Saturday, January 7, 2012
Randomly Noted Stomp and Stammer editor revealed to be grumpy old Republican
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM
How do I know Clark fits this description? Because of his ad hoc hating on Occupy protesters, anti-corporate sentiments, after-hours parties, bicyclists and graffiti. Lemme cite a few of his bon mots from the current print issue. (Unless you find a hard copy, this is your only chance to read them. Like most old farts, Clark does not seem to be overly web-savvy.)
Best way to tell the world you're unqualified for any job aside from shitter scubber in a Greyhound station: You spend months sitting on your ass in Woodruff Park.Weakest weakling: Mayor Kasim Reed, whose procrastinated half-assed response to the moronic mob in Woodruff Park revealed him unfit to lead. Whether because he's a liberal and identified with many of the positions of the demonstrators or is just a middling ignoramus, he let the situation drag on, only making it more of an embarrassing, debilitating, costly spectacle.
The "Do you actually think you are smart, you piece of communist shit?" award: To the ignorant, unwashed and underfed Georgia Slim of I Want Whiskey, for spouting opinions that, if followed, would put him in the field cutting sugar cane. Corporations are the only reason you aren't running naked through the jungle.
Biggest scam: Atlanta nightclubs that stay open past midnight on Sunday simply by calling it a "private party." Either play by the same rules as everyone else or close up completely.Best way to give back: Graffiti the fuck out of Creative Loafing's new offices and see if their writers still applaud it as "art" instead of vandalism.
Best idea whose time has come: Ticket the fuck out of bicyclists when they run red lights and stop signs. Or just make it legal to run them over. Whichever…
And, in case we couldn't quite figure out how he feels about the Occupy crowd:
Best way to know you're retarded: You spend months sitting on your ass in Woodruff Park.
Now, as cantankerously conservative as Clark sounds, he is fuckin' Keith Olbermann compared to Stomp and Stammer's longtime film critic David T. Lindsay — astonishingly, yet another CL alum. Here's a passage from this week's review of Young Adult, in which he describes Charlize Theron's character, the deliciously nasty, narcissistic Mavis Gary:
Everything that we see Mavis criticized for — her excessive drinking, her inability to see the sanctity of Buddy's marriage, her condescending arrogance and elite sarcasm — is a product of liberalism. … Liberalism doesn't work. It's slow rot towards cowardice.
What the F? That's not a movie review. It's a mash note to Ayn Rand. I didn't realize so many indie rockers were into Objectivism.
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I love those guys.
Love ya'll, too.
You're just now finding out about their politics? Sheesh. Politics aside, Stomp and Stammer is the best music rag to be had these days and if you let your knee-jerk reaction put you off, it's your loss. Chad's rad, too, lest ya'll feel slighted.
Years ago, the only reason to pick up the Loaf was to see what band was playing where. Congrats on having actual readable writing, now, about other things, but back in the day it was Jeff and DTL who moved the piles of printed copies.
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> Or just make it legal to run them over.
Ah, Conservatives and their Christian values.
A - he's not religious.
B - it was a JOKE.
Killer logo, btw. I worked on the bid and it was a heady time. The IOC couldn't recognize humor, either.
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The bid logo was so much better than the one actually used for the games. Too bad they couldn't have used it for both. I'm sure most can agree that London has hands down the absolute worst logo.
I can recognize his attempt at humor but I just don't find it funny. Too many people in Georgia seriously feel that cyclists aren't humans and endanger the lives of cyclists to shave a few seconds off their trip. If this were an actual bike friendly city then perhaps I could find a bit of absurb humor in this statement. I do agree with him that cyclists who use the road should be held to the same rules as automobiles but there is no need to incite further violence toward cyclists. They deserve a ticket not the death penalty. You two might find it funny but we have a long history in Georgia of seeing anyone not in an automobile as subhuman and that needs to change. Once upon a time it was acceptable to make racist jokes but eventually society changed and frowns upon that behavior. Hopefully one day we'll also give the same respect to the lives of cyclists and not find humor in killing them.
um, you're "surprised to discover" that Jeff Clark is conservative? have you never read S&S? aren't you an intown journalist?
Wow that is a shock. I figured he was a total liberal. Oh well just makes me like him.
Seems the entire city, if not the entire state (other than that clown Doug Richards and assorted other peers,myself included) has failed to note ANY sanctity within the longtime editorial marriage of Jeff Clark and his under-toadling, DTL. Little wonder as there's nothing remotely sacred about it.
I blame generic asshole-ness, dime a dozen, and yeah, just grumpy, aging party boys. Put 'em all out to pasture, Henry the Scott, and never continue to sanctify anything they hack-up on with yet another tribute post/acknowledgement, backhanded or otherwise, to such (once) good time Charlies.
Hell, they're not even dead yet. And they certainly don't deserve our finely crafted attentions. Kinda like Newt, come to think about it...
Yeah, is this a joke? What year is this? JC & DTL have been using S&S as their vehicle for republican rants for at least 15 years. I don't AT ALL support the notion of DTL using his film "review" columns for off-topic pro-republican/neo-fascist/islamophobic/zionist rants, but at least his writing is interesting and impassioned, unlike too many of the the increasingly Gawker-wannabe "writers" at CL. (And I'm not necessarily talking about you Scott).
hey eds im not gonna post what i posted again but i'm really not kidding
Hey Eric - repost again and instead give a vague hint of fullbore truth~ if you have to ask, you already know your answer... and ought to have your hardcopy documentation in hand to back it up as well as yer lawyer's #
i can't prove it in court but he's not a very nice man
"grumpy, aging party boy" was a really good way to describe him the time he showed to one of my parties
don't recall inviting him, brought his own beer, wouldn't share (kept a sharp eye on his sixer) talked about himself too much, didn't stay very long, complained about the lack of women, party got noticeably more relaxed the moment he walked out the door
Hey, Eric, ignore DLB and don't post things like that here again. Like most blogs, we have pretty lenient standards on what commenters are allowed to say, but there are clear limits that will be enforced. Thanks
Well, the commentor squabbling is far more interesting than the article.
PS: unless you are so "up your own ass" that you base everything in the world on a left or right leaning, you take what people know and think with a grain of salt.
I don't ask Charles Barkley about foreign policy.
I wouldn't ask Newt Or Bob Barr about the best sounding venue in the city.
Nor would I ask Sloan Simpson or Jeff Clark about politics. However, they do know more about what they "DO" than most other people so they should be listened to regarding it.
Lighten up, hippies.
Stomp & Stammer is one of the most boring most self indulgent magazines I have ever read. It does however function quite wonderfully when wadded up into a ball and stuck under a stack of logs in my fireplace.
I am all for taking the piss out of people who take themselves too seriously and yes, our overly zealous liberal friends can be annoying(especially when being Oh so pious), but nothing can touch the completely out of touch jackassery that propagates the pages of the S.S. Those classic (i.e. old)rock&roll loving right wing wannabes are as about as entertaining as Kelsey Grammar & Kevin Farley were in 'An American Carol'. Another example of why Right Wingers can never, ever, ever be funny.
Be sure to stop by Book Nook and laugh in the face of David T Lindsay. He will be the pasty one in glasses with the Ayn Rand tat around his belly button hole. (dont ask)
At one point Jeff Clark claimed his favorite Atlanta band to be the Luchagors. Um, thats the punk rock band fronted by former female wrestlers Lita. if that does not tell you his musical tastes are as bad as his politics then i dont know what will.
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Clark is a dirty old man. You will notice that his tastes always err to the side of hot chicks in a band.
"his musical tastes are as bad as his politics"
Hmmmm. I didn't save any issues but I've been reading His stuff since the CL days. My memory is that his taste is pretty good, or at least not too different from mine. The band he has praised the most up until a couple years ago is REM. Over and over he put em on a pedestal. No hot chicks there, in fact, quite the opposite. I havn't read every issue for the last few years, so I don't know about how all the current outfits sit with him, but I know that S & S is worth your time if you're an Atlanta rock fan. Unless you are thin skinned and uptight. Not you, Edge. Musicians have their own reasons to dislike him, each other, the clubs, the promoters, etc
In a couple weeks, along with The 45s, no less, hot chicks who can actually PLAY:
http://twitpic.com/846bq7
I first heard of them in the pages of, what else, Stomp and Stammer.
Just because he's old and cantankerous doesn't mean his points aren't actually fairly valid. I do enjoy CL, but his point about graffiti is an interesting one. The shoe always fits differently when it's on the other foot.
Also, the Occupy movement is brimming with people who are just trying to get behind a cause. Most of the people in those tents don't know what they're fighting for. I'm not saying the "message" doesn't have some valid points, but the whole thing is pretty ridiculous.
And bikers do need to obey the laws like other vehicles who use the road. We can work more as a city to accommodate them, but laws do apply to everyone.
http://attractiveeightieswomen.bandcamp.co…
@Dave. Some friends of mine. Stomp and stammer is alright but jeff Clark is no longer a taste maker in any way. Not sure he ever was but he really is not now.
1. I've never heard of Stomp & Stammer
2. I'm pissed i missed an apparently interesting "back and forth" between Eric and this DLB fellow. Always funny to see someone pull out the "lawyer" on a semi anonymous board like DLB did. Funny in a Douche Bag kind of way.
Actually Rudy, yea he has a valid point or two when he states the obvious. But he's not saying anything new, so the problem is how he says it and he says them like a Douche Bag.
"joking" (yea ok we'll call it that) about running over bikers to say they should follow the rules of the road? (though really who the cares if they don't stop at a Red Light when know one is coming, unlike a car they can see everything and won't do damage).
Saying to spray graffiti on CL's offices to say the trying walking in someone else's shoes. Duh. But 2 wrongs don't make a right.....Got my own game there!
And your position on the Occupy folks is very different than his so i guess you aren't saying he has any points there? I certainly did see any. So agree with you on that also. He just had a bunch of gross over generalizations that demonstrate an over dependence of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
I'm starting to wonder if DLB is from S&S
So that's what passes for investigative journalism at CL these days? "These music reporters aren't liberals like all the rest"? New in Atlanta, are you?
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