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IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS

I never knew I was hanging with such heavyweights. But the heavyweights at National Review Online obviously think so.

NRO is not only a daily read for me, I hit it probably 15 times a day. The elite of conservative writers and thinkers. William F. Buckley was one of my heroes growing up. Even as a snot-nosed brat in the late '60's I knew I was a latent conservative, despite my desire to grow my hair to my nipples and smoke whatever the fuck Dennis Hopper was smoking in Easy Rider. And so I used to watch Buckley on his television debate show Firing Line when I was 10, 11, 12. Admire his urbane, intellectual dismissal of moonbats like Paul Krassner and Allen Ginsburg.

So National Review, which my brother gifted me with years ago, and which I still read voraciously, is gospel in my house, and their online site is superb.

So much for background. Imagine my delight when Kathryn Jean Lopez, K-Lo, in their collective blog The Corner, linked my soul man Denny for last year's posting of the Ten Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill. Unfortunately, I can't find any Corner archives. Never have been able to. Memo to self: write blistering but obsequious e-mail to K-Lo, tell her I needs the damn archives! For many reasons, including a post I think John Derbyshire put up a year or so ago about how when Liberian Charles Taylor pulled a coup d'etat on President Dictator Samuel Doe in 1990 his henchman Prince Johnson not only tortured, mutilated, and killed Doe, he cut off his cock and ate it, to transfer the ju ju to Johnson. Johnson eats Johnson. No shit. And he VIDEOTAPED IT! That is brass balls.

Man, I'm all over the place here.

So, Delight Number Two: NRO ran a symposium today, female writers writing about men they love, male writers writing about women they love. Or admire, you see. Symposiums be rather wide open. And there's Blackfive! That dog! Writing a very nice piece on the fine organization Soldiers' Angels.

There is hope for the humble blogger, even the lowly cur like me, I think. I don't possess Denny or Matty's fine talents, but perhaps a monthly gig for Screw Online. I think Goldstein would like my work. An advice column? If it blista, hope you mista?

At any rate, congrats to Denny and Matt. Hope they Sitemetahs been spinning like a roscoe machine.