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January 20, 2006
Let them eat cake
Time for a piece of cake with that free ice cream and my quarterly notice about owing you something. Funny thing about "the internet": you just cannot please everybody. It turns out I am someone's biggest disappointment of (the second half of) 2005.
Let's see... of the almost 40 posts up on my main page at the time I write this I count between 4 and 7 posts that might fall into the Hollywood stars category depending on whether tv shows fit the bill. I see a post on an archaeological find at Hatteras Island, one about an 18th century Chinese carpentry grimoire, a piece on social network software and street traffic in Cambridge, a satirical piece on the new CBC logo (linked by the National Post's Andrew Coyne, thank you very much) and an homage to a '70s Japanese tv version of Spiderman. There is quite a bit about Kate Beckinsale's ass* but frankly if you do not share this little enthusiasm you should read elsewhere as I am unlikely to tire of it.
Oh yes, and a sidebar that used to have a link to someone who wrote and asked me to do him a favour by adding him to the blogroll. I did so despite the fact I get such requests all the time, did not know him and had never heard of his blog. This is a bit thin-skinned of me, I realize, but it is a bit much to go begging for a link then issue a public denunciation six months later. But then I have been told what happens when you do people favours: you get shat upon from a great height. Or a very small height as the case may be.
*Tomorrow's lead feature? Kate Beckinsale's ass.
Billy Goat Gruff Update: There are trolls and then there is the troll Fred Kiesche had to do with. Like, a super-troll or something.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 20, 2006 08:57 AM
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Having perused the source of the quote, I wouldn't be making for the window ledge just yet. And no animal subsists on the same diet day in & day out; some days it's meat & potatoes, other days it's 100% junk
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at January 20, 2006 12:11 PM
I could care less if this guy thinks I am writing junk food. In fact, I would be quite happy to write junk food whether he thought it or not. What I care about is this little pissant asking for a favour and then deciding his admiration sets my editorial policy. He has every right not to enjoy what I am doing but no right whatsoever to feel "disappointed" I am not the man he was sucking up to six months ago.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at January 20, 2006 12:16 PM
I miss the ancient history too, to be truthful. But there are much bigger and much more disappointing fish to fry, really. Like Canadian parliamentarians, in general. Or the utter lack of any nascent Ontario separatism movement. Why should Quebec and Alberta get all the fun? Aren't we the economic engine that powers this wealth-redistribution machine? Why don't we get to take our ball and go home, like the other provinces.
Posted by: Chris Taylor at January 20, 2006 02:43 PM
I have avoided writing about the Canadian election through a combination of vexation and boredom. Perhaps there is a German word for that combination of feeling. But I am in complete agreement about the need for an Ontario separatist movement. In fact, I think a Toronto separatist movement would be even better.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at January 20, 2006 03:02 PM
You've probably given him more traffic now than he's ever gotten before or ever will again.
This isn't the first time that he's told other bloggers what they should or shouldn't be writing or found fault with other's content when his own blog is as slow and boring as tax preparation...
There are only two words that should be directed his way...
Posted by: Raging Kraut at January 20, 2006 04:52 PM
oh...this is the mondo-coolest culture blog in the western world.
where else would i get my Cthulhu fix and have found that perfect harajuku lovers hoodie with the cunning kitty ears?
that guy is uncool and a lamentable waste of spacetime.
what do you care about what he thinks?
Posted by: matoko kusanagi at January 22, 2006 12:10 AM
If it's any consolation, I've been disappointed in you since about 2004 or so.
Posted by: Bill from INDC at January 22, 2006 04:15 AM
If you need a Cthulhu fix you could always try my short stories on Temple of Dagon.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at January 23, 2006 07:27 AM
domo arigato gozaimasen, andrew. ;)
Posted by: matoko kusanagi at January 23, 2006 10:48 AM
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