Rebecca Jacobson over at the Willamette Week interviewed Mike Daisey in advance of his Tuesday show Journalism, and she did a nice job with it. I’ve interviewed Daisey a few times and he definitely tends to run a conversation; Jacobson sticks to her guns. I thought you guys might particularly enjoy this part:
You weighed in on The Portland Mercury’s recent blog post about you? Why?
Probably because I drank some NyQuil. It was a terrible idea. One should never respond to Internet comments. It was the Mercury! Of course I regret it. It was kind of hilarious because they talked themselves into a fascinating corner. They said, “The very fact that you’re here shows how pathetic you are, because we’re pathetic,” which I just thought was the saddest fucking thing I’d ever read, because on some level I thought they might actually want to have a conversation. I have that delusion every once in a while that people want to have a conversation on places like the Mercury blog.
The whole thing is worth a read, though, it’s a good little interview.
Just wait until commenters start drinking fluoridated water.
BENGHAZI
Yeah, NyQuil made him do it. Totally.
NyQuil: The nighttime, sniveling, sneering, condescending, aching for attention, stuffy-headed, fevered rambling, so-you-can-embarrass-yourself-on-the-Internet medicine.
NyQuil, huh? Big fucking deal. I’m generally on my fourth bag of paint by 10 a.m., but you don’t see me making any excuses.
By the time Daisey works this into one of his monologues we’ll have slipped him roofies.
Hilarious. That he can’t even accept responsibility for something as insignificant as internet comments shows just how little he’s learned in the last year.
CHUNDY WINS THE INTERNET.