Turner Broadcasting renewed their option on my Living-and-Dropping-Acid-With-Vladimir-Putin story for another year, scoring me another $5000 check and, I hope, dramatically increasing the chances they’ll make a pilot. If they do, I get a HUGE amount of money which, let’s face it, after doing 7,558 signs pro bono, I deserve. So if you haven’t, please read and enjoy and consider dropping a line to Turner Broadcasting saying that you adore the story, would love to see it developed and most of all, so do the many 16 through 34 year olds currently living in your home.
The San Francisco Bay Area recently issued a challenge to all the other major metropolitan areas in the United States to see who could put the most “Protect Mueller” signs up on their freeways, and I’m proud to say that Los Angeles is Rising to the Challenge!
You know that feeling when you go put up a sign up on a freeway only to see the sign you put up a month ago is still there? I’m guessing the answer is probably “no,” but man… you should. Took down the sign below, mounted 12 feet from 260,000 cars per day on the Harbor Freeway for the past month, in order to put the “Protect Mueller” sign above in its place.
To be honest, I wasn’t all that crazy about “Putin’s GOP” as a freeway sign. I thought it was a bit dull and plain… lacking any real humor or creativity. And yet, when I saw it’d been seen millions of times, I felt glad. Maybe that’s because Putin DOES own the fucking GOP.
I put it up over the Santa Monica eastbound a half hour later: long may it wave.
The story about the story may be even better the story, but, awful as it may seem, the story we’re living through right now has got to be one of the most bizarre and absurd stories humanity has ever experienced. And hopefully survives.
What we’re going through right now? This is awesome: a wake-up call like never before. What we’re experiencing now is one of those rare rises of fascism that also happens to be comedy gold, and if you’re not commenting on it to an audience of 60,000 or more a day, why… you’re simply not living up to your potential.
With any luck, we’re about to go into the biggest political grave-dance since the Dawn of Time, so come… Join me... Bathe in the healing waters of First Amendment protection: the water’s fine.