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News & ArtsSunday, April 18, 2010
Savage Love / At Large Confronting the Competition
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:41 PM
Spotted this guy horning in on the free advice racket this afternoon when I was strolling through Washington Square Park. Took this picture—because I'm rude like that—and then asked him a question: What made him think he was qualified to give relationship, sex, and dating advice to strangers? He mentioned something or other about having some sort of degree or other in sexology or psychology or something or other—maybe it was both—and then mentioned something or other about his day job having something or other to do with fighting AIDS in Africa or wherever for the United Nations or whatever.
His name is Francisco Ramirez. I invited him to guest-host the podcast with me next week.
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It's hard to tell if the look on his face says "WTF, why is he taking my picture?" or "Holy crap, that's Dan Savage taking my picture. Busted!"
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Awesome. I hope he said yes to your offer, and I hope he's either semi-intelligent... or at least so dumb it's funny.
Can't wait to hear it.
Can't wait to hear it.
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It's a hard market to break into, giving free sex advice. I mean, people complain about Hollywood treating its aspirants like shit, what with production assistants being basically slave labor, but they don't even know. It is literally impossible to make a living giving free sex advice as a newcomer to the industry.
Heh.
Heh.
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With some poster board and a free Sunday morning, he managed to get more than he bargained for. Lucky bastard.
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Toe-to-toe advice-giving action! Who will emerge victorious? If Francisco is phoning in, he's at the mercy of the at-risk tech-savvy youth, who may suddenly discover technical problems with the connection when Dan slides the ol' finger across the throat...
I'm just kiddin'. Dan, you're great with guests & panels. btw, when're you doing Maher again?
I'm just kiddin'. Dan, you're great with guests & panels. btw, when're you doing Maher again?
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Did you see "The Kid" in previews? Did you like it? Are you barraging cast and crew with your helpful notes?
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And what exactly makes you- Dan Savage- qualified to give advice? Licking doorknobs? Licking strangers? Please, you're the least educated douchebag on the planet.
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@13 Dan is literate and, in a rare turn of events these days, has used this ability to sift through the mountains of info there is out there.
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@ 12 - Holy shit, "The Kid" is going on Broadway? Dan's life is being turned into a Broadway musical?
Congratulations, Dan. You have reached Gayvana.
Congratulations, Dan. You have reached Gayvana.
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I clicked on the image to get a little bit better look at what looked like an interesting expression on Mr. Ramirez, but no go. Then I Googled him and found he made a webpage of his face and email address, apparently a vehicle to reserve the "my name is" URL. Please enjoy wondering what this expression means...ta dah!
http://franciscoramirez.org/
http://franciscoramirez.org/
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@14: I was going to answer why I hear Dan's ideas out, but you already have. From literacy and commitment have come qualification, and, nowadays, respect. Thanks, Cherry Pirate!
@18: Please explain what this means.
@18: Please explain what this means.
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@15 It's actually Off Broadway. Which is also incredibly fun and exciting. But there is an important distinction.
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Just to make your Sunday night a little more special, Google Image "Lucas Steele," the guy who is playing Dan's boyfriend. You're welcome.
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@ 20 - Ah, my bad. Misread the article I found on it.
Still, pretty cool stuff. I do have to wonder how that book would would translate to musical theater, seeing as so much of the fun in reading it was in the narration.
Still, pretty cool stuff. I do have to wonder how that book would would translate to musical theater, seeing as so much of the fun in reading it was in the narration.
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While we're on the subject of The Kid The Musical: Dan, your show is expensive. Anything faithful readers of your column/slog/everything you've ever written (who happen to be poverty-stricken grad students) can do to get discounted tickets? Pretty please?
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@24 I got a $15 student ticket. Use the code STUD when buying online. It was a really nice show (I saw the second preview). I'm going to try and go back after it opens.
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Ecce Homo makes a grand return to SLOG! Here we thought he/she/they were dead, replaced by the Loveschild troll....sigh
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@26: I grin for the future. I'm a college student too.
And when you say "I weep for the future", you come off seeming like this guy: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0005867/…
And when you say "I weep for the future", you come off seeming like this guy: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0005867/…
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Ah. I wondered what happened to Tim Keck's request that Dan get an intern.
@21, dude has lips for days!
@21, dude has lips for days!
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@30: Haha. I know that was maybe intended as one of your typical snide remarks about liberal government or something probably, but it was actually pretty well-said, and hilarious. And I mean, in that good-natured, "laughing with you" way.
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Jeez Dan, you got some nerve asking what this guy's qualifications are, when you yourself have said again and again that THERE ARE NO QUALIFICATIONS to do what you do. But I won't use the word "hypocrite" because it's Monday morning, and nobody needs that on a Monday morning.
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Oh, Chris. I expected that you, of all folks, would see the irony of me, with no qualifications whatsoever (something I've cheerfully admitted again and again, for years and years), asking this guy what his qualifications were. Oh, the irony. The intentional, thoroughly telegraphed irony.
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You really are just a dumb, typical faggot Dan. God you're embarrassing. Shut the fuck up, please.
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@ 35 - Again, it's Monday morning. My irony detector is on stand-by, and probably will be until Tues. afternoon.
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Dan, you continually overestimate the intellegence of your fans.
You don't have a classy educated high IQ group like Rush or Beck,
you need to reign in your rapier-like sharp wit and talior it to Slog-
drooling knuckle dragging self righteous humorless morons
who think their rectum is for sex forgodsake....
Dan, you continually overestimate the intellegence of your fans.
You don't have a classy educated high IQ group like Rush or Beck,
you need to reign in your rapier-like sharp wit and talior it to Slog-
drooling knuckle dragging self righteous humorless morons
who think their rectum is for sex forgodsake....
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@43: "...a classy educated high IQ group like Rush or Beck..."
Really, Alleged? Their fanbases are people dumb enough to believe the shit they say. You know, "social justice" being a code phrase for "fascism" and all that. Really?
By the way, while we're on the topic of IQ, you have made the following errors in your post: misspelled "intelligence, used comma instead of semicolon resulting in a run-on sentence, used wrong "rein", misspelled "tailor", used n-dash rather than m-dash or colon, omitted hyphens between "knuckle" and "dragging" and between "self" and "righteous", and ended your diatribe with the conglomerate "forgodsake". I think that if you can't even spell or type decently, you're probably not in the position to be making judgments of intelligence. HURR DURR DERPA DERPA DOO.
Really, Alleged? Their fanbases are people dumb enough to believe the shit they say. You know, "social justice" being a code phrase for "fascism" and all that. Really?
By the way, while we're on the topic of IQ, you have made the following errors in your post: misspelled "intelligence, used comma instead of semicolon resulting in a run-on sentence, used wrong "rein", misspelled "tailor", used n-dash rather than m-dash or colon, omitted hyphens between "knuckle" and "dragging" and between "self" and "righteous", and ended your diatribe with the conglomerate "forgodsake". I think that if you can't even spell or type decently, you're probably not in the position to be making judgments of intelligence. HURR DURR DERPA DERPA DOO.
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@ 25
Thanks for the helpful information!
@ 26
I am working and taking out loans to put myself through a public policy master's program so that I can try to make sure your kids and mine don't have to worry about getting paralyzed from eating a hamburger. Making assumptions about people is an ugly thing to do.
Thanks for the helpful information!
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I am working and taking out loans to put myself through a public policy master's program so that I can try to make sure your kids and mine don't have to worry about getting paralyzed from eating a hamburger. Making assumptions about people is an ugly thing to do.
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@46: This time you concatenated three separate words into "ohmygod", did not capitalize the first word in a sentence, and dropped a comma directly afterward. You probably should have put "tedious" and "irony retarded" in quotes like I did, too, for the sake of clarity.
I can keep this up all day, Alleged.
I can keep this up all day, Alleged.
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For "irony retarded" to make any sense at all, which at best is a stretch, it would need to be hyphenated.
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@47: "Irony retarded" might be his best hit yet. I mean, think about that for a minute, in the context of Alleged. It's hilarious.
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@ 50
I don't think I can post links since I'm not registered, but the NYTimes had a good article back in October about Stephanie Smith, a dance instructor who ate a hamburger tainted with e. coli and became paralyzed.
I don't think I can post links since I'm not registered, but the NYTimes had a good article back in October about Stephanie Smith, a dance instructor who ate a hamburger tainted with e. coli and became paralyzed.
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