Go vote Bill’s INDC Journal the “Best Inside the Beltway” blog in the Washington Post’s Best Blogs contest.
And while you’re there, vote protein wisdom for…uh, nothing. Because I wasn’t nominated. For anything. At all. Nada. Which, thanks for that.
protein wisdom: achieving mediocrity since going on always.
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update: fafblog!
I mean, I talk to apples.
And my pants.
Dolphins in pea coats.
And this is how you people repay me?
Fine.
From now on, you’ll get nothing but cut-and-paste posts that summarize New York Times columns.
AAAAwwww! Come on, Jeff.
You are the “gift that keeps on giving” !!!
Make me wet!
Well.. at least .. YES .. NO.. Yes.. NO. YES .. YESsssss..
Your absence from the list delegitimizes the whole thing.
You ARE THE gift – We know it! Can’t deny it! Beautifully gifted writer.
In all seriousness, you should have been nominated, and you should have won the “Most Original” category by a landslide. Next year! But until then, you are greatly appreciated, even if none of those clowns nominated you.
You’re just ahead of your time. It cost me $2.99/minute for the call but I’ve learned you’ll be nominated and win in 2007 if it makes you feel any better.
Incredibly enough the nomination will come from your deadbeat neighbor, who my new psychic “friend” tells me will finally get a computer mid-2006. She also said he’ll be surprised and maybe a bit freaked out when he finally finds out when it is you’re doing in there with the shades drawn so you might want to get your explanation together now.
So hang in there, Jeff. Fame and fortune are just around the corner…
I actually did nominate you, Jeff ! (Before I didn’t, I mean.) But I guess the bastards didn’t realize just who was making that nomination, ‘cause they didn’t put me up for anything, either, and I know I nominated myself for … that is, I know I was nominated for something. I hate these little contests, anyway, ‘cause it’s all who you know.
Besides, I have it on good authority that all the nominees were taken from Glenn’s outgoing e-mail list.
This is, in fact, such a cutting edge, avante guarde blog, that they probably just don’t have a category for it yet. Remember, there is but a fine line between the leading edge and mediocracy…
Ok, that last line was just some bullshit I made up… BUT IT’S ACCURATE!
BUT – DUHhh! You’re not INSIDE the beltway – are you! So we can elect you for everywhere else!
Remember, Jeff, you’re unique just like everybody else.
Just don’t go getting all Susan Lucci on us, pal. I wasn’t nominated for anything either. Hmm…
OK, maybe not so much Susan Lucci. Gary Shandling?
The fact that you weren’t nominated for anything means that the terrorists have won.
It’s probably Ashcroft’s fault. Or maybe Rumsfeld’s. Or Bushitler’s.
Yeah………. but none of them other pathetic bastards can make me laugh until I puke!
Rip Torn?
Alright, Goldstein, time to come clean. You never have sufficiently explained the whole wisdom thing?
Is it Protein or is it Celluloid.?
SO ..
Jeff’s just sitting there looking at all this shit and wondering whether “exortiation” is a verb or a noun.
Dude, u should have been nominated for Most Original. Those nominations, with the exception of Frank J & Bill, sucked.
Good cumback on yr penis, btw. Did u see the one where I said yr site was “A suppurating sore with comments & trackback”?
Who the hell asked for nominees anyway? Ah Ha! JOhn Jr. has been worried about the mole!
…… shades of “small dead animals” or Fedexed cats
FWIW, I think you’re the best Jeff Goldstein-style blogger I know of!
I nominate Protein Wisdom for “Most Unjustly Unnominated Blog After Mine.”
They unjustly eliminated the “Hokusai translated into English by Stevie Wonder on a manual typewriter” category. (But seriously, I don’t want to hear any more of this “mediocrity” falferall. If it makes you feel any better, there’s a picture I keep in my wallet that I take out and look at when I’m feeling down or mediocre. It lifts up my spirit and reminds me that someone out there loves me. And he loves you too, Jeff.)
Protein Wisdom: Wow….Jeff’s really freakin’ out huh….I bet the hangover from his convention visits, both DNC and RNC are finally getting to him.
No love man, no love. The things he does for you people. I mean really.
He even got rid of that nasty intestine logo on the top. What the hell do you want from the guy?
I’m sorry, but neither Allah’s Bitchslap in Beantown, or Jay Pinkertons Skim Comics comes anywhere close to Jeff’s interview with Kennedy.
Pajama’s and what not….c’mon, who’s the real journalist here….
I DEMAND A RECOUNT!
How in the hell could they miss Jeff G./Protein Wisdom for Class Clown?
Wonkette?!! Hasn’t her fifteen minutes expired yet?
Feh. These contests remind me of my cheerleading days. You’re good and you know it (clap your hands).
Just, please. Whatever you do. Do NOT change your color scheme to purple and green.
Gah.
What in the bloody HELL were the criteria to be included for the final vote?
fafblog? WTF?
Aside from Bill, Frank, and Lileks, the possible answers to every other question seemed the same.
Bright side? Who needs to be nominated into such uneven company?
Oh Jeffy, you’ll always be *my* Class Clown.
That’s Class Clown. Don’t be gettin’ any ideas, hear?
Courage.
There goes my morning coffee. Thanks Dan Rather.
Jeff, I personally think of this site as the thinking man’s blog. (Using “man” in a non-gender-specific un-PC old fashioned sort of way, but I digress)
Your comedic prowess, irreverance, writing style and skill, content, lack of patience with trolls, topicality, photoshop wizardry, and your posting frequency all make for a site unmatched on the web. Nearly as important is your participating audience who add to your original thoughts and build the humor to a crescendo. Witness the Shakespeare thread from two weeks ago – pure genius from all comers.
Where I’m going with all this is: your blog is unique and perfect as it is and as it evolves. If you wanted more readers you could dumb it down or something (Fafblog, anyone?), but then it wouldn’t be what you’ve made it, which would truly be a tragedy. Popularity, especially with the WaPo, isn’t everything.
As an aside: Fafblog? Medium Lobsters? I guess you’d have to have read that one for a while to get any of the humor, assuming any was to be had. And if you read the comments over there, you find that *nobody* gets the humor, so it’s not just me. I’d far rather you gave up blogging altogether than read you attempting to outdo Fafblogish incoherent weirdness for the sake of readership, assuming that would gain you any.
My 2 cents.
Who gives a rat’s ass? As Grouch Marx or somebody said, “Any club that would have me for a member, I wouldn’t care to join”. So there. Sit back, have a double shot of pureed bunny and dream of bats. Big fucking bats.
Your female readers live for those days that your nipples get hard. What’s more important than that?