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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Three things about other blogs

Thing One

The indispensable Dave Neiwert (he of Orcinus) is having a fundraiser.  He says he’s making his Koufax-Award-winning series, “The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism” (hey, I voted for it, you know), available as a PDF as a bonus for any donations, and he says that Michelle Malkin has already put up $5 for it.  He surely wouldn’t kid us about a thing like that, now, would he?  So let’s help out Dave’s fund drive by driving him some funds.  We can’t let Michelle do all the good works around here.

Thing Two

The intrepid Sean Carroll (he of Preposterous Universe) is not having a fundraiser.  But you should stop by and read his blog anyway, because it’s just occurred to me that (a) he’s recently had a blog anniversary and (b) he did not– and this is more mind-boggling than the very idea of a quantum theory of gravity– get a Koufax nomination for Best Expert Blog even though he’s far and away the best cosmology/ physics blogger in this quadrant of the galaxy.  WTF?  This is the very heart of the matter of the universe, people– compared to this stuff, even pharyngula are ephemera.  (Nothing personal, P.Z., just a remark about how God created physics on the first day and didn’t get around to doing biology until the third day.) So wish Sean a happy anniversary, and go learn a thing or two about dark matter and dark energy.

Thing Three

The indefatigable Alex (he of Buck Hill), lately responsible for some of the most inventive and bizarre comments on the Internets, has written two brief one-act plays that are sure to become this year’s smash hits.  Swing on by and check out David Horowitz and Christopher Hitchens in a dazzling reinterpretation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The NRO Corner Players in a new production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.  In the headnote to the latter, Alex describes himself as “a (rapidly failing) theater student.” So go tell him that whatever his mission is, he must not fail.  When the Apocalypse arrives, we are going to need all the inventive-bizarre blog commenters and Neo-Bolshevist reinterpretations of modern drama we can get.

Posted by Michael on 03/06 at 01:46 PM
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