Over in the left sidebar, you should now see an armadillo drinking a bottle of Mexican beer. That is the link to the Pub — complete with text saying, essentially (though cryptically) “this is the link to the Pub.”
My wife’s been sick, and tomorrow she heads out on a business trip, but soon we’ll have the Pub headlines displaying and updating on the sidebar, as well.
I really do want the Pub to succeed — and in fact, there’s really no reason I can see why it simply can’t be this place from, say, two weeks ago (minus, perhaps, Karl, who I believe has written me off permanently; that’s unfortunate, as I really did like the guy, and thought he was extremely good at the kind of blogging he did — not to mention, that he was good for the site overall. Who knows? Maybe he’ll find his way back…).
At any rate, I’m going to do what I can to promote the thing as time permits, but in the interim, I strongly advise each and every one of you here to go visit. In addition to revisiting the stellar work of Dan, Darleen, JHoward, cranky-d, serr8d, SI, and so on, you’ll see occasional posts by BMoe and Ric and other well-known souls from around these parts.
As I noted earlier this week, I may not be able to post high volume everyday (and on some days, I may have no time at all — at least until my son is in school, and I get my novella going the way I want). So if you want steady content, the Pub is the place to be.
Plus, you know — beer nuts!
Send a rassling tape to Karl about stretching out the ligs and tends. Hate thinking a douchebag like me could cause him to tap out.
“Let me out!” Don’t mind that. It’s nothing, really. He’s not locked in my car trunk. I wouldn’t do that. I long for his special brand of … what is it that we called what he did?
Well, from a blogging perspective, he provided more links to primary sources than just about anyone else around. He was superb at making sure history wasn’t whitewashed (RACIST!), because, so far as I can tell, he had the most impressive bookmarking system and library of anyone in the blogosphere.
He was fantastic at putting together posts of recent historical scope, and of finding just the right supporting details, evidence, and — when necessary, contradictory information.
I miss him. And I think you were a dick for calling him a racist, thor. But you have the right to speak, and you’re certainly smart enough to bring important points to the table. I didn’t choose between you and Karl. Karl gave me an ultimatum, and I refused to choose, period. My idealism got the better of me, I suppose.
But I consider that a good thing. In a world of pragmatists, the one-eyed idealist gets all the chicks.
Provided he wears an eye patch and has arms like Hercules.
This would read just like comity except for Karl’s still gone.
I didn’t call him “racist” simply to be the king prick in a room of lessors. I supplied him reasons why I was seeing what I was seeing. And mine is only one opinion. Evidence of that was in full bloom. But I stand by what I said, he called out others a prejudiced, rightly or wrongly, and I did the same when I thought it justified. He shouldn’t’a squealed that a two-way street should be otherwise. All accusations wind up in the same pile if equally thoughtful, and it’s a tired pile now anyways.
Some of his links contradicted his rhetorical points – cough, cough – but I like(d) his zest and “all the gigantic littleness of a country schoolmaster”-attitude. He’ll be missed by me as well.
I’m feeling hero-Dan needs some blog-love heaped on him. Yo, soldier of comedy, I shall rebuke you too someday. Mightily! Shamelessly! Steady yourself for my tendentious flays!
Peace.
Thor, that’s a load of crap. You didn’t provide any reasons, you just railed on like a fool about it.
Dan is still posting at the Pub.
As I told him in an email, I thought he’d really found his voice, and his blogging was always interesting. He found off-the-beaten path stories and presently them in a comically glancing — but generally pointed — way.
I hope he continues.
Seconding SarahW: What is that, thor, acid?
No, you did no such thing. Point to one occasion, just one, where you did such a thing, thor. Just one.
Or, be exposed once again as the liar that you are. King prick is what you were shooting for. Chief ankle biter is where you landed.
@8
Agreed Pablo. And PW is diminished for it.
Far as I could tell, thor simply piled up the straw and lit it.
FTR, I think it’s an excellent idea to push the pub HERE, but leave the main site JUST Jeff. Excellent excellent. I think we need Karl at the Pub. We miss him. Like Happy said the other day, I’m getting dumber every day. Perhaps if we sent him flowers? One of those edible ones? I know, I’ll send him my panties. Perhaps Lisa could send her bra?
But at least we can give him credit for grandly exulting in that momentous achievement, Pablo.
I guess the one nice thing about unbridled ego, thor, is that it tends to obscure reality. Oops, busted.
And, as I’ve said before (and will most likely say sometime in the near futher) I totally agree with Pablo. I think I’d stalk Pablo if I had more time.
Also seconding Carin, she of the noble rust belt hinterlands. The Pub may just prove to best be the site proper, with semi-guest/intentionalist godfather JG’s material the pinnacle. The glint off the tallest peak. The Brand.
As corny as that is, might it work?
Thor’s ego is only surpassed by his delusions (reasons? you emoted, that’s what victims do). A lot of smart people are fucking nuts. Thor’s in good company, I guess.
Oh, and what of the idea of guest bloggers, of which there are a dozen or more, self-limiting to a post a day? In the past material chased itself down the page so fast you nearly couldn’t keep up.
Jeff –
Delurking to say that I shall visit the pub regularly – I love Darleen and Dan, especially. But I’m one of those who’s actually thrilled by your decision. I was bummed when you added the guest bloggers – they’re great an’ all, but there’s only one Jeff, and you’re what has kept me coming back every day. I’ve been here since you returned from the blogging grave on March 4, 2004 (ah, what a glorious day), and I’ll stay as long as you’re around, even if you follow Whittle’s footsteps and post only twice a year.
Returning to my cave now. Thanks for the chance to say my sotto voce (but not the less heartfelt for the lack of volume) “YAY!”
thor – Between knobbing Baracky, and swallowing for Vick, I never understood where you found the time to be such a cock towards Karl. We will not forget this.
Well, well put AimeeJ. But, don’t forget the novella. He’s working on that, too. Good days ahead.
God, I hate novellas.
Too long for a short story but not enough meat for a novel, it’s the mini-van of literature. Yeesh.
Fair warning: If you start going door-to-door, Jeff, I’ll have to consider putting you out of our misery.
Well, mojo, I just bought my first mini-van, so that’s that. I agree with your thought, but a novella by Jeff, is better than nothing by Jeff.
And yet that’s what happened.
[Karl] was fantastic at putting together posts of recent historical scope, and of finding just the right supporting details, evidence, and  when necessary, contradictory information.
Yeah, I feel Karl’s absence. His was great nails and bolts to your architectural design.
Oh, and at the pub? This creepy, jowly guy keeps cornering me in the john and asking if you wear Roberto Cavalli muscle-t’s.
thor: “I didn’t call him “racist†simply to be the king prick in a room of lessors. ”
And, yet, you did so gleefully, repeatedly and, towards the end, seemingly with malice aforethought.
I supplied him reasons why I was seeing what I was seeing.
Thor, those supplies weren’t delivered. You must’ve taken a wrong turn in Imaginationville. You constantly needled Karl with nothing but tiny barbs, because that’s all you’ve got, all you will ever have. If you’d had anything else, you sure didn’t show it.
I’d say Dan, and the rest of us won’t be as easily…undone.
Bloggery…
Some changes goin’ on over at Jeff’s place. And due to oversight and general slackness, I didn’t have The Pub blogrolled, which is where Dan, Darleen, and Jeff’s other partners in VRWC crime can now be found. I’ve now remedied that; hearty bes…
Yeah, I miss Karl. And it totally has nothing to do with the fact that he once said a nice thing about my infrequent comments.
I’ll contribute a piece of lingerie if you’re collecting them, Carin. How about one of Wolcott’s man bras complete with yellow pit stain? Don’t ask me what I had to do to get it.
It’s quite an ego massage for us guest-bloggers to have our work boosted by our illustrious site proprietor. I’d suggest one thing though: have a link on the side of the Pub which links back to the main page. Unless we’re supposed to click through to the Pub and be, like, marooned there.
I didn’t call him “racist†simply to be the king prick…
Thor, that’s a load of crap. -SarahW
Seconding SarahW: What is that, thor, acid? -JHoward
King prick is what you were shooting for. Chief ankle biter is where you landed. -Pablo
Thor’s ego is only surpassed by his delusions (reasons? you emoted, that’s what victims do). -Obstreperous Infidel
thor – Between knobbing Baracky, and swallowing for Vick, I never understood where you found the time to be such a cock towards Karl. -JD
And yet that’s what happened. -McGehee
If you’d had anything else, you sure didn’t show it. -serr8d
Well, when everyone in the room is telling you that you’re drunk, it’s usually advisable to give up your car keys until you sober up.
I supplied him reasons why I was seeing what I was seeing. And mine is only one opinion. Evidence of that was in full bloom. But I stand by what I said, he called out others a prejudiced, rightly or wrongly, and I did the same when I thought it justified. He shouldn’t’a squealed that a two-way street should be otherwise. All accusations wind up in the same pile if equally thoughtful, and it’s a tired pile now anyways.
Is that supposed to be English? You literary pretensions wouldn’t be so laughable if you were even remotely coherent, dude.
Maybe we you can get one of your Euro-fag poet buddies to translate your posts for you.
A pubby question – how difficult would it be to enable Youtube embeds in the Pub? ‘Cause that would be groovy. It’s work to make your own image links.
there were people the other day saying they couldn’t see the one J had on the front page… some browser issue I guess… I saw it just fine…
That you’ve never suffered from said pretensions is painfully obvious.
“Euro-fag poet buddies”
Buddies would have been sufficient. Looks kinda redundant.
Jeff G.:
I thought Karl was very good also – a good analyst, and one that was doing it as a hobby.
I have read all the posts and I will say up front that I do not now what was said to each guest poster here when they came on board – what they were expected to do, what they could expect you to do.
From my own observations I think he expected some sort of support (of what kind I don’t know, really) when he found himself the special target of one particular commenter. It is obvious he expected you to do something that you were not expecting to do, or prepared to do. When you stated that you were not going to do what he requested, he found it more congenial for him to leave the situation.
From my limited experience time will have to past to let the emotional waves die down before anything can be done. And with the passage of time that particular point of contention my be overtaken by events, or answer itself.
There is nothing wrong with acknowledging a problem, or thinking about it. The problem comes in dwelling on it. This is your place, your rules, and the guests – posters and commenters – have to abide by them. It ain’t a democracy.
My observations, for what they are worth.
Slander-soaked simians! Leg-humping defamation dingoes!
I’m not easily wooed. I can bring it from above. And just what kind’a weak-kneed debate genius would pawn off blame for my reactionary blowback to his Sean Hannity imitation?
Viva la Afirmación de mi Resistencia! Catarsis Completada!
The hell if I’ll get stroked by a hometeam con selling political civil war under a circus tent. I’m in the right.
But you can’t prove it.
And you can’t excuse your rampages anymore by clowning. Too many of us have simply had enough.
Prove it? Hell, he can’t even define it.
Utter bullshit. Hell, you even admitted you weren’t going after Karl because of what he said, but because of what you believed were his motives.
It wasn’t Karl, thor. He was just your target of choice. It’s really just you; and how you interact with everyone here piles evidence on evidence.
Your real life must be real frustrating so that you take it all out here on nearly everyone here.
Rob:
thor is a real-time commenting example of what Jeff G. has been writing about. He is McCarthyistic, he comes out with the ‘racist’ charge when he wants, and tries to force someone to defend what should never need be defended against.
thor, with regard to your accusations of racisim against Karl, you are a liar.
By that measure, Olbermann can bring it. Hell, fucking Tbogg can bring it. Oliver. Willis. Can. Bring. That. Shit.
FAIL.
thor,
You keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.[/PrincessBride]
Jeff,
With all due respect, if that ‘dillo is drinking that beer, he’s gonna die of thirst before he ever gets a chance to dance.
Jeff, I know I’m late to chime in and this may not even be the right thread to comment in, but I am really happy to see you reclaiming your blog. For all they brought to the party, your guest bloggers simply weren’t “Protein Wisdom.”
I know all about blogger burnout; I haven’t been a very good writer for the past 18 months or so, and my own efforts have been eclipsed by my guest-co-blogger. For what it’s worth, please know that you have another reader out there who looks forward to reading your posts, but doesn’t expect you to dance like a trained monkey. Enjoy your kid; before you know it, they turn 14 and don’t want much to do with you (except get allowance, get rides to various places, etc. ;-) Blog when you feel like it. I’ll be here ready to read.
He is McCarthyistic …
You realize the half of the people here who don’t think that’s an insult are going to be offended that you do, don’t you?
I have no problem calling things by their proper names, and I provide reasons for why I do. I have explained why I call that behavior ‘McCarthyistic’ multiple times.
I’m not trying to acquire points in some contest; I’m not looking for some internet win to give my self-esteem a boost. As I see it, launching an accusation – one which carries severe social penalties let alone emploment danger – with nothing to back it up, no clear or articulable facts, is McCarthyistic. It is used to silence and intimidate a perceived opponent and is vile and despicable behavior.
If such a charge is laid then the accuser is obligated to back it up or take it back. If the accuser can’t back it up and won’t take it back then the accuser is a liar and a McCarthyite.