Category: Blogging

James Lileks on Monday:

As a wise giant said in “The Princess Bride” – “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

James Lileks recants yesterday:

And yes, I attributed the “Princess Bride” quote to the wrong hero. At least the number of people pointing that out exceeded the number of people who thought Vonnegut made some brave points. There’s hope. See you tomorrow.

I demand a special prosecutor convene a grand jury to determine why Lileks’ story changed. He was holding out, trying to mislead Congress and the American people, and should serve time in a Federal prison like every other public conservative who makes a mistake!

Lileks in today’s Screedblog:

As a wise giant said in “The Princess Bride” – “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Lileks is a geek pop culture poser!!1!! It was the Spaniard who said that as the Dread Pirate Roberts’ ship caught up with Vizzini near the Cliffs of Insanity, not the giant!

(Pardon me as I cling futilely to the cultural touchstones of my generation of geeks; as The Princess Bride nears its 20th anniversary, I realize a whole generation of geeks grew up after it.)

Does the whole Open Source Media imbroglio (briefly touched on at The American Mind), with its partisans shrieking that it’s great and it’s made a couple of mistakes but it’s going to revolutionize the blogosphere and its antagonists mocking it as a means of funnelling venture capital and advertising revenue from the rich to the leaders of Open Pajamas Media at the expense of the lesser serf blogs in OPM….

Does this strike anyone else as a sincere, authentic recreation of The Alliance of Free Blogs versus the Axis of Naughty?

This new medium has indeed re-written things. History has repeated itself first as comedy, then as tragedy.

Draft Matt Blunt 2008 makes a top ten list.

Draft Matt Blunt 2008: Phyllis Schlafly Looks Closer To Home

Matt Blunt Ex-Communicated, Not Allowed In Right To Life Club House

Libertarianish voters might think that’s not a bug, it’s a feature

Guiliani-Blunt 2008. I’d punch it.

Draft Matt Blunt.

Pop-Up Mocker.

He Who Is Not To Be Named Because He Got A Job And Doesn’t Want To Get Googled is blogging again.

Maybe he never stopped and I am just late to the party.

See for yourself.

Just One Minute reaches its hand up the arrears of a French noun and pulls out a verb:

But, per Shaffer’s original account to the Times, Able Danger did not attempt to liase with the FBI until the summer of 2000.

I just felt a great disturbance in the Force, as though a million infinitives cried out at once and were silenced.

Jay Tea at Wizbang! reminds us about Stephen Den Beste’s categorization of bloggers as:

• Thinkers, who write essays and whatnot.
• Linkers, who post links and say, “Heh.” or “Indeed.”

However, this simple dichotomy overlooks the third type of blogger: the lister.

The lister type of blogger:

• Embraces the numbered or bulleted list as a means of communication.
• Often dashes off lists of related items important to the blogger.
• Relates favorites in movie or music, often specializing in:
  • One
  • The other
  • Both
• Participates in and spread “memes” which contain lists of questions or simple lists for other bloggers to fill out.

The beauties of the list blog include:

• Not needing to assemble complete paragraphs; all you need is a topic sentence or a topic fragment.
• Lists easily translatable into PowerPoint presentations, with neat transition effects.
• Take up lots of vertical space on the blog, ensuring that the content column is longer than the blogroll.
• Could make blogger as famous, wealthy, and respected as Chris White.

These blogs show signs of listery from time to time:

• A Small Victory
• Protein Wisdom
• Overtaken by Events
• Rocket Jones
• IMAO
• Wizbang!
• Musings from Brian J. Noggle
• Electric Venom

So the thinkers and linkers polar axis needs to accommodate a new dimension: those of us who don’t necessarily think nor necessarily link but do, in fact, blog incessantly.

Great minds move in tandem? Who knows?

All I know is that Inaniloquent and Dustbury both mentioned the Champaign County Rifle Association‘s Burma Shavesque signs yesterday.

What are the odds of that?

Wow, it looks as though each post I put up yesterday overwrote the preceding entry, so instead of 3 posts, you only get the last one, and that’s not without some work since Blogger wants to overwrite it with this post.

Allow me to assure you that you are definitely missing out on a lot of my eloquence, but rest assured that the only post that displays for yesterday is in fact probably the best.

I guess I shall have to return to the habit of saving all of my posts outside of Blogger. Again.

Crikey, I need to go to bed.

No more posts until tomorrow. You have been warned!

(Man, all the cool blogs go onto hiatus from time to time. I just want to fit in.)

Bekijken is an esoteric, underground Dutch martial art practiced by people named Inga and Sven.

The Carnival of Vanities. This week with cat pictures.

Blog nirvana.

William Squire (not to be confused with Billy Squier) opines about those who think all charity starts at the state capital:

Bible teachings, much like the lessons from any religion, are designed as a guide for your personal life. The Bible is not a behavioral guide for state and federal governments. Governments have limited jurisdictions and powers. By reducing state overhead, and avoiding tax increases, Matt Blunt leaves money in your pocket to contribute to charity in any way you, or your religion deem appropriate.

Preach on, brother. But would it kill you to throw in a guitar solo?