Patton Oswalt | IT WAS THAT GODDAMNED EYE-ROLL
What Patton Actually saidm and what you should read now
#WritingFromIsolationWard
Author: NiteMayr
Before:
Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.
Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.
This is not the first time this has happened to me. Here are some other delightful encounters with “fans” (and anyone who thinks this is a new phenomenon brought on by the advent of camera phones needs to read Harlan Ellison’s essay “Xenogenesis”, available in The Essential Ellison which is, as the title says, essential reading):
Not the first time we’ve seen that assholes name on Patton’s Blog…. let’s hope Patton didn’t get contact AssholeDisease from his Holiness ’ I wrote that one good Star Trek Episode’
The Barbtian Chronicles: That One Time When Patton Oswalt Was An Asshole
I witnessed something really gross happen last night. Something I wish I’d never experienced.
I saw one of my heroes be a total asshole.
I was booked on a show called Odd Thursdays at the Palace, a Chinese restaurant in Los Feliz. There is a small upstairs room that has become home to a few…
This is a politician, after all, who never won the votes of more than a third of the electorate; destroyed communities; created mass unemployment; deindustrialised Britain; redistributed from poor to rich; and, by her deregulation of the City, laid the basis for the crisis that has engulfed us 25 years later.
Hammergren’s salary so far in 2012 : $145,000,000 / 525,600 min. per year (thanks, Rent!) * 60 min. per hour * 24 hours per day * 3 days so far in 2012 = $1,191,780.
