Panel featuring Michelle Malkin, Philip Klein, and Andrew Malcolm. Moderated by Melissa Clouthier, who was kind enough to give me a shout out.
One of the things I learned at BlogCon is that many prominent conservative opinion leaders had never even heard of protein wisdom. A fact that for me put the last decade of my life in a kind of sad (if not pathetic) perspective.
But I muddle on. And at the very least, I figure I’ll leave behind a fossil record that I was once here, engaging. With a sweet-ass bro-stache lately along for the ride.
— Which, true, that’s not much of an overarching victory over either mortality or the status quo; but from an existentialist perspective, it makes me a tiger-blooded rock star from Mars. #WINNING!
But I digress.
Back to the topic: I have my own ideas, as you all know, on how we need to be engaging the media. But it’s worth listening to those conservatives/Republicans actually involved in the professional press when they detail ways to negotiate the contemporary media culture.
So. Discuss. Me, I’ll be off listening with my son to the heartbeat of the as yet gender-undefined child occupying my wife’s womb. Then? Chic-fil-A!
Half the people who used to read my blog and even link it from time to time have never heard of me.
At least, that’s what they say when I ask to borrow money from them.
Remember Naked News? That was the peak of the innertubes right there, been downhill since.
If they’ve never heard of you, it’s unlikely they hate your guts.
So there’s that.
That’s okay, I’ve never heard of most of them.
For what it’s worth, the most frustrating thing about studying fossil hominids is just how seldom they manage to put themselves in a position to become part of the fossil record. You could be like.. Lucy!
Or Charlie Brown for that matter. :)
I wonder how many prominent conservative opinion makers pay much attention to any of us. They read the big sites and don’t pay attention to where they’re being sent by links.
Consarn’d if it doesn’t cut off in the middle of a word though.
But there’s nothing wrong with being the Rodney Dangerfield of the blogosphere!
Oh, sorry, that’s only when viewing it on the YouTube page. Right here it works fine.
Eh, on good days I have just north of a thousand readers. I’m a gun blogger more than politics so I’m known by less people than you Jeff, but I can say this – the impact I’ve made on the few who read me *is* noticeable.
I submit that the same has happened for you. In fact, you should see the soapbox I bring out when I discuss intentionalism ;)
Chic-fil-A? Is that where people in $400 jeans and $500 sunglasses eat?
Are you going to let your new kid choose its own gender? ;)
Mazeltov on that heartbeat, dude.
Nothing personal against Melissa, but her diction is close enough to the valley-girl “everything’s a question intonation” that it makes her sound not so much informal as a dumb blond. (As opposed to a smart one, that is.)
Is it wrong that this drives me crazy? Most of the women of her age have not left off talking like teenaged girls. I hear it at work from bright, bright women, and I wonder if they can’t hear themselves, or worse, if they can’t control it. They’ve obviously stopped requiring standard diction from newsreaders, because I hear it from bubble-headed reporters on the local news.
I can lapse into and out of valley girl diction at will (just to make fun of it). Is it really that hard to control one’s pronunciation and intonation?
Her diction is fine in person.
By the way, wife’s doctor had to rush to do emergency C-section so the appt. is changed until tomorrow morning.
Which gives me more time to watch tits on the flat screen!
It is today!
Valley-girl diction is a weird thing for me. Maybe I’m the only one who finds it odd.
Also,
YAY BABY!
You’ve written a book on it?
Nice ‘stache, BTW. Musta kept that little weenie away from you.
“You are what your record says you are.” — Bill Parcells
“You can’t call someone ugly all week and expect them to go to the dance with you on Saturday.” — A former boss of mine
Building a governing coalition in our system is damn hard work. Jeff, I think you are brilliant and a wickedly effective polemicist. I also tend to be just as frustrated with the weak pablum offered by so many who are nominally on my side. While there is a place and a need for hard core idealogues, I doubt that being one is conducive to being popular or well thought of within the circle of prominent conservative opinion leaders. Is that your goal?
You can build your tent as big as you want, but it will be tough to fill the seats. Or perhaps my references are just too damned obscure.
Shorter charlesaustin?
“You’ve pissed off too many people and your prose is as thick as molasses in January.”
Mmmm, phenylalanine. Dispiritment begone!
Shasta diet drinks are using Splenda these days. Does that mean it won’t turn into formaldehyde and pickle me before my time?
i’m shocked
Link
A baby? Congratulations!
Is this breaking news or am I, as usual, last to know?
It broke on a thread last week or so. It was easy to miss.
candied pecans
Congrats on the pregnancy Jeff!
But don’t feel bad about the blogging thing. People see me and say I was great as Flounder in Animal House. Then I say that wasn’t me, and they get those sad eyes and walk away.
why does he call it spiced nuts I don’t understand
Because of the Curry Sperma.
Most of the women of her age have not left off talking like teenaged girls. I hear it at work from bright, bright women, and I wonder if they can’t hear themselves, or worse, if they can’t control it.
I think high schools dropped ‘public speaking’ some time ago, so unless you take theater or join the debate club, there is not much practice in general of how to step up to a podium and perform.
its the cinnamonmonamonaninim
It’s the trousers.
Where are yours? Donny boy.
I’ve never paid much attention to Michelle Malkin before; but she’s very much the star, isn’t she? Very impressive.
Shaitan posted:
You’re not the guy who played Vir on Babylon-5?! :-(
@JeffG: Congratulations!
Oh, Davey boy,
The pants, the pants are ca-al-ling.
From crease to crease,
And down the zippered fly…
Patrick, Vir had the appropriate recipe for our ruling class.
Patrick and SDN, those were my favorite scenes in that whole series.
Well congratulations on the new heartbeat, Jeff.
Oh, Sidney boy,
The pipes, the pipes are ca-all-ling.
From crease to crease,
Then on the backhand side…
Good to see the Kid back, and better still to see his prodigious skills on display again. Everyone wins in that one.