The traditional advice for new legislators is blunt: "Sit down and shut up".
Still, if you're going to get blunted and sit down to do some phatty-phat stick slapping, I'd stick to a copy of Tony Hawk with the music off.
Yet last week, in the final hour of Valentine's Day Eve, Tracey Emin, the forty-nine-year-old British artist known for her blunt sexual themes and cheeky provocations, sat there sipping a vodka tonic, and talked about love.
"It was like 'Lord of the Flies'," said Ms. Blunt, in a dreamy voice, as the couple sat on his patio on an afternoon not long ago.
It's not as though I sat down and decided to be so blunt because it's an effective sales tool; I just don't have a choice.
Blunt, who is making the rounds for her new movie, "Sicario," recently sat down with Howard Stern for a revealing interview on his SiriusXM radio show.
Once he did, though, the sun sparkled playfully off of the Bob Marley chain hanging over his Patrick Ewing Knicks jersey, and he took a couple tokes from an almost finished blunt and came to sit next to me on the stoop of his Harlem brownstown.
He sat in a booth, wearing a cardigan sweater and puffing on a blunt.
Mr Gerhardt, Glif co-designer, says they just sat down with a video camera and appealed to their audience in a very blunt honest way.
Victor Tiburcio, a 37-year resident of Inwood who sat on a mountain bike near a group of kids playing baseball, was even blunter.
WASHINGTON — Senator Roy Blunt sat silently for nearly an hour as his colleagues on the Armed Services Committee questioned one military leader after another on Tuesday about what they were doing to address the problem of sexual assault in the military, and then assessed their responses: "Stunningly bad".
