Watch me while I Pej!
Pej - verb - blogrolling while using ridiculously adulatory language and phrasing. ALSO: completely flipping out, ninja-like, when criticized by a blog written by a twothree-time college drop-out (and a guy with a degree, the Teller to my Penn: Rick Grime). A blog that gets about one tenth the hits of your own blog. A blog that posts twice every three days, unless it happens to be running a beauty contest. A blog that, if it denigrates your blog, clearly should be ignored, and never responded to, and certainly not compared to a Usenet troll.
Fruits and vegetables. They may look similar, and most may even call a veggie a fruit, but I try to live by a creed: always be correct, unless you are just plain wrong. Did you know that California fresh tomatoes are encouraged to ripen with Ethylene, but that is not (NOT!) a chemical treatment?
Dawn Olsen (and I won’t derisively refer to her as lovely. Because that’s dismissive sexism. No, really. Naww… it’s just because she’s so much more than mere loveliness) goes buckwild with the interviews. First a. beam. Then a mini-interview with (soon-to-be-non-?)non-blogger Shell. Finally, but certainly not leastly, the second in a series of infamous all-blogger chats, and this time it’s girls’ night in. Jen Rajkowski seems to dig both Pej and me. Is that still allowed? [pages flipping] Yes! The big book of blogger etiquette says that while blogging cannot be used for whimsical personal attacks (oops), a blogger may still dig two other bloggers, even if said latter bloggers are currently engaged in eThrottling.
Cutting and pasting email addresses is a total pain. But sometimes that’s just the way the Jell-O judicates. I don’t get much email, either, although several blogs have linked me because I fixed their HTML.
Laughing Boy graces us with his presence again. Longest “why I’m not blogging” post ever. Ya wanna know why I missed LB so much? No? Ok.
Finally, official TBOTCOTW friend Owen Rodgers posted some hilariously stupid titles for Alan Keyes talkshows that haven’t even been cancelled yet. Plus, he gets mind-bongingly meta, stealing Mickey Kaus’ shtick to reference stealing William Saletan’s idea. And I stole Gregg Easterbrook’s shtick for the first sentence of this graf. I like pronouncing meta like PETA. Drives people craaaaaazy.
TBOTCOTW will now return to normal. Matt Moore has returned, wrested the keyboard from the cold, Canadian grip of Marc Weisblott, and realized that this week almost never was.
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Welcome to the JUNGLE baby!!!
If there’s one way I come, it’s clean. I decisively did not steal Saletan’s idea; I only found out that Keyes had been cancelled when I read the piece after the Keyes shows were on WaBa. Not that it matters, of course, I’m just all about full disclosure.
And I’ve been stealing Tony Kornheiser’s literary device for much longer than The Great And Powerful Kaus, TYVM.
Snidely, but with a smirk…
I knew you didn’t steal it, but it was grammatically easier just to lie.