I’m heading downtown to BlogCon11 this afternoon — in time, it seems, for a protest to erupt. The Occupy Denver kiddies got wind of the conference and naturally have to protest it. Because, you know — well, because, uh, KOCH BROTHERS RACISM HATE HATE HATE! Plus, you want to stop anti-Semitism, which is like, a violation of free speech and assembly for Nazis and anti-Zionist intifada champions! Or some such.
Hundreds of bloggers with video-capable phones, and these morons decide we’re to be the target of their disjointed, intellectually scattershot “protests”?
That’s some strategy, that is.
Perhaps I shall dress down and mingle with The People…
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update: incidentally, if you want to follow on Twitter, the feed is #blogcon11. I’m at @proteinwisdom
“dress down” – lol what does that mean? roll in some cloves?
you should totally interview some of them. Sympathetically of course…get their real thoughts and feelings on the issues.
Can you pull up youtube video of your (bizarre) feats of strength on your phone? It’d be fun to hold that up and exclaim “look at this. I’m crushing your head!”
Is this where you put the wood to that guy Jacobs?
I lost all that video when my hard drive crashed. I think. Or it’s on there somewhere, but fuck if I know where to find it. Or how.
Throw up on yourself before you go out there. You’ll blend right in…
You got some patchouli?
That’ll do the trick.
You crazy banksters have a good time down there and try not to foreclose on anybody.
I hope you have some luck in expressing the fact that while their complaints spring from the same source as ours, their means and proposed remedies are totally fucking stupid.
Perhaps I shall dress down and mingle with The People…
Sounds like some of that right wing code talk. Are you threatening, discriminating, or sexually harrassing?
#OCCUPYMOMSBASEMENT
Meatshield tweets. But is he there?
QUIT THREATENING ME, GODLSTEIN!
They’re saying that #occupydenver has arrived at #blogcon11.
What will ensue? Hilarity? Fireworks? The plague?
Evidently a dog will speak….
Ace: Live blogging the event.
There’s about 20 of them. They’re fairly young and dirty and speak in a strange jargon like the Oasis Tribe in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Now they’re doing that “mike check” thing, and are chanting.
The BlogCon folks are now chanting back: “WE. are. the 99%.”
The BlogCon people began chanting, “We want the dog, we want the dog.” Apparently these mutants were the ones who elected a dog as a leader or something.
Last heard from Jeff:
Probably not as worrisome as “Houston, we have a problem”, I’m guessing.
Stopped for lunch, turned on the news and watched as the local Los Angeles station covered #Occupy Riverside …
which has a total (in the reporter’s breathless estimate) of “about 25 people”.
Jaysus H. Keerist … the two TEA Party’s I attended in Rancho Cucamonga were over 1,000 people each and NO one so much as came out to bait the crowd with J-school “explain to me how you’re not a racist” questions.
First vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBb7LnEqH28&
I don’t know how, but sometimes Twitter slows down everything on my computer, including apps not connected to the Internet.
I’m not sure who was more annoying, in that video.
Or who was claiming to have paid for whose public schools.
#Occupy Denver at #BlogCon11 video.
The Make Believe Media believes if they don’t report it, it didn’t happen.
Stephanie,
Well, we know which side has a sense of humor… ;^)
Yep.. Although, I’m disappointed they didn’t work a “Hey Hey Ho Ho” type chant in there somewhere.
Where’s what’s his name when we need some rhymes… sorry {insert name here} I seem to be suffering from Perry’s disease.
Scotch time!
[…] riffraff were just minding their own business until those nasty bloggers provoked them.UPDATE III: The unpopular and unimportant Jeff Goldstein:The Occupy Denver kiddies got wind of the conference and naturally have to protest it. Because, you […]
Woah. The bottom-of-the-page link injection attack is back again, big time.
hey hey ho ho occupy has got to go
ok I’m not good at twitter, is anyone updating? HA just posted that someone was arrested at the Denver thing.
Wrong page.
Sounds like Occupy Denver put on a floor show for you guys…like the street entertainers at Epcot, it is all included in the price!
That chant by the bloggers is hilarious. “We are! The 53%!”
FWIW I’m not getting the bottom of the page gruel (for once).
I hope ya’ll are having fun at BlogCon. Axelrod set up the Web access? It’s so quiet out here Andrew Sullivan almost made Memeorandun.
My very best advice if they attack, simply raise high a few Crosses. Problem solved. No use wasting good Holy Water.
Or lead them in segmented chants against themselves, once you’ve distracted them by scattering around some Arugula on the ground.
The bottom-of-the-page spam went away, apparently “all by itself.”
FWIW, looking at the HTML source (when it was happening), it was all added at the very bottom of the normal page source, which leads me to believe that there was a misbehaving hunk of Javascript being served up in one of the ads (or by one of the external <script> links), and it was just “document.write()”-ing a large number of spammy links at the end of the stream.
That it went away of its own accord (what with Jeff presumably hanging out at the hotel bar at the time) would seem to indicate that it was externally served-up, and was cleaned up by whomever was unwittingly serving it – a ‘run-time’ hack, as opposed to someone exploiting some WordPress weakness to modify the actual source code on Jeff’s server (which would have stayed broken until Jeff or someone fixed it).
That’s my guess, at least. Reality routinely chooses to mock my attempts at careful analysis/guesswork, so grain of salt…