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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Idiot!: Tonight's Debate = Mallamania! (In My PANTS!)

Posted by on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:54 PM

OMF-ing G, OMF-ing G, O-M-F-ing G! Did you see that debate? Tonight? For mayor or whatever? Riveting. Scorching. Sexy.

Well, at least Joe Mallahan was sexy (super-sexy!), with his big sliver toaster head (mmm…sex toaster!), and his dried-blood-red Ronald-Regan power tie and dignified plain black suit ensemble (which the tragically UNSEXY other candidate/Grizzly Adams-man Mike McGinn TOTALLY ripped-off in every detail, by the way—the lucid bastard is obviously having Mallahan followed). Let me be honest with you here: that rich toaster man Joe Mallahan is one SECK-SHEE BASTARD!

It’s the little things.

His passion for going over time. His rigid jowl-line. His message! “Drive effencies!” “Drive accountability!” “You've got a fast car, but is it fast enough so we can drive away!” (We gotta make a decision!) He's the Cadillac of candidates. And it is so desperately adorable the way he sounds all stuffed-up and slurred and novocained--like he’s fighting a cute little cold (or a cute little coke habit)! And he “gets it,” man. He really just “gets it." (And he can afford to get more, if need be—a lot more.) He understands tunnels! And “communities of color"! They’re where he culls most of his Jay-Z ringtone revenues. He wields a pen as a speech-making device like slightly younger Bob Dole. And he used the word “obfuscate.”

Hold me. I shudder.

Also, Joe (I feel comfortable calling him “Joe" now; “Joseph” when he's been naughty) drinks his water from a clear plastic bottle. You can see right through it! That's transparency! You know whaty you're dealing with: Hey! That’s just good old H20! (Or maybe vodka!) The point is, Michael McGinn drinks his “water” (or whatever) from an—ahemobfuscating blue plastic cup. The cheap kind; the kind you get at a poor-people picnic. What’s Mike McGinn really drinking in that poor people picnic cup? Burbon? Baby’s blood? Beard juice? WHO THE HELL KNOWS?!

And such a gentleman! I love the way McGinn or whoever confronts Joe (back off, Grizzly Adams!) about Joe Mallahan's deep-pocketed connections to the deep pockets that are deep pocketing this entire silly “tunnel” thing, and Joe just ignores him. Like a proper gentleman. He just politely freezes out the question and starts talking about how popular he is! And RICH! That's class!

 

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He seemed to be sweating a bit at the very end... I'm sure it's just pure attraction seeping out of those pores.
Posted by Your Name Hear on October 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM
ralph 2
Adrian: Did you forget your meds again?
Posted by ralph on October 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM
very bad homo 3
Daddy Bear is hotter.
Posted by very bad homo on October 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM
4
I thought it couldnt get worse than Josh and Erica. Then we got Dumb-inic. I thought it couldn't get any worse than that. Alas, wrong again.
Posted by ivan on October 21, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Baconcat 5
@1: Flop sweat.
Posted by Baconcat on October 21, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Will in Seattle 6
He's obviously not ready to be the mayor of a big city.

Maybe he should run for someplace small. I hear Wasilla has a vacancy.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on October 21, 2009 at 10:39 PM
MrBaker 7
They had the same "power tie" on, Adrian, dumbshit.
Posted by MrBaker http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ on October 21, 2009 at 10:52 PM
8
Dead on, Mr. Ryan-with-cheek-full-of-tongue.
Posted by Jakey on October 21, 2009 at 11:33 PM
9
More like yum-o-han ... sexy and rich, and oh so ready to lead.
Posted by rutabaga pie on October 21, 2009 at 11:38 PM
10
Adrian - sounding like an intense search for sugar daddy - but - honey, work some of the bars where the older set hangs out - and - get some class. Money likes class when the "boy" is pushing 45 ... (avoid I work at the Stranger rap on the first meet)

Good luck, we hear your cry for help in the bad money times.

Signed: I Got Lucky, You can Too
Posted by You Can Too on October 22, 2009 at 12:11 AM
11
This post is near the top of a google search for "lucid bastard."
(I googled it because I thought it might be a pop ref I'm unfamiliar with.)
Posted by Joe Glibmoron on October 22, 2009 at 12:42 AM
12
Holy shit, that is high school level bad writing. Insanely forced and WACKY humour. This is less a savage and sarcastic attack at Mallahan than a simpering mongoloid whine (if you don't believe that a mongoloid can simper, you are prejudiced on two separate levels).

Basically, this reads like a 14 year old writing about pro-wrestling on AOL in 1998.
Posted by Sean Robinson on October 22, 2009 at 7:18 AM
13
"tragically UNSEXY" is the last thing I think about our hot new Mayor McWoof, sexiest potential mayor bear ever!
Posted by thepickupbear on October 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM
14
Adrian Ryan is the best writer at the Stranger and all you haters are just jealous.

Dan Savage should promote him!

Posted by Jeff on October 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM
15
Mayor Bear is the new Care Bear!
Posted by Someone make this illo please!! on October 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM
16
Yes, I am jealous of jeff and Adrian Ryan and all the other idiots of the world, whose life is simple and untroubled by the worries inherent in thought.
Posted by Sean Robinson on October 22, 2009 at 10:54 AM

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