It's a hard market to break into, giving free sex advice. I mean, people complain about Hollywood treating its aspirants like shit, what with production assistants being basically slave labor, but they don't even know. It is literally impossible to make a living giving free sex advice as a newcomer to the industry.
Toe-to-toe advice-giving action! Who will emerge victorious? If Francisco is phoning in, he's at the mercy of the at-risk tech-savvy youth, who may suddenly discover technical problems with the connection when Dan slides the ol' finger across the throat...
I'm just kiddin'. Dan, you're great with guests & panels. btw, when're you doing Maher again?
And what exactly makes you- Dan Savage- qualified to give advice? Licking doorknobs? Licking strangers? Please, you're the least educated douchebag on the planet.
I clicked on the image to get a little bit better look at what looked like an interesting expression on Mr. Ramirez, but no go. Then I Googled him and found he made a webpage of his face and email address, apparently a vehicle to reserve the "my name is" URL. Please enjoy wondering what this expression means...ta dah!
@14: I was going to answer why I hear Dan's ideas out, but you already have. From literacy and commitment have come qualification, and, nowadays, respect. Thanks, Cherry Pirate!
@ 20 - Ah, my bad. Misread the article I found on it.
Still, pretty cool stuff. I do have to wonder how that book would would translate to musical theater, seeing as so much of the fun in reading it was in the narration.
While we're on the subject of The Kid The Musical: Dan, your show is expensive. Anything faithful readers of your column/slog/everything you've ever written (who happen to be poverty-stricken grad students) can do to get discounted tickets? Pretty please?
@24 I got a $15 student ticket. Use the code STUD when buying online. It was a really nice show (I saw the second preview). I'm going to try and go back after it opens.
@30: Haha. I know that was maybe intended as one of your typical snide remarks about liberal government or something probably, but it was actually pretty well-said, and hilarious. And I mean, in that good-natured, "laughing with you" way.
Jeez Dan, you got some nerve asking what this guy's qualifications are, when you yourself have said again and again that THERE ARE NO QUALIFICATIONS to do what you do. But I won't use the word "hypocrite" because it's Monday morning, and nobody needs that on a Monday morning.
Oh, Chris. I expected that you, of all folks, would see the irony of me, with no qualifications whatsoever (something I've cheerfully admitted again and again, for years and years), asking this guy what his qualifications were. Oh, the irony. The intentional, thoroughly telegraphed irony.
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Dan, you continually overestimate the intellegence of your fans.
You don't have a classy educated high IQ group like Rush or Beck,
you need to reign in your rapier-like sharp wit and talior it to Slog-
drooling knuckle dragging self righteous humorless morons
who think their rectum is for sex forgodsake....
@43: "...a classy educated high IQ group like Rush or Beck..."
Really, Alleged? Their fanbases are people dumb enough to believe the shit they say. You know, "social justice" being a code phrase for "fascism" and all that. Really?
By the way, while we're on the topic of IQ, you have made the following errors in your post: misspelled "intelligence, used comma instead of semicolon resulting in a run-on sentence, used wrong "rein", misspelled "tailor", used n-dash rather than m-dash or colon, omitted hyphens between "knuckle" and "dragging" and between "self" and "righteous", and ended your diatribe with the conglomerate "forgodsake". I think that if you can't even spell or type decently, you're probably not in the position to be making judgments of intelligence. HURR DURR DERPA DERPA DOO.
@ 26
I am working and taking out loans to put myself through a public policy master's program so that I can try to make sure your kids and mine don't have to worry about getting paralyzed from eating a hamburger. Making assumptions about people is an ugly thing to do.
@46: This time you concatenated three separate words into "ohmygod", did not capitalize the first word in a sentence, and dropped a comma directly afterward. You probably should have put "tedious" and "irony retarded" in quotes like I did, too, for the sake of clarity.
I can keep this up all day, Alleged.
@ 50
I don't think I can post links since I'm not registered, but the NYTimes had a good article back in October about Stephanie Smith, a dance instructor who ate a hamburger tainted with e. coli and became paralyzed.
Can't wait to hear it.
Heh.
I'm just kiddin'. Dan, you're great with guests & panels. btw, when're you doing Maher again?
Congratulations, Dan. You have reached Gayvana.
http://franciscoramirez.org/
@18: Please explain what this means.
Still, pretty cool stuff. I do have to wonder how that book would would translate to musical theater, seeing as so much of the fun in reading it was in the narration.
And when you say "I weep for the future", you come off seeming like this guy: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0005867/…
@21, dude has lips for days!
It's called "Aggressive Panhandling" in this state.
If it works for the Palins why can't Dan do it?
The Doctor Is In
Dan, you continually overestimate the intellegence of your fans.
You don't have a classy educated high IQ group like Rush or Beck,
you need to reign in your rapier-like sharp wit and talior it to Slog-
drooling knuckle dragging self righteous humorless morons
who think their rectum is for sex forgodsake....
Really, Alleged? Their fanbases are people dumb enough to believe the shit they say. You know, "social justice" being a code phrase for "fascism" and all that. Really?
By the way, while we're on the topic of IQ, you have made the following errors in your post: misspelled "intelligence, used comma instead of semicolon resulting in a run-on sentence, used wrong "rein", misspelled "tailor", used n-dash rather than m-dash or colon, omitted hyphens between "knuckle" and "dragging" and between "self" and "righteous", and ended your diatribe with the conglomerate "forgodsake". I think that if you can't even spell or type decently, you're probably not in the position to be making judgments of intelligence. HURR DURR DERPA DERPA DOO.
Thanks for the helpful information!
@ 26
I am working and taking out loans to put myself through a public policy master's program so that I can try to make sure your kids and mine don't have to worry about getting paralyzed from eating a hamburger. Making assumptions about people is an ugly thing to do.
ohmygod did I forget tedious and irony retarded?
I can keep this up all day, Alleged.
what's the deal with hamburger?
I don't think I can post links since I'm not registered, but the NYTimes had a good article back in October about Stephanie Smith, a dance instructor who ate a hamburger tainted with e. coli and became paralyzed.