Althouse: "In that 25th hour, I’m pretty sure I heard certain words — 'god,' 'money,' 'demons,''warships' — but I’m entirely confident that I was hearing an unknowable prayer..."

February 17, 2018

"In that 25th hour, I’m pretty sure I heard certain words — 'god,' 'money,' 'demons,''warships' — but I’m entirely confident that I was hearing an unknowable prayer..."

"... the kind that makes the forward-march of time go greasy and slack, the kind that lifts us out of the real world and plunges us into a place we’ve never been, together. 'Y’all know what I’m saying?' [Sir] E.U asked near the end, and even if you didn’t, you absolutely did."

From "This D.C. rapper just performed a 25-hour concert. Near the finish, things got surreal" (WaPo). We're told "Sir E.U was filibustering in the subbasement of his own brain," and I would like to point out that he went on more than 3 times as long as Nancy Pelosi did the other day when she set the record for longest speech in the House of Representatives, though to give Nancy her due, it must be said that she never went to the bathroom. E.U., we're told, did go to the bathroom and just wore his wireless microphone right in there.

But was Nancy filibustering in the subbasement of her own brain? Did Nancy devolve into unknowable prayer and make the forward-march of time go greasy and slack and lift us out of the real world and plunge us into a place we’ve never been?

11 comments:

gspencer said...: Nancy ended her Democrat prayer festival the same way she began it, the same way she conducted her nonsense with countless interspersions,

"Let us tax and spend"; 2/17/18, 5:41 PM
madAsHell said...: Every other day of the year, E.U is a cosmological thinker who concerns himself with the nature of the streets and the stars, but after a sleepless day-and-night-and-day of continuous rhyming, he was pure vocal locomotion. His body is his instrument, and he had taken his instrument to its physical limits. One witness told me that he’d seen the rapper carry his wireless microphone into the bathroom, but hadn’t seen him eat a meal.

Replace all references to E.U., or the rapper with Obama. Don't forget to turn the calendar back to 2008.; 2/17/18, 5:47 PM
YoungHegelian said...: When I google "sir e.u 25 hour rap" the only hits I get that are relevant are to the WaPo.

What the hell kind of rapper's on-line presence is the WaPo? Is getting chatted about by the honkey swells at the WaPo some new way of bein' down wit' the bruthas in the Age of Trump? So much for an fan community developing organically out from the real on the streets.

I'm sure Sir E.U. must be an absolutely fav on the Upper West Side, too.; 2/17/18, 5:49 PM
Quaestor said...: Pelosi was standing there in that most hallowed spot of self-government tinkling into a bag.; 2/17/18, 6:04 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I've always thought it was funny the way we use the phrase "go to the bathroom" to refer to urinating in places other than the bathroom. I wrote that Pelosi "never went to the bathroom," meaning it literally: She never relocated to the place we call the bathroom.

But I am aware of the idiom that would allow us to wonder whether "Nancy Pelosi went to the bathroom in her pants." I did not mean to raise that question. I would prefer to think that she wore some kind of adult diaper rather than to believe she was, as we say, "holding it." That's not healthy.; 2/17/18, 6:13 PM
Rob said...: For Nancy Pelosi, going to the bathroom in her pants is just another day at the office.; 2/17/18, 6:14 PM
Darrell said...: Nancy Pelosi was standing on one of Obama's used mattresses. The pee just flowed.; 2/17/18, 6:28 PM
LYNNDH said...: She wears Depends all the time so it was no biggy piss'n her pants during the Filaloser.; 2/17/18, 6:36 PM
cubanbob said...: Nancy Pelosi basically spent eight hours telling members of the United States House of Representatives that she represents citizens of other countries and that Americans owe her constituents. Sir E.U? To me rap is crap and rappers are just largely thugs who can't sing.; 2/17/18, 6:47 PM
David said...: "though to give Nancy her due, it must be said that she never went to the bathroom."

Depends on how you define it.; 2/17/18, 9:46 PM
Joanne Jacobs said...: The "forward march" of time might do many things -- stumble, pirouette, backtrack, leap, etc. -- but not "go greasy and slack." Is time marching or cooking french fries?; 2/18/18, 7:44 PM