My best friend (musician Kay Hanley) and I learned today that this picture of us is the #1 Google image search result for “liberal assholes.”
We staged the photo the night of Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC last year. We made a point of drinking chardonnay because lattes would have been déclassé at that hour (but wearing sunglasses was of course apropos). Originally it was posted to her blog, then apparently went viral, mostly via conservative sites ripping us with their trademark wit and wisdom.
As another friend of ours noted, “This is bigger than winning an Oscar.” Even my right-leaning father said, between fits of laughter, “I have never been prouder of you. Or Kay for that matter.”
Kay and I would like to thank the mass of tubes that is the internets for this fine honour. We are but humble enthusiasts of chai tea, fencing and the pleasantries of The New Yorker’s erudite humorist David Sedaris. While we ourselves would never use pedestrian syntax such as that which indicates the exit point of the digestive tract, even we can appreciate the droll crudeness the term offers, particularly vis-à-vis our frequent, ribald dialogues on Canadian health care, the works of e.e. cummings, or the subtle nuance a dash of cumin can bring to cous-cous, escabeche or the simple egg-white omelette.
Conroy! Yay us! Here’s a link to the specific blog post that inspired a right wing copyright infringement binge that made us #1!!!!! http://kayhanley.com/chardonnay-swilling-liberal-elitists/