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Twitter Mini-Roundup: Tebow And The Broncos Vs. The Patriots

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:28:00 +0000

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I bet all you bigots who were persecuting Bill Belichick for openly worshiping Satan are eating your Sunday hats now!

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If Jesus were really on Tim Tebow's side he would be a tall, handsome world-famous millionaire starting rookie quarterback! Hey, wait

Follow me on Twitter already.

Out-Of-Context Sound Bites In Political Ads

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Romney with me in 2009, right after I ambushed him with my friend Ian and got him to sign eight baseballs and sold them on eBay for $70 each. My autograph friends and I have harassed him so much that he recognizes us and jokes about eBay. He likes entrepeneurs!

I kind of want to make using sound bites in campaign ads illegal without putting the whole context in legible print at the bottom of the ad.

Mitt Romney's recent ad that sampled Obama saying something like, "If we stick with the economy, we're going to lose," when Obama was actually directly quoting John McCain in 2008, almost made me sick. And now reading all of these news sources semi-quoting Mitt Romney as having said, "I enjoy firing people," is making me angry too, even though he deserves it.

The Santorum Tide Is Coming In For Me

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:34:00 +0000

So many people curious about #Santorum are visiting my site, Santorum-2012.com, because it's the first result when you google 'Santorum 2012.' This is great.

FudgePAC photo to come tomorrow, hopefully. Tell all your favorite blogs and news sources about my website!

Coming Soon: FudgePAC

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:12:00 +0000

Once I get back to Chicago, FudgePAC will go live.

Happy Christmas–Chanukah Eclipse

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:50:00 +0000

2011 is one of those years during which Chanukah and Christmas line up for a few days and Christmas completely blocks out Chanukah. Try to appreciate it because it doesn't happen very often.

Why Do You Care So Much That A Westboro Baptist Church Member Wore A Glee Shirt?

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:37:00 +0000

HAHAHA! Check out this BuzzFeed post where the Westboro Baptist Church is given way more attention and legitimacy than it deserves in order to make people feel good. One of them wore a GLEE shirt!! Ha! Moron!

There are like ten people in the Westboro Baptist Church, and they're obviously insane. Who cares that one of them did something mildly comical? You're just setting up pointless straw men.

The Westboro Baptist Church is kept in the news because:

1) They're about as uncontroversial as a "political" story can get. Even CNN could blast them and not get called out for being liberal by Overton Window--shopping conservatives.

2) They give a wide range of people feel-good anger. Any idiot can be really angry at the Westboro Baptist Church and feel good because of it.

Look at the smug kid in that picture, for example. He's putting all this effort into demonstrating his disgust for the lone protestor who made it out there, a guy who is completely unfazed by this kid's efforts and is actually likely encouraged by it because he's getting a strong reaction just for showing up by himself with these colorful signs.

The Westboro Baptist Church is tiny. Covering it so widely legitimizes it more than it deserves and keeps people from having to focus on groups whose positions are more nuanced or who have more mainstream support. It's very easy to blast a group that almost everybody hates, just as it's easy to praise a billionaire for donating a portion of his wealth to disease research and non-controversial charities.

Almost Done with Law School Exams

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:02:00 +0000

Then I get to wait a whole month for my first law school grades. Should be great.

I finish exams the 15th and leave for DC the 16th. As soon as I'm done with that I'll get started on the next update for Gingrich-2012.net, using all these photos.

Festival of Christmas Lite

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:28:00 +0000

Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers have a Chanukah gift guide on Daily Beast. I guess it's about what toys to get for kids.

Wait, what? It's about getting presents for adults? I thought the one nice thing about being a Jew in my early-to-mid-twenties is that I don't have to get anything for anybody.

Damn Zionists and their war on Chanukah! Chanukah is about people giving presents to kids. It's not the Festival of Christmas Lite!

Ten Best Google Search Queries That Have Led People to Santorum-2012.com

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:28:00 +0000

Santorum 2012 is my food blog with pictures of recipes that look like santorum, the slang word that Republican presidential candidate and former Senator Rick Santorum's name has become. People have been finding the site through all kinds of queries with Google. Here are some of the best:

10. 'santorum chomsky'

9. 'obama butt'
Is this a viable ticket? Should I buy OBAMABUTT.COM?

8. 'santorum 2012', 'santorum', 'rick santorum for president official website', etc.
There are several dozen different terms entered by people who clearly just wanted to learn about Rick Santorum or find his campaign website. 'Santorum 2012', for which we're the first result, is the most popular term of all for finding the site. 'Santorum' is the second most popular. Catching these people is what I purport to be the primary intention of the site.

7. 'sanattorum 2012', 'santorium tube', 'sanotrum 2012', 'sanrotum 2012', 'sataorum 2012', etc.
There are countless misspellings of his name, of which I only listed a few.

6. 'santorum for president 2010'

5. 'what is santorum and what does it look like', 'santorum in the butt', 'literal picture of santorum', 'crusty santorum', etc.
There are many different queries from curious people who want to learn more about the slang word.

4. 'crack and mcdonalds mcflurry spoons'

3, 'i am dripping with santorum'

2. 'mc flurry 2012'

1. 'celebration deserts'

Gingrich-2012.net Starting to Go Viral: Featured on Two Popular Gay Blogs; Also the Facebook "Like" Count Would Have Been Much Higher than It Says if Blogger and I Didn't Suck

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:27:00 +0000

Gingrich 2012's traffic has increased by about 5000% after being featured on a couple popular gay blogs: Towleroad and Joe. My. God. I wish I had known that Blogger's built-in social network buttons were so weak. I missed out on a lot of Facebook likes because the only option was to share. I also never should have had the buttons apply to the post rather than the main domain. Switched to IddThis.

The site also has almost 4000 views so far on BuzzFeed.

Update: No, AddThis didn't work properly on Gingrich 2012. Need to find something else.

Update 2: All right, I realized I could just use the official buttons from Facebook and Twitter. I'm a little sad about the missed likes and tweets. If the option had been to like the site instead of sharing it, the numbers showing up now would be different, and also more people might have liked it. That's the problem with having a website suddenly get popular. I realize something's wrong with the site and I missed out on traffic or exposure, and I have to count it as a lesson for next time.

And my Civil Procedure exam today went fine, thanks for asking.

Update 3: Hmm, if I make the Facebook widget use the URL of the blog post itself, it shows 34 likes, but if I use it for the basic URL (http://Gingrich-2012.net), it has over 60. I wish I could combine them together. Where were people going anyway that they were liking the basic URL address on Facebook? Oh well, I learned a lot about the nuances of promoting your one-trick Blogger site on social media today.

Final Update: But now it doesn't really matter anymore because it's at 235 likes.

Law School Update: Premier Legal Blog Names Me Northwestern Law Pie King; Also Exams and Gingrich 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:53:00 +0000

My pie contest trophy next to my much bigger, sexier wiener trophy.

Above the Law, the internet's main law and law school culture blog (pretty much the legal version of Gawker, with the more modest, but still impressive, traffic numbers of blogs like Wonkette and The Awl) wrote an article about all of the drama that came out of my tortuous victory at Northwestern Law's first annual pie eating contest: http://abovethelaw.com/2011/11/for-students-at-top-chicago-area-law-schools-its-all-about-the-pie/.

But as you see, in the end I came out the Pie King. The article got many things wrong, including the order of the emails. And the really mean girl who claimed I cheated was lying about almost everything, so don't believe her. I wasn't upset; that contest was great. And she wasn't handed the trophy; she grabbed it while they were declaring me the winner and awkwardly scuttled off to her backpack with it hoping nobody would notice. Then I walked up to her after somebody pointed it out and I explained to her what had happened and why I didn't cheat, and she seemed to understand and gave it back to me. The judges later emailed me thanking me for my nice email trying to clear things up, and said that they emailed that girl asking her to apologize to the law school listserv.

Unfortunately nobody from my section (the group of students I have every single class with who chose me to represent them in the contest) was there because a professor scheduled an exam review for that time period. Imagine how the contest would have gone if they had been there to back me up.

But when I walked into the exam review covered in pie and holding that trophy, it was awesome and everybody cheered and the professor was confused.

HERE'S VIDEO!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVt51WB5Jbg

When people ask me how law school is going, I usually tell them I'll know in January or February. Between getting ready to apply for summer jobs on December 1st and taking strictly curved exams that count for 100% of our semester grades and are unlike any we've ever taken before, the first semester of law school is like building a boat when you've never seen a boat before and only have a podcast describing what it looks like and how to build it to go by. Even if I do everything everybody says (which isn't possible because everybody gives conflicting advice) and I feel like I did it right, I can't be sure I'm not going to sink at the exam.

Fortunately it's free and I'm not very worried.

Other new stuff: http://Gingrich-2012.net
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpgclog/newt-gingrich-change-agent-3ksb

And I'll have a new entry on Santorum 2012 soon (it's not even close to too late to send in your own submission and win $100), kicking off the official start of our Pro-Santorum PAC, FudgePAC.

Email or comment if you have any questions or want to help.

--JPG

A Yoga Poster I Made for a Charity Auction

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Here's a poster I made for Northwestern Law's public interest funding auction. I adapted it from a drawing I did of Mika Meiri (NSFW) when she visited me in Chicago in October. She liked how I drew her crazy Japa-Jewish hair. Click image for full size.

Gingrich 2012 Is Up! Come and Get Your Gingrich!

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:42:00 +0000

My newest site Gingrich 2012 is simpler than Santorum 2012 and so far people have surprisingly found it less disgusting.

Stuff I've Been Up to Lately

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:44:00 +0000

I live in Chicago now and I go to law school.

Here's some of the non--law school stuff I've been doing:

I was Tire Iron Man for Halloween.

Also Lisa, my Japajewish romantic interest, came in mid-October for her 21st birthday and we did stuff. Any resemblance to the model mentioned three posts before this is probably coincidental.

Normal touristy stuff:

At the river.

At Everest, one of the few Michelin Star restaurants in Chicago that has vegetarian entree options, on the 40th floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange.

Also I made vegan banana pancakes!

Finally here's my apartment from the Sears Tower Skydeck. You can only see part of the top few floors of my building so I realized how lucky I am to be on the 45th floor. I have a friend on the 38th floor with almost the exact same view I have who can't see the tower at all. Glad I'm not her!

I'm working on a lot of projects, including a simple Newt Gingrich site now that he's the new not-Romney. I haven't been working on any of my projects as much as I should be though. I'll try to get better about that.

What Rick Perry Is Doing in this Picture

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:42:00 +0000

Rick Perry hanging himself by his own noose at the debate last night.

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:39:00 +0000

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Fixing Model Mika Meiri's Google Problem: If I Can Do It For Santorum. . . (NSFW)

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:42:00 +0000

Mika Meiri is a special person in my life and a freelance model who mainly does fine art nudes, and Google Image Searching her name right now doesn't do her justice, which pisses her off. She's amazing at what she does. So here is a selection of some of her best work, which will hopefully start showing up when people look into her:

Mika Meiri, by Barepixels

Mika Meiri, by somebody, I'm not sure

Mika Meiri, by Donald Chen

Mika Meiri, by Simon Richardson

Mika Meiri, by Ciaran Whyte

Mika Meiri, by Barepixels

Mika Meiri, by Simon Richardson

Mika Meiri, by Mosa.

There are plenty of other wonderful pieces of hers out there. This is just a selection.

There Are Two Dresses on the Cake Because It's Gay

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:08:00 +0000

I'm a 1L rep for OUTLaw (the LGBT club at Northwestern Law) and I made this flyer for this panel on civil unions so if you go to my law school or live in my area you should go to it on Tuesday maybe:

I have a backlog of things I want to write about in this clog, but I'm such a lazy sack of shit.

CNN/Tea Party Express Debate Twitter Round-Up

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:47:00 +0000

In reverse chronological order. You should follow me so I don't feel like I have to do these round-ups.

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Obama's best campaign move so far: Giving Romney credit for creating Obamacare and making a less dangerous Republican nominee more likely.

12 minutes ago

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When will you make me an offer to take down my site? I'd seriously take like, $2000. #Santorum RT @RickySantorum @JPGClog you're so pretty.

2 hours ago

RickySantorum Rick Santorum @JPGClog you're so pretty.

13 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

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Btw, I own BACHMANNROMNEY.COM, BACHMANNPAWLENTY.COM, BACHMANNDANIELS.COM, BACHMANNRUBIO.COM, and many more. Too bad she's fading. :( #Squat

13 hours ago

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Michele Bachmann mentioned a "morning after abortion pill." Does that reverse an abortion?? #MorningAfterPill #Abortion

13 hours ago

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Damn, should I watch an elite team of patriots in a passionate battle for the nation's future in Florida or should I watch the Repub debate?

14 hours ago

That last one's a reference to a major football game that night.

Our Nation's Future

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:32:00 +0000

Just writing to remind you all that I say a lot of stuff on Twitter and you should follow me, @JPGClog.

Selection for tonight:

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Damn, should I watch an elite team of patriots in a passionate battle for the nation's future in Florida or should I watch the Repub debate?

(The Pats are playing at Miami tonight.)

How is law school going? I don't know! I won't know until January or February when I get my grades. At least it's going inexpensively.

Hustle Up the Cracker Vote

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:39:00 +0000

Sorry for the lack of updates. I just moved to Chicago and started law shul at Northwestern and have been busy. I'll start updating more soon though.

Taegan Goddard asked for submissions for his Political Dictionary yesterday and I sent in "cracker vote" and he said "Awesome. Thanks," and he put it up today. Not only is this word fun to say, but it's funny because of the predictable conservative reactions to Bill Clinton's use of it, even though it clearly refers to the term multi-generation Floridians use for themselves rather than the more widely known pejorative, and even though Clinton even qualified with, "... what Lawton Chiles used to call the 'cracker vote' there." And all these conservative blogs and pundits called Bill Clinton racist as though he's not a self-made man from the South himself.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/09/05/word_of_the_day.html

Moo and Moe and My Uncle and My Grandpa

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:41:00 +0000

I haven't posted in a while. Moo Thunder Stout is good. Here's a picture of me drinking it, taken by my friend Gigi:

American Ice Company is a bar in DC that has it. That bar's pretty good. I had a going away party there last night. I'm moving to Chicago in a week. My dad's driving me up.

My grandpa's funeral was Friday. He was a lawyer and it had a lot of lawyers. I'm pissed off because I just found out today that my grandpa's Uncle Louie, who I knew helped him financially throughout college and law school when the GI Bill wasn't enough, is the man Moe Szyslak, the bartender from The Simpsons, is based on. I wish I could have asked my grandpa about that. That's pretty important! More on that later after I've done more research.

You could argue that saying Moe is based on my great great uncle is misleading because he actually shares that honor with comedian Rich Hall, but I think it's fine to say because my uncle was indeed the original inspiration for Moe, and Rich Hall only influenced the character after he had already been created.

Wikipedia entry about Louis "Red" Deutsch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_%22Red%22_Deutsch

Interview about my great great Uncle Louie on Howard Stern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCqQaxAaN_g&feature=related The recordings of my uncle in this are great. They sound so much like Bart Simpson's phone conversations with Moe. It's like I'm related to Moe!

I have so much Jewish and Irish boxing blood in me. It's ridiculous. That must be part of why I'm always wanting to give people the business. I already do a good impression of this cool dead uncle of mine and maybe I'll start doing it sometimes when I want to be funny.

Having an interesting ancestor doesn't make me interesting though. I'm still working on that. I'm going to make a new post about Santorum 2012 soon. Number one result when you google 'Santorum 2012'!

My full name is also engraved on the wall of Chidogo's at 14th and U in DC and I need to write about that.

Speaking of people who will have a hard time living up to their ancestors, the rabbi at the funeral didn't know my grandpa at all so he had to fill his eulogy with heavy-handed crap. This included a pretty substantial quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson and then an explanation about how my grandpa lived up to the ideal expressed in that quote. I guess the rabbi conspired with a girl I briefly dated who was a direct paternal descendant of Emerson's, and who was kind of a sociopath to me (I like to think without realizing it), was deceitful and dishonest, and treated me like the lowest of scum, to make the funeral suck more for me. She turned me into pretty terrifying, barely recognizable version of myself that still makes me shudder when I think about it. At least the rabbi didn't pull a Japanese quote out of his ass from the book Naomi or something to represent the other half of her background. To her credit though, I did lose 15 pounds in the six weeks she gratuitously, sadistically left me hanging—in my disabling depression I couldn't find my appetite. I don't think she knows about this accomplishment though because she was too horrible even to have a conversation with me about what she did, or give any kind of explanation. I also completely blew off two months of prescribed physical therapy for my second ACL surgery and that's how I discovered that physical therapy isn't very important. Why did I write about this here? I don't know, it's my clog.

I learned at this funeral that some old Jewish people are really obnoxious and insufferable. My sister Sarah got pissed at this one horrible woman. It was just that one woman, really; everybody else was nice. Maybe I can be the first ever Jewish comedian to talk about how crazy old Jewish people are!

Salvador Dali on What's My Line

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:50:00 +0000

I'm getting Salvadorian food soon so I thought this was appropriate:

THIS IS FUNNY, Mike Nichols and Elaine May's "Mother" Skit

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:41:00 +0000

Watch it. Or at least start watching it.

A Year of Living Dangerously at DC Fringe Fest

noreply@blogger.com (Jeremy Peter Green) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:22:00 +0000

My sister's boyfriend's play at DC Fringe Fest, A Year of Living Dangerously, is good. His name's Brent Englar and he wrote and directed it. One of the characters has a funny but accurate Maryland accent where he pronounces his O's weirdly and it's great.

The theater feels kind of like La MaMa in Manhattan, but there's no nudity. At first I was disappointed because the play seems like it should have nudity, but then I decided that with all the edgy plays at Fringe Fest with edgy titles, it was nice to see a play that didn't go for shock value. It's getting good reviews.

There's one show left on Saturday at 6pm.