Category: Blogging

Well, well, well. Seems that my post tut-tutting the concept of Colorado as part of the heartland has touched a nerve. First, Jared at Exultate Justi comments, and then one of his readers sends me this enlightened e-mail:

You ignorant person…

Dear Brian,
Read your post “Colorado is not the heartland” (linked from Exultate
Justi). I would suggest that you watch too much television if you think
rather small, insignificant places like Aspen and Vail as typical of my
state. Boulder? Show me a major college town that is not infested by
leftist wierdoes. Athens? Lawrence? Chapel Hill? Not!

Skiing? Actually, that ‘sport’ was developed by us as a tourist trap to
sucker Texans and Chicagoans into spending their money. They also often
spend time in our hospitals after this activity, further spending money.
Sadly, many of these people stayed.

Not the heartland, indeed! I am sick of all of you lowlanders thinking
that this is some kind of snow-covered wonderland (we really ought to
re-name sme of our sports franchises that reflect this misconception).

Denver? typical nasty yuppie-infested big city. Colorado Springs?
Imagine Birmingham, Alabama without the humidity. We are just as normal
as any other place in the USA.

In the interest of reaching out to our poor Colorado brothers and elevating the discourse, I’d like to point out:

Coors beer isn’t very good either.

Courtesy of a French, or Quebecker, reader, or perhaps someone who wanted to yank my chain, Google translated my page into French today.

I think I’ll take a poll of what looks the most wrong on the page. My vote:

un “certain branleur.”
Kim du Toit,
sur la bibliothèque de Noggle.

Being berated by Kim du Toit in French.

I’m not sure to whom that’s more insulting.

At Asymmetrical Information, Mindles H. Dreck photoshops the CBS logo. Very well.

I’m flattered that everyone who has signed up for Vote or Not through this blog has so far been a woman. Wow, my blog is the babe magnet.

It’s got to be the hat. Or the vast nostril.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for signing up.

Like many bloggers, I blog in my pajamas:

Because I take off the jacket for bed, but not the hat.

Criminey, one session as a model during a photo shoot and suddenly I think my face should be all over the Internet. Who am I to talk about hubris?

Jed at Boots and Sabers helps me with my reluctance to fly.

Make mine a double.

I’ve corrected a couple minor grammar and punctuation mistakes, but I have not redone the Roman numerals because I repeated a number early, and didn’t want to spend the morning editing the numbers on the posts. Perhaps next time I’ll wisen up and use Arabic numerals.

But that’s so un-pretensious.

Stephen Green, the so-called “VodkaPundit,” claims:

Before we get to the (ha!) insightful stuff, let me note something:

1 hour, 45 minutes.

46 posts.

Who’s got the hardest-working blog in the business?

Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you, over the course of the last few days here at MfBJN, we had over 10 hours of live blogging with , hrm, C, carry the XVII, well, a lot of posts and a lot of booze.

Who’s the hardest drinking blogger in blog business?

I meant working.