Posted 1:15 PM by Gene

Another one-fingered typist justifies the TWXSTERS' immensely successful PR stunt:

Adult Swim launched nine days before the attack on the twin towers and has risen to its position of strength in a time of endless war and a global climate crisis that has already passed the tipping point. It's a humorous reflection of the impossibility of meaningful action at the end of the world, when there is nothing to say, or worth saying.

Here is Space Ghost interviewing the musician Moby.

Space Ghost: Listen, I can't worry about every little snafu. I have celebrities to talk to! Like Moby!

Moby: Celebrities, huh? So celebrities are more important than the safety and well-being of …

Space Ghost: Nobody cares, Moby. (Pause) Nobody cares. (Pause) No one.

You've got to laugh.

No I don't -- it's not funny, and it's not even funny to imagine a dithering scribbler wanting so desperately to be in with the in crowd that he'd find it funny, as it's beyond satire. And I especially don't laugh when a NEWS HACK tells me to. Indeed the more I reflect on this the angrier I get, because these same people who want oh so desperately to be HIP almost exclusively ran their Anna obits with pictures of her at the Nine Fingers, which was its own kind of falsehood. Being HIP is another, as the way the idiot hacks frame it it's a cover for a lack of talent and a surfeit of PUBLICITY.

And Timmy Rutten scratches his head, furrows his brow, and hasn't a clue.