Carl Elliott's Blog, page 9
January 17, 2011
Can we make it a quiet week in Lake Wobegon? Please?
. . . where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the professors absolutely never shut the fuck up.
Carl Elliott will be reading at Garrison Keillor's bookstore, Common Good Books, this Tuesday, January 18 at 7:30 pm. He thinks I should tell people.
Fine. The place is at 165 Western Avenue in Minneapolis. The thing should go on for several hours, and will include all the familiar harangues against greedy pharmaceutical companies, drug reps, doctors and other people who work for a living. No breaks for songs or Powdermilk biscuits, just sermonizing. If this is your idea of fun, go ahead.
January 6, 2011
Things you can buy for the cost of Carl's book (part 10)
Yodeling lederhosen with sausage remote
Remote-controlled, yodeling lederhosen! Just squeeze that fat, orange sausage, and a pair of disembodied pants will dance a jig and sing a merry Alpine tune.
A challenge: Take one of these to your next bioethics conference, along with a copy of White Coat, Black Hat, and see which is a bigger hit. I think we both know the answer.
December 16, 2010
December 15, 2010
Merry Christmas from Carl and His Friends
Merry Christmas. Fucker.
December 13, 2010
Just Burn It.
It's Flammable.
In the anti-Carl Elliott frenzy that swept Canada last month, I noted that Chapters, Canada's largest book retailer, did not have any copies of White Coat, Black Hat in stores -- which made it impossible to hold any mass book burnings before the Christmas season. Inexplicably, this Canada-hater's book is now showing up in stores all over Canada's major cities. If you plan on setting fire to the book in public, now may be your chance.
December 2, 2010
And the Winner is . . .
Deut. 9:17: "And I took the book, and cast it out of my two hands, and brake it before your eyes." Because it SUCKED!
Congratulations to Ken Deville, whose Charlton Heston/Moses photo wins the White Coat, Black Hat photo contest. Deville is a professor of bioethics himself, so I'm betting that Carl stole a couple of his ideas as well. He'll be treated to his choice of the the 7 prizes we have on offer
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Many thanks to everyone who participated. I was impressed, as always, at the outstanding number of talented Carl-haters out there.
As a coda, I would like to propose one more idea: A New Yorker-style caption competition. See if you can come up with a suitable caption for this photo, one that reflects some of Carl's key attributes (talentlessness, sanctimony, plagiarism). I'll get the ball rolling:
"Hey everybody, I wrote this puppy all by myself. That Burning Bush didn't have shit to do with it!"
Your turn. Use the comments section below to give your suggestions (and this is just for fun, by the way. No prizes. What am I, made of money?)
November 30, 2010
Dr Buzzkill
Killjoy
Guess who's back on CNN, ruining it for everybody? See Carl's latest piece, "Drug firms have to stop paying doctors"
Meanwhile I'm still working on my latest piece, "News outlets have to stop paying washed-up, badgering doctors"
November 29, 2010
Photo Contest Entry #18
One more day left in our photo contest! Get your entries in soon! Today's submission:
If you have been particularly unpleasant this year, beware: This little turd may replace your annual lump of coal, your bag of hickory switches, or your journey with Krampus to the pits of hell. And like a big lump of coal, it will burn brightly in your Christmas hearth.
