The Neal Pollack Invasion



	beautiful site / i enjoyed everything FROM: Michael Teal Greetings from The Ancient One Hello Neal The vibration of universal energies which is the web of creation we call cyberspace directed me to your website. I must say i'm impressed. Like a rainbow in the sky you lead the viewer to a magnificent pot of gold. May joy and prosperity be yours always. My name is Micheal Teal. I am a Psychic , Spiritual Advisor and Poet in Hamilton Ontario Canada. My innermost nature lead me to write as i believe positive creates positive. Thank you for beautifully and respectfully sharing your gifts. May you be bathed by grace in a sea of serenity. L'Hitra'ot FROM: Brian Dear Neal, I am very sorry for me that today is your Last Blog and Neal Young isn't even showing up to sing "Helpless" with you. But I suspect that you are hanging it up for good reasons that are good for you and for that, I am happy. Good luck in your new endeavours. I am looking forward to reading your next book and your dispatches from the 2004 election and, I feel grimly sure, your coverage of phase II of the Apocalypse, when we will need good writing and hard humor more than ever. Thanks for your gifts. With a hand on my heart, Brian Say It Ain't So FROM: Neil Krupnick Fake Neal, R.I.P. I will profoundly miss you. My morning's will never be the same. And how am I going to continue to torture my conservative "friends" if I can't send them excerpts from your blog? Come to think of it, this is very selfish of you. Fuck you "Neal Pollack". Goddamnit, you've ruined my life. xoxo, Neil Krupnick Blog FROM: Dan Just wanted to drop a line to thank you for the entertainment with which your blog has thwacked me over the head on numerous occasions. I've been reading your stuff for a few years (I believe the first I saw was "Why Am I So Handsome? A scientific Inquiry in Three Parts" or some such thing on McSweeney's Online), and have found that the majority of my friends, when linked to your work, have one of two reactions: Either they respond with an "I don't get it", or they buy your book(s). Point being: I think it takes a certain sense of the ridiculous to "get" your humor, but for those of us who do "get" it, it's a real gem. A vomit-marinated gem, but a gem nonetheless. I will always enjoy recollecting the D.C. sock puppet protest of Florida. Anyway, I'm bummed the blog is going away (is this a hiatus or a permanent demise?). And tell Amazon to fuck themselves; I ordered your new book about 2 weeks ago and it ain't here yet. The Vanity Fair stuff has been just lovely of late, by the way. Cheers, -Dan Bye FROM: Sam Heldman Well, NYT be damned, I loved your book. And I'll miss your blog. Sam Heldman Hail and farewell FROM: Damien Weaver I'm hoping the NYT review isn't the reason you're giving blogging a rest. I can certainly imagine wanting to stop blogging for any number of reasons, most of them variations on the blog having become a pain in your ass and a drag rather than a fun part of your life. I'll certainly miss reading it. On the subject of Tuesday's entry, there's really no other adverb but "manfully" to describe how you took that review. You've shamed anybody who's ever whined about critics, and done so in the course of responding with astonishing good humor to a review that really was more negative than most of the complaining writers will ever receive. My respect for you went through the roof; that graceful non-riposte is a real high note on which to end your blog. Best of luck with your ongoing endeavors, and I'll look forward to reading whatever you publish, wherever. Damien Weaver Buffalo, NY Sad To See You Go FROM: Don Waller Hey, Neal, Just read your farewell to blogging. You made Bloghdad more interesting while you were here, but I can understand your desire to move on. Thanks for coming to our aid when we needed it. Maybe someday we can return the favor. If you ever need a little promotion from TBTM, you've got it. Waiting for the next book, Don Waller, Take Back The Media Shit FROM: Dick Neal, baby, every writer gets bad reviews. The universe is unfortunately inhabited by too many inferior people who cannot understand humor, wit, wisdom or even know how to prepare a decent martini. I can't help thinking that being both reviewed and panned by the NYT has proved to be the proverbial straw that has broken the blogger's back. Whether it was the scathing review that made you think you're not a writer, or that the NYT reviewing YOUR book now makes you a real writer and not some lowlife blogger, think again. Blogging is your life. Blogging IS life. Don't throw it all away. Don't take away my expectation of five minutes of chuckles and guffaws each weekday to write novels or other outmoded, dead, defunct and decrepit literary forms (magazine articles, yuk). Now you may quibble about money, all those donations you wheedled out of us may not keep you and Roger in the lifestyle you feel entitled to, but poverty is ennobling, they say. Well, that's my pitch. You'll be missed, no matter how doughy you are. I'll be watching your future career with considerable interest. Dick FROM: Alan Dear Neal, Love your stuff--great writing. I laughed out loud more than once. Your band even sounds good. I have "Memories of Times Square" on my desktop, still play it once in a while. I haven't checked back as often as I should. Hell, if I'd thought the site was in danger of dying, I would have made it my home page. I still wouldn't have had any money to contribute, but maybe you could have gotten lots of advertisers who didn't know that. . .Too bad. If by some miracle I'm ever in New York, and you ever see a band poster that says "The Warshers," go see them. That's me. If I've had all my drugs in the right order, we'll even be good. Kidding. I think. Good luck with everything you do. Alan P.S. AOL? OK, but for God's sake man, don't use the browser. Sorry You're Bowing Out FROM: Jeralyn Merritt Neal, you had a great blog and you have a great writing voice (haven't heard you sing). I'll be looking forward to what you do next. All the best, Jeralyn Merritt Thank you and good luck FROM: Bill Neal, THank you. Your blog has been great. You have a wonderful sense of humor , high intelligence and moral standards. Your life is NOT ruined. Good luck! I'll keep reading your works. Keep them coming. - Bill Happy Happy Funpundit FROM: John Werner That is some wild and crazy stuff. "Happy Happy Funpundit" is nicely Japanese. i think he should permanently change his moniker. instapundithon FROM: M. McInnis Chris, Sheer brilliance. A truly brave performance. Fuck David Blaine whoever the hell that glassbox squatter is. Tomorrow do Andrew Sillivan. This is the best week of Neal Pollack ever. Love mail for your heroic deed! FROM: Werner Dieter Thomas Keep up the good fight, I'm all with you! That'll totally teach Bea, she just doesn't want to let on yet! Sheer blogging-power! Cheers Carry on, brave warrior FROM: Cody There comes a time when all great men must test themselves. Some endeavor to climb Mount Everest, while others enter the Boston Marathon. Noble choices certainly, but creative? Hell no. Those choices are to originality as my Golden Girls fan fiction is to brilliance. Inspired? Yes. Brilliant? SOON! But I get away from my point. The thing that strikes me about your task for the day, the Instapunditathon, is just how original it is. You are truly the first to stare down death's grabby hands in the guise of Instapundit's relentless blathering. How will it end? Death? Dismemberment? A tickle attack? None of us can know, but I say that I for one salute your brilliance. Read on, you brave, beautiful man. Praise, Support FROM: JS van Buskirk Enjoying the Instapunditathon - I shower you with praise and support. Instapunditathon FROM: Kat Just the fact that you've had to type 'InstaPunditathon II' over and over again and you're even minding the correct spelling makes you a much hardier soul than David Blaine. You brave, brave man. More praise FROM: A. Pinge Often, in the course of one man's life, a task emerges, and unlike any other, takes on its own life, not to mention a body, not unlike those inflatable men with flailing arms used to tempt you into car dealerships. Any self-proclaimed artist with a penchant for smelling his own funk can suspend himself in plexiglas-only a real artiste, (read: self destructive tendencies off measurable scales) would take on instapud. I am duly impressed and horrified. Instapunditathon FROM: Jeff 'Goose' Vanderbilt Keep up the good work, Darren. It's nice to finally have a reason to check out Neal's blog more than once a day... Your courage and tenacity far outstrip David Blaine's. Though is it true that he slept with Fiona Apple? Because if so, my admiration for him may go up a notch... Anyway, keep up the good fight. Instapundit doesn't stand a chance. Goose Instapunditathon FROM: Alex T. Good luck with the Instapunditathon! If you don't make it, can I steal your glowing hands?