From the draft archives: In Memoriam: Gus 802
Posted: June 15, 2021 Filed under: @Gus_802, Gus 802, Little Green Footballs, Penis Penis Penis LOL, Stalking, The Boiler Room | Tags: @Gus_802, archives, penis penis penis lol, screenshots, Stalking 188 CommentsLast edited on 9 October 2011, ChenZhen’s post has never seen the light of day, and it’s still relevant. – Briareus
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Of course, the title assumes that Gus really means what he said here:
So, that assumption made, we of the BRC have decided to shower our readers with a few gifts in eulogy, as this particular lizard was the butt of many, many jokes here at DoD and therefore shall be missed.
First, we might as well direct you toward memory lane, and link Gus’s official tag (every thread we mentioned Gus). There’s some good stuff in there.
As for highlights, who can forget this?
Or when Gus decided to chide DoD for posting a thread on Christmas eve and Christmas day, after posting 31 comments and an LGF Page over the same time span?
Or when he managed to post an amazing 903 comments in a single week (therefore inspiring the twitter doppelganger “Gus_903“)?
We could go on and on, of course.
But perhaps it would be more fun to make this a bit more interactive, and use The World’s Greatest Blog Search Engine™ to preserve Gus’s legacy for all time.
From the Drafts File: Pamela’s T-Shirt
Posted: April 29, 2021 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Little Green Footballs, Pam Geller, Stalking | Tags: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Charles Foster Johnson, Charles Johnson, LGF, Little Green Footballs, Pamela Geller, screenshots, Stalking, T-Shirts 185 CommentsFound in the “drafts” file, incomplete, and it’s never been finalized. Last modified by ChenZhen 26 September 2011, the comments were found in another of Charles’ Pamtrum threads titled Media Matters: The Worst of Pamela Geller.
This is the photo in contention, file image tracks to JihadWatch January 2009, exact date unknown.
Interestingly enough, Charles’ trashpost entitled Pamela Geller: Muslims Firebombed Their Own Mosque in Queens was cross-posted at another blog and featured the same image. [Related t-shirt trivia here.]
From the Draft Files: Chen Zhen’s Unfinished Business
Posted: November 22, 2020 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Diary of Daedalus, Little Green Footballs, The Boiler Room | Tags: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Charles Foster Johnson, Charles Johnson, LGF, lgf memory hole, Little Green Footballs, screenshots 107 CommentsIn 2011, Chen Zhen left this unfinished draft, and it’s not certain where he was going with it as it contained only three of Charles’ comments in text format. Here they are in the order Chen logged them, unedited, and as found in The Wayback Machine.
7087033 33455 388 Charles Thu, Apr 23, 2009 1:08:31pm
7085818 33455 377 Charles Thu, Apr 23, 2009 9:17:39am
3699435 25023 51 Charles Thu, Apr 5, 2007 9:01:04am
From the unpublished archives of Diary of Daedalus: About “Saint Pancake”
Posted: October 29, 2019 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Humor, Little Green Footballs, Penis Penis Penis LOL, Stalking, The Boiler Room | Tags: #rumpswab, Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Charles Foster Johnson, Charles Johnson, Humor, LGF, lgf memory hole, Little Green Footballs, penis penis penis lol, Stalking, The Sage of Culver City 187 CommentsNever finalized, never posted, never seen the light of day, until now. Last saved by Chen Zhen on 08 October 2011.
“Saint Pancake”
On the wikipedia entry for LGF, you’ll find this:
Rachel Corrie
Johnson has stated many times that he is disgusted with media coverage of the death of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah, a town in theGaza Strip.[40] Johnson disputes the ISM’s account, holding that Corrie was “trying to ‘protect’ a house used for drugs and weapons smuggling”.[40] Johnson states:
Rachel Corrie was emphatically not a “peace activist”. She sided with terrorists and criminals, and advocated—in fact, was excited by—violence and mass murder.[41]In support of this view, he has cited[41] a diary entry[42] from Corrie in which he claims that she expresses the view that Palestinian violence towards Israel is justifiable and laudable.[41]
In posts about her on LGF, Johnson often features a photo of Corrie burning a hand-drawn American flag and surrounded by Palestinian children.[40]
What the wiki editors leave out is the interesting story behind the term “Saint Pancake”, which originated on LGF and was a staple reference to Corrie (and the manner of her demise) for years after her death (it was an entry in the long-lost LGF Dictionary, and even the handle of an LGFer). It remains as one of the quintessential examples of the gall and dishonesty of Charles Johnson.
You see, rather than owning up to his culpability in popularizing the term and simply apologizing for it, Johnson instead denied any association, going so far as to state this at The Guardian:
It took a little while, but not only was it discovered that Johnson DID use the term, an analysis of the LGF comments section reveals that he essentially christened it.
Heh.
Tweets From Someone Who Is Definitely “not in a blog war with anyone”
Posted: August 10, 2019 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Humor, Jim Hoft - Gateway Pundit, Little Green Footballs, Penis Penis Penis LOL, Stalking, The Boiler Room | Tags: #rumpswab, BRC, Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Charles Foster Johnson, Charles Johnson, Chen Zhen, Humor, LGF, lgf memory hole, Little Green Footballs, penis penis penis lol, screenshots, Stalking, The Boiler Room Crew 134 CommentsFrom the Department of Never Before Posted Archives:
It’s been almost a year since we saw this:
Of course, the reason we do a lot of “screen-shotting” is because Charles has a tendency to make stuff disappear, perhaps more so than any other blogger on the web…
In any case, between then and now, we’ve seen the self-identified blog pacifist post endless threads taking unprovoked shots at Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Andrew Breitbart, Hot Air, and Gateway Pundit (just to name a few). So, already we can see that CJ’s statement there is pretty ridiculous.
As far as we’re concerned, however, teh Johnson has had to be a lot stealthier when it comes to the warfare. After all, he’s on record that he doesn’t visit our site. But for some reason, he knows an awful lot about what goes on. Let’s see what kind of things he’s done in the past year on offence and defense, and in reaction to us.
Bogus “tweet counters”. When we spread the word that Johnson’s the numbers used in his “retweet” boasts had nothing to do with retweets, he held a private thread, sent desperate messages to bit.ly, and eventually posted this:
(It didn’t work, and the “tweet counter” remains busted to this day).
Last saved as a draft file by Chen Zhen on 8 January 2012 and it’s never seen the light of day.
Greatest @Green_Footballs Tweet of 2011
Posted: June 2, 2017 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Humor, Little Green Footballs, Memory Hole, Penis Penis Penis LOL, The Boiler Room | Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, BRC, Charles Johnson, Humor, LGF, Little Green Footballs, The Sage of Culver City, Twitter, Weinergate 223 Comments[This post by the legendary ChenZhen has been sitting silent in the bottom of the DoD drafts folder for years for unknown reasons, but since it’s the 6th Anniversary of Charles Johnson’s Johnson TwitterFail, we might as well turn it loose. –Briareus]
In light of Johnson’s recent, um, friskiness in the Twitterverse, and the fact that we kinda skipped the DoD awards ceremony this year, I’m going to go ahead and declare what would have been the winner anyway.
To be fair (not that we need to be), the tweet came during Johnson’s hilariously desperate attempts to defend and excuse Rep. Weiner while he was dealing with the bombshell that Breitbart delivered (in retrospect, perhaps we can assume that the fact that it was AB played a factor in the intensity of CJ’s efforts).
Frustrated, and convinced that he was fighting the good fight, he even added the trending hashtag to ensure that as many netizens outside his swamp saw this as possible:
Fact Check: The Eternal Avatar
Posted: September 29, 2015 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Little Green Footballs, The Boiler Room | Tags: avatar, The Wayback Machine 210 CommentsSince it appears that CJ is going to hang on to this stern-looking, arms-crossed, monochrome image of himself indefinitely, and since the question of its age and origin pop up from time to time, the BRC decided to take a few minutes and do a little digging. So if anyone was ever curious, here you go…
First, for our visitors, here’s the image in question:
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He must really be fond of this picture (go ahead and speculate as to why), as it has graced his avi spot in his twitter, facebook, and LGF profiles for as long as most can remember. We’ll get to just how long in a moment, but we’ll start with the question of where the picture was taken, since that turned out to be kinda easy…
A clue lies in the image itself. In the brick wall background you can see text etched into it. Look closer, and you see that it appears to be a quote from Cesar Chavez. With a little Google-fu, one finds:
“Quotation Courtyard (1995) by Barbara McCarren
Description: inscribed limestone panels mounted on 4 freestanding brick walls
Location: City Hall Courtyard, 9770 Culver Boulevard, Culver City
Quotation Courtyard comprises four free-standing walls that are constructed from the bricks of the former City Hall that was erected on the site in 1928. Each side of the four walls contains a limestone panel etched with a quotation. The quotations represent a culturally diverse group of historical and civil rights leaders, including Cesar Chavez, Albert Einstein, Coretta Scott King, and Mahatma Gandhi.
Yep, safe to say that’s the place. Now on to the when…
For that we can use a reverse image search, and when you scan through that stuff, you’ll discover a few interesting bits.
When giving a quick glance at the list, a first impression is that the image serves as CJ’s one official “head shot“, as it appears on a good variety of sites and pages over the years where he is the subject. Did he request that some of these sites use this pic specifically? Probably.
Anyway, digging into the older links (and with a little help from the Wayback Machine), the avi shows up on an old Pajamas Media “about” page the Archive cached in May 2008.
It also shows up in an old Forbes(!?) article from January 2007: The Web Celeb 25. He’s #20!
But the oldest timestamped appearance of that image goes back to November 21, 2006, when someone uploaded it to Powerbase.
Thus, the pic was taken sometime before then. Perhaps some more digging could reveal an older usage (or even the actual date), so if any of you want to try different methods, by all means give it a go. In any case, it’s pretty old (certainly by headshot standards, as it would easily fail the “That’s you?!?” test).
With that context added, I suppose we could move on to the fun of speculation, and talk about just what CJ might have been doing at Culver City Hall back then, and why he looked so, I dunno…angry?
Are there any clues on LGF? Welp, fire up The World’s Greatest Blog Search Engine™, and we do find an old comment specifically about Culver City Hall (note the timestamp):
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Charles 2006-06-26 08:53:24
OK — I spoke with a friend who has extensive building experience in Culver City and he said, “No way.” But when I pointed out that the mosque is funded by Saudi Arabia, he said, “Hmm.”Any permits would be on file at the Culver City Hall.
“Hmm” indeed.
That comment appears in LGF thread #21224:
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Ahaa!!! THAT mosque!
Could this be it? Did Johnson hop on down to city hall and start digging into building permits? While there, did he stop for a nice promo shot?
Only he knows. He looked very concerned about…something, however.
But as far as a follow up to the mosque tunnel story goes, the Freepers seemed convinced that it was there, but I couldn’t find anything on LGF. Tunnel or no tunnel?
Tweet of the Day
Posted: February 28, 2015 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Little Green Footballs | Tags: Chuck C. Johnson 110 CommentsHave fun with that!
[Update: here’s a fairly clean one. Have at it. –Briareus]
Al Jarreau Has a New Album Out
Posted: October 7, 2014 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson | Tags: Al Jarreau, George Duke, Stanley Clarke 184 CommentsAl Jarreau just released new album a month ago, and considering that it’s a tribute to the late George Duke, I was kind of surprised that I don’t recall hearing a peep about it from someone who used to play for both those guys.
I mean, it’s doing well:
Maybe this has something to do with the silence:
Al Jarreau got his start playing in a jazz trio led by pianist/keyboardist George Duke, so it is fitting that Jarreau pays tribute to Duke, who passed away in 2013, on his 2014 album My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke. It was while working as a vocal rehab counselor at a hospital in San Francisco in the late ’60s that Jarreau began singing with Duke’s trio. It was also due in part to the popularity of these early performances that both musicians’ storied solo careers were launched. On My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke, Jarreau delves into a batch of Duke compositions with a select group of guest artists, many of whom also had connections to Duke. Joining Jarreau here are such luminaries as Gerald Albright, Lalah Hathaway, Jeffrey Osborne, Dianne Reeves, and others. Similarly, backing Jarreau at various times is a superb ensemble of musicians including bassist Stanley Clarke (who also produced the album), keyboardists John Beasley and Patrice Rushen, guitarist Paul Jackson, Jr., and drummer John “J.R.” Robinson. In fact, Duke himself makes an appearance here via the wonders of modern technology on the languidly romantic “Bring Me Joy.” Elsewhere, Jarreau turns his sonorous, joyful voice to such Duke songs as “Sweet Baby,” “No Rhyme, No Reason,” “You Touch My Brain,” and more. Ultimately, My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke is a heartfelt tribute album that, as with many of Jarreau and Duke’s previous albums, feels fresh, warm, and full of love.
And by this I’m saying that in the cornucopia of “select” and “superb” jazziness and swinging ponytails that coalesced at these recording sessions, there’s no mention of Icarus. Was he asked?
Saturday Afternoon Open
Posted: October 4, 2014 Filed under: Little Green Footballs | Tags: Open Thread 63 CommentsFor all you non-groovy obscessed freaks who spew hatred, here ya go!
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