It's comforting to know that, like the myths tell us, he returns in our hour of need. (I still maintain that ogged is blogging as Slart. How many swim geeks can there be in the world?)
I looked in the mirror and I thought, "Who's the only strategic thinker who can give this country the high-intensity, high-traffic liberal anime blogging it deserves?"
And the mirror spake back unto ogged, "Ogged, you're the fairest where you are, but Ben, the Wolf's son, is more beautiful by far".
I believe the tradition is to signal your real identity by the e-mail address/URL, so it looks like all y'all are impersonating yourselves, which is without point.
yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
(Warning, I have not read the whole book so I have no idea what she may be saying or doing. But I like to think of it as fucking anaphora.)
I dunno, Ogged, you think the center left is ready for Urotsukidoji? They didn't take too kindly to the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party the last go-round.
You fucking ingrates. It's just a guest-blogging gig for a couple of days, after which I'll disappear again, and this post is a heads up to my peeps, because it wouldn't have been nice to just suddently show up elsewhere.
Really, Ogged. It's just . . . so soon, you know? We haven't had time to heal. To move on. The wound is still sore. And then there you are, all happy, moving in exalted circles, with someone new. Someone less frivolous than us. Someone more successful. Someone less . . . desperate.
We're all really happy for you, of course, and of course we'll all come to your party, and ooh and ahh over the nice apartment and the new girlfriend's gracious manners and sparkling wit and all. Really. We love you. We're glad you're happy.
Do you know, just yesterday I had PK in class with me, being as Mr. B. is out of town, and to illustrate a point about the history of divorce law and women's property, I said, "suppose, for instance, that PK here were not my husband's child."
(I said it in a stage whisper, and PK was busy talking to himself and playing some imaginary game, so he didn't hear me. The students were rather shocked, but they got the point.)
"Mr. B is out of town and I can't find anybody to have an affair with so I just mosey down to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at all the satyrs with hard-ons..."
I'd have an easier time believing that you had trolled me had you not just asked me if it's really ungrammatical. And had you not asked me to provide a word for "forbidden" for your use.
Ogged is blogging, B and he are fighting, and Wolfson goes for a grammar-related Wolfson Indiscretion Error...is this what you guys mean when you talk about the "eternal return"?
See, this just makes my day. I work until 11 p.m., come in the house all grumpy-like, check my RSS reader, and see Author: Ogged. The previous 15 hours have been forgotten. All is well with the world.
Heretofore, I've stopped reading blogs long enough to check my work e-mail, via the Outlook Inbox, and this Inboxing has been free from any blushing whatsoever.
Thanks, Unfogged, for taking that innocence from me.
ben, the plural should be vaginae dentatae. wait, or were you assuming the english "with" acts as the latin "cum" on the following ablative plural? shit, did I just say that? it's like grammar-bukkake.
110: This is how it always starts. "I will never drink again" becomes "Just this once - how often do you reset the Tivo?" becomes "It's light beer, for gawd's sake!" becomes "And what's the cheapest fifth?"
I'd like to thank the academy and my lawyer and Sirajul and Mujibur who haven't had much attention lately and all my friends except Mavis who should have known better.
I am probably not the last of my generation to never be asked to do the guest host thing at WM.
I figure I'm about #1500 on Kevin's list. The whole "you got datamining/NSA/believing-Hayden all wrong and never admitted it" thing likely has nothing to do with it.
The idea that people "give up blogging": how stupid are people? I mean, really, how fucking stupid? How long is, say, five years? How about twenty? Are these large numbers? Have people not been online that long? Won't they?
Hey, I still think dreamily back on the day when Drum agreed with me in Jane Galt's comments -- a brush with greatness on that level is all I ever expect.
by the by, does anybody know what happened to that thread where I went on about Daniel Guap? I think it's gone, and that's a shame, for I cracked me up in that thread.
Except for this, and any other plum gigs anyone would like to throw in my lap, I do remain officially and happily dead to blogdom.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:44 PM
More powerful than before!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:46 PM
He has returned unto us!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:48 PM
Where's our cargo, dude?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:49 PM
Yay! We love you, ogged!
You should blog under the name 'ogged the White'.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:49 PM
That would be a lie, Matt. He's still Ogged the Mexican.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:50 PM
[I can still delete impersonators, you know.]
Posted by [redacted, with extreme prejudice] | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:50 PM
ogged! (throws hands in air.) Hurray!
Posted by mcmc | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:53 PM
It's comforting to know that, like the myths tell us, he returns in our hour of need. (I still maintain that ogged is blogging as Slart. How many swim geeks can there be in the world?)
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:56 PM
8 gets it exactly right.
Posted by md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:57 PM
Extreme prejudice? I thought 7 was funny.
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 3:59 PM
The only rule is "no impersonations."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:03 PM
Well, that in addition to: "Your first night at the Mineshaft, you have to mine."
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:05 PM
Isn't there also a rule against Biscuit Conditionals, or did I just imagine that?
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:08 PM
Who's this "Ogged" person?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:08 PM
15- some Mexican, apparently. Probably an illegal.
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:10 PM
Seriously, we need to put a fence up around this blog.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:10 PM
There's no rule against biscuit conditionals, if you're curious.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:11 PM
Biscuit conditionals are encouraged rather than forbidden, if you haven't noticed.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:11 PM
There is, however, a rule against pre-plagiarism.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:13 PM
WTF is pre-plagiarism?
Posted by Urple | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:14 PM
I looked in the mirror and I thought, "Who's the only strategic thinker who can give this country the high-intensity, high-traffic liberal anime blogging it deserves?"
And the mirror spake back unto ogged, "Ogged, you're the fairest where you are, but Ben, the Wolf's son, is more beautiful by far".
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:14 PM
7 gets redaction exactly right. No more total deletions, please.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:19 PM
Pre-plagiarism is the new Weiner-pwning.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:22 PM
21: pwning.
Posted by pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:24 PM
Can we impersonate if we do this?
Posted by I am pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:25 PM
See, I just pre-plagiarized pdf.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:25 PM
Can we impersonate if we do this?
No.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:26 PM
yay, how neat! i'll be reading for sure.
Posted by catherine | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:27 PM
I figured prepending two whole extra words would be a little more obvious than a misspelling.
Posted by pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:28 PM
Or perhaps this would be plain enough to behold.
Posted by Bizarro pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:29 PM
What about this?
Posted by Man Impersonating Urple | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:30 PM
I believe the tradition is to signal your real identity by the e-mail address/URL, so it looks like all y'all are impersonating yourselves, which is without point.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:36 PM
And the point is: ogged! ogged! ogged! hooray! he's going to blog about his love life for the Washington Monthly! It'll be just like this!
(Or, more likely, he'll offer up insightful political punditry, and the commenters will make him miss us bad. Even me.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:41 PM
Also by prepending the initial letter, thusly.
Posted by a-Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:43 PM
I read the post and my heart leapt; I read the first comment and it dropped right into my stomach. Time reopens all wounds, I guess.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 4:58 PM
Fucking anaphora.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:02 PM
It's kinda like Ogged dumped us and then stopped by just to show off his new girlfriend.
Oh wait. Actually, it's exactly like that. Mean!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:12 PM
It's like crack, ogged. You'll never be free--never, you hear me?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:15 PM
Fucking anaphora
(Warning, I have not read the whole book so I have no idea what she may be saying or doing. But I like to think of it as fucking anaphora.)
Posted by Ttam R. | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:16 PM
Perhaps ogged wouldn't mind guest-blogging at unfogged later on.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:16 PM
So there was something much dumber and cruder where Molly Bloom's soliloquy used to be, in case anyone wonders why I brought the pseudonym.
38: Yeah, but like in 34, she'll never be as good for him. We know that.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:19 PM
I dunno, Ogged, you think the center left is ready for Urotsukidoji? They didn't take too kindly to the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party the last go-round.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:20 PM
Following B, seriously, is this a joke? Was the whole "absurdly loyal" thing a dream? Can one even link to a dream-comment?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:21 PM
You fucking ingrates. It's just a guest-blogging gig for a couple of days, after which I'll disappear again, and this post is a heads up to my peeps, because it wouldn't have been nice to just suddently show up elsewhere.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:34 PM
Who are you calling ingratiating?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:36 PM
Uh-oh. Mommy and Daddy are fighting.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:43 PM
Unfogged: putting the fun in disfunctional.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:48 PM
We need to do even more homework?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:50 PM
Uh-oh. Mommy and Daddy are fighting.
Everything old is new again.
Also, who had one month and eight days in the "when is ogged going to post again" pool?
Also also, nice to see you back, even briefly.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:51 PM
after which I'll disappear again
My response is delivered by my child.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 5:53 PM
I'm with apostropher's child.
Really, Ogged. It's just . . . so soon, you know? We haven't had time to heal. To move on. The wound is still sore. And then there you are, all happy, moving in exalted circles, with someone new. Someone less frivolous than us. Someone more successful. Someone less . . . desperate.We're all really happy for you, of course, and of course we'll all come to your party, and ooh and ahh over the nice apartment and the new girlfriend's gracious manners and sparkling wit and all. Really. We love you. We're glad you're happy.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:03 PM
I'm with apostropher's child.
Shut up, goddammit! Mr. B thinks it's his!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:06 PM
I don't remember the strikethrough being there before I reloaded the page.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:08 PM
Do you know, just yesterday I had PK in class with me, being as Mr. B. is out of town, and to illustrate a point about the history of divorce law and women's property, I said, "suppose, for instance, that PK here were not my husband's child."
(I said it in a stage whisper, and PK was busy talking to himself and playing some imaginary game, so he didn't hear me. The students were rather shocked, but they got the point.)
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:09 PM
Who put the <strike> on B's 52? The polytheistic Unfogged can be so confusing.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:09 PM
Ben did it, b/c I was complaining that the strike command didn't work and I'd had to do the stupid square bracket fake strike thing.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:10 PM
Also because I am carrying Ben's baby.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:12 PM
that PK isn't your husband's child? you didn't go and bring another wolfson into the world, did you?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:13 PM
ahh! it's true, and I've been pwned! Which is worse? Which is worse?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:13 PM
Yes, Ben was an 18-year old babydaddy. It's time the world knew.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:14 PM
you must introduce PK to sports immediately and never, never let him study grammar.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:16 PM
*ahem*
PRE-PLAGIARISM IS THE NEW WEINER-PWNING.
(Actually it's BLASTING WITH CAPS LOCK.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:16 PM
it's just not catching on, Weiner. Now I've got to shower and clean up after all that blasting.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:21 PM
never, never let him study grammar.
This reminds me: I'd actually never known the difference between en and em dashes before I started reading here. And I've still never looked it up.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:21 PM
Didn't security get his keys when he left? Change all the passwords!
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:26 PM
Mr. B. is out of town
"Mr. B is out of town and I can't find anybody to have an affair with so I just mosey down to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at all the satyrs with hard-ons..."
-Bongwater, "Obscene and Pornographic Art"
Posted by roberta | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:27 PM
Roberta is the hero! I've been wanting to quote that at bphd for years.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:29 PM
I'm not a big fan of teaching grammar, but I suppose he'll learn it at some point. Latin, however, interdicit est.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:32 PM
Latin, however, interdicit est.
Appropriately, this is ungrammatical.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:32 PM
Alas, I do not know that song. I assume we are referring to Bongwater the band, and not, say, the movie, she says after a moment's googling.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:34 PM
#70: Hook, line, sinker, Ben. Just like I reeled you in on that stormy night all those years ago.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:35 PM
I'd have an easier time believing that you had trolled me had you not just asked me if it's really ungrammatical. And had you not asked me to provide a word for "forbidden" for your use.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:38 PM
Let's talk about this public / private distinction, Ben.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:40 PM
Sorry. I was trying to create intimacy by referencing private discussions in public.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:42 PM
No, that's the opposite of creating intimacy. It creates the *impression* of intimacy for the broader audience, but it undermines *actual* intimacy.
Not to mention the effect of your continually stopping what you're doing in order to type.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:44 PM
Doesn't look to be the way to Advance, Ben.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:44 PM
Ooh, nice gerund.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:44 PM
Ogged is blogging, B and he are fighting, and Wolfson goes for a grammar-related Wolfson Indiscretion Error...is this what you guys mean when you talk about the "eternal return"?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:46 PM
Bongwater the movie
With Luke Wilson and Brittany Murphy. Of course.
(It is the band being referenced.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:46 PM
I'm thinking Text's advice is the right one. I certainly don't want my son to grow up to prefer gerunds to . . . other things.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:46 PM
Link issues, Weiner.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:47 PM
Oooo. Does this mean that we all get to bask in reflected glory? Are you going to throw us a link?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:48 PM
I certainly don't want my son to grow up to prefer gerunds to . . . other things.
I'll have you in the second supine position in no time, have no fear.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:48 PM
Link issues
Grumble. At least this time it's possible to reconstruct the intended link from what actually showed up.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:50 PM
that first review actually makes me want to see the movie.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:53 PM
#84, Yeah, sleeping.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 6:57 PM
Apparently aggressive inboxes don't deter Ben.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 7:09 PM
OMG, John, you are so calling me a slut!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 7:11 PM
No, a man-eater.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 8:01 PM
Someone has to love the women with vaginis dentatis.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 8:05 PM
See, this just makes my day. I work until 11 p.m., come in the house all grumpy-like, check my RSS reader, and see Author: Ogged. The previous 15 hours have been forgotten. All is well with the world.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 9:42 PM
Do you know, I had to explain the concept "vagina dentata" to someone just the other day.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 9:45 PM
ogged, I'm sorry for 44. It was rash and undeserved.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 9:46 PM
Why, B?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 9:50 PM
94: Apologizing isn't going to help very much now, SB. You've ruined it for everyone. Now he really is gone for good.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:14 PM
95: Because mine bit his dick off, and he wanted to know what was up with that, natch.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:40 PM
Now we see why I pretend to be interested in gerunds.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:41 PM
How, in a discussion of vagina dentata, you resisted the temptation to put an 's' in front of 'natch', I'll never know.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:46 PM
I thought it was to cover up for the lack of inbox availability.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:47 PM
99: I was well aware that my audience would do it for me, obviously. Subtlety counts.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:47 PM
I thought it was to cover up for the lack of inbox availability.
I've never had trouble getting servers to go down.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 10:48 PM
That's not what I've heard.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 11:04 PM
Heretofore, I've stopped reading blogs long enough to check my work e-mail, via the Outlook Inbox, and this Inboxing has been free from any blushing whatsoever.
Thanks, Unfogged, for taking that innocence from me.
Posted by Stanley | Link to this comment | 03- 8-06 11:21 PM
If only -gg-d would take "Innocence" with him when he goes again.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 7:00 AM
ben, the plural should be vaginae dentatae. wait, or were you assuming the english "with" acts as the latin "cum" on the following ablative plural? shit, did I just say that? it's like grammar-bukkake.
Posted by alameida | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 9:43 AM
That was exactly my assumption. I understand that doing shit like that is common practice in German.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 9:47 AM
Ogged, are you getting aid for this gig? Cause if you are, I wouldn't feel so bad that you came back for the Monhly but not for us.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 10:52 AM
Are we missing a 'p' or an 'l' in the previous comment? Either way, I'm with bg. If neither, I continue to hate you.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:13 AM
Definitely not being paid.
I hate you more.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:17 AM
But he didn't rule out that he's getting some sweet Drum action out of the deal. Go Ogged!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:19 AM
o-Rundgren: Ogged don't wanna play/He just wants to bang Kevin Drum all day.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:23 AM
Just make sure you bang the Drum slowly, ogged. That's how he likes it.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:24 AM
110: This is how it always starts. "I will never drink again" becomes "Just this once - how often do you reset the Tivo?" becomes "It's light beer, for gawd's sake!" becomes "And what's the cheapest fifth?"
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:28 AM
help me get away from myself
I wanna fuck you like a Political Animal
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:31 AM
I wanna read you for the insight
I wanna fuck you like a Political Animal
My whole existence is blogs
You get me closer to ogged
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:39 AM
Nice.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:41 AM
114 is the story of my life, ps.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:42 AM
Seriously nice.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:42 AM
I'd like to thank the academy and my lawyer and Sirajul and Mujibur who haven't had much attention lately and all my friends except Mavis who should have known better.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:44 AM
You're as tight as a drum
I was loose as a deuce
You're as gay as a tune
I was light as a kite
Better loosen up chum
Your drum is apt to snap and go boom boom
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:46 AM
Washington Monthly
It's paradise to me
It's not because it is the grand old seat
Of precious freedom and democracy
No, no, no
It's not the greenery turning gold in fall
The scenery circling the Mall
It's just that's where my baby blogs
That's all
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:57 AM
Great song, 'smash, but not enough lyrical modification for my taste.
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 11:59 AM
Yeah, I'm a little busy, I just wanted the nice "Washington, Monthly" to ring. I hadn't previewed and seen 116 or I wouldn't have bothered.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 12:22 PM
I am probably not the last of my generation to never be asked to do the guest host thing at WM.
I figure I'm about #1500 on Kevin's list. The whole "you got datamining/NSA/believing-Hayden all wrong and never admitted it" thing likely has nothing to do with it.
The idea that people "give up blogging": how stupid are people? I mean, really, how fucking stupid? How long is, say, five years? How about twenty? Are these large numbers? Have people not been online that long? Won't they?
Kids!
(My first award: 2026.)
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:23 PM
Perhaps a Lifetime Achievement Koufax in 2026?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:24 PM
Gary, I bet he'd ask you before he'd ask me.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:38 PM
Well, I bet he'd ask either of you before he'd ask me, so I say, quitcher bellyachin'.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:42 PM
I know he'd never ask me, given the outcome of the Rose Bowl.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:45 PM
Hey, I still think dreamily back on the day when Drum agreed with me in Jane Galt's comments -- a brush with greatness on that level is all I ever expect.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:46 PM
I'm actually guest blogging over there in ten days. I was trying to think of a good way to break the news.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:52 PM
Text, you ass-kisser.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:53 PM
by the by, does anybody know what happened to that thread where I went on about Daniel Guap? I think it's gone, and that's a shame, for I cracked me up in that thread.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:54 PM
This one?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:55 PM
is it ass kissing if I sent Drum flowers for several months in order that he should let me guest blog on his bloggy thing?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:55 PM
hooray! I tried searching for "Daniel Guap" in the bloggosearch but it didn't show.
Now I've got to find a way to make that relevant to whatever it is we've been talking about.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 4:58 PM
As demonstrated by the update to this post, Kevin Drum is just a big tease.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 5:00 PM
or I could win another thread!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 5:00 PM
So maybe I wasn't
Gone very long
And I got used to it
And I would return
Just like Obi-Wan
If there were somewhere
else I could go blog
So maybe it's true that
Your cries of loss
Were oh, so very faint
But still I heard
And knew something was wrong
Just nothing you could put your finger on
And I will return
Just like Obi-Wan
Just like Obi-Wan
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03- 9-06 5:08 PM
So, tomorrow we see if it's possible to have a good Washington Monthly comment thread?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 12:10 AM
Either no one likes Aimee Mann, or everyone likes her a lot.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 12:23 AM
So it begins...with a recycled story. Forgive me Unfoggetariat, he set me up.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 12:29 AM
I feel dirty.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 1:11 AM
Huh.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 2:31 AM
144 gets it exactly right.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-10-06 5:56 AM