Maddox
 

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I love him. I like the picture of the easter stuff

not been there in ages, kinda forgot all about it. goddamned hilarious stuff.

I have that "If your children don't look like this when you come home you have failed as parents" or whatever shirt. I love maddox.

been awhile/. Anyone seen his book, the alphabet of manliness? It's fuckin a all the way

maddox is brilliant. my friend is just a less eloquent version of him. it's quite amusing./

I looked at the 'concealing boners' section in borders.

hahaha i've been reading that for god knows how long. i love him.

i love him.

I want to send a fan letter to him, but I'd probably make a really bad grammer mistake and he'd write an article about it calling me a dumbass, totally blowing it out of proportion.

you could write it and i could spell-check it.

I ,ove the part were he mentions cyclopse's //// it doesn't make any connection to the part of the book it;'s in... and he just says "I had to mention cyclopses/" Yea. I don't really know how to spell 'cyclopsises' and have drank a 211.

The Maddox guy, despite all his turns of phrase, is barely above being an idiot. He's a frustrated comedian.

Even though I haven't seen "Loose Change," and even though the idiot Maddox thinks Avery is an idiot, Dylan Avery is probably an idiot as well.

Please note that one can still be an idiot and know that there are no hidden images in the new twenty dollar bill.

Oh, as I'm reading, I see he's fond of calling people "idiots" as well.

It's nice if one has an education and can apply knowledge as Maddox demonstrates, but it doesn't mean a goddamn thing without the capacity to be a generalist enough to see the big picture. He deals with the small, specific, researchable picture. That's his domain. Why? Because he believes in nothing other than his smug selfish self and he has enough wits about him to mask his inner idiot and seem like he really knows of what he writes. The poor fellow longs to be an edgier Dave Barry.

but it's funny.

The poor fellow longs to be an edgier Dave Barry.

Self-satisfied wit is not something I look for in a writer.

It's not something I look for in a comedian either really.

i don't care.

Yeah, I know.

A kid from my school said this, I think. It may have Maddox. Fuck if I remember:

"The alphabet of manliness will be the greatest book of all time. It will quickly outsell the Bible. In fact, copies of the bible will be recycled when all of the worlds trees have been used up to print the ABCs or Manliness.

"big penises are awesome. big vaginas are just gross."

Maddox's schtick, and that's exactly what it is (a formulaic schtick) is well-suited for an internet audience.

For example, posting his favorite movies would just be too "gay" of an endeavor for Maddox.
Posting his "five shitty movies that everyone loves" allows him to escape from having to have a real opinion that could be more easily subject to criticism by the reader.
Negativity pervades the internet and, in general, a great deal of message board and blog posts are, at their root, prompted by a principle very akin to this one very pervasive ne'er-do-well element of Maddox's avocation.

The chronic usage of readily obvious observations betray the supposed air of detachment he strives to convey; the observations I make when reading him are associated with numerous and obvious (to me) character defense mechanisms.
For a spewer of such venom, he actually wants nothing more than to be noticed...and liked too...by the "right" hipper-than-thou pretenders-at-nihilism, of course. His motivation is more than just a little bit similar to Dr. Marvin Monroe describing Bart Simpson in Treehouse of Horror II (in the wonderful parody of The Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life"):
"The child doesn't care if he gets good attention for, say, high marks in school, or bad attention for turning his father into a jack-in-the-box." This is also the episode where Bart is first referred to by his intentioned anagram of "brat."
It should be noted that dogs behave in the same fashion, not really preferring good or bad attention, but just seeking attention in general.
Recently, we've all witnessed cryptowonderdruginvogue become yet another personality casualty as he puts-on a persona, gleefully chasing his tail towards the golden horizon of some popularity that he feels will elude him if he just acts like himself.

Aside from atari's post above mine, I always felt like he was kind of knocking off seanbaby. Of course, he seems to do almost nothing these days...

hahahha I love his hatemail.