The protein wisdom posting guru and site editor (me) is out with the stomach flu. He’s pretty sure he caught this vile thing from Balloon Juice’s John Cole, who may live thousands of miles away from protein wisdom’s Rocky Mountain headquarters, but who nevertheless has the sinister ability to transmit biological viral strains along information bitstreams (I knew I never should’ve emailed him with my best wishes for his quick recovery).
So. What my sickness means to you, the protein wisdom reader:
1) sparse posting today (and maybe tomorrow).
2) Civil unrest in Blogdom, brought on by my opening spray of gunfire (after Jim Treacher’s “Clip-Art Nonsense”). But first, some background: John Dvorak, ostensibly writing on The Cluetrain Manifesto, takes time to note, in a recent column:
the brown-nosing that goes on between bloggers singing each others’ praises makes the worst office kiss-ups look tame by comparison. I mention this anomaly since these Cluetrain folks all believe the opposite to be true. Somehow networking like this, according to the Cluetrainees, reveals truth
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Write something worth mentioning and maybe Reynolds will take notice.
I’ve noticed that many of the “warblogs” are very self-referential. The other day, Instapundit was giggly because Andrew Sullivan said he rules. It’s like some weird, Revenge of the Nerds fest online. You’re better than that.
By the way, I like the Treacher stuff, too.
Well Dodgeblog does waver from criticising other blogs. Let loose the blogs of war!
I agree with Mr. Dvorak that profanity is not necessarily funny.
Having said that, I don’t see how he cannot find the thought what’s going on under the table even slightly amusing.
Hilarious.
And anyway, God, and Glenn, move in mysterious ways.
Bravo! Had I been drinking milk, I’m certain it would’ve come out my nose!
But why a breadstick, pray tell?
I picked a bad day to not read this blog! A nice little break from fearing finals indeed! I think you are lying about the Humanities prof thing though…and this shows why!
Wow. Mentioning me in the same sentence with Damian and Professor Reynolds. You just made my day. Thanks
Oh and by the way, I just put up a link to Protein Wisdom.
When will my pundit page:
<a href=”http://pejmanpundit.blogspot.com”>http://pejmanpundit.blogspot.com</a>
get mocked so viciously and ruthlessly?
Best,
Pejman Yousefzadeh
He hasn’t seen Ted Barlow’s blog, which recently asked pointed questions of both Prof. Reynolds and Andrew Sullivan. And I’ve trashed some Reynolds’ opinions in my blog as well.
I flipped back from the later panels, and assumed the breadstick reference had something to do with the infamous Olive Garden story shredded by Lileks. But the Guardian reporter specifically said the breadsticks are warm and SOFT at the Olive Garden. Perhaps that’s why he found the Olive Garden experience so frustrating.