The President of the United States, clearly reading Slog on his new spy-proof Blackberry, today asks Americans to share thier economic crisis stories over at BarackObama.com. You know, kinda like this and this and all the other economic crisis stories in our “Notes from the Unemployment Line” series. (A concept that obviously no one in the whole wide world had EVER EVEN THOUGHT OF until it popped up here.)
All right, Mr. President. If Slog has to compete against you and your giant e-mail list and Tim Kaine’s creepily-arched eyebrow for unemployment stories….
…well, then, so be it.
Listen, unemployed people of America: You want to tell your tales? Tell them to jobless@thestranger.com. Unlike that other guy, we won’t have to give you a stern talking to for spending your unemployed days smoking dope, searching for free porn, and perfecting the art of stealing tires without setting off the car alarm. (Well, maybe about the tire-stealing. But not the other stuff. Promise.)
This from the blog that steals from everyone else without mercy or even credit…
Don’t mess with my twitchy eyebrowed Govenor!
Imitation is the clearest form of sincere flattery.
Either that or having to wear ties instead of open collared crisp shirts is getting to him.
OH SNAP it looks like we might be getting user icons????
That’s MISTER creepily arched eyebrows to you!
Yes, Eli, I read Slog all the time. Cuz I’ve got nothing better to do.