I’m finishing off my complimentary bag of blended dark and medium roast coffee beans from Boca Java, pungently labeled “Blogs of Bravery, the Real Story in Real Time.” Reminds me of the meter of “Sports Racer, What’s your power move?”
Why do the romantic rightists take all the cool blog names? Boots and Sabers… Captain’s Quarters… American Soldier… okay, that last one is an appropriately titled milblog, but still… Occam’s Toothbrush… I wish the left had that kind of inspiration… Power Line… not a left wing blog…
While the left wallows in deep introspection and self improvement, the right advances along a broad rhetorical front that includes claiming the right to be as insulting as necessary to make a point. And yet Ad Hominem, a blog that rightfully should belong to one side or another in the culture wars, belongs instead to the cultured voice of none-other than the Updike character of choice: Rabbit Frenzy.
So perhaps this attempt to read significance into the titles chosen by bloggers is no more than a caffeine fueled conceit. Click the link on the right, order up, and get me some more free coffee. Please.
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Brian 05.15.06 at 6:42
Why do the romantic rightists take all the cool blog names?
Reminds me of Tucker Carlson: “Liberals used to be funny. They edited magazines like National Lampoon. They had a claim on cool. Then something happened. They became sour and earnest and neurotic about secondhand smoke.”
Blue is the new black he went on to misquote. Perhaps “Progressives” are the new Eisenhower Republicans i.e.. the squares?
Cool baby, flip my lid and play the funky jazz, man.
J. Alva Scruggs 05.15.06 at 9:37
The National Lampoon has always been a pot-smoking, soft porn lovin’ genteel bigot’s magazine and Tucker Carlson wears a polka dotted bow tie.
Brian 05.15.06 at 11:28
“genteel bigot”? Heck I just liked it for the funny. Now I go and find out I was a genteel bigot? Dadgum.
J. Alva Scruggs 05.15.06 at 11:39
If it’s any comfort, I liked it too at one point. Their misanthropic national perversions special, sometime back in the early seventies, was very funny. I still think much of the British elite’s poilitical thinking can be explained by their fondness for being spanked.
It was dead by the eighties, however, when the right wing affection for cruel practical jokes gave us ketchup as vegetable and a vegetable as a president. And bow ties, Brian. Can you forgive the bow ties? I can’t.
Tamar 05.15.06 at 12:42
Hey Frank,
My Boca Java arrived today along with biscotti and a couple of cool looking (and I hope tasting) cookies!
But mainly the mug arrived. I LOVE it! It says:
“Always blog on a full tank.”
Am thrilled to bits. I feel … er … ever so … techno-tam!
Ken Camp 05.16.06 at 3:18
Even though I live in Starbucks backyard these days, I’ve always been a big fan of Boca Java.
Winston 05.17.06 at 5:24
Seeing your link to Occam’s Toothbrush (coolest name ever for any blog - give them the razor, they’ll buy the toothbrush, or something like that) I jumped to it thinking they were back. Alas, nothing since last summer… What is it with some people?