Comments on: Steve Blow Ain’t Wild About Marty Cortland

By: Sen. Larry Craig

Sen. Larry Craig — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:30:34 +0000

Nor does mine Marty.

By: Marty Cortland

Marty Cortland — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:58:04 +0000

For the record, my wife doesn’t think I’m funny either.

By: DeeRag

DeeRag — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:12:42 +0000

Now that’s satire.

By: the amanda

the amanda — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:12:44 +0000

It’s above my head, sorry I don’t understand,

By: DeeRag

DeeRag — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:56:25 +0000

the amanda.
Do you make sense to anyone other than yourself/alias

What does this mean?

But that’s no fun, and for those of you not in on it, yeah, it’s a little funny, but doesn’t rise to the level of comedy.

and

it was meant to be really funny, and the Mensa members were supposed to get it…right, Mensa member? Mensa member?

By: the amanda

the amanda — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:30:05 +0000

Marty was fully formed before Alibaster was “born.” Alibaster may have been a response. (Alibaster, where did you go wrong?) Ya’ll, I hate to spoil the fun…but Marty has left enough incidental evidence of his identity to well, identify him… But that’s no fun, and for those of you not in on it, yeah, it’s a little funny, but doesn’t rise to the level of comedy. I hope Steve Blow goes back to writing about the trials of life aside from Marty. Everyone is all whipped up over this, but I am sure, now, it was meant to be really funny, and the Mensa members were supposed to get it…right, Mensa member? Mensa member? And, when I was speaking of “varied readership” I was referring to the people waiting 2 hours in a doctor’s office, the much celbrated Wal-Mart shoppers, as well as the birdwatchers and bubble inhabitants.

By: Harvey Lacey

Harvey Lacey — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:02:59 +0000

Damn.

I told Tim that I thought Marty was made for the back page of D when Marty made his first appearance there.

Either I have no taste or Steve Blow doesn’t.

I suspect the latter.

Here’s why I like Marty on the back page of D. First because by the time you get to the back page of D you’re in need of entertainment. Besides that, I like the way Marty does rich.

If one of us talked about rich like he talks about rich we’d come across as phony rich. He doesn’t come across as phony rich. No sirree, he comes across as the real deal, rich like we know rich.

By: DeeRag

DeeRag — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:44:01 +0000

PS: When I say ‘Twainish,’ I mean Shania.

Now that is satire.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:18:46 +0000

methinks Tim, Eric and Gordon Keith got drunk at the Old Monk one Friday. And that they agreed ONE of them was clever enough to pull off a Tony Clifton-style dual-identity column featuring a snobby Dallasite. And then it was agreed that ONE of them would do it.
And then the oh-so-very hip Quick debuts snobby Abthernabther. … and then the deeply satirical D Mag debuts Marty.
What’s next? Since Eric, Gordo and Tim were all at that picnic table (THREE gifted Twainish satirists), and since there is a Marty and an Aberbhtnany (TWO brilliant Twainish satires, … there is one more of these look-at-me exercises waiting to hatch.
PS: When I say ‘Twainish,’ I mean Shania.

By: DeeRag

DeeRag — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:32:54 +0000

I assume when the Amanda speaks of the “varied readership” of D magazine, she means rich white birdwatchers and other rich white birdwatchers.