{"id":519,"date":"2004-02-03T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/02\/forwarding_agent\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:33:01","slug":"forwarding_agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/02\/forwarding_agent.html","title":{"rendered":"FORWARDING AGENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Maximum Leader&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A6916-2004Feb2.html\"><b><em><fo nt=\"\" color=\"#003399\">bonkers budget<\/fo><\/em><\/b><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=519&amp;ncid=716&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/ap\/20040203\n\/ap_on_re_us\/capitol_suspicious_powder\"><b><em><font color=\"#003399\">biochemical terrorism in Washington<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a>, the news is too depressing today. So here, for what they&#8217;re worth, are laughs from Lara. I don&#8217;t know who Lara is. She&#8217;s just a forwarding agent. But I do know she has a sense of humor, even though her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwds4.htm\"><b><em><font color=\"#003399\">women&#8217;s collection<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a> of photos does not feature Janet Jackson&#8217;s right breast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwds3.htm\"><b><em><font color=\"#003399\">election collection<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a> offers a solution to the voting-machine crisis (especially for Florida&#8217;s voters), suggests a design change for Air Force One, and does justice to the Maximum Leader (as well as Al Gore). On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwds.htm\"><b><em><font color=\"#003399\">this page<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a>, she addresses the casualties of war, the I.R.S., McDonald&#8217;s and (not least but least funny) Osama bin Laden. There&#8217;s more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwdsoptical.htm\"><b><em><font color=\"#003399\">optical illusions<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a>, for instance, and a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/oddwords.htm\"><b><em><font color=\"#003399\">The Odd Word<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a>, a smorgasbord of &#8220;Malapropria&#8221; and &#8220;Yogi Berra-isms&#8221; for punsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is a test:<\/strong> I&#8217;m told that if I want to increase my Web traffic, I should post these keywords: <strong>Janet Jackson<\/strong>, <strong>Janet Jackson&#8217;s breast<\/strong>, <strong>Super Bowl<\/strong> and<strong> Blogcritics.org<\/strong>. So here goes: Janet Jackson&#8217;s breast is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/ptech\/02\/03\/television.tivo.reut\/index.html\"><strong><font color=\"#003399\"><em>most TiVoed moment<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/a> in history. Well, the history of Janet Jackson, anyway. TiVo users couldn&#8217;t keep their eyes off that Super Bowl stunt. And for those who haven&#8217;t read enough commentary about Janet Jackson&#8217;s breast, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2004\/02\/02\/062624.php\"><strong><font color=\"#003399\"><em>go here<\/em><\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Maximum Leader&#8217;s bonkers budget to biochemical terrorism in Washington, the news is too depressing today. So here, for what they&#8217;re worth, are laughs from Lara. I don&#8217;t know who Lara is. She&#8217;s just a forwarding agent. 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