I know these scabs, see (they won’t pick it, har har har). Jeff Goldstein and IowaHawk and Ace and Ott and Treacher and Frank J, for starters. These guys are great, they’re fast, they’re desperately broke, and they’re certain to remain true to your artistic vision.
Whaddya say? I mean, how wrong could you go, right?
Breaking: Boylan apologizes to Gleen(s) (h/t dittybopper)
Hosejob. Protein Wisdom out of 2007 Weblog Awards Consideration. Stupid-ass Collins to blame, some say.
Mavericks looked pretty tough last night. See Lebron? Tsk. Tsk. Triple teams are a bitch.
They can’t do any worse than the current crop.
Well, maybe. But so what? They work cheap!
You mean to say I could actually get paid to write, say, a big screen adaptation of “My Mother the Car”? (Owen Wilson – boffo reprising the Jerry Van Dyke role, with maybe a cameo for ol’ Jerry as well). I mean, that’s about all those guys have been doing lately isn’t it? Sign me up.
Yes, they are Thor. He knows better than anyone. That’s why Lebron needs some help. The help they brought in? Larry Hughes? Being the main beneficiary of the double, and sometimes triple teams that James commands? 2 for 13. But, James also played pretty shitty on his own. His back must really be hurting.
As for these writers going on strike…I got nothing.
What, they haven’t been on strike for the past ten years?
An impromptu fable about intentionalism, offered in Jeff G.’s abscence for your approval
“Nigger?” the Grand Kleagle guffawed, “But I hardly even KNOW ‘er!”
Somebody break Collins’ thumbs.
See? I do so have thumbs.
“Some say” Talk about an understatement. Collins, prepare yourself to be weenie whapped!
Dallas will win the NBA Champ this year. Lay a little early season money on it, Dan, and thank me about 7 months from now. Once Jeff hires a new gardener and you’ve become homeless, shoeless, and banned from using your local library’s internet connection, you’re going to need a few extra dimes. Night Train ain’t free.
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Yes, they are Thor. He knows better than anyone. That’s why Lebron needs some help. The help they brought in? Larry Hughes? Being the main beneficiary of the double, and sometimes triple teams that James commands? 2 for 13. But, James also played pretty shitty on his own. His back must really be hurting.”
Dallas signed Eddie Jones and Juwan Howard. The deepest bench in the NBA got deeper in the off-season. Cleveland played to their potential, me thinks the Mavs are that good.
small dead animals got shafted too. But Cap’n Ed got nominated for best transcription of above the fold MSM stories. Yay!
Wait. Wait…
Wait.
Hollywood has writers?
In my case, 1 out of 3 ain’t bad.
happyfeet is doing that thing where he blinks a few times and then does that puppy dog head tilt thing and then rereads the thread and clicks back on stuff in the original post and then still doesn’t get it.
now he gets it. It’s the head tilt that helps I think.
Like so?
http://picasaweb.google.com/munipix/Nico/photo#5127948683174273266
exactly!
“Dallas signed Eddie Jones and Juwan Howard. The deepest bench in the NBA got deeper in the off-season. Cleveland played to their potential, me thinks the Mavs are that good.”
Thor, I agree. THIS could be the year. That first round exit last year was an anomoly. But, I disagree about Cleveland playing to their potential. James won’t have a game like that again this year. That’s guaranteed. But, it does prove, that unless James has his usual good to great games, the Cavaliers pretty much blow. The “talent” around him is pretty thin.
If “Achewood” isn’t nominated for best comic strip, and Sadly, No! is up for funniest blog, I question the entire process.
Dan, please start a thread in the Pub titled Dan Collins Is My Hero, The Whys and Whatfores.
I’ll take it from there. :)
I think this is a comment from that other America. They are very sensible over there.
I agree the talent surrounding him is thin, but that’s why he will have nights like that again. Or maybe not, I don’t know fer-sure, fer-sure but he might. He’s a great player but one man does not a team make.
“small dead animals got shafted too”
sda is up in the international category. Why even have an “international” category, when the intertubes carry everyone worldwide anyway? Just sayin’…
oh – good catch – I must have ctrl f’d before the page loaded all the way or something. But after that comment I had a Java Monster and a cigarette and I decided that these awards are awards about which I care not. Mostly cause they didn’t nominate the same people I would have, so the whole exercise is pretty much invalidated, which kind of sucks for them cause it looks like they went to a lot of work.
That Boylan apology is first-rate. I think the good Colonel should come forward and claim it as his own.
Of course, then he’d have to go to work for Salon. Them’s the rules.
Sadly, Our tiny little blog, which actually won the 5001-6750 grouping last year has dropped into the sub-9000 range and wasn’t even nominated. You know why? We got banned in China and the middle east finally put a block on the pictures of Uma Thurman’s whaletail that we had up. It killed the traffic.
Still, I consider us the Florida Marlin’s of the Weblog Awards. Not much longevity but… eh, who cares.
Basketball thread woot!
Seeding will be everything. The Mavericks can beat everyone but the Suns, I think. The Mavs are better, but in a way that doesn’t work. Every team has one other team like that. The Mavs had two, but the Warriors are dead now without Richardson. Avery’s apparent move to figurehead, rather than actual head coach, might dispose of their vulnerability to Nash et al. We’ll see. They’re definitely the best team. Again. For the third year straight. Hasn’t worked so far. (One other problem: the Rockets are going to significantly resemble the Kings team that pretty much owned the Mavs back in the Nash days. They probably won’t really get it together this season, and the Mavs are better in some ways, but they might Warriors the Mavs in an early round, too. And McGrady can win one or two by himself. Gotta dodge ’em.)
The Cavs are plain awful. They were last year, too, only one game away from falling to the 7th seed. From there, they’d never have made it through the playoffs. Huge fluke that they did anyway. Happens sometimes. Their fans are going to hate them way too much this year, because they don’t see it for the accident it was, and their front office boned the offseason completely; just one reliable guy to go with Lebron — even Bibby would have been enough — and they wouldn’t seem like they’re falling off so hard. But really, they’re not. They already sucked.
And it pains me to believe this because the very existence of Boston offends me, but the complicated smarty-pants stats and my own obsessive’s intuitions agree: the Celtics are going to be way better than everyone thinks. Barring injury to KG (MVP lock), they’re a Finals pencil-in (even a Kobe-fied Bulls, if that happens, won’t have a chance against them), and it’s about 50/50 they win the title, depending on the matchup. They’d beat the living hell out of the Spurs, for sure. Only the Mavs have the right style to really screw ’em up. But Suns/Celts would be the best games. I hope it happens.
(And I really should get my own damn site.)
Seeding Mavs are better like that had two are dead now without Richardson. Avery’s apparent vulnerability et al. Again. The Rockets are going to significantly back might Warriors the Mavs. Gotta dodge ‘em too, only one game From there, Happens sometimes. front office boned the offseason Bibby Bibby sucked Gotta dodge ‘em.
And it pains me to believe this sucked because the very existence of Boston complicated smarty-pants my own obsessive’s stats pants pencil-in 50/50 Barring injury.
Huge fluke Lebron  even Bibby so hard. But really, they’re not – depending on the matchup.
Mavs/Suns/Celts hate them way too much this year. They’d beat the living hell out of the Spurs, for sure.
I wish somebody would explain Basketball to me cause that how much sense that last comment made to me.
John Cole was originally nominated in the the Best Conservative category, and Jon Swift is nominated as one of the funniest. Personally I wouldn’t be too upset at not being found worthy by that selection committee.
FDL? Sadly No?
Ace?
Captain’s Quarters?
I wouldn’t bend over to pick up a spot on that list.
Last year (or maybe it was two years ago, I can’t really remember) I asked Kevin not to include me in these things anymore.
These contests are yet one more thing I hate about bloggers and blogging, and yet one more reason why I’m working slowly to fade away.
Also, please don’t link to the “awards” anymore. It’s faster just to send Kevin and Wizbang money.
ok so that’s disheartening. I am disheartened is how I can tell.
I’m wondering if now I’ll have my YAF invitation rescinded.
But really, who cares?
I should hope everyone cares! Boozy real-life meetups have to be the best thing about blogging. Well, that and having people tell you how astute you are. Swatting at the mental gnats, not so much.
I think YAF is going to be a good thing. I wish I had inspirational things to say but I think sometimes I come across as glib when I try that sort of thing. No really.
Yeah, it should be great. I can stand next to Ace wearing his “Best Conservative Weblog Award Nominee” t-shirt, and hope that one of his groupies recognizes me as the second guy who used to star in “Mr. Show.”
Now I’m just depressing myself.
Time to log off again.
You are a Vice Presidential nominee, don’t forget that. And we could nominate you for a Nobel Prize, Ace can’t claim that. Right now I think I am gonna nominate myself the official beer taster of Normaltown Georgia, let’s start with a Samuel Smith’s Imperial Stout.
Developing…
You take whatever time you need. It’s good to step back. But I think you are making a category error with respect to this Ace.
I like Ace. And his site. I just don’t like me. Or mine.
Jesus, Jeff.
I don’t dislike Ace. Not exactly. But he’s like access programming, while this is more primetime.
I have very good taste, S Club 7 notwithstanding. I also once watched an entire episode of Ghost Whisperer. But still.
Jeff. Dude.
Get. Back. On. The. Meds.
Go outside and stand in the sunlight for awhile.
Take some B6 supplements.
Or, if that fails, find some pumpkins on sale and smash them in your driveway with your mad jujitsu skillz.
*
I like how they bounce up and down.
Yes, that kind of bouncing usually cheers me up, too.
Tight bell bottom jeans make everyone’s bulge look huge. Jeff don’t need no disco flairs and he don’t need no dumb award celebrating the fellating of the mass at the center of his being.
He’s an solo arteest. No need to stand when he enters the room. The man is of the people!
Hey Jeff, I put $10 on your Rockies to win. Odds were 65 to 1 at the time. Amazon would’a been a gift shop. Just so you don’t let ambivalence set it, the cursed bastards of fate had no right to your gifts! They owe you and there’s no revenge like winning a parlay. I’ll bet $5 on Broncos and the Nuggets whenever they play on the same night, that’ll pay for a DVD.
Yeah, Jeff. Don’t let the bastards get you down. Including me.
Dan Collins a bastard? I’m covering my ears. My hero, bastard, never.
Remember how that challeron (sp?) guy said he read PW on his Palm or whatever cause it wasn’t justifiably work-related? How bad would it suck to have a job like that? How bad would it suck to have a job like that and not realize that it meant that you had a sucky job? I just keep flashing back on that is all. Things could definitely be worse in happyfeetland, is what I took from challeron.
I have kitties, though.
happyfeet – I have to read it on my Treo when I am at work.
You know what’s terrifying, though? The $200 (without screen) Linux-based GOS (Google operating system) computer I read about today. *Shudder*
But, I am getting a new phone in a couple of weeks. This is a dilemna for me. I am pondering the Blackberry 8830. Also, I think Sprint is not too far off from introducing their version of a touch screen controlled windows-based phone, which would also be nice. I have been a Treo user for years, and do not really want to switch, but with the exception of push email, the Treo is no longer really unique in the market. Plus, I want Windows rather than Palm OS.
That’s so so wrong. But it’s not like you can push back on that I guess. I am thinking of maybe thinking of looking for a new job next spring, and these are the kind of things I am thinking about. There’s that then. New job means I’ll be needing some very cool handheld whatsit.
They’re supposed to get me a treo here – probably I will get mine when New Girl gets hers, so I guess I can see if that’ll work. Last time I had a Palm it felt more like I got a new pet I had to feed and care for – I gave away my iPod cause of the same thing.
I don’t get the Google thing exactly. There are murmurs that I have been kind of paying some attention to that we are moving out of a Golden Age of information technology, and things are just going to get increasingly arbitrary and regimented as we move forward, but that seems kind of jaundiced I think.
Ugh. I have to get a new job. They don’t give me any cool handheld devices at the one I’m at, and they said that this is the last Tamagotchi I get.
Well, I mean, theoretically they could monitor the treo same way they could track my other net use. I just want to see if I’d be happy like that at my theoretical new job is all.
I think they make an honest effort to look away from most of the stuff I do at work, and I appreciate that.
– Never fear feets. As time goes on the evil monster compatibility ultimately asserts its Uber-invincible power of “sameness” on the matketplace. In time all markets move enexerably toward “and they all look luike tickey tacky, and they all work the same.”
– On the (WhizBang!) Weblog awards. Too many categories, too many candidates, and who the hell dreamnt up the “animal” rating system anyway?. But it is very “progressive”. Everyone wins so nobody does. “Safe”. As it stands it isn’t even helpful in rendering a list of better writers. Such list, in the interests of time, I have cored down over the years. Controversies, and faux awards don’t make/build a steady following, only good consistant writing/writers can do that. Besides I don’t owe Kevin any money.
Computer? at work, you say?
What a concept!
You must be indoors…
Few events are more depressing than meetings about Zimbabwe
At least we don’t have meetings about that.
A friend of mine who runs in better circles was telling me about some money manager guy in New York he knows whose company got bought by some Swiss company and the new people wanted him to justify his expenses. Whatever the expenses were they were I guess a miniscule fraction of what the clients he was entertaining were bringing to the bottom line. So he pushed back and they pushed back so he left and the clients went with him and the Swiss felt very stupid. Stupid Swiss.
Hmmmph. They get Mugabe. We only got Ahmadinejad and green stamps.
– #64: From the book: “The care anf training of Management- Intelligent corporation leaders – an urban myth.
– CFO’s, in particular, tend to be walking desasters. Run a company on the whims of its CFO, and he/she will save you so much money you’ll be out of business within a year.
hey, me too! and sometimes I don’t leave the house for days.
“Their fans are going to hate them way too much this year, because they don’t see it for the accident it was…”
Psychologizer, you don’t the know the half of it. I am a huge Cavaliers fan, but I do realize that their trip to the finals was set up very nicely. A terrible Washington squad, a beat up Nets team, but they did beat a good Detroit team. However, it seems most fans here over value the “help” way too much. But to say it was an accident is too much. They earned it by beating the teams that they had to play. But they needed to help Lebron out and, once again, the front office failed.
In re. this writers strike – I have often thought that this group of people could write a remarkable script. Just throw out a random topic, and take turns writing lines, and I can almost guaranty that hilarity would ensue.
At that moment, Bauer’s headset goes silent. “Which wire? Which wire!!??”
Man, what a well set-up website!