Guessing competition
Posted by Ken Parish on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
I ducked over to The Spin Starts Here just now to see if Caz and the crew had blogged a satisfyingly vicious coverage of the Logie awards. But disappointingly, they’ve fallen down on the job and spared the TV Week extravaganza, Rove’s “F” word and all.
Nevertheless, apparently Caz has drawn the unwelcome attentions of another unnamed ozplogger:
Over the weekend we seem to have annoyed another Australian blogger who has sent me two emails telling me how to run this site. I will not divulge his name or the name of his site at this stage, but needless to say I was pretty riled up by his audacity to write in and tell me what to do. …
I talk to my friends on the telephone. You might do that too. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to like what I have to say when I do it. This isn’t any different. So why should we pretend that blogging is some sort of elite brotherhood? It’s not. There’s 200 million of the fucking things out there. …
Some bloggers do blog for one another, and hey, that’s their thing. They write about each other often, and we do not. That’s our thing. Although not everyone is happy that we don’t constantly do a link-fest and shout-out to other bloggers and blow smoke up their arses every other day. Boo fucking hoo. …
Actually, Caz was remarkably gentle on her anonymous blogging email correspondent. Makes me wonder … Who was the goose who preached restraint and camaraderie to Caz? It may be the ultimate oxymoron. Anyone care to make a guess?
PS - Mark Bahnisch’s photoshopped cat by popular demand.
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C’mon Ken – a fox smells his own smell first.
Posted on 04-May-05 at 10:41 pm | PermalinkFX
Even if I was quite that stupid, I’m an inveterate coward.
Posted on 04-May-05 at 10:50 pm | PermalinkI’m still chuckling over the mystery attack blogger’s remark that
“Shelly is an entertainment reviewer turned journalist…”
“I’m not a stripper, I’m a ecdysiast! So there!”
Posted on 04-May-05 at 11:11 pm | PermalinkSure as hell wasn’t me- I had enough yahoos trying to tell me what the fuck I can post and link to have the time to be going all supervisory on anyone else. I trust the miscreant in question has extensive testicular insurance.
Posted on 04-May-05 at 11:21 pm | PermalinkNot Mark, surely…..?
Posted on 05-May-05 at 12:58 am | PermalinkI thought Mark got his pop-culture blogging from Ausculture?
Posted on 05-May-05 at 1:18 am | PermalinkYou have to be truly insensitive to try and “advise” the Spin. After all. the whole point of the thing is that you get the viper not the bosom.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 3:24 am | PermalinkYou’re all wrong. It was Andrew Bartlett!
Actually it wasn’t. I’d have named and shamed him for sure.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 11:03 am | PermalinkBut what if Andrew Bartlett was using a false name to throw you off?
Posted on 05-May-05 at 11:34 am | PermalinkRob, no, not me.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 12:14 pm | PermalinkYou all jumped on my bandwagon, anyway, and my horse is feeling the pinch. GET OFF!
(Joke.)
Posted on 05-May-05 at 12:36 pm | PermalinkEvilPundit, I suggest you cease and disist now before I publish all those emails where you berated me for not having enough photoshopped cats on my site.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 1:11 pm | Permalink*guilty silence*
Posted on 05-May-05 at 6:10 pm | PermalinkThere can never be enough cats on a blog. Oops!
Posted on 05-May-05 at 7:15 pm | PermalinkStar moles are better.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 8:33 pm | PermalinkIs that really your cat Mark? I got an Orange Cat too!
Posted on 05-May-05 at 8:37 pm | PermalinkSadly, Francis, living in a second floor apartment doesn’t give me much scope to have a cat.
I think what Ken has posted is a portrait of EP.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 8:39 pm | PermalinkNope – too good looking, well groomed and bright(ish) for EP.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 9:23 pm | PermalinkI’m going to take a stab in the dark and say it was Darp.
Posted on 05-May-05 at 11:34 pm | PermalinkDefinitely Niall.
Posted on 06-May-05 at 1:19 am | PermalinkI confess. It was me!
Posted on 06-May-05 at 11:07 am | Permalink