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June 14, 2004

SWWNBNL

Posted by Bill

Hog on Ice has a post about She Who Will Not Be Named or Linked that you ought to read:

The appeal of blogging, initially, was that anyone who wanted to write could come here and put his work before the public. We didn't have to wait for thick-headed or biased editors and agents to approve of our message. We slapped it on the page and waited to see who showed up. If we were good, we got hits. If we sucked, we didn't. We didn't compete with the big boys because we were in our own market. They bought eyeballs with advertising dollars. We did it with quality writing and link whoring.

That's all over with. We've been discovered. We're like the people back in 1990 who started thinking South Beach might be a cool, inexpensive place to open restaurants.

Now any opportunistic corporate moron who wants a piece of the Blogosphere pie can buy it. Look for new [She Who Will Not Be Named or Linked's] popping up like spots of mold on a loaf of bread you've kept too long. And look for your own piece of the pie to shrink. Unless you, too, can afford a publicist and land advertisers with real money. And you can't. And because of the pressure we're going to face from these new, Monkees-like, greenhouse-grown wannabes, you probably never will be able to do those things.

I don't know what's worse. How [She Who Will Not Be Named or Linked] got here, or what she's doing now that she has arrived.

What brought Steve's fury to bear? She Who Will Not Be Named or Linked's mockery of the ceremonies surrounding Reagan's funeral. I'm not seriously going to tell anyone what to do with their blogrolls, but don't fool yourself about the content over there. The Reagan ceremonies were a refreshing bit of romantic tribute from a country sorely in need of communal rituals. The instinct to make snarky sexual associations about the affair isn't just an indication of juvenile, too-cool-for-school, worthless punditry - it's just plain tiresome and borderline offensive.

(Via Four Right-Wing Wackos)

Posted by Bill at June 14, 2004 10:40 AM | TrackBack (0)

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The porn of blogs. A guy knows where to go when the magazine stand closes for the night.

Posted by: Athena at June 14, 2004 01:27 PM

You know what really pissed them off about the Reagan memorial mass? It was as close to a national religious ceremony that this country can get.

Jewish, Pope-ish, Moonie-ish, damn near everyone stood still for a moment and acknowledged a fallen leader that they considered the Devil Himself.

Drove them freaking nuts.

Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin at June 15, 2004 11:18 AM

billy, just call it "the DC HoBeast."
Easier to type.

Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin at June 15, 2004 11:20 AM

Well, i'm certainly non-religious, but I certainly believe in the occasional affirming romantic ritual. I don't think that the "DC HoBeast" has very well formed political ideology, she just generally doesn't dig Republicans and has little respect ... for anything. (Except prostitutes, of course)

Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at June 15, 2004 11:45 AM

the only thing she 'digs' is quarters from the couch.

Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin at June 15, 2004 01:26 PM