brunch is for @$#holes

my titanic disdain for the wretched, socially hip culinary trend known as brunch is well-documented. in one of this blog's earliest entries titled against brunch: a polemic, i wrote...

i find it excruciatingly difficult to even say the word brunch. phonetically it just doesn't sound right as it rolls off of my lips on those few occasions when i can even bring myself to say it, which is usually in the context of some sort of diatribe designed to skewer it. brunch is simply not a word that a heterosexual man was meant to say. there's something missing in the mental and physiological makeup of a straight man that prevents the word "brunch" from being easily uttered.

with all of that established, i'm sure that you can imagine my enthusiasm when i ran across this story on eater.com via a story on newyorkshitty.com that featured this t-shirt...



inspired by a sense of "I MUST HAVE THIS" action the likes of which i haven't felt overcome by since viagra was launched, i placed a comment on the eater story...

as someone who was way ahead of the anti-brunch curve (as evidenced here... http://cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com/2007/03/against-brunch-polemic.html ) i would give a kidney for one of these tshirts. if there is any info to be had as to how to acquire one of my own, please pass on an email to cajunboyinthecity at gmail dot com.

thank you

and what do you know, last night i received an email from a lass named chrissie. she wrote...

Hello Cajunboy
My friend Lily and I are the founding members of the
Brunch is for Assholes team. So far there are
approximately 10 people with shirts made by us and us
only. They have nicknames and numbers on the back,
and all the owners so far have worked very hard for
their jerseys.
The night we wore the first 2 shirts around town no
less than 10 separate groups of people asked about
them and we were included in several group photos with
strangers.
There are many reasons behind the slogan...but suffice
to say that the people who get it.....well "They Get
It!"
I liked your blog about Brunch!
Sincerely,
Chrissie

i replied back immediately with this...

ok, so, who do i have to fellate to get one of these shirts? i am not above or below sexual favors. or i can bake a pie for you. or both. you tell me!

i would like the back to read "cajun boy" and for the number to be 69. i think that would be most appropriate.

i anxiously await your response...

so c'mon lily and chrissie. i deserve this! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

UPDATE: SUCCESS!

this morning i received this email from chrissy...

Nicely done with the response
As I said before..I am in complete command of the team
shirts. Sexual favors are not demanded but always
welcome. #69 is not taken yet(obvious), and cajunboy
is a good nickname. You get your jersey... As long
as you feel the same sentiment that we as a team feel
...."Brunch is for Assholes"
send me your contact # and or place to meet. Give
some time, as I just worked 2 brunches and I'm tired.
Can't wake up for breakfast,work tomorrow

so there you have it. i shall wear my "brunch is for assholes" tshirt with beaming pride. i may even have to eat brunch at some swanky downtown manhattan brunch spot (like fucking felix!) while wearing the shirt just to ruffle the feathers of the asshole brunchsters. oh, this is gonna be so fun!


BREAKING: THERE IS A GOD, jared leto and paris hilton find each other at sundance!

over the last week, i've been barraged with calls, text messages, emails, IMs, etc., asking essentially the same question...

"are you at sundance?"

in each case, my response has been a resounding "NO," a response that is usually followed up with the inevitable question, "why aren't you at sundance?" in each case i've answered that question with something along the lines of "well, first off, i don't have a project that i'm associated with in any way involved in sundance, and two, sundance is an unbearable cavalcade of celebrity douche."

if that same "why aren't you at sundance" question were to come up at any point in the future, i'll probably just forward this shitteous picture, without comment, or with a simple heading attached that read, "THIS IS WHY I DON'T GO TO SUNDANCE!"


photo via just jared

is there a celebrity coupling made in hell more loathesome than jared leto, god to angst-ridden emo douchequakes round the world, and paris hilton? my desire to pummel leto into oblivion has been voiced previously in this forum, and paris is, well, paris is what she is.

what will the celebrity rags call this one? "jaris?" "hilto?" "leton?" "pared?"


cindy guidry's the last single woman in america

i was browsing through the ny daily news yesterday when i ran across an article about a woman named cindy guidry. guidry, a former film industry executive, has a book of essays out titled the last single woman in america. this interests me for a couple of reasons; one is that i love books of humorous essays and this one sounds interesting. the second is that i've known lots of folks named "guidry" in my life and they've all been cajun. this article mentioned nothing about her heritage, nor was i able to find much via a standard google search. anyone (fellow cajuns that read this blog, publicists for her book that subscribe to google alerts, CINDY GUIDRY HERSELF?!) out there know anything about her? is she doing a book tour?

i tell you what...she's damn cute. looks like a little cajun girl, that's for sure...




frank rich on "billary"

i don't think that anyone has summed up the "billary" dilemma faced by the democratic party more precisely and eloquently than frank rich did on the op-ed page of sunday's ny times. he writes...

The full-throttle emergence of Billary, the joint Clinton candidacy, is measured mainly within the narrow confines of the short-term horse race: Do Bill Clinton’s red-faced eruptions and fact-challenged rants enhance or diminish his wife as a woman and a candidate?

Absent from this debate is any sober recognition that a Hillary Clinton nomination, if it happens, will send the Democrats into the general election with a new and huge peril that may well dwarf the current wars over race, gender and who said what about Ronald Reagan.

What has gone unspoken is this: Up until this moment, Hillary has successfully deflected rough questions about Bill by saying, “I’m running on my own” or, as she snapped at Barack Obama in the last debate, “Well, I’m here; he’s not.” This sleight of hand became officially inoperative once her husband became a co-candidate, even to the point of taking over entirely when she vacated South Carolina last week. With “two for the price of one” back as the unabashed modus operandi, both Clintons are in play.

For the Republicans, that means not just a double dose of the one steroid, Clinton hatred, that might yet restore their party’s unity but also two fat targets. Mrs. Clinton repeatedly talks of how she’s been “vetted” and that “there are no surprises” left to be mined by her opponents. On the “Today” show Friday, she joked that the Republican attacks “are just so old.” So far. Now that Mr. Clinton is ubiquitous, not only is his past back on the table but his post-presidency must be vetted as well. To get a taste of what surprises may be in store, you need merely revisit the Bill Clinton questions that Hillary Clinton has avoided to date.

Asked by Tim Russert at a September debate whether the Clinton presidential library and foundation would disclose the identities of its donors during the campaign, Mrs. Clinton said it wasn’t up to her. “What’s your recommendation?” Mr. Russert countered. Mrs. Clinton replied: “Well, I don’t talk about my private conversations with my husband, but I’m sure he’d be happy to consider that.”

Not so happy, as it turns out. The names still have not been made public.

Just before the holidays, investigative reporters at both The Washington Post and The New York Times tried to find out why, with no help from the Clintons. The Post uncovered a plethora of foreign contributors, led by Saudi Arabia. The Times found an overlap between library benefactors and Hillary Clinton campaign donors, some of whom might have an agenda with a new Clinton administration. (Much as one early library supporter, Marc Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, had an agenda with the last one.) “The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse,” said Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat whose legislation to force disclosure passed overwhelmingly in the House but remains stalled in the Senate.

in the wake of his paper's editorial page endorsing hillary clinton on saturday, rich concludes the article with an obama call to arms...

If Mr. Obama doesn’t fight, no one else will. Few national Democratic leaders have the courage to stand up to the Clintons. Even in defeat, Mr. Obama may at least help wake up a party slipping into denial. Any Democrat who seriously thinks that Bill will fade away if Hillary wins the nomination — let alone that the Clintons will escape being fully vetted — is a Democrat who, as the man said, believes in fairy tales.

read the entire piece here...

the billary road to republican victory

caroline kennedy is also voicing support for obama...

a president like my father

so is ted kennedy, much to billary's chagrin...

kennedy chooses obama

this is getting good.

and while on this subject and i find myself playing out scenarios in my head, here are my two cents in the way of electoral prediction. assuming that mccain or romney wins the republican nomination and either billary or obama wins the democratic nomination, here's how i see the potential matchups playing out...

billary beats romney.
obama beats romney.
mccain beats billary.
mccain and obama would be a complete tossup, but i lean towards a mccain victory by a hair. and if these two meet i have no idea who i'd vote for as i like them both, so don't bother asking.


little chenier

a couple of weeks ago a reader in louisiana named erin emailed me to tell me about about a film titled "little chenier: a cajun story, a film that, at the time, i was unaware of. upon digging deeper i learned that, much to my chagrin, it wasn't playing anywhere in the new york area. little chenier opened a couple of weeks ago mostly in south louisiana theaters. it was written and directed by a lake charles woman named bethany ashton. here's the trailer for the film...



i emailed the production company for more info and a possible screener but those (expletive deleted)s never bothered to get back to me. anyone seen the film? if so, what's the verdict?

here are also a couple of links related to the film...


http://www.acajunstory.com/

http://www.myspace.com/littlechenier


i'm so over this fucking writer's strike!!!

there were a couple of strike-related pieces in the arts section of the times over the weekend. the first delved into how the whole thing may change the way TV shows are developed forever. it also noted how many writer's development deals were being voided by the networks and studios.

At the same time big-name producers continue to land commitments for new shows, less-credentialed writers have had their network deals wiped out in the past month. About 70 so-called overall deals to develop new series, most worth several million dollars a year, were canceled under a contractual clause called "force majeure": networks cited the strike as the "act of God" that allowed them to erase those deals.

read the entire piece here...

networks ponder post-strike landscape

the second focused on how many writers are struggling to make ends meet during the fiasco...

A few writers have returned to gigs they had hoped to forget: waiting tables, bartending, copywriting, tutoring. Some who began as performers have returned to the grind of auditioning for commercials. Many — especially on the West Coast, whose guild recommends 12 hours a week on the picket line (less is asked of the East Coast contingent, especially in the cold) — have discovered that striking is nearly a full-time job in itself. And as the picketing has continued, whatever excitement there was at its outset — The solidarity across genres! The networking opportunities! The Web videos! — began to fade.

“There’s definitely a winter malaise setting in,” said Bryan Tucker, a writer for “Saturday Night Live.” “The fun group dynamic that we had the first week or two has dissolved. It’s tough to see any kind of hope on the horizon.”

read the entire piece here...

for writer's, the agony of spare time

and of course, i posted a couple of random things here as well...

http://cajunboy.tumblr.com/