{"id":1328,"date":"2012-12-12T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-12T21:34:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:34:58","slug":"avik-roy-heard-my-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2012\/12\/12\/avik-roy-heard-my-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Avik Roy Heard My Plea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you have noticed, but I&#8217;ve been feeling really down the last few days. But I just noticed something that really improved my mood: Avik Roy tweeted my last rant about him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>A lefty blogger: &#8220;I want to rip off your scrotum and suffocate you with it. Cock sucking plutocrat bastard!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/vVlnhzKK\" title=\"http:\/\/www.franklycurious.com\/index.php?itemid=3150\">franklycurious.com\/index.php?item\u2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23avikroy\">#avikroy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Avik S. A. Roy (@aviksaroy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aviksaroy\/status\/278135406682320896\" data-datetime=\"2012-12-10T13:53:43+00:00\">December 10, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWhen I wrote those words, I knew they had a certain poetic charm. Like Crow T. Robot&#8217;s six pages of &#8220;no&#8221; in <i>Earth Vs. Soup<\/i>, I wanted to get across the raw terror I must feel as a giant bowl of California Cornucopia Vegetable Jubilee slithers towards me on all fours. I mean: my raw anger at Avik Roy&#8217;s public disinformation campaign. I&#8217;m glad they didn&#8217;t go to waste on a bunch of people who agree with me!<\/p>\n<p>And now my opinion of Avik Roy has gone way up for two reasons. First, he tweeted my link out which resulted it quite a lot of traffic. Second, that picture of him with the open collar makes him look kind of cool. Or like some lounge singer. Not that I take back a thing. He really is a cock sucking plutocrat bastard. Maybe I&#8217;ll take back the exclamation point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you have noticed, but I&#8217;ve been feeling really down the last few days. 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