Category: Piece of Work in Progress

They Said It Couldn’t Be Done . . .

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. . . which is the kind of double-dog-dare-ya thing you should never say to me. Ladies and gentlemen, the Tweet Heard ‘Round the World:

My response was appropriately dignified:

How long has this been my goal? Remember, this all started when Alyssa Milano re-Tweeted a post by Mickey Kaus last October. At that time, she had more than 300,000 followers — she’s now got more than 1 million — and everybody said it would never happen.

Not only was she a famous Hollywood celebrity but, as I explained at The American Spectator:

Some of my friends say that Alyssa is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. . . . Surely, however, she would not allow mere politics to prejudice her Twitter habits.

Whenever you set out to achieve great things, you will immediately be told that it can’t be done. And if you listen to the naysayers, you’ll never achieve anything. Had I heeded the voices of discouragement– “Ah, she’s just another liberal Hollywood bimbo” — this never would have happened.

Fortune favors the bold. Those who dare, do.

Or, as my father often told me, “Son, ‘can’t’ never could.”

In a follow-up Tweet, Alyssa paid tribute to my persistence:

Yeah. You can ask Mrs. Other McCain about that.

Many thanks are due. Dan Collins of Piece of Work in Progress was an early supporter of the “Just One Tweet, Alyssa” campaign, and many others joined in. For nearly a year, it was a running joke — until it became a reality.

So thank you, Alyssa Milano.

And all you people who said it would never happen?

Hit the freaking tip jar!

ELO Laid Low

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by Smitty

ELO is the source of my favorite St00p3d Qustion: “In the name, is ‘Light’ an adjective or a noun? Is it ‘Electric Light’ Orchestra, or Electric ‘Light Orchestra’.”
Piece of Work in Progress reports the sad demise of a former band cellist.
My favorite ELO cut, though I guess the deceased didn’t play on it, is Last Train to London. I remember enjoying the music and being completely unable to parse “Lasrainoo-onon” in my youth. Wasn’t life so much simpler then?

Heaven rest Mike Edwards, or whatever is appropriate to mark the passage of a Buddhist.

Dan Collins Is an Evil Right-Wing Islamophobic Neocon Hatemonger

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Really, it’s a miracle he doesn’t have his own syndicated talk-radio show and a primetime slot on Fox News:

At least AP journalists are able to refer to it as a mosque, though I’ve been challenged on those grounds as well, by sympathizers who feel that they can defuse the issue by characterizing it instead as a cultural center. As Jim Treacher points out, that tends to weaken the argument that this is about religious liberties, of which many leftists are suddenly advocates. The best argument that it is a mosque is probably that that’s the way the Cordoba Initiative refers to it. That’s not to mention that on three occasions the State Department has paid for Imam Rauf to travel on their dime to fund raise abroad . . .

Read the whole thing. It’s only a matter of time before the Southern Poverty Law Center, Media Matters and Little Green Footballs join forces to create DanCollinsWatch.com, just to keep an eye on that notorious fomenter of dangerous extremism.

In other news, Ann Coulter sent somebody an e-mail.

Alyssa Milano Re-Tweeted This, So . . .

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. . . I take that as a hint she wants me to blog about it:

Top 10 Reasons I Did Not RT Your DM Request
This article is not meant to offend anyone, but I am sure it will. If you have ever been asked to retweet links for someone, at least I think you can sympathize. I have spent hours defending my right to say no to a retweet request. At some point I realized it’s time to just lay it out for everyone so you know where I am coming from. . . .

The author, Susan Elaine Cooper, then goes on to list ten important reasons why people don’t get re-Tweeted, none of which are, “Because I’m Alyssa Freaking Milano and You’re Just a Creepy Old Blogger.”

Which means there’s still hope.

I’ll have to discuss strategic Twitterology with Dan Collins, who is in charge of the Let’s Get Alyssa to Re-Tweet Stacy Just So He’ll Finally Shut Up About It campaign.

Remember, this all started with Mickey Kaus, back when Alyssa had fewer than 400,000 followers. She’s now closing in on 1 million followers, many of whom are following her in anticipation of the glorious moment when I’ll finally get that coveted RT from . . . 

AMERICA’S TWEETHEART!

Piece Of Work In Progress Is On The
Road Again

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by Smitty

He’s collecting Road to Damascus moments, when people realized that all or, in my case, some, of their political naivete, and move over to pursuing liberty.

The reference, of course is to Saul meeting the Christ while en route Damascus to persecute Christians.

The sheer number of these Left=>Right conversions might be an indicator that all is not lost.

Of course, the dark side ever beckons.  We should study such reverse conversions to understand why some give up on individual liberty.  Hatred of humanity?  Egomania?  Bad pancakes?

Had A Blast Out Knocking On Doors

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by Smitty

What a good time. Extroversion really isn’t a preferred mode for someone who’d rather sit around and blog.

Nevertheless, supporting Patrick Murray, or whoever the local anti-fascist candidate in your district may be, is crucial.

Thus, it’s hard to be happy with the Peter Schiff in the crowd:

Connecticut Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, Peter Schiff, could tolerate mockery when he foretold the economic collapse, but he’s having trouble coping with his imminent primary loss to professional wrestling CEO, Linda McMahon.
“I’m the best candidate but unfortunately I’m not going to be the nominee,” Schiff said in an interview by phone as he criss-crossed the state in an RV… “I’m not saying I’m not going to win. I can still possibly pull it off. But if I end up not being the nominee, it’s just really unfortunate, because not only am I the only person that can deliver the kind of change that the country needs, but I actually have a better chance of beating Dick Blumenthal,” he said.
At first glance, it’s easy to believe his loss will be because of McMahon’s oodles and oodles (a KT-nomics term) of money. But a closer look shows his weak campaign and the fact he’s a single issue candidate are also factors (although, if there’s going to be single issue voting right now, the economy is the issue).
And if you’re going to run on economics alone, Linda McMahon is a formidable opponent. She has that real world experience the Teaparty cherishes. McMahon’s spokeperson, Ed Patru:
“(McMahon) has never claimed to be an academic theorist or a celebrity cable talk show economist. She spent 30 years in the real world building a global enterprise from a company that started with one desk… She was the CEO of an NYSE traded billion dollar company that employs nearly 600 people. She understands how jobs are created and how budgets are balanced in the real world, and she clearly has a firm grasp of economic principles.”

Come on, Peter. I’d have supported Matthew Berry for VA-8 just as strongly, had he bested Patrick Murray in the primary. Only, that’s how history unfolded.

Granted, it takes a certain bit of ego to run for office, but what good is ego if houses divided against themselves cannot withstand liberal fascist tyranny?

Go, Linda (via Libertarian Republican):

And go, the rest of you patriots. Go out there and phone bank and precinct walk and invest time and treasure in getting the country back on course!

Now you sunny beaches know how I feel.

Enoch Root’s Triple Bid for Rule 5 Link

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For the benefit of newbies, Rule 5 of “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog” postulates that “Everybody Loves a Pretty Girl,” and Enoch Root of Piece of Work in Progress obviously can get behind that idea.

Bloggers who wish their recent posts to be included in our weekly Rule 5 Sunday round-up should remember that PG-13 is the limit — we’re about cheesecake, not the kind of sleazy stuff overpaid government bureaucrats download at the Securities and Exchange Commission — and send the URLs to Smitty.

Chubby Chick in Sexy Underwear Gets Text Message: ‘Meet Dan for Lunch’

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Could this be a reference to notorious chubby-chaser Dan Collins? Never mind. Frankly, we like ladies somewhere in the range between “a little more to love” and “never missed a biscuit.” More to love and all that.

So we were pleased to see that when it came time to post a scandalous plus-size lingerie video, our friend Donald Douglas thought of us:

This commercial is so sexy, two networks refused to air it:

It appears that ABC and Fox have made the decision to define beauty for you by denying our new, groundbreaking Cacique commercial from airing freely on their networks.
ABC refused to show the commercial during “Dancing with the Stars” without restricting our airtime to the final moments of the show. Fox demanded excessive re-edits and rebuffed it three times before relenting to air it during the final 10 minutes of “American Idol,” but only after we threatened to pull the ad buy.
Yes, these are the same networks that have scantily-clad housewives so desperate they seduce every man on the block, and don’t forget Bart Simpson, who has shown us the moon more often than NASA, all during what they call “prime time.”

That’s OK. The Old Media monopoly can’t stop an Army of Davids who dig those Goliath-sized beauties, somewhere in the range between more-cushion-for-the-pushin’ and roll-her-in-flour-and-look-for-the-wet-spot.

UPDATE: We should have expected Bob Belvedere to beat us to this big beauty, whom he identifies as Ashley Graham, with coverage from the New York Post. Ah, but I found this video interview with Ashley’s reaction to being banned:

She’s got a very sexy voice, too.