Yeah, but “State Fair” was really about Iowa(y) so the song’s not technically as terrible as you want it to be.

I really REALLY want some other state, preferably a bright blue progressive one, to run their state fair for 25+ days just to stick it to Texas’ schtick of having the “biggest” state fair in the nation. It’s a hoot, fair park is assuredly an art deco gem, but anyplace but Texas please. Also, did Shiner Bock (Spoetzl…

I’m curious about the use of the term “working conditions” here. A show like Big Brother or The Real World has a job-like vibe to it: in exchange for room and board and expenses you’re going to live in a house for a certain period of time where you’ll be subject to 24/7 video surveillance. The “real” housewives or…

I’m not disputing that BIPOC Women statistically have worse outcomes in our medical system, but I think we should consider that this case might be vastly more about the the poor judgment and gross negligence of one particular doctor, if only because Dr. Tracey St. Julian is herself a Black woman.

For the film, we’ve gone with “Jeff”

Whether you believe in Gef (or not) this story is coming to the big screen, starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver, Christopher Lloyd and Neil Gaiman, September 1st in the USA. “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose” distributed by Saban Entertainment.

Dear god- I suppose the pro-lifers will be all up in arms about this? /s

Minnesota State Fair > All other State Fairs

Sure, fine, but still fuck those racist, sexist fucks.  

Sorry man, but that’s WAYYY off-base. Your run of the mill microbrewery not set up for distribution outside of in-bar can sales is a million-dollar proposition in most places now.

This may be a bit of a hot take, but the craft beer industry has only themselves to blame.

It’s pronounced ‘jeff’.

Kind of hilarious how the next guy to own the house said he just straight up murdered Gef. Like the talking mogoose was talking shit, so he had to put a bullet in him. I also imagine this dude saying he has killed the Easter Bunny, and possibly fucked up Santa Claus.

My introduction to Gef was Usborne’s “World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts” (1977). A very weird book that made ghosts seem like an actual scientific topic with phrases like “Researchers believe that ghosts can walk through walls because they are using the floorplan from their time”. To eight-year old me, that…

Voirrey Irving and her ghost mongoose seems like a level of crazy that would have been very fun. You can’t blame those psychic researchers for wanting to hang out with her. 

Gef has always been my favorite paranormal being ever since I read about him in Poltergeists: Hauntings and the Haunted back in the 70s.

As a lifelong advocate of the soft G pronunciation of “gif” I am embarrassed to say I pronounced this in my head with a hard G. If it is, in fact, soft G like “Geoff,” I will, of course, use this as an example of how those that pronounce “gif” with a hard G are wrong, wrong, wrong because I have no shame.

I’m going to suggest it was pronounced like the sturdy English name ‘Geoff’.

I’m surprised there’s no mention of the bitter controversy over whether “Gef” was pronounced with a hard G or a soft G.

I always thought the Gef The Mongoose story would make a good musical, but in the absence of that he’s at least got a very good Neil Cicierega song from his perspective: