part of the thing about the dc blogger culture is.. i wonder where they go from there, a couple years down the road? they've all been doing this for a while. doesn't the format become sort of limiting? there are a lot of progressive bloggers who i don't check in on too much b/c they don't say anything too surprising. rather spend time reading ta-nehisi coates which is one of my fave things on the internets
― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
how is the format more limiting than regular journalism? seems less
― iatee, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta constantly crank out posts, content content content all the time, on twitters all the time. i have never had a blog but just my experience of being really into blogworld as a reader for a couple years, it's like.. the relevance of things gets weirdly distorted so that you might think some trivial issue is a big f***ing deal just because everyone's talking about it & the politico thinks talking about it will help them Win The Day
― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
you pride yourself on living in the mouth of the dragon but being fireproof, and then one day you realize it is saturday and you are in whole foods buying ingredients for a cool mac n cheese with a twist recipe you found online, wearing new balance sneakers
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:14 AM (10 minutes ago)
wow omg observational comedy
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
did i tell u abt the time i got pretzels instead of peanuts on a plane?
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the deal with that?
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/2uthppl.jpg
― gr8080, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
the charming and delicious insularity of bloggers
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I've actually always been curious how these dudes make money. Do they have day jobs?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, blogging
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
And someone actually pays them a livable wage to do this?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean
dogg one of these guys writes for the washington post
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yglesias is embarrassed about having been a socialist and will occasionally mix in some right wing tinted bullshit to try and build a bit of center cred.― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, January 3, 2011 7:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
other than ahem supporting the iraq invasion i really don't see this. he says 'markets' every now and again, is that it? i guess he's been pretty quiet about any doubts about the afghanistan strategy, a little suspect i guess.
(newly famous?) blogger 'ioz' absolutely loathes him, which is kinda entertaining, kinda o_O
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
How does the Washington Post have money to pay anyone?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
theyre owned by massively successful test prep/'education' company
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ioz way more annoying than ygl at this point
― iatee, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i understand he has some problems with 'the state'
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the next poll: digby vs Greenwald?
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
shd do a 'most annoying blogger' poll--i feel like there is some kind of bullshit wired article someone could write about 'blogger fatigue,' where when youre reading 10-12 things by these people a day they start to realllly annoy you cause its like youre hanging out with them all the time only youre not allowed to talk
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the deal w/this ioz person?
Hypocrites Lecteurs, Semblables, et Frères
lol @ blogroll
― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
he's an anarchist, man
― iatee, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like there is some kind of bullshit wired article someone could write about 'blogger fatigue,' where when youre reading 10-12 things by these people a day they start to realllly annoy you cause its like youre hanging out with them all the time only youre not allowed to talk
Definitely feel this nausea after reading digby and Greenwald back to back.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
he is an entertaining libertarianish gay dude who hates everyone and everything, and writes well i think.
kind of from the "define all problems as being way more deep seated and hopeless than you imagine, so 'doing something' is always stupid" school.
xps
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
wait is that "deep seeded"? i never know
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
are we talking about morbs?
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
its a if morbs were glen greenwald sort of thing
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ioz - how do i not know this person. i'm sure i must..
― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
greenwald is gay too xp
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ioz is a good counterweight to the "lets think this 1 thru" school of technocratic liberal market-based solutions yglesias stuff that dominates the blogosphere... and wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more hilarious than glenn greenwald
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ioz is v challopsy, no doubt about that.
recent controversies: racism didn't end after 1965 so rand paul talking shit about the CRA is nbd and if you complained about it you are probably a racist liberal anyway because obama presides over the drug war.
also, climate change? what, the climate changes all the time.
somehow he still entertains, i dunno
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm like for real how do i not know this person in dc who is dropping snooty french language references and then posting stuff like too many unsportsmanlike penalties are called on THIS GUY on the steelers. (not enough of those calls are on the steelers imo)
― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
its the ranting, the always on greenwaldian fire hose of anger, these guys are so proud of how mad they are
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't read greenwald any more. he writes too much. edit that stuff please. get a powerpoint, maybe
Greenwald has other virtues but humor ain't one of them.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i think he is for real in pittsburgh!
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i am not impressed! but yes he is funnier than glen
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i also don't know how they manage to stay mad for so long! i got tired of that. and being angry on the internet looks pretty silly in retrospect, most of the time
― daria-g, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
also the showy erudition, plz u know u just looked half that shit up on wikipedia
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
digby is also exhaustingly mad @ world
balloon juice is borderline too angry abt stuff
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
never really liked digby.
you know who i miss? hilzoy.
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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and he lives in brazil, we should kill him
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i like john cole on balloon juice but the rest of those guys are scrubs ime
― max, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
speaking as a gay man, I can affirm that I'm not always angry, but I do get miffed when I'm out of rugelagh, as I am tonight.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
man i had to google that
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
u had to goole it
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
gooler than me
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link