Under 30: How I spent a day in the most exciting city on Earth

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

How I spent a day in the most exciting city on Earth

I visited friends in New York City last week, and while I love going to the Big Apple, I always end up doing something tediously stupid when I'm there. Last trip it was a four and a half hour taping (!) of the truly awful Kelly Ripa sitcom, "Hope and Faith." This trip it was spending 12 hours repeatedly watching a concert video starring Mark "Lil' Markie" Fox, an evangenalist "entertainer" as dangerously misguided as he is torturously unfunny.

It was a blast.

Mere words can't do justice to the unique horribleness that is Lil' Markie, but hopefully this helps. Lil' Markie/Mark Fox is perhaps best known for the anti-abortion anthem "Diary of an Unborn Child," a song so creepy it won't only prevent abortions, but sex altogether. If Ween was honestly crazy and Christian, they would sound like Lil' Markie. Listen here.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: i am utterly speechless.

uh.

what?

and why?

and, uh, why?; 5:03 PM
Anonymous said...: I never got my invite to the conference.; 9:12 PM

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My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."

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