{"id":1618,"date":"2004-10-15T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:07:07","slug":"1618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/1618\/","title":{"rendered":"VodkaPundit<font color=\"red\">&#8216;s &quot;Associate&quot; Will Collier<\/font>: Heretic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Green, who rumor has it was banished from St. Louis for making a remark about the Chicago Cubs that could be construed as anything <i>other than<\/i> an insult, <font color=\"red\">allows a guy to use his blog to <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/archives\/006917.php\" target=\"_new\"><strike>utters<\/strike> promulgate<\/font> more heresy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No drinking-related discussion would be complete without a link to the pride of New Orleans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/rose\/\">Chris Rose<\/a>, who&#8217;s my personal favorite newspaper columnist.  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/rose\/t-p\/index.ssf?\/base\/living-0\/1096955737125360.xml\">his take on the Presidental debates, and marital relations<\/a> (trust me, it works).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Green<font color=\"red\">&#8216;s &quot;associate&quot;<\/font> has contradicted the blogma <b>that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/fence\/\" target=\"_new\">James Lileks<\/a> is the Most Holy Newspaper Columnist<\/b>, both regular and <a href=\"http:\/\/newhousenews.com\/lileks2003.html\" target=\"_new\">extra syndi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say he should be stoned, but he&#8217;s already half way there in an airport in Florida even as we speak.<\/p>\n<p>Friends, don&#8217;t let him plea for mercy with the admission<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I once bought a broken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klov.com\/game_detail.php?letter=&amp;game_id=7612\">Donkey Kong, Jr.<\/a> arcade game for $35.  It took another $12 and about an hour to fix it (it&#8217;s since been traded for the sweet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klov.com\/game_detail.php?letter=&amp;game_id=6940\">Asteroids Deluxe<\/a> that graces my den).  Makes me just chuckle in an evil fashion at anybody who pays two grand for <a href=\"http:\/\/engadget.com\/entry\/5833053416449374\/\">one of these.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, verily, for I have looked in the <a href=\"http:\/\/vaps.org\/members\/co\/\" target=\"_new\">Most Hallowed Tome of the Revered<\/a> and have found his name lacking.  Of course, mine was, too, but I had been removed during an audit after changing ISPs.  What&#8217;s Green&#8217;s <font color=\"red\">associate&#8217;s<\/font>?<\/p>\n<p>Except he&#8217;s a witch.  Or a heretic.  Scroll back up and see; I&#8217;ve been on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klov.com\" target=\"_new\">Killer List of Video Games<\/a> so long in my &quot;research&quot; that I have forgotten what I was accusing him of.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE<\/b><\/font>: Someone using the name &quot;Stephen Green&quot; in an e-mail has taken umbrage at this post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will Collier wrote that piece, not me!  And we&#8217;re up two games to nothin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>-S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Upon further review, I have determined that the post on VodkaPundit has been attributed to this &quot;Will Collier&quot; fellow, but as I replied to my e-mail correspondent, I have never seen Stephen Green and Will Collier in the same place.  Of course, I have never seen Will Collier or Stephen Green in person, so perhaps I have seen them together and have not known it.  But don&#8217;t confuse me.<\/p>\n<p>Ergo, I have corrected this piece inline in <font color=\"red\">red<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuttal from the e-mailer claiming to be Stephen Green, and indeed the post itself raise two more scandals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The e-mailer said <i>And we&#8217;re up two games to nothin&#8217;.<\/i> revealing that he is a Yankees fan or is trying to slander Stephen Green as a Yankees fan.  <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/1617\/\" target=\"_new\">Don&#8217;t confuse me<\/a>, I am doing old-fashioned investigative muckraking blogournalism here.\n<li>If Will Collier has the Asteroids Deluxe, Green is sacrificing some geek cred by not immediately enumerating his video game collection.  Sure, he&#8217;s got a new wet bar we all covet, but that cosmopolitanism cred, and the exchange rate for pure geek creds is low.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Green, who rumor has it was banished from St. Louis for making a remark about the Chicago Cubs that could be construed as anything other than an insult, allows a guy to use his blog to utters promulgate more heresy: No drinking-related discussion would be complete without a link to the pride of New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20920,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/20920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}