I read Grace “9/11 was an inside job!” Kelly’s opus to Bill “Michele Bachmann caused 9/11” Prendergrast over at MNBlue (Motto:  “For those who think Daily Kos isn’t crazy enough“) the other day.

And it inspired me; it’s time for us to acknowledge – indeed, pay obeisance to – the heroes that walk among us. 

And so I hereby present my interview with Joe “Learned Foot” Tucci, blogger thunderjournalist extraordinaire.

And you know that this report is accurate, since I got it emailed directly from Joe!

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1) How did you get started writing about politics?

 One day, I saw injustice.  I decided right then and there that if there was to be justice, I MUST ACT. For if not me, who?  If not now, when?  If not here, where?  The stakes were too high to wait, and there were no heroes waiting in the wings.  I needed to save the world.

So I started a poop blog.

 2) Do you have a special mission?

 I’ll be all around in the dark – I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look – wherever there’s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be there in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build – I’ll be there, too. And if some moron dies of alcohol poisoning from a sherry enema, oh ho! you can bet your ass I’ll be there too.

 3) How did God actually hand you this mission?

 I was fasting alone in the woods for 40 days as is my typical lenten custom.  While there, the clouds parted and a voice told me to start a poop blog because, let’s face it, if you want to influence the world and change society for the better, the best way to do so is by running a ThunderJournal that gets 300 uniques per day.

 While we were chatting, God also told me that even though evolution was pretty much how things went down, PZ Meyers was actually an accident – or rather, a practical joke gone horribly horribly awry.

 4) What do you consider your best piece of writing?

 I think my readers consider this my definitive post.   Personally I have a soft spot for the Viagra song.  It was a very important post for turbulent times.

 5) OK, now what do you consider your double-dog bestEST piece of writing?

 OK, fine: “Oh Sherry (enema)“.  Of course there was also my magnum opus, my long overdue tribute to myself.  But film editing isn’t writing, though it takes a special talent that only I and about 12 other people in  Minnesota possess.

6) Do you have a short version of your personal philosophy? The one by which you endeavor to live your life?

 “Poop often.”

 (Otherwise you’ll end up like Prendergast.)

 7) What is the best way for the rest of us to live up to your philosophy in OUR daily lives?

 Listen to me.  Everyone else is full of shit and is a moron.  Except for me.  READ MY BLOG!

 8) Who are your heroes and why?

 I am a hero.  My own hero.  And yours too.  Did you ever know that I’m your hero?

 9) Why did you wait so long before logging on to the Interwebs as Joe Tucci?

 Oh, that wily craptoonist Avidor outed me!  Of course, you haven’t heard much from him lately have you?

 10) Do you write with the same style in all places?

 Well…I do use a terser, more pithy tone when banging out a post while sitting on the toilet.

 11) How much feedback do you get?   Does everyone love your work as much as the smart people do, or are some of them morons?  Is it different from the “not wired to code” version of politics?

I get no feedback.  Everybody other than me is too dumb to figure out how to comment on my ThunderJournal.  But that’s by design.  Because if they’re smart enough to get my commenting system, then they’re smart enough to be in total agreement with me, and will have nothing further to add to the conversation that would merit a comment anyway.

So I guess you could say that I have the smartest readership, and the best comment threads on the internet.

12) What does good government look like?

Jennifer Love Hewitt

13) What does a good stool look like?

Firm.  Bulbous.  Tan.  Kind of like Jennifer Love Hewitt.

14) I notice that you engage in conversation and debate with opposing viewpoints quite successfully.  Why do you dominate weaker minds so easily?

Let me turn that around on you: why are weaker minds so easily dominated by me?

Think about it.  Clever, huh?

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Take a moment to reach out to the great, great heroes among us. 

 

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