Category: Blogging

Sean Hackbarth at The American Mind says:

A minor pet peeve of mine is being called only by my first name when I’m mentioned with my weblog….

I agree with Sean. Dammit, you people, I have a middle initial. J. It’s right there between The Brian and the Noggle in my name. How can I make my pretentiousness known if I don’t enforce proper branding, and how will people tell me apart from the other famous Brian Noggles of the world unless the J. is present?

If you cannot link me right, I insist you not link me at all. Which, I believe, is actually much of the blogosphere’s current policy.

Has anyone ever noticed that status.blogger.com tends to have a post describing a problem after they’ve fixed the problem?

Kevin McGehee: Karaoke Superstar!

No one does a better version of Dido’s “White Flag”. He sings it with such emotion that one thinks that perhaps he’s experienced profound loss, such as the lack of a recent Instalanche to bolster his traffic numbers. Unlike some of us.

Michelle Catalano, formerly of A Small Victory, is blogging about big 1970s cars and punk music at Faster Than The World. Update your bookmarks and buy misspelled domain names as appropriate.

Oh, yeah?

McGehee’s right. His new self-portrait does make him look like a Klingon:

A cross-dressing Klingon at that.

Check it out….MfBJN is linked top left on the forthcoming Kansas City Star KC Buzz Blog!

Woo!

Damn Interesting, a blog of articles about, well, interesting things.

I don’t know that I’ve ever tried to read a blog’s complete archives before.

I know, over the last week I’ve blogged less than the retired Michelle Catalano, but we’ve moved, and I have been too busy trying not to have to sort my ton of books to set up an actual office and/or Internet connection.

Since that plot has obviously failed, I guess I will get back to blogging soon.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s blog.

(Link seen on Ace of Spades HQ.)

Dr. Michael Williams, upon completing his PhD, contemplates a career in technical writing.

Sure, it sounds like a good idea. If you have a freaking English degree and are tired of bouncing around retail jobs.

But a PhD? That would seem like getting a law degree and passing the bar so you can edit phone directory ads for attorneys.

Please, Dr. Williams, think of the starving English majors you’ll displace!

Oh, yeah, congratulations to the pups at Another Rovian Conspiracy for their one year anniversary.

The Web Phenomenon continues.

The assertion is proven here.

Today, MfBJN has tripped over into the six digits. If my sitemeter were done in Atari 2600 Asteroids, I’d be at about 20 hitz. But it’s not, and after only three years here in the blogging backwaters, I’m finally amongst the at least eliter cabal of people who have more hitz than debt.

On the other hand, it will take me until 2033 at this pace to equal the annual traffic of relative newcomers like Ann Althouse, but then again, I’m not a PILF (Professor Instapundit Links Frequently).

But I’ll keep plugging away, gentle reader, because otherwise I’d just play Civilization IV until my eyes bled.

Milwaukee blogger Owen of Boots and Sabers has another regular column gig.

Man, he’s making it look easy. Perhaps if I weren’t so lazy, I could emulate his success.

Calico Monkey

The first Web Flash cartoon I’ve watched in a non-professional capacity. Because I know Will.

Kevin McGehee, of Yippie Ki Yay, is stuck in the past. Case in point, this category: Truckin’. The last time I saw the word trucking without the g was probably sometime 1981 on a hand-me-down t-shirt with an iron-on decal with a hitchhiker’s thumb in the air. Which leads me to wonder…is Kevin McGehee stuck on the Seventies? Let’s look at the evidence:

• Kevin McGehee still has a Bruce Jenner poster on his dining room wall and keeps a Bruce Jenner Wheaties box on his bedside table. His wife has commented on the poster, telling him to take it down….so she can replace it with a Greg LeMond poster.
• McGehee has 7 letters. Writing McGehee 11 times (McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee McGehee) has 77 letters….like 1977! The numbers don’t lie!
• Two words: Mus Tache
  

Granted, these are only a few signs, but I think they warrant an intervention by the blogosphere, or at least the two bloggers who like him.
Yes, it’s true I’ve got some truck with McGehee, but I only wish him the best, and hope that he comes to be stuck in the 1990s like so many of us.

As some of you know, I have a disagreement with McGehee of Yuppie-Ki-Yay, a blog written from an aesthete cokehead’s midtown Manhattan apartment. Just so you know, I am punishing him by giving him the silent treatment, which is apparently effective.

Mostly because tonight’s photo manipulation historical research hasn’t proven effective.

Some of you readers might know that I have this thing about Kevin McGehee of Yippee-Ki-Yay!.

"Why?" Some of you ask. "After all, McGehee is cool; he’s got a Web log."

That’s not enough.

Kevin McGehee Lacks Geek Cred

Signs include:

• First of all, let’s address this.
  • Dude, where’s the mad Photoshopping skillz? I mean, come on, Microsoft Paint comes with your computer; put your back into it!
  • Of all the characters in an obscure 30-year-old movie, you’re comparing me to Riff Raff? Dude, the only character only arguably better in the movie is Eddie. I’m not suffering here.
• Word on the street is that Kevin McGehee actually welcomed the Second Edition Rules. I’m just sayin’.
• Kevin McGehee: DC. Me: Marvel.
• In the great debate of Microsoft versus Linux, Kevin McGehee answers, "Paper inside plastic."
• Kevin McGehee claims his first computer was a "386-16MHz PC with a 40MB hard drive and 4MB of RAM, and with Windows 3.0 installed." Brother, if your first computer didn’t have a brand like Commodore, Apple, Texas Instruments, Tandy/TRS, or Timex, much less had a freaking hard drive, get out of town.
• Kevin McGehee doesn’t know the difference between Florida DOT S1 Mixes and Wisconsin SuperPave PG 58-28 mixes. (Okay, so that’s a bullet point that indicates that McGehee lacks street cred; however, I’ll include it here because I need to flesh out this list.

Friends, I have met geeks in my life, and Kevin McGehee is nothing but a potential Commie cyborg from the past pretending to be a geek to win your confidence.