bring out your dead

I was killing time in the lobby of Mr. Wolcott's posh Upper West Side building when I saw some rather tragic news.  Atlas Pam is getting divorced.  From Pajamas Media, that is.

To wit!

That overgrown tyke Dennis the Peasant, who has been trying to flag my attention in a most undignified manner, has certainly snagged my interest with reports of a rumored divorce between Pammycakes of Atlas Shrugs and Pajamas Media; it would be tragic indeed if this once-beautiful relationship, this marriage made in bedlam, had gone south, splitsville, over the falls, off the rails.

Shut.  Up.  You don't say!

But if Pammy and PJM have met a sad parting of the ways, whose decision was it to file for divorce? It's hard for me to believe Pajamas Media would want to deprive itself of classic stellar Pamela posts such as (actual titles) "Jihadis Behead Baby and Roast It" and "Rosie: Queen of the Pig People."

Yes, those are interesting questions, Mr. Wolcott.  Is Pamela a rat deserting a sinking ship?  Or is the SS Pajamas Media taking on water so fast that they're throwing the rats (and other dead weight) overboard? 

Pamela came out in an effort to silence such untoward speculation with both (badly typed, appallingly spelled) guns blazing.  Ex-Wingnut (turned equal opportunity offender) Dennis the Peasant is there to bring us the story.

Well, it seems that Atlas Shrugs' Pamela Geller Oshry has emerged from her trailer park upset. Really upset.

Really?  How upset?

Vanity Press: Wolcott

The other Queen of the Pig people

Over at Vanity Fair, more leftarded yellow journalism from the queen here.
Pathetic, really.

How can you tell?  Given her usual flame-thrower, syntax-be-damned approach to "writing", that sounds like downright flattery.  But of course (as is her wont), she goes on:

Bottom line, I left Pajama so that I could sell advertising. Make a couple of bucks. Hellloooooo. GUILTY OF CAPITALISM.  I can't sell ads under my agreement with PJM but don't let the facts get in the way of your cheap little obsession.

(snip) 

I love that about Wolcott, he pretends to be in the thick of things in the blogosphere, jumping on that train as his quasi has been star fades. He doesn't know jack about the blogs. But he has the temerity to comment so authoritatively.

The pajama story is a non story. But don't tell the Queen, he/she might have to actually write about something substantial.

Hey Big Pussy, get a clue. Start writing about the beheadings, slavery, misogyny, oppression, hangings in the name of the global jihad. Believe me woman, your fat neck will be one of the first to go.

Keepin it real baby, from your substancialious blogger.

Posted by Pamela Geller Oshry on Friday, April 06, 2007 at 11:21 AM

Charmed, I'm sure! 

You know, when confronted with multiple paragraphs of Word Salad a la Pam, it's hard to know where to begin.  Fortunately, Dennis the Peasant got up early this morning so he could get a head start. 

Cute, isn't it? I just love the gay slurs coupled with the allegation that Wolcott wants to get into her pants, don't you? Despite Pammy's seeming confusion over Wolcott's orientation and intent, the homophobia adds a nice touch to her post… It's the sort of gravitas one expects from a really substancialicous member of the Coulter Sisterhood and New Media juggernaut.

Oh, don't be silly, Dennis.  All the really deranged "monkeys swinging from the rafters" are over on Teh Hatin' Left, or at least according to Mary Katherine Ham.  I'm sure you're misinterpreting Pammy's remarks.  Taking them out of context!

First of all, I think what Pam is trying to say is that she's a substantial-icious blogger. Substantial is a real word. Substancial isn't. Substance is a real word, but it isnt' the right real word in this context. Maybe some of that ad money can pay for a spell checker, a dictionary and/or a thesaurus. In any event, one of the first rules to note when attempting to convince neutral parties that you are more intelligent than your opponent is to make very sure that you don't misuse and/or misspell relatively simple, commonly used words.  

My sentiments exactly.

But, wait!  There's more!

The second thing to note here is what Pammy has actually said about Pajamas Media. Apparently Pam's temporary (?) hormone imbalance kept her from realizing just what it was she was saying, and just how damaging it was to her old pal Roger L. Simon. Wasn't the providing advertising revenue to Pajamas network bloggers one of the main reasons for forming Pajamas Media? Wasn't Pajamas Media supposed to provide bloggers with greater advertising revenues than bloggers could get from other sources… Sources such as BlogAds and Google Ads? If Pammy means what she says, then Pajamas Media is having between little and no success attracting advertisers via their vaunted viral marketing strategy, crack New York advertising sales staff and nifty Power Point presentations. That's news. Maybe not New Media news, but news nonetheless.

Thanks, Pammy.

But-!  But-!  No One Could Have Predicted the Failure of the PJM business model!  It seems, however, that all is really, really not well in Pajamahadi Land.  Laurence Simon is leaving, too!

You will probably notice an improvement in load time on this site because I am now removing all of my remaining Pajamas Media ad banners.

I have yet to receive my final check from them.

Whether this means that they are short of cash, careless in their accounting, or a victim of the stellar performance of our Postal Service, I have no idea.

And I don't care. For all it matters, they can spend the remaining balance on condoms with which to screw themselves.

What was promoted as an attempt to empower bloggers became an exercise in further empowering only the already-powerful bloggers and adding noise to an already-saturated echo-chamber.

And LaShawn Barber!

My focus in life is gradually shifting away from maintaining a daily political blog and everything that goes with being a “top” blogger: recognition from other political bloggers, invitations to political events, blog conferences, lots of links, high traffic, etc. It’s startling to think my desire for those things is receding when I’ve spent the past three years pursuing them. Who in her right mind, one may ask, would give that up?

(snip)

I doubt I’ll ever give up blogging, but perhaps it’s time to give up La Shawn Barber’s Corner as it currently exists. I’ve been thinking of closing shop and reopening under a new banner, so to speak, a blog that is less focused on politics and more on faith, writing, and things that make me happy instead of what makes me angry (although this blog would remain accessible as archives). While I could just as easily do that on this blog, LBC has too much baggage attached to it. Starting a whole new blog would feel like a proper “new beginning.”

Regardless of what she decides, the Pajamas Media logo has disappeared from her pages as well.

Where will it end?  Is this the long-anticipated Pajamapocalypse?  Is Wingnut Welfare showing signs of going the way of the Housing Bubble?  Stay tuned, Firedogs.  2007 is just getting more and more interesting, isn't it?