Back by popular demand, a monthly post wherein I ask you to send me your hard earned money, and certain bloggers make snide comments about my doing it.
Because they don’t blog for money, you see. They’re better than that. As they’ll be the first to tell you, with a marked sniff.
Luckily, I’m a douche. So pony up.
And thank you.
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update: Incidentally, thanks to Sarah R for the Criterion DVD of Ikiru; and to Blake for the snail mail contribution.
update 2: Oh, and thanks to Lee, who’s been sending me contributions by snail mail also. He also sent me a very nice card when my father passed that I keep on the table just inside our front door.
Monday update: Thanks to all who’ve contributed thus far. I’ll leave this here for another two days or so, just in case you forget to remember.
I’m a giver that way.
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Wednesday update: Final day today. Thanks to those who’ve contributed; and a potential thanks to those who haven’t yet contributed, but who might be willing to do so for the promise of a hearty thank you should they go ahead and take the plunge.
Mega-zing!
Who makes comments? I can honestly say I do not read those blogs.
Oh, and I get paid next week. I can’t promise big coin, on account of my bills all come due the last part of the month. But I will definitely have some cashy money next week.
It isn’t like my blogging-not-for-money is my choice….
Suckers!
At some point I think you’ve made enough money.
I’d say you are douche… mental douche. That’s why they’re snide, all that stink wafting from their mental hoo-haa’s makes them surly. They’re afraid of your soothing vinegar mental cleanse.
Or something.
Say, is that a line I see behind me? Hmm, wonder what that means.
It’s a Scam! It’s a Sham!
It’s a Flim Flam!!
Just remember who your friends are when you get all this “money” stuff you’ve been blogging for.
Really? We don’t remember that at all.
Carry on.
here’s a content contribution for “
8 th1 st rate blog:John Bolton: Oh, you’d better believe I’m thinking of running for president
to:
John Bolton’s straight-talking mustache, “Regis,” addresses the UN, defends Israel’s right to self defense
just hit the PayPal button
not a lot this time, (college daughter’s text books put a dent in this month’s meager discretionary dough) but I’m trying to be consistent
Jeff, if you’ve got a budget for dvds, consider this guy’s recommendation: Find rare, forgotten, or otherwise obscure movies for a song at Big Lots.
Jeff G.,
You’re more than welcome.
Dear Hooked-Nosed Faggot,
Would you please stop making “us” look so bad with your Jew money-grubbing?
Thanks,
SEK
Nevermind, I suck cocks.
Yes, but they’d have to pay me to read the sites of those Other Bloggers, the ones given to excessive sniffing… so I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure there’s some sort of pleasing symmetry in that.
that’s so random Mr. SEK would never say that I call shenanigans
WTF?
it’s shenanigans Mr. bh right here at Protein Wisdom
Is this the person who always comments as other bloggers and then links their blogs? Andrew Sullivan, that Armed Liberal guy, etc.
that’s Mr. Joe what does that
Yeah, shenanigans.
Not cool.
bumblefuck is having a rare news conference in the morning tomorrow how exciting is that?
Very exciting, ‘feets.
Just to address the namejacker for a minute: knock it off. You’re namejacking people who have commented here. That’s not like doing a joke as Jimmy Carter or the Pope. It’s bad form.
If it matters, they’re never funny anyways. Never.
This latest one is just… creepy.
Is newsconference a code word for reading from TOTUS, and then answering a planted question before running away?
Name-jackers are teh suck, even when he is panning on the mendoucheous SEcks.
it’s highly choreographed sort of like High School Musical: The White House except without Vanessa
so, um, I would be willing to make a generous donation on someone’s behalf if they would take my crazy, but loveable dog, as seen here She needs a home with no kittehs and < a href="http://maggiekatzen.blogspot.com/2010/09/as-one-of-neighbors-told-rto.html">very high fence.
ugh… link
That is a very talented dog, Maggie. Wish I could take her. We’d begin the advanced circus training immediately.
or dancing. I think she would make a very good dancer.
very light on her feet.
I’m thinking altered comments rather than shenanigans.
From SI’s movie link above, in comments…
Damn. And I didn’t even buy a BluRay player.
Bandwidth will have to be increased quite a bit to truly end physical media. If everyone started using it that hard, the internets would lock up tight. I still see a market for owning something on disk, but it won’t be as large as it is today.
Sigh.
Don’t forget to go to library book sales. I found Season one of Starblazers on DVD there.
Also got Arundel, Northwest Passage and A Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts in hardback. Got ’em for a quarter each, probably because there are no magicians or vampires and the main characters are full grown men. Except maybe for Benedict Arnold, who’s short.
FYI: Impersonation is a cowardly mode….
This is beginning to get tiresome. If you want to come at me, come at me. I’ll argue with you! Just ask anyone who’s ever met me (and a whole host of folks who haven’t)….
Over at PP.
Yes, guins. Someone did the same to SEK, the lying douchenozzle, over here just last night.
Well, namejacker or not, it’s just as TrollHammerable as the real SEK.
That wasn’t me commenting over there. And I’ve changed the SEK comments here to reflect the fact that it wasn’t he who left them.
Beyond that, Patterico is having himself a fundraiser right now that appears to be going much better than mine. Go help him out if you are so inclined.
If there’s any money left over from my weekend of hookers and bourbon I’ll shove some your way.
But don’t count on it.
Ah, so it was a namejacker after all. Definitely not cool.
I just got a little boost at work so here you go!
Patterico, besides using my name in vain over there (where I will never visit for any reason despite his offers of ‘amnesty’: what is he, John McCain’s wrinkled left nut? so stop the linkings) mentions that he has two PayPal options: one for cash only, and one for Credit Cards only, where PapPal takes a bigger piece of the donation. How’s that work? Canz we has two paypalz buttons?
And he has $9.00/mo. subscriptions. Jeff, you’re worth much more than that. Can you set up a plan like his, only better?
Just got this email, which I’m passing along to you all:
For both of you who haven’t heard, the RightNetwork site is now live. Participants include Victor Davis Hanson, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Sowell, James Lileks, Robin of Berkeley, Iowahawk, Ace of Spades, Cynthia Yockey, Benjamin Franklin, Ed Snider, and Patrick Henry.
Oh, and Gerard Van der Leun as Editor-in-Chief, and one Joy McCann as Senior Editor.
http://rightnetwork.com/
Just the beginning, folks. We have had a blast putting this together, but it’ll be like the weather in Alaska–if you don’t like it; keep checking back. It will be changing all the time!
–Joy
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Joy W. McCann
Little Miss Attila Online Magazine
http://littlemissattila.com
Senior Editor, RightNetwork
joy@rightnetwork.com
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No, I wasn’t contacted or invited. I’m just asked to pass the info along, like a good little has been.
Par for the course.
I shan’t have anything to do with them then. Just like those nasty pajamas people.
Life is too fucking short.
well you’re 1st rate in my book. but i don’t sit at the cool kids table.
I’m a reviled, blacklisted has been.
This just proves it yet again. Nobody wants me. Outside of the few regulars here — who I suspect would throw me over for the first classical liberal who showed them some cleavage.
that’s why being cool with coolidge is the approach. that’s why i’m for a 50% cut in fed. gov’t spending circa 2006. that’s why i want all fed gov’t regs rolled back to 1986. then we can talk about social security and medicare. those folks above just want their moment at the trough.
what happened to my other comment it went away
I deleted it. If you like all those folks, go visit their fucking site. But don’t make me feel worse than I already do.
oh.
Sorry about that. Wasn’t some of them already in a site about a bolus? I like boli as much as the next guy but I never visited there very much cause I didn’t really understand where the whole thing was going.
Maybe this new thing will be like that.
look on the positive side. those folks gathered don’t have a clue about what to do.
I’m pretty sure that two of those people listed at RightNetwork are actually dead.
That can’t be a good sign.
As we’ve joked, Protein Wisdom 2.0. Take the outrages of the day and use them as pegs to say how awesome the Reps are and how terrible the Dems are.
Repeat daily.
If you were subtle enough, your target audience wouldn’t even catch on.
Has been? Honey, you never were.
Now, why don’t you be a good little boy and give us a 60,000 word post about intentionality. Hmmmm, won’t that make you feel better?
more like rock less cause you’re so stupid
Trolls suck
Says the guy in comment 60 of a fund raising post.
Face it. You hang on my every fucking word. And you hate yourself for it.
I own you.
IP resolves to Woodstock Illinois. Hmmm. Wonder who that might be…
Baby, I’m just trying to give you that little push towards self-awareness that you can only get from anonymous commenters on the internet who write these kinds of things while picturing themselves all manned up an in your face, even if in reality they are careful to hide their identities, use proxy servers, and are doing this while waiting for a computer role playing game to boot up.
Still, it feels so street!
What sort of person does it take to write a #60? There’s no cognitively correct reasoning for it.
Bad parenting, likely. Maybe Rocky was repeatedly raped by his mother with a swordfish strapped on.
And he enjoyed it.
You meet such nice people on the internet.
I seem to recall a particularly virulent little twist that resolved to Woodstock, IL previously, but I’ll be damned if I cannot remember its name.
We do. And then sometimes others just disappear with welcome.
I have plenty to do on a Friday night. So there!
Hey, Rocky, you first. Be a dear, YouTube it for us why don’tcha?
a particularly virulent twist what takes verbal cues from Nathan Lane
Forgive him. It’s just the Ouzo talking.
I remember someone who made comments like this from around there.
Defense attorney. Greek.
An hero, Jeff. What’s the point anyway?
Yep, definitely a swordfish recipient.
They school, don’t they?
That is not him, bh. This an hero thingie is familiar. This little twist is begging for attention tonight. Apparently, he ran out of peanut butter and his dog won’t play with him anymore.
Hey, Rocky, what’s your name, child? Why don’t you go tell your daddy you need a good ass whipping? Run along, find you some heavy traffic to play in.
nonono that is not anyone like defense attorney greek it’s more like some kind of evil lispy muppett
*muppet*
An hero is internet wide. Not really a idiosyncratic identifier.
Geez, an idiosyncratic.
peabnut bubber!
Well, it’s fairly obvious that some of us have very different opinions on the Ouzo drinker.
Woodstock, IL was a very specific trollish thingie.
Wasn’t there a Chuckie troll? One who attacked a blogger after his wife died or something? Seems of the same cloth, this one.
Chuckles the lard eating cellar dwellar is from the Detroit area, no?
“I own you.”
Jeff,
I’d give him back if I were you. The upkeep is not worth it and Obama will no doubt find a way to tax you for keeping him.
Remember, it’s down the river, not across the tracks. You might want to take a nice, warm bath.
ertyu?
Gesundheit.
ertyu.
Mr. Zits.
Such a wonderful topic for me.
Natura Cleanse
In all seriousness, I clicked the link from Glenn’s to the site-that-shall-not-be-named, and I like the recurring donation thing. Jeff, you’ve been talking about a subscription plan for quite a while now, and I think it’s time to pull the trigger. I’ve responded to almost every one of your monthly fundraisers, but I’d be in for $10/month recurring – how would I do such a thing?
A card? Shit. Guess I’m the douche. Didn’t even think of it. Sorry man.
– Ok, so I got an email back from Gerard saying you are listed, and the list almost doubled in size since the other day. So I’m assuming you weren’t left off just because you’re a douche.
– As Mary Heartman would say “Yes, its true you’re ugly, stupid, and a douche, but that’s not why they don’t love you”.
Not sure how to do a subscription thing.
That’s listed as in “Friends of” as in “on the blogroll”.
Contributors supply material, friends supply links.
– Yes, well, baby steps.
– They’re not quite up to speed on the whole OUTLAW! thing yet.
– They’ll be adding staff writers as they go along, and in spite of Jeff’s douchiness, I’m sure they’ll suck it up and invite him in spite of their common sense.
Well, from the very first I saw of it a few days back (from a guins or nr link) he was already listed as a friend. I think he was from the very start.
Not to put too fine a point on it but blogrolls are done quite promiscuously on purpose. Quite the opposite with paying gigs.
You’re definitely on the side of the angels here, BBH, so I’m not looking to argue over it. I’m just a bit more pessimistic.
Yes, well, in the meantime let’s be sure to ignore the present set of facts and thus avoid drawing any conclusions as to concurrent thoughts on the subject.
– Understand, and I also understand how Jeff feels, believe me I do.
– I’m taking an upbeat positive stance on it. I know Kelsey a bit, and that isn’t the way he rolls.
– ‘Nuff said. Let’s see what happens.
Gerard wrote me a snitty little message saying I’m listed in the P’s and always have been.
Whatever. I really don’t care. I was just grousing because it’s fairly typical these days that any launch of any new venue by any of the first wave bloggers will most certainly not include me in any kind of prominent role, mostly because I’m a douche.
But there are probably other reasons as well.
— None as big as my being a douche though.
I revel in my douchiness. Remember how poorly I treated Karl and Dan? Or SEK? Or how I called someone an anti-semite and tried to destroy his career in a totally unprovoked and unforgivable way? Or how I piss in my own sandbox all the time?
That’s the narrative. Jeff the douche. Filled with douchiness. His douchiness a backroom Twittery legend.
And all I have remaining for my troubles is the occasional visit from Thor. Who, maybe ironically, calls me a douche.
Sure … but you’re a nice douche … which, could be the problem.
I’ll send a bit when I get back to town from the lake house.
You’re no douche, Jeff. Here’s a douche.
Haunting cut-out bins to feed my laserdisc player in the early 90s got me many very nice titles for a song and brought anime into my purview when I bought the “Beautiful Dreamer” Urusei Yatsura movie on a whim.
Wait……..you mean we could be getting our classical liberalism with cleavage?
Are linked to would be better.
There was a Woodstock NY one.
“…classical liberalism with cleavage?”
Neo-neocon’s already got ya (un)covered, though more with gack? and why? than otherwise.
Ah, here he is. “Gordo/Simon/Kutler/Zaller are all IP 67.159.41.231 Woodstock, IL Area Code 815”
Gordo’s the pale looking dude in the muscle shirt with the imported bride, right?
Yeah. That’s what I thought.
Gordo via Wayback Machine.
– Just for the record I took Mr. Henson to task for the exemplary improper synonymous use of “Classic Liberal” and Progressivism as one and the same in one of his posts.
– I’d assume I’m probably already inching my way toward douchiness, and the enemies list, so there’s that.
Gordon Packard:
I am honored.
I’m pretty bad at regular payments without a bill and preaddressed envelope, but I try and make it worth the wait when I do get motivated. You have more on the way now.
Whole thread with Gordo.
Huh, I wonder if this may be the same anonymous asshole who turned in a spectacularly antisemitic performance on the occasion of Jeff’s dad’s death?
The Home of Gordo, McHenry County, has seemed to have a rash of sex offenders and odd crimes this past year. Pure coincidence, I am sure.
Or maybe Mad City’s been leaking.
Again.
Go ahead, come to Arizona, Jeff. I promise to wear a condom.
Is this what you dreamed of becoming when you were a little kid?
What went wrong?
JeffG: This is how happy my life has been: http://profiles.friendster.com/58920776
So cry me a river, you pathetic faggot.
Is there a premium internet I can upgrade to?
This one has too many crazies.
That’s right, I’m drunk enough again.
“A fine prose style is an indicator of absolutely nothing regarding its owner.”
You cunts understand. A fine prose style is not an indicator of fine prose. Absofuckinglutely. Because Shaidle says so.
And fuck Buckley; only those born poor, or at least not rich, matter.
Assholes.
If you think a fine prose style is an indication of the capability, not to mention the intelectual wherewithal, to produce fine prose then FUCK YOU COMMIE.
Do *not* follow the link in #123 – it goes to one of those “oh, let us scan your computer for malware. And by ‘scan your computer’ we mean ‘make sure you have some malware now'” sites.
Douche.
Oh, and when I say “Douche” it’s short for “Douchebag”, and naturally I was referring to Gordo the Magnificent. Not Jeff — who’s apparently also a douche, or so he claims, but you know… the good kind. Think “golden meadow on a warm summer’s morning, dew glistening on the flowers, with just a hint of lavendar and lilac in the air.”
Shit, now you tell me?
What’s got little Gordo’s panties in a twist?
I sent you some money, Jeff. No! No need to thank me. Just mention my my name in the acknowledgements of your eventual book and put the word,”awesome”, next to it.
John Bradley, I didn’t see any threats @123; just unfortunate-looking Gordo on a very much downgraded internet site. Friendster dot com is low-rent MySpace, but not a usual source for malware.
If Gordo’s in Tucson, who’s from Woodstock IL ? Or was that just some sort of anomizer?
I’m I supposed to understand some of these oblique insults?
Gordo —
Don’t worry about wearing a condom with me. I’m clean. But were I you, I’d have thoroughly checked and tested any sexual partner ever purchased with a major credit card — even if you ended up marrying the thing.
Yeah, if it’s the same as before, the Woodstock IPs are from a proxy site.
I still think the Gordo in Tucson is our Gordo’s dad. Gordo, Jr. and Tranny-Crazy-O (or whatever “her” name was) appear to visit him (i.e., mooch from him) from time to time.
Now that I think of it, though, I haven’t seen a mention of Tranny-Crazy-O for a while. Maybe “she” figured out that Gordo isn’t planning to ever get a job?
Serr8d – okay, never mind. The link’s behaving itself now. (It’s just embarassing, or should be.)
Last night it launched a pop-up malware attack of some sort. Possibly the result of comment spam on that page, or a questionable randomly-placed ad. Who knows.
Maureen Dowd:
“…how can Obamicans can Obama?”
Toldja.
from POLITICO:
“For House Democrats, planning for a future without Nancy Pelosi is neither pleasant nor easy.
Translation: She’s going to lose. They know it. And are secretly glad to be rid of her toxic (bo-toxic?) ass.
“But as the polls [ever worser] worsen and a Republican-controlled House looks more and more possible [read-inevitable], Democrats are beginning to realize they face a top to bottom leadership shakeup [read-removal] if the powerful [read-insane] speaker steps aside [read-loses her race] in a [very small] Democratic minority.”
“For House Democrats, planning for a future without Nancy Pelosi is neither pleasant nor easy.
For everyone else, it’s the end of a long national nightmare…
Update: Dems lose 110+ in the house and the senate.
$50.00 to you. $50.00 to Christine Odonnell.
That’s how I roll.
How can that be when your every post here is nothing more than you jerking off moby?
That’s what your cat is for, Willie.
Although a public spectacle of prying the Speaker’s gavel from her hands would be “Must-See TV”.
Is there a premium internet I can upgrade to?
Yes. But it mostly just links to CraigsList and The Chive. And unfortunately I’ve seen Gordo’s mom on both. So… it has crazies too.
Sent you some $$ Jeff. Not poker this time. Golf. And I’m not that good at golf.
I have found what our President likes to call (but doesn’t quite understand) a “teachable moment”: In your life’s extracurricular activities always include overly competitive gambling degenerates who both, carry cash, and are worse at said activity than you are.
Hey LYBD, let’s play 18 some time.
*kidding*
Sure al.
If I loose you’ll take a traveler’s check from a Greek bank, right?
If not al, I have some Uzbecki lead coins thor put me into a while back.
Supposed to take off like a bottle rocket any day now.
Well it seems that Sophie reads Protein Wisdom. When she discovered that Maggie and I were looking for a new home for her, she started behaving.
So, we’ll be making that generous donation anyway, by way of celebration.
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