July 02, 2008

Will Bunch To Release Reagan Book In '09

Oh, man, this is pretty excellent: Next year, Daily News writer/Attytood writer Will Bunch will will release a book on Ronald Reagan. Naturally, it will attack the idea that Reagan was a king among men and should have things in every county named after him. Congrats, Will!

As you might know from this, I'm no fan of Ronald (and Nancy) Reagan and how they harmed America with horrible drug policy. Ronald Reagan could have torn down the Berlin Wall with his own two hands and I'd still believe he did more harm than good. (Not that it was just Reagan; I'm ready to jump through my TV every time I see Bill Bennett with his commentator spot on CNN.)

Sorry, too serious there for a second. Bunch's blog post contains a lot of links and facts and opinions and really I decided to skip to the hilarious comments.

will has finally realized that his true talent, is in tearing republicans down, even dead ones, it is so much easier than contributing anything positive to the world.

Ha ha ha. I love Internet commenters.

The myth of Ronald Reagan: Coming to your bookstore in 2009 [Attytood]

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December 10, 2007

Will Bunch Clearly Not Being Paid By Word

Hey, I like it. Short and to the point.

Attytood

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October 31, 2007

Super Huge Pop Star Censored By Government

Hey, everybody, Will Bunch has our newest thing to boycott: It's Star 104.5! Or, rather, Alice 104.5. Wait. Maybe it's the station that simulcast WJJZ 106.1. Oh, wait, Rumba 104.5?

Wait, that's right, I actually wrote about this before. (In the previous paragraph, I forgot Sunny 104.5, but that was in my article.) Anyway, Bunch says the station, now on an alt-rock format, was told by its owner not to play the new Bruce Springsteen song!

Yay! The new one that sounds just like "867-5309/Jenny"? Are they maybe worried about being sued by Tommy Tutone? Oh, no, wait, it's his new track "Magic" which the always-reliable Fox News says Clear Channel has ordered its stations not to play.

Like Springsteen, these "older" artists have been relegated to something called Triple A format stations — i.e. either college radio or small artsy stations such as WFUV in the Bronx, N.Y., which are immune from the Clear Channel virus of pre-programming and where the number of plays per song is a fraction of what it is on commercial radio.

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October 05, 2007

Ladies Love Cool Will

Will Bunch (of Attytood fame) has his own t-shirt now! And it's in ladies' sizes, too!

Ow owwwwww!

Attytood T for ladies [PhillyNewsStand.com]

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August 23, 2006

10-Year-Old Colorado Homicide Philly's Top Story

Will Bunch, "Solving our nation's dilemma: CNN News, CNN Rumor, and CNN Blonde," Attytood, Aug. 18:

So what can be done about this tidal wave of made-up news? Well, we can talk about making it stop until we're blue in the face -- but that's not going to happen. With only three main cable news outlets -- one tied too closely to the GOP spin machine and the other two in a desperate scramble for ratings -- there is simply no way that they will exercise any kind of restraint. And as long as the current crew is running the federal machinery, there will always be an anonymous government official willing to give CNN or MSNBC a "scoop" about exploding Breck at some West Virginia airport. [...]

So it is with news -- there are, it should now be evident, different "formats" of news. For example, right this minute on CNN, about 40 percent of the news is Real News (Iraq, Bush lawbreaking) and about 60 percent is Made-Up News (terror alerts, JonBenet Ramsey). Unfortunately, it's the Made-Up News that gets the highest ratings.

Will Bunch, Daily News, today:

You know what they say: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Answers awaited in Colorado [Daily News]

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July 10, 2006

Blogicized: Workers Of The World, Unite

• Ed Rendell ups the salaries of minimum wage earners to a cool seven-fifteen an hour, which still isn't all that much. But, hey, it's something, and, hey, the state legislature passed a law that people might actually like. Hip, hip and so forth. [A Smoke-Filled Room]

• Hey, Bunchy's back! And, hey, he's working on a self-fulfilling prophecy about Michelle Malkin or some random commenters on blogs! That's the kind of stuff we live for. [Attytood]

• Got a spare, oh, I don't know, 10 minutes or so? Here's an enjoyable way to spend it, I suppose. [Whiskey Bar]

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February 20, 2006

Breaking: 'Daily News' writer promises big story in 'national magazine'

I'd like to take time out to wish none other than Daily News blogger Will Bunch a very happy blog birthday. Like all good Daily News (male) staffers, Bunch is a bearded fellow with thinning hair, and has been nothing but nice to people like me.

As such, let's all give him a nice round of applause for his blog, Attytood. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of Attytood, one of the rare political blogs that uses complete sentences and coherent thoughts. Even if you disagree with Bunch, you can get through his entire argument without wanting to tear your hair out, which is a rare trait in any opinion columnists or bloggers. (Or, really, anyone with an opinion.)

As part of his one-year anniversary, Bunch is promising a shocker later today:

Here's a major programming note. We're going to celebrate the one-year birthday (!!) of Attytood, which is tomorrow, a few hours early. We're going to be posting a link to a major, Attytood-produced story for a national publication that could shake up the tectonic plates, regarding an upcoming election.... come back sometime after 5 p.m. It'll be worth the wait...we think.

Very cryptic here. Attytood-produced? What exactly does that mean? What election could it shake up? Will I come back to Attytood after 5 p.m. to find out what candidate slept with what deceased male prostitute?

Kudos, though, on not writing this major story for the Daily News. You wouldn't want a small circulation spike or anything -- Knight Ridder would probably get greedy and lay off another 50 or so people in response.

Tonight's the night [Attytood]

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January 03, 2006

Blogicized: Just a Gigolo

• If it's a Tuesday, Will Bunch must be blogging about impeaching at least one member of the current presidential administration. As usual: Not that I don't disagree, I just don't see it happening. [Attytood]

• It's nice when you call somebody up to ask them a question and he turns out to be dead. Oh, wait. What's the opposite of nice? [Pesky'Apostrophe]

• Make fun of Howard Dean; get compared to Jeffrey Dahmer. All's fair in politics and blogosphere. [Eschaton]

• Here's a scoop: Big business loves GOP stalwart Rick Santorum! What a shocker! [MyDD]

• David Lee Roth debuts on 94 WYSP -- err, 94 FreeFM -- and other markets with a resounding thud. [Metroblogging Philadelphia]

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December 22, 2005

Blogicized: Reduce, reuse, recycle

• Another good thing about Philly: Dumpster diving sidewalk swiping for closet doors six panel wooden art pieces. [Dragonballyee]

• To be honest, the headline sold me on this one: Atlantic City: Las Vegas for Ugly People. And Bloggers. What's Wildwood, then? [TinaPoPo and Friends]

• In weather news, the blob heads toward Philadelphia. [Philadelphia Weather]

• Our favorite reporter/liberablogger Will Bunch asks: What's on Dick Cheney's iPod? What, he doesn't have one built in? [Attytood]

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December 21, 2005

Weekly (News) Show

With apologies to Will Bunch. But he deserves it after the nice write-up in PW today. This parody to be read with rimshots at the appropriate times.

Philadelphia Weekly -- we might "hate" hipsters, but we still write about their events! Nothing wrong with that.

First, let's get to PW's groundbreaking, entertaining podcast, one of the only newspapers in the country doing a podcast. Oh, wait, PW doesn't have a groundbreaking, entertaining podcast. But, then again, neither does the Daily News. (For reference: A rimshot would go here.)

The main story in today's PW is wishing happy holidays -- uhh, hello, we're on the frontlines of the War on Christmas -- to 10 local institutions or people. We'll just italicize instead of using the more standard blockquote:

It's tough to love Philly in December. It's cold, it's dark by 4, and you have to buy gifts. Okay, so we can't do much about the short days and the cold, but the gifts we can handle. Especially when we're the ones receiving them. The following 10 institutions make us feel gifted to live in Philadelphia. Even in December. And since we can't afford to repay them for everything they do for us, we figured if we printed their names, maybe you would. Happy holidays, and give till it hurts.

See: We do some good community-service oriented work every once in a while. If you can consider this good work.

Also in today's paper, a story about the Dream Act, which would allow children of illegal immigrants to go to college. The bill is on congress now.

Heroes and Goats: Kanye West and Bill O'Reilly. Guess which one's the hero.

Shorter Liz Spikol: Jews and Christians, can't they all just get along?

And the greatest comic of all time, perhaps. No, really. Read it. Now.

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December 05, 2005

Blogicized: Stephen A. uses protection

• Apparently Inky columnist Stephen A. Smith was at the USC-UCLA game over the weekend with a pair of bodyguards. All I have to say: Yikes. [BenMaller.com via Deadspin]

• Now this is shocking: SEPTA actually makes something easier to read, by adding the ability to read train/bus schedules in HTML format. So, you know, they're at about 1996 now. Pretty soon they'll have a blog. [Snooble]

• Tabletop armies and hanging intestines? Now this is art I can get into. [artblog]

• Even though it's almost two years until the election, TheNextMayor.com has sprung into action, which will try to convince Philadelphia residents that the next mayor will actually listen to what they have to say! Perhaps that's being too cynical. Eh, maybe not. Let's just end the day and move on. Let's hope for snow, I guess. [Attytood]

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