And now: the Quick Hits.
Heard this morning on Marketplace's morning radio report, during a story on the business of selling trinkets and mementos for Chancellor Palpatine's Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Washington, DC:
In reference to the always-funny Pope-on-a-Rope, a woman in the gift shop of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception: "I think that's disgusting. Why wash your body with the pope?"
To which I must respond: good gracious, why not?
It's official:
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I may need to lose some weight.
The Wife has something awful that she'd like to share with you (pay attention to the last paragraph). Because that's what the Internet is for, right?
But, really, dear: it'll be okay. Don't hang up your Chucks yet.
It's a week late and a benjamin short (ooh, clever! look, I'm teh r0x0rz!), but I finally figured out what began to bug me about Scalzi's last Big Idea entry (mentioned in my previous post). And it is thus:
John knowingly fed the troll.
Day is not a troll in the usual sense - or perhaps it's more accurate to say that he's an higher order of troll. Whatever, he gets his kicks and makes his monies by being a deliberate douche, and that's clear trollish behavior. I don't even care if Day really believes in his own claptrap or not - devotion to ideas or ideals doesn't make you any less of a douche.
It's been written to death by this point, but I'll say it again: it's John's blog, he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it, but... huh? I'm not bewildered by the post, but by the motivations for it, I guess. Someone as Intarweeb-savvy as Scalzi knows exactly what he's doing, so I'm left scratching my head as to why he decided to feed the troll.
Makes me wonder if we didn't all just catch John on a really bad day or something.
(h/t to this post by ertchin, which helped clarify my thinking)
1 comment:
Yeah, you're funny and all, but how about a new post once in a while, bub?
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