Why Would I Opine on Michael Vick?

Breaking News, Man.
Michael Vick’s abrupt descent from a happy-go-lucky endorsement star with herpes and a peculiar nickname to President of Bad Newz Kennels has been so overwhelming that nobody would be dumb enough to even try to make fun of it at this juncture. You’d think an Attorney General’s suspicious retirement so close in proximity of the Deputy Chief of Staff would be enough to wipe this ghoulish state of affairs from the headlines. Oh to Hell with it, we invented the term “multi-tasking” damn it, you better believe we’ll apply it to something when it comes along.
It’s hard not to be enthralled with the spiral of shame and antipathy that is urgently portrayed as emulous of Pol Pot. Fastening in for an eighteen month ride in the federal honky tonk and losing about $130 million might seem as inviting as a banquet buffet compared to the ire of all humanity. Michael Vick’s diversionary savior and transition to tranquility might come in the form of a frisky senator searching for the exultation of antiquity-style, Greek recruitment of rigid splendor in a dank bathroom stall.
I don’t have the statistics, but I’d wager that incumbents who are exposed as possible Erasure fans don’t stand a chance at reelection in Idaho. Is he guilty of hypocrisy? Sure. Would he throw a pile of half conscious dogs in a freshly dug hole? Not if the mangy bastards wanted to get married in there.
That’ll be enough “multi-tasking” for one day.
The hysteria over the trashiness of Vick is enigmatic. The loss of his money, career and dignity won’t be enough for some punishment zealots. People will soon be bitching about his sentence in comparison to the woman who dropped hammer on her preacher husband. The NAACP will defend him with absolutes. It’s just foul enough to inspire positive outcomes in other areas. P.E.T.A. will lock arms with drunken skinheads to oppose him. Undercover cops will play erotic foot games with stoic senators. People will pensively admire the profundity of photographs and paintings of a black hand embracing a white hand.
Michael Vick is now a mid-term, open book test for people who study to be publicists, as if anyone would ever do such a repugnant thing. From this moment the standard concordant with all clients will be a practiced proclamation that if they harvest an underground gambling ring, fight dogs, engage in racketeering or profit from a dog ripping the flesh from another dog that they do not wend with associates by the names of P-Funk and Q. For individuals named P-Funk, or any variation of, are almost always a poor endeavor.
Any half-assed publicist would know that only two textbook p.r. hopefuls will apply to Michael Vick. If a fruity senator isn’t going to cut it then you need to pray for the Cosmic Diversion. This is when molecules, remedial math, science and other shit combines to produce a cloud that spells out Git-R-Dun when viewed at just the right angle.
The zenith of all diversions would be a Slurpee-brained, pill ridden super model courteous enough to die but just smart enough to reproduce. This shiny object will captivate your critics. If you can land that jewel you can go to federal prison in peace.
Vick’s reputation is certainly sullied with the dreadful abundance of bloodied, dead dog carcasses and such. Personally I think he should fight it. Who is going to accept P-Funk and Q as experts in bloody, dead dog carcasses? Also, if Mike were to throw a dead dog into a shallow hole or a pool or against the concrete, statistics are readily available that he’d only be able to hit such targets 52% of the time. If Mike’s signature was on this heinous crime then there would be many more squirming, half-dead dogs errantly strewn across the residence.
The only virtuous result of this tragedy is that Marcus will finally be legitimized as the rational one.
excuse me, sir
August 29, 2007 at 4:50 am
Vick should have dressed the dogs up like Mexican wrestlers before fighting them.
August 29, 2007 at 5:50 am
Dammit, Chooky. You messed up the italics tag. I don’t think you ever closed it.
Fool.
August 29, 2007 at 5:59 am
I broke the Barking Carnival.
August 29, 2007 at 7:47 am
Okay that accuracy bit was out of line. And very funny.
If I’m Vick’s PR guy I’m cutting my losses short term and thinking long, 2012 maybe. Popular opinion will soften just enough to navigate the tricky shoals of a television comeback. Our pitch is a reality show, working title: The Two Vicks, it will be just like The Two Corey’s, with less whining and no berets. Mike and Marcus will get jobs at a Petco, live in a house with 6 strangers (we’ll mix 3 O.G.s and 3 NOW members for dramatic tension), and at the end of 6 months they have to perform the entire Slippery When Wet album live before a studio audience. Acoustic.
August 29, 2007 at 8:49 am
The American public can tolerate a certain amount of waving under the stall as long as your completion rate is not 52 percent. By the way, what’s Aikman up to nowadays?
August 29, 2007 at 7:05 pm
The most satisfying part is the look on their face when they know they’re f*cked. We’ve all seen that on Vick now so the the healing can begin.
In all my time, O.J. is the one person I know that America has never forgiven… ultimately because he’s never had to publicly acknowledge the time he made lewd gestures to an undercover cop in the next stall with his bloody Bruno Magli shoes.
Expect to see an NFL Vick in 2009-2010.
September 13, 2007 at 12:28 pm
i find it ironic that a blog about michael vick and his mistreatment of dogs in on a site called the “barking carnival” and i also find it ironic that the only really solid portrayal we’ve seen of captain marvel lately was in alex ross and jim kruegers JUSTICE series…