Apparently Aaron Burr doesn't follow the Ace of Spades Golden Rule: You'll never fill the big rooms workin' blue.

Maybe, but you can fill the medium-sizers. The big A was known to drop an f-bomb or two in his day and he did okay traffic-wise.

"metrosexual Nosferatu"

Now *that* is writing!

Mo Dowd thinks she writes like that, but she doesn't.

Forget jackass or cocksucker of the week.

We need "metrosexual Nosferatu" of the week.

The first time I ever saw Chris Lehane I got the creepy feeling that a certain propaganda minister for a european dictator in the 30's and 40's had survived and fathered a son in his old age.

Metrosexual Nosferatu of the Week would be a great title.

Ace,

Writing like this is why you've become #2 (after LGF) on my blog to-read list checked daily and several times a day at that. (especially now that Allah's on hiatus)

Making the phrases "command rats and vermin with his voice" and "a stinking rummy with his dick hanging out of his haggard pants" work in the same context is simply excellent writing.

Maybe you're a little, ahem, "enthusiastic" (read too male and funny) for the general population, but I think you're the thinking man's Frank J.

Sorry. To me, the name Aaron Burr is still synonymous with a certain commercial for a certain dairy product.

Hmmm... I don't know which product you mean.

Must have been a regional product.

Oh, and thanks all to the praise for "metrosexual Nosferatu."

He really is.

Maybe you're a little, ahem, "enthusiastic" (read too male and funny) for the general population, but I think you're the thinking man's Frank J.

I've always wanted to be the thinking man's something. Frank J. is as good as anything else.

All hail Ace on yet another fine piece of work!

But am I the only one here with clue-deficit disorder? What's this past-tense stuff coming from A-double-lizzle?

Did I miss a memo? Must I now remove the Allah link that's next to my Ace link at the top of my not-to-be-missed sites list?

Allah was taking a break last time I checked.

Yeah, the Mighty and Wise One is On Sabbatical, although he might object to that Jewish-derived term.

A-double-lizzle mentions that he drops the f-bomb on occasion, and suffers no loss of traffic. Well, Allah, have you been reading my site lately? I've been dropping the f-bomb like I was a B-52 loaded with profanity but losing fuel and needing to lighten my load.

I'm talking about drooping my schween over boys' faces, for cryin' out loud.

I was being ironic, you foolish false god, you.

OTOH, I really didn't think it would be appropriate to put the word 'cocksucker' into the title of a post. A big font makes a word like that unsafe for work. So I changed it to "jackass," and then did an ironic lecture about "keepin' it clean."

RDB: Of course I'm looking forward to Allah's triumphant return, and I am painfully aware of the Sabbatical. The phrase that tossed me off was (above):

"The big A was known to drop an f-bomb or two in his day and he did okay traffic-wise"

From this, I took the meaning that his day "was" in the past. I continue to hope this was just a semantic slip.

As an aside, and to get back on topic, I'm still yukking it up over Ace's cautionary words about safe for work posts. I tend to be fairly clean-mouthed on my site, not because I have a problem with more colorful language, as anyone who knows me would attest. I just can't weave it into a story as well as Ace or Allah, and they do it well enough to keep my relatively goody-two-shoes speechification from polluting the internet.

HAH. metrosexual Nosferatu. keep up the good work.

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