G-Files are Back!
Jonah Goldberg, one of the three best columnists writing about politics and current events today (Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson are the other two) is finally finished his book. That means, after over four years, we finally get a G-File!
Woot!
Wait..what’s that? What’s a G-File, you ask? Glad you asked. Read on, my friends.
Jonah Goldberg is a very funny guy. He’s also a gifted writer with a brain so big it beat Chuck Norris three out of five falls. His Mother, Lucianne Goldberg, is the Grand Dame of Lucianne.com. His father was an accomplished media man, among other things. His wife was John Ashcroft’s speechwriter and is an author. He’s surrounded by talented and good-hearted people.
Jonah Goldberg is also an unabashed geek. That’s what comes through the most in his G-Files – his joie de geek. Here’s a paragraph from today’s triumphant return:
By the way, I knew the G-File hadn’t been appearing much around here when relative newcomer Nathan Goulding — a.k.a. “Chaka” to “Corner” readers — once asked me: “What’s the G-File?” Oh, how poor Chaka was beaten that day. Though a secular Jew, I nonetheless visited the wrath of Israel upon him. I must have wailed on his head with his aluminum leg braces for hours. Even now, all you have to do is start a sentence with the “Jee” sound — as in “Gee, these pretzels are making me thirsty,” or “Gee, Lance sure drinks a lot of beer” — and a flinching Chaka pleads for mercy, in his panic knocking down his cubicle walls, as if he was Gollum seeing Sam Gamgee come through door, stinking drunk, ranting about how his wife left him for a particularly effeminate elf and he needs to take it out somebody. But we didn’t kill poor Chaka (When The Walls Fell) because we’ve gone through more webguys than Spinal Tap went through drummers.
See, that’s just awesome.
As a geek, I can only grin in delight as such a paragraph. I don’t know that there’s any other influential political writer who can come up with such a deliciously fun paragraph.
Anyhow, read the rest. Keep your eyes peeled for more. You’ll be glad you did.
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