Comments on: Thanks, Ted.

By: basset

basset — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:06:26 +0000

guess I don’t get to go salmon fishing on the Kenai any more, then… nothing quite like landing one, whipping out your knife and improvising a little sashimi while you’re still standing in the water. that and some roe from the same fish, mmmm-good.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:38:54 +0000

or write “Obama voter” across it and see if I get it at all…

Sorry, bassett. From what I have read, you can only be either 100% FOR Palin, or else you’re a “hater”.

By: basset

basset — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:59:57 +0000

could be… can’t stand to watch Glenn Beck long enough to have a good opinion.

meanwhile, I got a junk mail letter from Sarah Palin today promoting Alaska tourism… we went up there a few years ago, had a huge time and have wanted to go back ever since, keeping up with the various attractions up there has gotten us on some mailing lists.

think I will send in the form to get the free day planner and see if it comes with her name on it… or write “Obama voter” across it and see if I get it at all…

By: MaryC

MaryC — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:20:29 +0000

Too long ago to remember the illustration, sorry. But I did have the impression at the time that Ted’s tongue was in his cheek. I see a glimpse of him from time to time when I surf past the Glenn Beck show and I like to think that he knows he’s bullshitting ol’ Glenn.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Well, the Hawaii pighunters don’t vote.

By: basset

basset — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:31:56 +0000

might have been mine, was there a picture of a road cut in Martin County with “Amboy Dukes” painted on it?

I couldn’t tell, really, even the best interviewers can’t always get to the real person and I was just a kid, haven’t talked to him since then.

my take, based on comments from people I’ve worked with who have also worked with him, is that he’s a smart guy who really believes all that stuff and all that over the top act is just part of the brand.

that said… I was at a hunting lodge a couple years ago not long after he’d done a hunt there and the guides said that when everyone met to socialize in the evenings he just would not shut up and one of them finally told him off in front of everyone.

By: MaryC

MaryC — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:23:21 +0000

CREEM! I think I first heard of Ted Nugent from a CREEM article — maybe it was yours, basset. Funny, he didn’t seem like such an asshole back then. Was I wrong?

By: basset

basset — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:02:43 +0000

I thought Pink Floyd was first called “The Architectural Abdabs”… could be wrong, maybe it was a band one of them was in before Floyd.

Nugent… first published work I ever did for money was an interview with him that I sold to CREEM back in college, looooong time ago.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:01:16 +0000

Interestingly, Harpers ran a piece after 2004 showing a tight correlation between counties that saw high participation rates in pig hunting, and Bush support. You could be geekily didactic and say it shows the relationship between population density and voting patterns, or you could go all snarky and say . . .

Being a geek at heart, i would say that the tendency is for folks who like to live in unincorporated areas and out away from close neighbors to prefer less and smaller government, while vertically stacked and closer-in residents see a stronger value in vigorous governmental regulation and management, not to mention safety nets. But if i remember the Harpers piece correctly, it is a bit amusingly ironic that of all the possible crosstab correlations, pig hunting gave you the best index of counties that voted Dubya.

My most heart-stopping moment was a Great Blue Heron going from stock-still stick three feet from my canoe all unnoticed, to seven foot wingspan snapped out and boomed into an initial downstroke in the blink of an eye, throwing a gust of decaying swamp and rotting fish guts past my upthrown arms, thrashing twice more to rise above the trees around us.

By: beb

beb — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:53:31 +0000

Sarah Palin remarked that she thought the skit was funny

Of course she had to say that. She was flying in a plane full of reporters, who were watching the skit. They were laughing. Reports are that the upper cabin (where Palin ride) wasn’t so laugh-filled. But obviously to complain about SNL demeaning her, why that would be whining. Can”t have a VP candidate who whines.