I'll take the bathtub full of ice too

[substitute]

As Bob Trout once said about a similar gathering of people: “I’ll be there all right. I’ll be there with five gallons of fucking gas and some duct tape!”

http://www.theregister.com/content/6/32315.html



It’s the old Who’s Who scam with a new twist. You’re important! You have been selected as an important blogger! You can be together with other important people for only $500! And who knows. If this thing goes big, you could end up on the MONEY TRUCK.

Every dot-com marketing shit who didn’t get on that money truck in time before. Roomfuls of aging digerati wearing Those Glasses and exchanging buzzwords. An entirely misplaced sense of importance. A thin, cracking veneer of respectable, socially responsible “community”.

We’re a meme! We’re viral! We’re the blogosphere! We’re cutting-edge! We’re digerati!

No. You’re just greedy, self-important assholes.

Comments

Viral

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

It's like these people want Freshman Comp to last forever.

Re: Viral

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

Heaven forfend. That sucked enough the first time around.

Re: Viral

[jwz.livejournal.com]

substitute: sign me up for the tub full of ice too.
marm0t: dammit! I wish I had thought of using that for a user pic!

Re: Viral

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

It's not too late! Though I've been thoroughly enjoying your personal-injury montage.

[odradak.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that Bob needs his own journal a la HeMan. Accident Bob could show up occasionally as a sidekick.

Hey! They could SOLVE CRIMES!

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

"He's a CHIMP! She's the POPE! Together they FIGHT CRIME!"

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

HE's an aging veteran with a felonious past!
HE's an accident-prone motorcycle mechanic with a crippled hand!
They fight crime!

[frobisher.livejournal.com]

From Hell!

And then they lez it up!

[and if you know why I'm saying all that, well, be frightened]

[polycat.livejournal.com]

the only thing worse than asshat bloggers are comic book dudes who think it's an original conceit to write novels on blogs.