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Sorry for lack of posts—currently in NYC for crucial martini sessions with high-level OSMers. More on the project here.
I had a freshly baked pretzel for lunch. It was great! It was only $1.25 in American dollars. That’s probably $125.00 in Australian dollars. Or maybe .0125. I’m not sure.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 17 at 02:16 PM • permalinkTim - in town for a visit and no way to meet for a tinny?
Crikey mate - what bar are you in?
Posted by Pogue Mahone on 2005 11 17 at 02:38 PM • permalinkThat blog at OSM says Tim’s a short cranky guy with something about pajamas on his beer glass. Wouldn’t have happened if he listened to me last time he went to Manhattan. Just stay below 23rd Street where everybody’s in a shitty mood because they’re short and sober.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2005 11 17 at 02:46 PM • permalinkHmm. Yes, “crucial” and “martini” ARE inseparable.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 11 17 at 04:44 PM • permalinkJeez, guys, I go to bed and you get all civilised on me.
I was going to suggest flashmobbing the threads, but I guess with Andrea having her big boots on, it’s better we keep it down to a dull roar.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 11 17 at 05:07 PM • permalinkI hope that you took plenty of Vegemite, Tim. Don’t forget to spread the word…...
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 11 17 at 05:19 PM • permalinkWhere’s the free ice cream fer crying out loud?
What, they don’t have computers or internet cafes in a benighted, third-world place like Noo Yawk City? I thought blogging was like a drug, and Tim more addicted than anybody on crack. Certainly I’m addicted to reading Tim’s blog. “Life without Tim Blair’s blog, why it seems absurd.” Ko-Ko in The Internet Mikado.
By the way, can anybody tell me what is this “life” thing that people speak of getting?
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 11 17 at 09:06 PM • permalinkhttp://osm.org/
Nice shot of Bush critics at the top of the page.The project sounds promising:
The site will have links to the top news headlines of the day, as reported by the AP and other establishment news sources.
Here’s the difference: alongside each news headline, Pajamas Media will link related blog posts that their editors consider to be the most interesting or insightful out there. And as the story evolves, so will the blog links.
At this rate none of us will be getting out of our pyjamas.
“This whole left-right thing kind of sprung out of the French Revolution,” Johnson said. “And I don’t want to define myself by the French.”
Some thoughts:
(1) I am always suspicious of these kinds of disavowels. Charles Johnson needs to be more explicit. The NYT is a good example of what can happen when you are blind to bias. And I don’t mean ‘bias’ in a pejorative sense; more a declaration of values and loyalties, hybridise as you may.(2) Is there a danger that ‘syndicating’ blogs in this manner will threaten their maverick independence and anarchic energy. Will Pyjamas Media become the Blog Microsoft?
I liked this. I should read Lowney more.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 11 18 at 08:30 AM • permalink<=== from one thread thataway
38 cruella:If you don’t hit the enter key twice, your own part of your comment will be in tiny little letters, like the name/date/permalink line.
yeah but I liiiiike ‘em that way!!!
42 wrongright:
Got that Stoop Davy Dave.
I MEANT to do that! It’s my, um, it’s my ventriliquist voice! [/peewee]
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2005 11 18 at 10:21 AM • permalink21, Jim
I enjoyed Lowney’s amusing account of the OSM party immensely, but I have to take issue with his evident scorn for the blogworld. He picked out the assiest butt monkeys at the party to quote (they’re funnier, after all) and left the impression that the MSM is still the place to get your news. To me, the MSM may be a place to start...hmmm…no; if we did that we would have just heard about the Paris riots this morning. OK, then the MSM is one source to look at. But if you didn’t read this blog, Instapundit, or No Pasaran, you wouldn’t have a real fix on what was happening. I think that we need about six sources to get a compass fix on the news these days. Plus,where are you gonna meet cool dudes like Wronwright, Richard Mcenroe, Crash, Evil, The Real Jeffs, etc., but even more importantly where are you gonna meet cool chicks like Arbed, RebeccaH, Andrea, and the delicious Ck whose neck rubs are…well, let me put it this way…YaHOOOOOOOOO!
Aherm. Um. OK, (gruffly) I got a lot of work to do. Something you layabouts wouldn’t have a clue about. I have to chop wood for the fire so I can cook tonight’s squirrel stew and fetch the water out of the crick so we can wash up and have coffee in the morning. And no, Blogstrop, the critters didn’t run all helty-skelty and I already done fixed that fence, and the coffee ain’t made out the warsh water. Not most mornings, anyhow.
This is interesting. Post-Katrina debit card abuse
Peter Foster convicted again. Seems there’s no end to Foster’s schemes and machinations. Someone please forward a copy to Cherie Blair and Carole Caplin.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 11 18 at 09:28 PM • permalinkHe picked out the assiest butt monkeys at the party to quote (they’re funnier, after all)
I got the impression they were the only ones he really talked to. He said he got there after all the main stuff was over. True, they’re not representative of all blog readers, but they’re not exactly rare exceptions either.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 11 18 at 09:37 PM • permalinkJim
I think they’re the talk radio junkies, the UFO conventioneers, the conspiracy junkies, the Trekkies if you will, of the blogosphere, I mean, really...hardly typical, eh? Hardly representative of the keen minds and astute observers of human nature one comes to expect while surfing the…blog…o…
Oh, hell. It’s all of us. Who am I kidding? Never mind.
I think they’re the talk radio junkies, the UFO conventioneers, the conspiracy junkies, the Trekkies if you will, of the blogosphere
“Bloggies”
NOOOOoooooooo….!!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 11 18 at 11:43 PM • permalink(Imagines pear-shaped pasty males with combovers wearing t-shirts enscribed with faded logos like “Blogging Filkers Convention 2010, Sonoma Grand Ramada Inn” and “Bloggers Do It In Fake Pajamas” wandering around a crowded expo center lined with card tables piled with old Café Press junk.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 11 18 at 11:46 PM • permalink(Reads post #32. Screams, plunges fingers into eyeballs.)
Thanks, AHA. Any other visual horrors to share with us?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 11 18 at 11:59 PM • permalinkOh, goodness! I’ve unleashed something very powerful here. And I thought no one could smell squirrel on a person’s breath. It’s supposed to be odorless. Like vodka. Which isn’t odorless.
Yes, Jim Lowney opened my eyes. The bloggies - this is so hard - are nothing…but…trekkies in pajamas!
Oh, God.
Another dead end.
Is THAT what you were cooking at Tim’s place when I walked in ekw? Oh thank goodness it wasn’t ready yet.
But knowing the skunk drunk neocons (meaning they probably drank some type of home brewed alcoholic beverage distilled from skunk droppings) that were there, they’d probably eat your backwoods concoction.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 19 at 10:17 AM • permalinkAndrea — The faded t-shirts are now kept in UV-resistant plastic with acid-free backing board and listed on E-bay.
Today’s real comic-shop guy wears a brand new fresh t-shirt* implying he has a chance at the sexual favors or Storm, Rogue, Lara Croft or Lady Death.
Someone told me that anyway.
And WHAT comb-over?!
*probably the first fresh undergarment he’s put on in some time, granted.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 11 19 at 01:54 PM • permalinkAnd WHAT comb-over?!
Richard, I have some bad news for you…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 11 19 at 04:29 PM • permalinkIowahawk has the lowdown on this new bloggerama thingy that Tim is signing up to. But he seems to be most excited about the prospect of the new yacht!
(See business model diagram - it is a classic)Ah, my so-called crucifixion joke disappeared! I have to be able to show something for 2 years in graduate school and about $25K in 1980 dollars.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2005 11 21 at 01:38 AM • permalink38
Is THAT what you were cooking at Tim’s place when I walked in ekw? Oh thank goodness it wasn’t ready yet.
Oh that’s some consolation, anyway. I was afraid it was that poor dog. I vaguely remember warning ... somebody, just before the floor rose up and hit me, that that poor dog was MUCH too sick to cook.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2005 11 22 at 11:24 AM • permalink
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