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Sid Vicious = Sex Pistols = Anarchy In The UK 1976 = Anarchy in The GOP 2004 = Grover Norquist

Sid Vicious (sad and useless) is more like Paul Begala and James Carville.

Anyone who's followed politics in the U.S. knows that "Sid Vicious" is Sid Blumenthal, one of President Clinton's winged monkeys promoting the "nuts and sluts" defense against, e.g., Kathleen Wiley, Monica Lewinsky and Dolly Browning. It was Blumenthal, for example, who fed the press the lie about Lewinsky "stalking" Clinton.

Garrison Keillor used to be a normal person. Now he's the Sid Vicious of public radio.

Lake Wobegon must be located in a fever swamp.

No, Garrison Keillor is clearly the Monkees of public radio.

Funny, I always thought Keillor was the official 'I got my face crushed by a blow from a shovel' posterchild of Public Radio.

Ramp building?

Kerry connection: Sid Vicious was a hamster.

Sigh, what has become of poor GK.

I sometimes suspect that the hard lurch left some of these guys make is some sort of quest for Bimini. A desperate struggle to maintain some level of relevance in an increasingly younger world. "Hey look, I'm not your average run of the mill once-famous old white guy. I'm an activist rebel spitting in the face of oppression. Also, I'll be doing a book signing at a Borders in Dayton, Ohio."

Garrison Keillor never heard a Sid Vicious song and couldn't pick him out of a drunk tank. He just likes the name, and like any good lefty, can't imagine that anyone else would know enough to understand his ignorance...

Made the mistake of reading one of GK's novels years back. It was clear from the book, if not as much by his sad radio show, that he is a typical left-leaning "humorist." That is, he is mean and spiteful, and by spewing forth his venom in a "thoughtful" tone his fans can mistake his ugly cynicism for satire (a la Al Franken, et al). In this way, you need not be funny, just on message, and the myopic fans will flock.

But I am moved to post by the prior comment, "can't imagine that anyone else would know enough to understand his ignorance." I saw GK give a horrid interview on one of the cable talk shows and he was completely uninformed, and obviously out of his league when pressed to back up his statements with fact.

sigh

I used to get a kick out of Garrison Keillor and his homey reminiscences of a Minnesota That Probably Never Was. I think fame, that evil, green-eyed bitch, did him in and he's never been the same.

Ushie is correct and very up on his Sex Pistols trivia. Sid was in fact Johnny ("Rotten") Lydon's pet hamster and he was a biter. Hence the name.

Johnny christened his art school chum John as Sid Vicious when the punk movement began gathering steam.

Sid (the man-child) was clueless, reacted emotionally, was self-centered, recieved loads of money for doing little, had a whiny, unpredictable mate, and ostensibly played bass guitar. He was also wounded several times "in action". That sounds more like John "F'n" Kerry to me.

I remember reading something about Garrison Keillor in the days following the Paul Wellstone business; with the aid of Google, here is a three-paragraph snippet:

How ironic, really, that Garrison Keillor lionizes the late Senator Wellstone for qualities so utterly absent in Keillor himself.

I used to be a radio producer. I knew people who'd dealt with Keillor - fellow low-level producers, production assistants, the grunts that do the dirty work that has to be done for show like Keillor's to come off. To a person, they all - every one - describe him as "extremely abusive when angry", "selfish", "never has a good word to say about anybody", "no social skills", "treats his colleagues like dirt", " keeps people hanging on without officially hiring them", "destroys people behind their backs", "acts like his shit doesn't stink", "dumps [employees] without warning". Most concisely, "a complete son of a bitch". Every one of those is from people who've worked with Keillor in some professional capacity, many of whom don't dare say a thing because they want to work in these towns again. Keillor, it seems, also as a reputation for squashing careers.

It was a local joke among radio people in the eighties - Keillor went through "personal assistants" like kleenex. He was as petulant as any caricature of a golden-age movie queen. He demanded his subordinates worship him. He cast them off like old underwear when they displeased him. He was a spoiled, petulant egomaniac.

Garrison nearly had an on air meltdown when Republican Norm Coleman was elected to the Senate seat of the martyred Saint Wellstone. Minnesota had betrayed him. He took it very personally.

Garrison Keilor = Molly Ivins
What?
Is he in/recovering from a gin-induced stupor?
Did his best friend and confidant get their ass kicked by an "embicilic, frat-boy" when they were the incumbent governor of the state?
Are his books unreadable?
Is he out of touch with reality?
Did he attend exclusive schools?
Did he grow up pampered in the toniest neighborhood of Minnesota's largest city?
They do kind of look alike. Hmmmm.

To hell with commenting on Keillor, a thoroughly self-absorbed lib.

I still think "Sid and Nancy" is one of the coolest movies of the 80s, and one of Gary Oldman's (one of us, btw) best performances.

I tried listening to Garrison Keilor once -- they played something from that radio show of his on the local NPR station and I was curious because everyone kept yelping about how hilarious he was. I think I was driving, and had to switch stations after just five minutes or so, because the rambling, drunken-sounding drone that was emitting from my speakers was so boring I almost fell asleep and ran off the road.

I wonder how many accidents have been caused by people listening to Garrison Keilor while driving.

Ah, but he was the perfect intellectual to provide the voice of Walt Whitman (and others) in Ken Burns' Civil War doc.

Yes, it spoiled such a fine work a little for me too, but dare I say it, we move on?

Walt Whitman -- that would be the poet I couldn't stand whose incontinent ramblings I had to study in AP English class, right? Song of My Oh Go Soak Your Head and I will never forgive him for the hideous line about his "barbaric yawp." Give me Longfellow any day.

Weep not for me, but laugh: I had a 9th grade English teacher (ca '71) who had us listen to Grand Funk's "I'm Your Captain" in a vain attempt to acquaint us with Whitman's "Captain, O Captain" or some such drivel.

Mental images of Abraham Lincoln playing a deafening bass, then switching over to backup vocals for "Locomotion"... there's gotta be a lawsuit in there somewhere...

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