EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

his coverage was comprehensive but his opinions were so milquetoast it was like reading a blog by that dude on gawker

feel like his opinions were pretty otm especially compared w/almost everyone elses which basically added up to OMG PUBLIC OPTION

they both kind of remind me of how a lot of people move to dc and get kind of absorbed into the weird political networky culture here at a pretty young age. dc is so conservative.

would love to run into these guys at a bbq and get into a drunken political argument

since the democratic primaries, even when drunk i try to sidestep political arguments. i ran into weigel at a bar one time but did not pick a fight. he is a good dude imo. that's actually one of the few blogs i regularly read - don't have time/energy to slog through a lot of content anymore.

yeah ive had v little exposure to it but dc political culture seen close up seems v strange

seems so unbearable. lotta people wearing new balances on the weekend and shit.

they r not sexy rip

never trust a libertarian

or a journalist

lol i own 2 pair of new balances

just sayin if u cannot figure how to dress how are u gonna run the country

daria i seen the shoes youre buying, you know what youre doing

new balance are great sneakers, just dont wear them on the weekend or max will shun u

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

^^ gets it

i mean tbh i would rather live in boston than dc, at least some people there have accents

where would ilx end up siding on a boston vs dc poll?

it would turn into an argument about pizza

harDCore

whole foods, new balance sneakers, check. i don't really care about recipes

boston sucks, accents there are horrible. i hate boston

in that case the poll would require a 'neither' option xp

i am in boston with an accent. thx daria.

except <3 the patriots but the rest of new england can have them. the rest of new england hates boston more than anyone

sorry roberto! team providence.

providence: boston
baltimore: dc

daria u from pvd? i didnt know

nope not at all just spent some time there. i like it. it's like baltimore kinda. lots more weird than the other major city, more arts scene, better music, etc

yeah i mean its obv the best place in new england

best pizza too, except new haven i guess

except <3 the patriots but the rest of new england can have them. the rest of new england hates boston more than anyone

― daria-g, Monday, January 3, 2011 8:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so obviously the worst possible thing to love about boston outside of racism

um http://images.starpulse.com/AMGPhotos/pic200/drp000/p017/p01795e5ahc.jpg

plus http://auntiefashion.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/the-afflecks.jpg

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

how is the format more limiting than regular journalism? seems less

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

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

did i tell u abt the time i got pretzels instead of peanuts on a plane?

what is the deal with that?

http://i51.tinypic.com/2uthppl.jpg

the charming and delicious insularity of bloggers

I've actually always been curious how these dudes make money. Do they have day jobs?

yes, blogging

And someone actually pays them a livable wage to do this?

i dont

i mean

dogg one of these guys writes for the washington post

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

How does the Washington Post have money to pay anyone?

theyre owned by massively successful test prep/'education' company

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ioz way more annoying than ygl at this point

i understand he has some problems with 'the state'

what's the next poll: digby vs Greenwald?

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