Home | Away

Blog business

Apparently the Washington Post is having some sort of blog contest.  Nominations close September 3.  The categories are:

Best Rant
Best Democratic Party Coverage
Best Republican Party Coverage
Best Campaign Dirt
Best Inside the Beltway
Best Outside the Beltway
Best International
Class Clown
Most Original
Most Likely To Last Beyond Election Day

It appears that there has been some oversight, for I can find no way to nominate anyone in the critical category of political hockey blogging.  So tell you what:  head over to the WaPo and nominate some of the many fine blogs from my blogroll, or maybe Fafblog, which I keep forgetting to add to the mix.  But tell ‘em I sent you.

In other news, a friend writes to say, “I hope you’re going to be watching the Republican convention.  You owe it to your blog readers, as I’m sure I’m not alone in being someone who will get physically ill if I have to watch that crap.” This is a friend, I ask you?  Someone who wants me to shorten my lifespan by watching Zell and Cheney and Prez Cheez Whiz talk all week about their firm hard compassionately moderate compassionated steadfastness?  Someone who will affix the Clockwork Orange eyelid-opening devices to my skull, turn on the TV, and make me blog about the experience?

What did you think about that compassionate moment of good hard firm All-American regular-guy compassion?  Judy?  Tucker?  Cokie?

-- I thought it was extremely compassionated, Wolf.  This is not some Swiss-cheese-eating candidate with a credibility problem and a history of mental illness.  This is a man with a clear, compassional vision for America that is also strong and hard.

I have to put up with four days of this all so that he can avoid getting physically ill?  What am I, a prophylactic blog?

You tell me, folks.  Do I have to go through with it?

Posted by on 08/23 at 02:23 AM

  1. You tell me, folks. Do I have to go through with it?

    You do if you want people to vote for you! (Then again, all the cool kids are voting for Sadly, No!)

    Posted by Sadly, No!  on  08/23  at  03:50 AM

  2. Well, I’m also voting for Sadly, No! in at least three categories, and I’m lobbying for a new category, “Best Amber Pawlik Fan Site.” But I thought I had the political-hockey-blogging category wrapped up until I found out there wasn’t one.

    Posted by  on  08/23  at  03:58 AM

  3. I’m certainly not going to say you have to watch that mess, but I think I speak for many when I say I sure would be grateful if you would.  I guess someone has to do it, and I’d rather it not be me.  Besides, you’re much funnier than I am.

    Posted by David Morgen  on  08/23  at  04:52 AM

  4. Your race for the VP spot starts here and now. I can vote for you only if I have been protected from the brain deterioration that comes from conventions and convention coverage. Sometimes you have to take the hit to leave an effective drop pass on the blue line. I’ll always be grateful.

    Posted by  on  08/23  at  05:11 AM

  5. I wouldn’t ask you to suffer it unless you could figure out a way to make the whole thing a sport. I have NO idea how you would do that.

    Posted by Eric B.  on  08/23  at  06:20 AM

  6. Watch it at your own peril! As i see it, the question becomes, do you have any outlet for hockey during the convention? I think your only alternative to physical illness is to become a cross-checking maniac on the ice. I don’t see how it will be possible to keep that much vile frustration from venting absent a few good cross-checks to the back. Do you play hockey with any right-wing fascists that you know of? 

    Posted by  on  08/23  at  06:38 AM

  7. I think under the new Department of Labor overtime rules bloggers have to watch the Republican convention.

    Posted by Dan Borus  on  08/23  at  09:25 AM

  8. No.  I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy (well, maybe my worst enemy)!

    Luckily, I work evenings!

    Posted by Ms. Not Together  on  08/23  at  09:56 AM

  9. My suggestion for the RNC is to try to turn it into a drinking game.  It’s the only way I think I’ll make it.

    Posted by thehim  on  08/23  at  11:20 AM

  10. I was hoping there would be a “biology blog with absolutely no authority, credibility, or legitimacy discussing politics,” but it wasn’t there. That means I’m off the hook and don’t have to watch the RNC, right? Right. Yay!

    I think I’ll just have to wait for the Fafblog digest of the convention. It’ll make more sense, anyway.

    Posted by PZ Myers  on  08/23  at  02:34 PM

  11. I plan on watching with an air sickness bag beside me.  Anyway, as critics don’t we owe it to ourselves and our readers to watch and comment?

    Posted by Le Penseur  on  08/23  at  02:54 PM

  12. I watched the entire 2000 GOP convention with the sound turned off, and it was much more tolerable to compose my own imaginary soundtrack for that cartoonish charade.

    Posted by  on  08/23  at  11:20 PM

  13. Pleeeease? (Everybody, altogether now!)

    Think of it as altruism, magnanimity, a charitable act for those of us with lesser gastronomic constitutions (and that includes the inevitable worse-than-death hangover from the drinking game idea). Then think of the transformative possibilities of dropping the RNC into Berube’s Chocolate Factory (Ann Coulter as Veruca Salt?). Personally, I’d rather run through a gauntlet of razor blades and rubbing alcohol than watch and digest the RNC but will gladly organize aid shipments of Gatorade, Pepto Bismol, ice, Coke, broth, and in extremis, ipecac for your efforts.

    Posted by sian  on  08/24  at  07:50 AM

  14. Gaaaah, so far it’s looking pretty grim here.  All right, then, let me propose this.  One, Sian sends me the bourbon necessary for the task-- hold the Pepto Bismol, thanks, I’ll handle the hangover on my own.  Two, I blog the GOP convention but I make an elaborate game out of it.  I’ll think of something, I’m sure.

    The major problem will be constructing my very own Fortress of Solitude in the basement so that Janet doesn’t have to come into contact with all of that hard firm compassionate moderatism.

    Don’t tell me I never made any sacrifices for you all.

    Posted by Michael  on  08/24  at  09:07 AM

  15. Well, but who else could tease forth the central hockey metaphor in the RNC, and do it with such cheese-eating, francophone elan?  There’s a higher calling involved here, I feel certain.

    Posted by  on  08/24  at  09:09 AM

  16. I suggest a high-powered assault rubber-dart rifle.  Swop!  Plop!  Floop!  For every malapropism, mixed construction, neologism, tortured verb ending, and mispronuncification, nail ‘im right in the middle of that sloping simian brow. 

    Posted by  on  08/24  at  11:07 AM

  17. Well, it would be interesting if you could follow the Faux network’s treatment of the speeches, to see if, you know, they decide to let their viewers hear the speeches or decide that what’s coming from the podium is “propaganda”, (in Oh, Really?’s words) and simply talk over them, like Oh, Really? did with Gore and the others.

    I performed this function during the DNC (OK I watched C-span most of the time) and think someone should be forced to do the same next week. 

    Posted by  on  08/26  at  05:53 AM

  18. Who moved my cheese??!!

    Brooby, did you move my cheese??

    Posted by wtfwjd?  on  09/03  at  04:43 AM

  19. Hi,
    I have A LOT of scars on both of my arms only because I can’t help but pop the zits & since I have really sensitive skin I get scars easily. I need a home remedy thats fast and effective or even an over the counter medication but does anyone know what i should use?

    Posted by Seborrheic keratosis  on  08/26  at  12:38 AM

Name:

Email:

Location:

URL:

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Submit the word you see below:


Next entry: Breaking news

Previous entry: Powers of discernment

<< Back to main