{"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":"2004-02-03T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T18:45:42","slug":"forwarding_agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/02\/forwarding_agent.html","title":{"rendered":"FORWARDING AGENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>From the Maximum Leader&#8217;s <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A6916-2004Feb2.html\"><B><EM><FO\nNT color=#003399>bonkers budget<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> to <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=519&#038;ncid=716&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20040203\n\/ap_on_re_us\/capitol_suspicious_powder\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>biochemical<br \/>\nterrorism in Washington<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, the news is too depressing today. So here,<br \/>\nfor what they&#8217;re worth, are laughs from Lara. I don&#8217;t know who Lara is. She&#8217;s just a forwarding<br \/>\nagent. But I do know she has a sense of humor, even though her <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwds4.htm\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>women&#8217;s<br \/>\ncollection<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> of photos does not feature Janet Jackson&#8217;s right breast.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Her <A href=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwds3.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>election collection<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> offers a solution to the<br \/>\nvoting-machine crisis (especially for Florida&#8217;s voters), suggests a design change for Air Force<br \/>\nOne, and does justice to the Maximum Leader (as well as Al Gore). On <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwds.htm\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>this<br \/>\npage<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, she addresses the casualties of war, the I.R.S., McDonald&#8217;s and<br \/>\n(not least but least funny) Osama bin Laden. There&#8217;s more: <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/larafwdsoptical.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>optical illusions<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, for instance, and a link to <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.danmahony.com\/oddwords.htm\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>The Odd<br \/>\nWord<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, a smorgasbord of &#8220;Malapropria&#8221; and &#8220;Yogi Berra-isms&#8221; for<br \/>\npunsters.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>This is a test:<\/STRONG> I&#8217;m told that if I want to increase my Web traffic, I<br \/>\nshould post these keywords: <STRONG>Janet Jackson<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>Janet<br \/>\nJackson&#8217;s breast<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>Super Bowl<\/STRONG> and<br \/>\n<STRONG>Blogcritics.org<\/STRONG>. So here goes: Janet Jackson&#8217;s breast is the <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/ptech\/02\/03\/television.tivo.reut\/index.html\"><STRONG\n><FONT color=#003399><EM>most TiVoed moment<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> in<br \/>\nhistory. Well, the history of Janet Jackson, anyway. TiVo users couldn&#8217;t keep their eyes off that<br \/>\nSuper Bowl stunt. And for those who haven&#8217;t read enough commentary about Janet Jackson&#8217;s<br \/>\nbreast, <A href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2004\/02\/02\/062624.php\"><STRONG><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM>go here<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>.<\/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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