Yet Another Logo From The Masters Of The Blogosphere...

Well, it's been a quiet Sunday.

Muffy's on the way back from visiting her mother in Pittsburgh, Ronald and Nancy are snoozing on their sofas (each has one), and I've spent the last four hours plowing through the preparation of year end payroll reports for all those clients I was supposed to lose back in November. Actually, I picked up a new client last week...

So much for poverty and disgrace.

But now that's done with and I'm ready to relax with some Mighty Mighty Bosstones on the stereo (real loud) and the caffiene buzz acquired from the 24 oz. of espresso I've consumed over the past three hours. The combination seems to suggest about 30 minutes of my patented Curly Howard Aerobic Dancing in furtherance of my goal of dropping 40 lbs. of fat ass this year.

But first thre are several matters to attend to...

From the Department of Bizarre Turns Department:

James Wolcott, who I once compared to Yabba the Hut at this site, has linked me (again). And quoted me. Evidently he actually reads this blog, because I'm referred to as a " delightful, calorie-counting scamp". As a fat, middle-aged, Republican from flyover territory, about the last thing I expected in life was for someone like Wolcott to consider me either "delightful" or a "scamp".

On top of that, at least one of the writers at Crooked Timber thinks I'm hilarious. That's not quite as surprising as getting love from Wolcott, but it still must be classified as unexpected, to put it mildly.

Then there's Penn State Professor Michael Bérubé vouching for my claim of having "culture out the blowhole". Evidently he reads this blog regularly as well and likes it. He teaches "Multicultural Studies"... which just doesn't have the sound of a subject I'd excel in, if you catch my drift (I am a Republican, after all).

Oh well, I suppose stranger things could happen... perhaps Chernoff and Koshland will call next week and ask me to take over the helm of Pajamas Media and execute a company-saving turnaround.

And speaking of Pajamas Media...

They have yet another logo!

Here it is:

That makes a minimum of three seperate and distinct Pajamas Media logos being used by Raj and the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Actually, if you go to Pajamas Media right now and visit the corner where Raj is hyperventilating about Google's business practices with regards to China, you'll find this logo:

You just can't make this shit up.

For those who just can't get enough of my delightful and hilarious scampiness, drop by tomorrow... I have a post coming on Raj's courageous, moral and principled call for The Free World to divest itself of all stock eminating from the corporate "Axis of Evil" (his term): Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Of course, he doesn't own any to divest, but if he did, by God, he'd divest... maybe.

As an aside, I wonder if any of the Hollywood studios and publishing houses he sells to engage in a bit of editing to placate the political sensibilities of the Chinese government. Think he'll refuse to work for said studios and/or publishing houses to further his noble attempt to bring China's government to its collective (literally) knees?

Update: It seems I started getting love from Duncan Black while writing this bit of scampery. Huh. Well, why not? I mean, after Wolcott, what the fuck, right? Come to think of it, where's the link from KOS? Come on Markos, you're behind the ol' power curve, Big Guy.

More Lefty Love: Picked up traffic from Crooks and Liars... another site that I'd never have thought I'd get a link from. All this Lefty Love would be more disorienting if not for the odd reminder that I am, in truth, the enemy...

From Stephen in the comments section of Crooks and Liars:

Dennis is a good example of people who cannot write coherently and who get lost in a morass of self-referential code-word horseshit. Maybe there's a point somewhere in there but it's not worth the effort to tease it out.

Hey, this ain't "self-referential code-word horseshit", it's 'delightful scampiness'. And don't you forget it. Ask Wolcott if you don't believe me.

More to the point, there was this email from sarah@clarity05.com:

another republican pig. "i've got mine and screw everyone else". selfish rotten ugly brat. love in chirst, sarah

No, it doesn't make much sense and I can't find linkage to anything specific I've said, but it seems pretty clear it is intended to be abuse. Now the world seems a bit more normal...

Comments

[Phoenix Woman]

Hola, Dennis!

Being the liberal that I am, I liked this snippet from your ongoing evisceration of TooStupidToRobRight Media:

Today's clue: Advertisers don't care about the statistics of Blog Readers In General. They want specific demographic information about those people who read your blogs.

Of course, Dennis, we both know why they wouldn't want to provide that sort of information. Let's just say that their readership is not the same as the subscriber list of Barron's. It's probably a lot closer to the list of WWE pay-per-view buyers.

[richard mcenroe]

Phoenix Woman — Then you think they'd want to point that out, cuz them WWE audiences will pay money for ANYTHING.

Dennis — Just cuss out the NSA or a few relief workers and Kos is your bitch, baby!

[Rotwang]

Dennis:

OMIGOD! I just realized you're a conservative, and that you...you...LIKE it!

Damn James Wolcott and the entire traitorous universe of wretched moral-equilibrators who lured me in with their chump-baiting the-enemy-of-my-enemy-has-a-funny-post come-on.

I haven't felt this used since I shelled out 25 bucks for the digitally remastered Surround-Sound CD of John Cage's 4'33".

Curse me unto the seventh generation, and whatnot.

Oh, and rock on. Sorry I didn't realize you were spending the weekend in Pittsburgh. I'd have bought you a shot and a beer! Hope you got everything moved.

[NixonWatch]

Dennis--Indeed, while I have visited your site before, I am today referred by Monseigneur Black.

My soil is poor, my livestock ever-infected, and my lord a cruel tyrant, but as a liberal in search of true conservatives, I'll be back to check on you...thx, Artie Cox

[Fits]

Right on the money about Poodles caterwauling about China deals. Let's see how many advertisers they turn away because of their special ties to the yellow peril.

[MBW]

Last I checked, you'd been nominated for a Koufax in at least a dozen categories. You could be the first delighful Republican scamp to win since...well, ever. And you'll soon fit into that stunning Versace gown for the awards ceremony.

Okay, I'll admit it. I nominated you. I'm have a true DtP addiction.

(Oh, shoot - I'm not allowed to nominate anyone...darn.)

[Loonie Lefty]

Alright, tone down the love fest. I'm getting herpes just reading these comments.

Refreshing to see insightful and witty Conservative commentary, for a change.

[badanov]

Wolcott is a woman-hating wanker.

[Buck]

You know, being admired by lefties means you're objectively pro-terrorist.

[Al Dole]

come on. Don't be coy. Show us YOUR pageviews since those lefty scum started linking to you. Who knows, you might finally get a call from those paradigm shifters at peepeemedia.

[Bane]

Lefty links are like finding leeches on your penis...horrifying, yet oddly stimulating...

[dragonlady474]

Well that's a disturbing mental image lol.

[richard mcenroe]

dragonlady474 — Well, as they used to say at the School of the Americas back in the Panama days, "if you can't shake 'em loose, show 'em off..."

[dragonlady474]

LOL! Accessorize!

[The_Real_JeffS]

Heh. Maybe you'll get an interview request from Maureen Dowd one of these days, Dennis.

[Dave Latchaw]

Many unhinged liberals like myself enjoy snark. While many conservatives attempt snark, the best they can achieve is smirk. Your snark, however, is full of snarky goodness.

[John-Paul Pagano]

Mr. Peasant,

As someone with a visceral disgust for anything associated with that loathsome, nouveau conservative moonbat Charles Johnson, I continue to enjoy your writings on Pajamas Media.

I'll leave the research leg work to someone else, but having once been a semi-regular reader of LGF, I'm fairly sure that Johnson's animus against Google dates nearly exactly from the moment the Google News team declined to include him as one of their news sources. As someone who has experienced the venal, self-promotional nature of the Pajamas leadership, you shouldn't find this surprising.

I'll leave it up to you to ascertain the ratio of righteous anger to phony self-promotion in the Pajamas commentary on Google.

[Bane]

Yeah, just forget all of that pesky censorship and human rights stuff. Darn that Charles Johnson to heck!

[John-Paul Pagano]

Bane,

You know, I remember you. You showed up at my blog over a year ago, and sputtered something about how gays are "yuck". It was illuminating.

A quick look at your blog turned this up:

"Hard for me to get worked up over any raghead dying for any reason, though.

Fukkem all."

I trust you are well-liked over at LGF, and your shilling for Johnson will someday be rewarded.

[Bane]

Sorry, Lib-Dude, never heard of ya. And neither has LGF. Don't go there.

Interesting to see you are pro Al Queda, though. And telling. And you gay guys ARE kinda yucky.

[Bane]

Sorry, your cologne was overpowering...what I meant was 'LGF hasn't heard of me either, I never go there'.

[John-Paul Pagano]

You've "never heard" of me likely because you have the memory (and other intellectual faculties) of a goldfish. Here you go, in response to this post.

I love when you drooling troglodytes talk about LGF as if it's some bit of gang turf in 1970s Compton. "Don't go there, dude. Just stay away."

You began this worthless conversation by lamenting our (and Google's) lack of concern for human rights. In its short course, you have shown yourself to be a real Harriet Tubman in the underground railroad of "yucky" gay and "raghead" defense.

What will they write about you in the local paper when they forklift your 400 pound carcass out of your basement?

[Bane]

That's it? That's all you've got? One word...yuck?

And then you go on to insult our illustrious host with a fattist insult! Shame! Shame!

And as far as being a 'worthless conversation' (an astute self-judgement if I ever saw one) you have invested far more effort than I.

And dammit, I got my stomach turned yet again! Yuck!

Now, take your hatred somewhere else, and quit trolling my blog, banned-boy.

Damned hetero-phobe...

[mememememe]

Hey I don't want to drop any hints or anything, but the ad strips at a lot of the PJ blogs have been totally empty from time to time.

Like at Roger's place right now if you hurry. There's a good 9-10 inches of emptiness before the rest of the frame begins. Other ads appear much lower, but it's obvious that one is missing.

Fish around at other PJ blogs and you'll probably find others.

An indication of a failure to find advertisers?

[Not Me]

right-wing nutjobs :)

[mike]

What gets me is the force field rays coming off the bath robe. They keep changing polarity.

[wellbasically]

Dennis you are coming off as the kook here. What makes you think any of these guys want the site to make money?

You're a doof. Worse, you're a true believer. You don't understand anything about politics or political propaganda and that is why they dumped you.

[richard mcenroe]

Dennis — How hard can writing a movie be if some folks can do it?

Try it yourself

[merlallen]

Wow! wingnuts who can spell!!

[wellbasically]

Charles Johnson and Roger Simon obviously looked at NRO and Tech Central Station and said there is money to be made in this war machine for us too. Dennis says yes, there are so many of us that there must be a way to run this as a business.

The thing is that NRO and Tech Central Station and the Weekly Standard aren't businesses in any strict sense, they get money for printing and publishing war propaganda. Their writers get gigs from the government and billionaire maniacs to do this.

Why would you go to the trouble of dealing with MopNGlo when you can just collect a check from the war machine and you don't actually have to make something that gets people to buy?

Dennis cannot go there because if he did, he would realize that all the bullshit he was reading that comforted his support for Bush and the war on the Muslims was not there because it was true, and not there because Dennis was part of an important demographic of smart people. It was just there to cement his loyalty for the time he was needed.

[knuckledragger]

Speaking of changing logos, anybody remember the new and improved Iraqi flag?

[Republic of Palau]

Hey, I'm a full-on Euroweenie leftist and I read you.

I came for the schadenfreude and stayed for the writing.

[Cameron]

Yeah, I'm an anarcho-lefty who likes your blog, too, Dennis. PJM stuff may have hooked Berube, but it's your hockey comments that reeled him in....

[vaughan]

Perhaps our country can overcome the most pitiable blindness partisanship through snark, collective schadenfreude, the recognition of good writing, open minds, and delight at that cute peasant photo...

[vaughan]

oops, meant "blindless partisanship" above

[Lame Man]

Good writing. Clear thoughts. Honesty. I'm guessing those are the reasons you got the links, not yer ideological/philosphical/political positions.

More importantly, though...
the Bosstones rock.

It sucks they are on hiatus.

[Otto Man]

Speaking of changing logos, anybody remember the new and improved Iraqi flag?

One of the many, many false starts in Operation Awesome Kickass! I can only assume it's in a Baghdad storage facility along with the administration's first choice for viceroy, Jay Garner. Remember him?

[nova silverpill]

dennis, you're on the other end of the ideological ferris wheel than myself, sure, but you're a snarky, funny fucker who shares my appreciation for Gang of Four, the Buzzcocks, and Joy Division.

that trumps whether or not your brethren think liberals are teh evil.

[David N. Scott]

Yea, you commie!

Er, wait.

[Timothy]

Anything the Bosstones did past Let's Face It is crap. And even that wasn't a great album. I will say that Question The Answers is one of the best albums, let alone ska-core albums of all time.

[Jeff Fecke]

Dennis, there are conservatives and there are liberals, but what unites us all as Americans is our high degree of schadenfreude for the disaster of Pajamas Open Source OSM Pajamas Media.