Atrios links to someone named Weisblott who has posted a surprisingly passive-aggressive year-end blog roundup/worst bloggers list.
I don't know his work well enough to know if this sequence at the end of the post is intended to be funny.
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ATTENTION ALL BLOGGERS, PLEASE STOP SUCKING UP TO: Mickey Kaus, James Lileks, Josh Marshall, Virgina Postrel and Mark Steyn. Yes, they are all terrific commentators. That's why they have figured out how to (usually) get paid for it. You will not be automatically granted the same recognition just because you gush about their work every damn day. You can stop now. Thank you.
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EMINEM: FATHER OF THE YEAR My good pal Chuck Eddy of the Village Voice writes the article of his rock critic career. (If there, indeed, can be such a thing.)
LA BOHEME: Thanks to my being on the DreamWorks Records mailing list, I've been armed with a CD of Baz Luhrmann's new Broadway production of the Puccini opera...
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The rest of you. Yeah, you. Stop logrolling immediately, because it's really tacky, as I was just saying to...
So anyway, if this was intended as ironic performance art, I'm impressed.
I don't know his work well enough to know if this sequence at the end of the post is intended to be funny.
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ATTENTION ALL BLOGGERS, PLEASE STOP SUCKING UP TO: Mickey Kaus, James Lileks, Josh Marshall, Virgina Postrel and Mark Steyn. Yes, they are all terrific commentators. That's why they have figured out how to (usually) get paid for it. You will not be automatically granted the same recognition just because you gush about their work every damn day. You can stop now. Thank you.
9 Comments comment
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EMINEM: FATHER OF THE YEAR My good pal Chuck Eddy of the Village Voice writes the article of his rock critic career. (If there, indeed, can be such a thing.)
LA BOHEME: Thanks to my being on the DreamWorks Records mailing list, I've been armed with a CD of Baz Luhrmann's new Broadway production of the Puccini opera...
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The rest of you. Yeah, you. Stop logrolling immediately, because it's really tacky, as I was just saying to...
So anyway, if this was intended as ironic performance art, I'm impressed.