?!

It sort of reminds me of the sheer relief everybody felt after the Rodney King beating. You just knew those racists were still out there. The enemy is always waiting, always ready.
posted by nixerman at 6:47 PM on August 1, 2006

posted by luftmensch at 6:50 PM on August 1, 2006

I do it maybe once a year, but it is a tremendous good time to get drunk at noon and just walk around Manhattan sloshed in the afternoon grind.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 7:34 PM on August 1, 2006

I thought it was funny.
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 8:02 PM on August 1, 2006

blood alcohol level presumed source of all world’s problems

0.00-0.08 people who don’t listen to each other
0.09 that guy over there who keeps looking at you sideways like he’s got some kind of a fucking problem and wants his teeth kicked out
0.10 your so-called “friends” who act like they’re your friends to your face but really they aren’t really your real friends
0.11 the government
0.12 the Jews
0.13 the Belgians
0.14 the English monarchy...

posted by delmoi at 12:42 AM on August 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

By the way, the bit on the Colbert Report monday about this was the funniest thing I'd seen in a while. It's not on Youtube, but here's Colbert making fun of John Gibson.
posted by delmoi at 12:46 AM on August 2, 2006

I totally agree with jack_mo. Does she really hate liberals, or was she making fun of the right? I thought anyone who blogged about cats that much must be a liberal.
posted by lagreen at 8:17 AM on August 2, 2006

Do you ever think of Pamela from Atlas Shrugs naked? With oil?

This made me throw up in my mouth a little. And then a lot.
posted by UKnowForKids at 9:41 AM on August 2, 2006

lagreen:

i'm pretty sure she hates liberals. most of them at least.

a hint might be this recent picture of her with Ann Coulter
posted by tsarfan at 3:00 PM on August 2, 2006

Lethal Weapon 5: Final Solution
posted by brundlefly at 3:34 PM on August 2, 2006