| [update:] Link to Mr. Gilliard's NY Times Obituary 6/6...
| The writer Steve Gilliard has died. A very great and dynamic power, he cranked out hundreds and hundreds of words every day. You can see his stuff dating back for several years here: The NewsBlog Archive. He wrote about everything: current events, food, soccer, apartments, politics, The Mets, relationships, military history, RC airplanes, technology, race etc etc etc. His was a sane, perceptive voice that will be missed by many, many, many. Here are a few excerpts in tribute:
September, 03, 2005: We Told You So by Steve Gilliard
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You say this isn't about politics? Fuck you, this IS politics, real time, real life politics, where the insanity of all your ideas are exposed to the world for the fraud that they are. Tax cuts kill. Ask the relatives of the dead of the Gulf Coast.
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Well, motherfuckers, the alligators are feasting on dead nigger and there isn't an Iraqi in sight. And Bush is trying to gladhand his way through a mess which has stunned FOX reporters. I mean, Shepard Smith is calling Fox's talking heads liars ON THE AIR....
You can see Dear Leader in action. America's largest port is gone, maybe forever, gas is $5+ a gallon and FEMA is coming. Whores come faster with old men than FEMA is getting to NOLA.
How did your wartime President react? Like Chiang Kai-Shek when the Yellow River flooded in 1944, with corrupt indifference.
Bush, the man your fever dreams built into the next Winston Churchill when he is really the live action Chauncey Gardener, has failed everyone, in plain sight, without question. Rick Perry is trying to save his ass, but it ain't working. NOLA looks like ANGOLA and that ain't flying.
Say 9/11 changed everything now, motherfuckers. Ooops, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11. Doesn't work anymore? Gee, maybe the sea of alligator MRE's once known as the citizens of New Orleans has something to do with that. Now you can shut the fuck up about 9/11. Bush just proved what would happen with another 9/11. Dead Americans as far as the nose can smell....
The most dangerous thing to average Americans is not some mullah in Iraq, not even Osama Bin Laden, but George Bush. If he doesn't get you killed in Iraq, he'll fuck up saving your city so it turns into Escape from New Orleans. Armed junkies roaming the streets, looking for a fix, robbing and looting like Serb paramilitaries and about as sober.
September 29, 2004: Chickenhawk Squawks by Steve Gilliard
So he wants to restart the Crusades? Another idiot who doesn't read history, because we LOST the Crusades. Us God-fearing, Muslim-killing Christians...
Only cowards talk about killing so easily. If real, hard core Iraqi guerillas came to his house to kill him, he'd have their cocks in his mouth so fast it would put a glory hole queen to shame. He would do anything to live. Because his words are cheap. In Iraq, people shoot back and they kill Americans. This PS2 fantasy of his doesn't bear any resemblence to reality. Real soldiers are growing sick of the war because the Iraqis are not video game sprites, but real people who can shoot. And the "good guys" do not always win. In at least 1,050 families, they did not get the better of the enemy or Iraq....
I just hope this man has the common sense not to say this shit to some kid back from Iraq, who watched his friends die in combat, because he may just beat him silly.
Telling this pathetic keyboard commando that his words are the kinds of thing the Iraqi guerillas use to psyche up their troops would be beyond him. Any time you can tell someone that the enemy wants to wipe them from the face of the earth, they have a weapon. So while he plans for his version of the fourth reich, some Iraqi surfing the internet will see this, translate it, print it out and say that's how most Americans think.
June 1, 2005: Blogs and Money by Steve Gilliard
I've never met a poor person who had problems with money. Only the upper middle class worries about such things. Give a poor person cash, and they will buy rims and PS2's to put in their cars. Poor people love money.
Only people who've never missed a meal can debate whether money is dirty or clean. They have that luxury. When you grow up eating Spam and pork and beans, and having parents who worked hard, you grow to like money just fine.
If someone had the balls to write to me "all you do is write, why should we pay for that?", my reply would be simple: you pay for your newspaper, right? You expect new content every day, right? You expect some effort to be put in the site, right? So who the hell can do that for free?...
For the clueless, let me explain: money makes things go. The more money around, the better this blog can be. The less I have to worry about money. When I can buy groceries and hop in a cab and know I don't have to scrimp, that's more energy to have for working on the site. I can spend my hours worried about fonts and colors and design and not paying bills. When I need a router, I can buy it from New Egg without worrying if I can afford it. When I need design books, I can just buy them and take them home and not hunt for used copies. Money creates flexibility and options.
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Peace. |
