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Eli was in town today and I got to have lunch with him. It was great to meet him in person, finally, and he told me he's been so busy the last few days he did not feel caught up on the news. "What's happening?" he asked.
I had to confess I felt I only had a dim grasp myself. After I live blogged "Libbypalooza: The Orange Pajama Edition" on Thursday, I buried myself in my "real" work Friday and I've been feeling a little out of it ever since.
So, I got to thinking, I could sure use a little more bloggy promiscuity from far and wide. There's so many bloggers out there and I haven't had time to find you, let alone read the "usual suspects" the last few days. So I'm opening another edition of what I'd like to call from now on "Blog Whorehouse."
Come on inside! Tell us about your favorite recent post from your own blog, whoever you are. Tell us what kinds of issues or stories you like to cover if you have a blog. Or, if you don't have a blog, tell us about some real gem of a writer you cherish and read with guilty pleasure, someone the rest of us may not know so well.
Because at the Blog Whorehouse, it's a free love blog whoring free for all. And if you're just here for the party, let yourself try something a little different, something you may never have tried before. Expand your horizons. Try reading something someone else recommends, even if at first it doesn't interest you. We promise we'll be gentle.
You never know. You might like it!
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Late Night!
Woohoo, Pach!!!
hi y’all
Pach!
(diving into the lake wearing my flameproof mod/diving suit and kevlar lined cap) just a free dive - no points no competition, just a dive for the sure pleasure of slicing through the water
g’evening everyone
(diving into the lake wearing my flameproof mod/diving suit and kevlar lined cap) just a free dive - no points no competition, just a dive for the sure pleasure of slicing through the water
g’evening everyone
Hey gang. Suffice it to say, no black lights are allowed here at the Blog Whorehouse.
That dive was so nice, she had to do it twice ;-)
hi Suzanne - double double
um, Pach? Did you mean to post this in “Bigotsphere”?
Evening all. How’s life in the Lake this evening?
These are the titles of our latest posts on YouthINKLeft:
* Corporate Crime —- did they fool you too?
* Romney woos anti-abortion activists
* It’s Time to Take on the Puppy Mills
* Another Modest Proposal
* Will Bush pardon Libby?
I wrote the first and the last. Those two are also on Political Teen Tidbits, along with some other stuff I wrote or stole off this site!
Hey DrD :-)
Yep, give us your best. Would love to see some new blogospheric voices.
Suzanne @ 7
Uhoh, points subtracted for technique(double post)! Evening, Ma Cheri!!!
Suzanne is somebody shooting at you? Or is your lake on fire?
Hi Suzanne!
Suzanne @ 6
Evening, Suz! It’s almost warm enough to swim here in the non-heated pool! Sounds like an interesting outfit you have going!
DrDick @ 12
We’re watching “All the President’s Men”
LoudounLib @ 11
Whenever I trip and fall, I like to do the Inspector Clouseau thing: I meant it to look like that.
(er, anyway, the tag has changed)
;-) Pach
OK, I’ll bite.
The Seeker Blog.
Not liberal but not conservative, meaning I am hard on both - I bash FDL just as easily as O’Reilly (mostly because I expect more out of FDL). :-) But all I really want to do is make you think. So if you would like to argue with me or try to convince me otherwise, please stop by and comment. I like a good argument from conservatives and liberals alike ;-)
Suzanne I left a “Please MOD” comment on the last thread. Please.
Nuh-uh.
The last time I went blog-whoring my computer got a virus.
*crosses legs*
TRex @ 24
ALWAYS use protection when you go out!
Pach, Jane, and now TRex. Triples! Is there a dive, Suz, for such an occasion?
My name is David. I’m The Subway Serenade and I blog from “The End Of Civilization As We Know It!”
Got your joke of the week right here.!
So, I made some empanadas tonight, and they are yummy. I’m gonna make more tomorrow. I have lots more meat left but I have to make more dough, and anyway, I had to quit for the night to blog.
Hi Jane - Oh wait Trex is here - who should I talk to? I am very confused…
Pachacutec @ 28
I love it when you talk dirty.
Mmmm, empanadas…a few weeks ago a guy we work with, who was born in Cuba, brought in some home-made empanadas for us. Muy delicioso!
Gosh, should I call Christy? I wonder if she’s awake.
Wear a raincoat Trex, viruses won’t be a problem. Kidding. For those of you who love college football, EDSBS.com is the funniest blog out there.
Every day should be Saturday.
well, this is really neither there nor here for purposes of the discussion….but I gotta confess, I’m kind of a blog virgin myself.
B4 I found fdl in fall 2005, the only thing I ever read was Salon……and since then, I haven’t, uh, gotten out much.
I like Rude Pundit though. He rawks…
Blogshack, baby, blogshack!!
Good gravy, Pach, does that tune bring back some tequila-sodden memories. Ah, the good old days when I still believed there were adults in charge…
SnarKassandra @ 23
It is done, Cassie - please check and confirm.
If there are any Washington Nationals fans about, I like the blog Capitol Punishment
So Jane, can I make an appointment with you when I am in CT in July? Love to be able to chat with you…
TRex @ 32
And where the hell is Phoenix Woman? Lew? Howie!
Subway Serenade @ 27
I kinda sorta saw something about you performing at the DemFest in NH, Subway!!!
True? What was it like?
For the last two weeks or so I have been trying to do a daily post on the Doom Brothers. This is actually a site I used to do with a friend before there was such a thing as a blog. We had quite a bit of success but found the daily grind of doing humor every day to be a bit much. (and when Bush was elected, I did not find anything funny, he did.)
I decided to try to do it again. I do not know how long I will be able to keep it up: but if you go there and like it, please leave a note saying so. If you hate it, I guess not note is necessary. :)
Thanks (DWD - a constant reader, infrequent contributor but a friend of WGG’s and Eli’s)
http://www.doombrother.blogspot.com
Thanks again and keep up the good work over here. This blog is on my must see list and I am here many times a day checking on postings. I enjoy it.
Twisted Martini @ 38
I may be letting the cat out of the bag here, but Jane is moving to the DC area in a couple of weeks.
She’s gonna set up with an extra bedroom so Marcy can come in and cover congressional hearings, or Howie can come to town for Blue America stuff, etc.
So, Jane’s gonna be my neighbor. Soon.
I’m afraid I don’t pimp my blog anymore since I left the Salon blog ring. Miss that community, was so much fun and so many quality bloggers, too. I still visit my buddy Dave Pollard at How to Save the World; he’s one of the few who continue to hang their shingle at the Salon digs, and of course he is still pumping out the quality content.
C-Span-whoring: Colbert on book TV, C-Span 2 @ BookExpo.
S’ok Pach, your gain is CT’s loss. I was was just hoping to get a shot of Jane when I go back east in a couple of weeks. Hate that Glavine lost today too.
ok, lets see if that fixed my double posting (fingers, toes, eyes, and legs crossed)
LooHoo, that would be the infamous Triple Lundy dive.
Pachacutec @ 43
someday it would be nice to have a get together of some kind. I would really enjoy meeting the local fdl folks. (And the remote ones too, of course.)
Rayne, you need to thank your maker that you don’t have MR Amway as your Governor. I told you to have faith!
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Hi all,
Scarecrow, Kathryn in MA, and Ryan and I went to a forum that Kerry did this afternoon. He took questions about the war and it was beyond words awful. Then we came back to the house for hot dogs and some major ranting. it may take a while to work that one out of my system.
Personally I’ve written very little since getting close to getting the job I’ll be starting in August. But my last sermon was on the coming American Fascism. Didn’t want to post it for the church folks so did it on my web site instead. I’ve had so much to do lately that writing for my site has been really spare. Hope to get back to doing more come July.
Jane, I sent you an e-mail regarding Charlie Savage.
I realize that the WaPo is not a blog (try as some of them may), but when Dalia’s up with the Testimonial Two Step, it’s worth a read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....inionsbox1
Rayne @ 43
Speaking of which, it should be interesting to see how MyDD fares with their new losses!!!
oddmommy @ 48
We are having a Central Texas FDL picnic soon.
(woohoo) i’m single again
oddmommy, that would be great!
I blog on solar energy, particularly entry level solar, at
http://solarray.blogspot.com and more regularly on solar, books, politics, and policy at http://gmoke.dailykos.com
Hey sailor, thanks for the opportunity to blogwhore here.
Pachacutec @ 42
So - at what point should we tell everyone that hey are our neighbors? I am a NYC person who????
Valley Girl @ 41
I was treated like visiting royalty by the Deaniacs in attendance . HOWARD DEAN SAID HE REALLY LIKED MY SHIRT! I think that’s an important admission, but hey, I’m just a street musician.
“…It was late in the evening, and I blew that room away…”
inaction alert!! no $$ for dems!!
but, on a lighter note, here’s edith piaf singing non, je ne regrette rien.
Doing the heroic and often unpleasant work of keeping up with the GOP PrezCandis: The Right’s Field
I went and saw a friend’s band tonight. They’re from Florida and they’re called The Mayhaws. They’re on tour right now. It was a GREAT show and I highly, highly recommend them:
Jun 17 2007 8:00P BoBo Gallery Asheville, North Carolina
Jun 18 2007 7:00P Acoustic Coffeehouse Johnson City, Tennessee
Jun 21 2007 3:15P Roots are Showing radio show Morrisville, Vermont
Jun 21 2007 7:30P The Bee’s Knees Morrisville, Vermont
Jun 22 2007 2:00P Stay Tuned radio show Portsmouth
Jun 22 2007 8:00P UU Church Haverhill
Jun 23 2007 7:00P
Rimrock’s Tavern Stowe
Jun 25 2007 9:30P
The Cantab Lounge Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jun 26 2007 8:00P The Tritone Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 27 2007 9:00P Cafe Moto Brooklyn, New York
Jun 28 2007 8:00P The Mermaid Inn Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
Jun 30 2007 7:00P White Hawk Music Cafe Goochland, Virginia
Jul 1 2007 3:00P RA Fountain General Store Fountain, North Carolina
Jul 3 2007 12:00P Walk Right In Radio Show Charlottesville, Virginia
Jul 3 2007 10:00P Fellini’s #9 Charlottesville, Virginia
Jul 5 2007 9:30P Poe’s Pub Richmond, Virginia
Jul 6 2007 7:30P First Friday for Folk Music Savannah, Georgia
Jul 14 2007 6:00P Trio at The Mockingbird Havana, Florida
Jul 20 2007 7:00p Shenanigan’s Irish Pub Tallahassee, Florida
Jul 26 2007 8:30P European Street Cafe Jacksonville
Aug 24 2007 7:00P Private Event Tallahassee, Florida
Nov 8 2007 8:00P Riverhawk Music Festival Brooksville, Florida
We are having a Central Texas FDL picnic soon.
That’s fantastic!
Wouldn’t it be cool if people got together for FDL BBQ’s and stuff? I know some MA folks did that last year, with Rots Project. Or at least, they tried to put it together.
Keep those blog hookers, er. . . coming!
So Jane is moving to DC, I’m moving to PA. We’ll be within shouting (and driving) distance.
Meanwhile any FDL folk in Portland OR? I’m heading there monday for a week.
Twisted Martini @ 47
Thank mom and dad? I think not. ;-)
It took more than faith; it took beating him back with his corruption during one of the debates (GO JENNY!!) and it took a big dose of humor.
If you weren’t following along with the Disembodied Head of Dick DeVos, you missed the best part of the race! What a hoot; I think this guy’s got enormous potential if he can get a crack at another Mormon, I mean, moron not unlike Dick’s Head in a national race…
G’night Firedogs, heading to bed. Gotta sleep off a few V&T’s.
Well cr@p, let me try that again.
I like this:
Bitch Ph.D.
and, of course, this:
The Rude Pundit
and especially this (my Dad’s blog):
Scarabus
Pachacutec @ 63
Some of us have been gathering regularly. When I cook, they come.
Rayne @ 44
as a long time Salon reader, may I ask which one there was yours?
These days, I like Steve Conason, Sidney Blumenthal, and Glenn Greenwald; Joan Walsh (most of the time); whoever does Broadsheet (most of the time). And the war room guys most of the time. And the how the world works dude…..(is Andrew Leonard his name?) though often he’s over my head.
Camille Paglia, though…….GOD! What f*******g rock did they dig her up out of?
Night Twisted M.
I’m just glad he didn’t make the whole state buy overpriced laundry detergent. And I’m glad that he is reduced to peddling same.
jane hamsher @ 15
I’ve heard of hearing voices, but…
;>)
Since I’m a name you can trust to drive up the price of eyebleach stock, I won’t sully Pach’s pristine empenada lovefest with my vulgar trifles.
:)
Dang, I missed Jane, Pach, and TRex while rebooting :(
Good night Mr Martini
Suzanne @ 54
Congratulations!
I meant JOE Conason. Senior moment…..
Well, I have to say that in addition to FDL, I ALWAYS read Howie Klein’s and keninny’s posts at DWT. http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/
Obviously, DWT is not exactly unknown to FDL readers. But, it may not be a major stop in the blogging world. Sure is for me. These guys are both great writers. And, I know for sure that keninny graduated college the exact same year that I did, and suspect that Howie is close in that grad date. Thus, they use words and language that derive from the same cultural surroundings and times as mine. Not to mention an unaccountably similar political perspective ;).
i”m still here, but I my spidey sense tells me Jane has crashed for the night.
Sorry, Pach, thought I had missed all 3 of you in the eternity it took to reboot.
I’m here, but I’m about to go take some laundry out of they dryer and start folding, and maybe iron a shirt to wear to church in the morning.
oddmommy @ 68
Oh no, I wasn’t part of the magazine itself, which all those folks are. In 2002, Salon tried an experiment offering Salon-branded blogs to users who bought Radio Userland blogging app and hosted space on Salon servers. There was nice little community of individuals who gave it a shot for the 4 years they offered this package, but a redesign and a new approach to content blogged by professionals meant that the blogs by individuals had to take a powder.
My blog then and now was Rayne Today; I moved to Blogger after a crash with Radio from which I couldn’t recover. But I moved my blogging just about the time I burnt out on blogging, went dormant for quite a while and I’ve never really gotten the mojo back to blog as regularly as it takes to build traffic.
I also group-blogged at RadioFreeBlogistan, owned and operated by Christian Crumlish; unfortunately that blog is now on deathwatch, since Christian has moved on to new projects and my fellow co-bloggers are likewise preoccupied.
Suzanne did you see the MOD PLEASE note I left on the last thread? Or did some other mod back there?
darkblack, if you’re still here — you might like this one for pretty cool graphics:
The Daily Render
not mine, but I kinda like it :-)
Suzanne @ 78
Eternity has a new meaning…seems like it though, huh?
Cassie, look upthread to the comment by the Lurking Mod.
TheLurkingMod @ 36
Thank you. Do you mind grabbing 52 also. Thank you!
Goodness, did you track mud into the thread, Cassie?
TheLurkingMod @ 36
Psst- Cassie!
Subway Serenade @ 58
Ohhhh!!!! Hearty congrats! You’ve been through some tough times of late, so it must have made you feel good.
I’m proud of the research that was done a year ago for my Blog, which gives the REAL, ACTUAL, explanation for the existence of right-wing Conservatism.
It is very surprising, even shocking.
If you can handle the Truth, check this out:
(warning—If you CAN’T handle the Truth,
don’t go there!)
http://altair44.blogspot.com/2.....html#links
Cassie, lets take this off thread please so we don’t clutter up Pach’s blogwhoring.
I have to say that one person I read whenever she posts is moiv. She writes on reproductive choice issues and no one does it like she does. She tends to post on Kos and Talk2Action.
Here’s her latest.
I highly recommend anything she writes.
Also Fred Clarkson who was one of the founders of Talk2Action. He had a great post on the Mass Marriage triumph and the implications.
For those who care about the religious right wingnuts, that’s a great site for getting the inside scoop of what they are up to and what it means.
TRex @ 86
Just said something I wasn’t supposed to.
TRex @ 80
Watch out for the Head Usher, TRex.
Well, it’s not really blog-related, but we’ve had some nutcase posting incomprehensible rants on our IMC and I finally decided to call him out on it. (The IMC is down at the moment, but it’s here) I wrote a post with his name in the title and then when he didn’t pick up on it for a day, I had a buddy of mine write him “Yo. someone’s dissin’ you man!” and then had him give the guy the link. Very, very weird conversation. Guy has some really, really strange theory about the 1991 Gulf War. What it would mean even if it were true is not at all clear.
Anyway, I took the approach suggested by Miss Manners. When a kid wants to interrupt the party, ask the child to speak clearly. Listen to the child carefully and then react appropriately. It works quickly and if it was something important, you will have gotten the message. So far, the guy has dropped out of the conversation, but hasn’t tried to post any more rants. (Fingers crossed)
RevDeb @ 91
That’s a good point. If you have, perchance, favorite dkos diarists, by all means, bring them in and swap their fluids.
It’s MCC, so you may have a point.
Peterr @ 93
Er, watch out for TRex when he’s kneeling.
Must run, working tomorrow. Good night all!
How’s things going Cassie? Finding some new friends to hang out with —face to face?
g’nite LL. sleep well.
“Swap their fluids” Pach? Getting a little personal are we?
RevDeb @ 99
No but I am seeing old friends face to face.
In spite of the prevailing bordello atmosphere on this thread, I’m going to refrain from saying something vurrrrry tacky right now.
Night LL.
Rayne @ 81
ooooh. Thanks for ’splainin. I didn’t know about any of that.
TRex @ 103
Really?
What’s gotten into you?
Pachacutec @ 106
Must of been something he ate.
Sigh.
Precious little lately.
A favorite site of mine . . . Angry Black Bitch.
Oh, can that girl snark!
Pach, perhaps TRex is behaving now to get in the proper mindset for church in the morning (and avoiding that whole guilty conscious about Saturday nite while in church Sunday morning).