Total Dismay

Karl Rove is somebody who has been derisive and dismissive of the blogosphere on occasion. That notwithstanding, I am 99.9999999999% certain that he has at least one blog written under a pseudonym. Suspecting Karl Rove of stuff is not a very productive activity. A lot of people suspect that he is a closeted homosexual.

I think the only way to figure out which blogger is Karl is by process of elimination. I am pretty sure PerezHilton.com isn’t written by Karl Rove. He’s not the fake Steve Jobs either. If you are a blogger and you are NOT Karl Rove, please leave a comment.

Oh, while you’re at it, please comment on my theory that the political genius has chosen to do a stint as a regular citizen at the end of this cycle because he has crunched the numbers and he KNOWS that McCain is going to lose. If he can find the magic bullet to take Obama down and he hands it to the official McCain team, maybe he can be the Golden Boy of Evil politics again. If not, he doesn’t get any loss cooties on him.

This is a post that is being preemptively created before I even check to see if there is a meme. I have family members who have an interest in metal work and I was taking a picture of the window treatment. Our office space was designed as a formal dining room. There are only two windows in the place with this iron work.

Points of interest in the picture include my neighbors Alpha Romeo (I’m only slightly jealous), the aviary on my other neighbor’s roof (he dumps the poop over the side into the vacant lot) and the giant fennel plants in the vacant lot (bird poop will do that). If anybody wants to link up to me with a post about their view, that would be cool

Brad Finn was a popular blogger. Today, his popular blog seems to be gone. It could just be some technical difficulty. Standing by might be a more appropriate use of my time than eulogizing his Sculpy and penis (and sculpy penis) filled blog. But I am bored.

It’s seems like more than a coincidence that his blog disappeared shortly after he made a BlogTalkRadio appearance on the show hosted by the woman that he left his wife for before leaving her to return to his wife.

If you employ a fictional guest blogger occasionally, you will now have to make sure that he or she carries a union card and is up to date with his or her union dues. Some people are saying that this is a step backward for the blogosphere and that this union will inevitably become corrupt.

I for one welcome this important development. I think fiction guest bloggers have been exploited for far too long. I have never employed one because I had ethical qualms about it. I think that I can feel good about it now that they are guaranteed minimum wage and bathroom breaks. Wait a minute, I’m the boss of this blog and I don’t get those kind of benefits.

When I read the hard to decipher ‘news’ coming out of Chinese ruled Tibet this weekend I was sad and I thought that there was no way to know what was really going on. I am probably right about that for the most part, but there were foreign blogging tourists in Lhasa and they did what we do. They ‘blogged it.’

They took a calculated risk by taking some pictures and video. Some of this material may end up on the evening news. BBC left a comment on the blog.

I am not reflexively risk averse, but I am married to an incredibly quick witted woman who has a major GTFO response when anything dangerous is burgeoning around us. If we had been in Lhasa, there would not have been any pictures on my blog.

Someone gave a scathing review of my recent post about the Hillary movie. Here it is in its entirety…

Another deluded liberal. 1. The tasteless and unfunny ‘joke’ about Stan Lee drawing “really bodacious tatas on Aunt May” is not only unfunny but also quite impossible. As anyone who has read a comic book within the last, say, 50 YEARS knows, Stan Lee is a WRITER, not an artist. 2. As far as Ann Coulter having some “reasonable and believable sounding quotes”, this person again proves her ignorance by not only misspelling Coulter’s name, but having no clue that Ann’s books routinely have hundreds upon hundreds of footnotes, sources, and bibliographical information. Of course you should believe her; she sources the shit out of her subject matter and fact-checks your ass. 3. The end of this poor review claims that the MSM “know(s) from experience that these guys can safely be ignored”, which has nothing to do with the last 15 years of constant struggle to ignore anything and everything they can involving shady behavior on the part of the Clintons.

Calling my ‘joke’ unfunny was kinda hurtful, and I don’t check the box beside deluded liberal when the census man comes to the door. I will concede that I wasn’t well versed in the facts and details surrounding some of the stuff about which I offered my opinion. It was the first time that I created a short blog post and then expanded it with several edits as I formed an opinion about the subject. If you read the post yesterday, you should look at it again to see if I added anything that you disagree with. My critic seems to think that, by saying negative things about critics of the Clintons, I was trying to defend them. I wasn’t. I really don’t like them. I don’t like the movie either.

Bloggers have begun to use tools that add an outgoing link to the last post made by commentators. I think this is a really neat way to encourage dialog. I went looking for the Wordpress plugin that does this and found this. I am too lazy to gear this up today, but it’s something that I am planning to add.

The title of this post looks quite nifty with the default preamble to the link.

I have several unpublished drafts that will probably never see the light of day because they have been deemed inappropriate. I am not arguing that they are that good. I am not arguing that they say anything that important. Some of them are kinda funny and some of them are somewhat insightful. I put some work into them and I don’t want them to go to waste.

Here are some of the titles that are languishing on my backend…

Top 10 Novel Titles Stolen from Wikipedia, Post # 2650, A Doable New Years Resolution, Bloggers are Disproportionately Mentally Ill, Why Isn’t it Called Adventure Capital?, When in Rome…

Here’s a really old image from a post that I deleted ages ago…

Sculpy Artist Brad Finn of Gainesville, Florida makes the Chocolate Jesus dude look about as blasphemous as the Pope. His outsider art is not the kind of stuff that gets sold to gay couples who are out on their Sunday drive. I actually suspect that his wife makes him chop his work up quite finely and double bag it before he takes it to the curb. It wouldn’t do to have the neighborhood cats dragging these abominations home to their owners.

Hey, look at me, I’m an art critic now