RIP Thread

Dom Cruise said:
Massive Ghostbusters and Animal House fan as well as a massive Stripes and Heavy Metal fan.

Really cool slate of movies he produced and directed that anyone could be proud of.
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He made a good amount of classics. Also Twins and Evolution which I consider more of a spiritual sequel to Ghostbusters than the last two movies
 
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BIG BILL HELL'S said:

Satirist P.J. O'Rourke dies at 74​

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We need all the funny conservatives we can get.
This is the worst news I've heard in months.


Seriously, fuck you, 2022.

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Okay, now that the troons are all off trying to seduce lesbians online...

PJ did write some straight-up funny books like 'Modern Manners' and 'The Bachelor Home Companion' but was at his best when skewering the elites.
It's perhaps unfair to call him a 'conservative'; he openly wrote articles about the joys of cocaine and ecstasy, loose women and fast cars.
He was more of a libertarian than anything else, back before it became a label for 'marginalized weirdo'.

He was a lower-middle-class guy with an abusive, alcoholic asshole of a father, and clawed his way to Miami University OH (it was a university before Florida was a state BTW).
At the owner's behest, he took the reins of the National Lampoon when that organ was failing, and despite the opposition of the Hahvahd snooties that had run it into the ground, gave it a new lease on life.

When it eventually ran out of steam he moved on to writing for Rolling Stone.
An openly conservative author writing for a left-leaning, anti-authoritarian, hippie rock n'roll magazine.
That alone should tell you how well his humor let him punch above his weight.

Later, he simply wrote books on any number of social, political and economic topics. All well researched and quite often involving him putting his life on the line.
His piece on travelling to East Germany before the fall of the USSR was brilliant. He pointed out that as a capitalist he felt aggrieved because he had nothing to do with the wad of worthless soviet currency he was forced to buy to gain entry. Before crossing back over, he simply tossed it in a trashcan. I'll never forget him describing his favorite hotel in Lebanon- one side gets RPG attacks, the other side gets car bombs, but at least they'll write up your bar tab as 'laundry expenses'.

His book 'Parliament of Whores' delved deeply into the dysfunction at the heart of US polity and is more relevant than ever. If you have in interest in what goes on in US politics you must read this book. It's terrifyingly good.

His last book was 'A cry from the far middle'. Politics having become so divided in the US, his position of personal liberty, economic laissez-faire and small government no longer fit the easy mold of Republican nor Democrat, as both parties seem determined to abandon these positions. And what do we have instead? Culture wars, dubious elections, a tech sector with socio-cultural control seemingly beyond the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. None of these things are needed to run a fucking country. They're a sideshow to distract the people from the quiet takeover.

I'm so very sorry to see you go, P.J. You were like a friend I never met. I laughed with you, shook my head at the absurdities you pointed out, and caused problems for my professors and TA's with some of your smarter points. You always told the truth and did it in a way that was bound to piss off both sides of politics nine times out of ten.

Rest up, my unmet friend. You've earned it and you're out of the shitshow now. At least you won't have to deal with what's coming.
 

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Today would have been David Foster Wallace’s 60th birthday. He died back in 2008 after committing suicide due to depression.

People can mock Infinite Jest for being way too long and pretentious, but they can’t deny that he was a very creative and influential author that changed literature for decades to come.

 
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