Comments on: The Cliche Kid, Part XI, Redux

By: Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick Nielsen Hayden — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You’re scaring us.

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

>You’re scaring us.

Or at least “confusing us”.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Or at least “confusing us”.

Well I wanted to see if I could write a blog post using nothing but blogging cliches. (Though the Volokh quote drifted off into a bit of parody instead.)

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Swift, meet Kieran Healy.

And get ready for the same reactions that meet other Swift-emulators, e.g., the people who take that post seriously in some fashion. (In fact, you could probably write a great parodistic blog reply to it…)

This is why I don’t want to ping people and syndicate and do all that stuff: I think it’s too easy to get swept up into writing that sounds just like this, a kind of nightmare epistolary form that makes the old Point-Counterpoint parodies on Saturday Night Live look substantive and thoughtful by comparison.

By: Invisible Adjunct

Invisible Adjunct — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, Kieran, you’re pretty good at this. If you wrote like this more often, you might even reach the rank of Higher Being at TTLB.

By: zizka

zizka — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You did have me fooled. I was asking myself whether I was drinking too much coffee, or maybe whether you had forgotten to take your medication. I was trying to figure out a polite way to ask,

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Oh okay… reading it with that in mind it’s quite funny (and indeed hard to figure out why I didn’t get it before)—I am apparently not yet deeply enough immersed in bloggery. (Yes! I’ve been looking for a chance to use that noun!)

By: ogged

ogged — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Fiancee remarks, “but it makes more sense than everything else you make me read.”

By: joe

joe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome back Kieran!

The question everyone is asking is, where are the WMDs? But the real issue is whether the comparison of Israel’s actions to recent comments by Howard Dean about fiscal reform is yet another example of moral equivalence at its worst.

Did you forget the sarcasm tags? Don’t even get me started on the whole Dean thing. We’ve been down this road before, folks. Can’t we all just get along?

Would Jonah Goldberg, or indeed anyone on the left, do the same? I think not.

I posted about this at HitchensWatch just yesterday. FWIW, I don’t disagree that you can support the troops and oppose the war, but in my view the “extreme left” is just a strawman here. So what if some Jacksonians wanted to “attack France”? Smart liberals won’t fall into that trap.

“I’ve been saying this for years,” a correspondent writes by email. Indeed.

Take THAT, old media! “Road-map”? ROFLMAO! You’ll never outfisk the blogosphere.

Well, it’s 3 AM, I’d better go to bed.

Joe Bloggs

By: Balasubramania's Mania

Balasubramania's Mania — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is too damn funny and like some others I didn’t really get it at first.

Sometimes I read Kaus and think that he’s just working with a whole new language/communication protocol.

Happy 4th.