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March 07, 2007
Welcome Jewcy readers
Michael Weiss (no relation to either me or my brother) threw our blog into the Movable Snipe bullpen this week with James Wolcott, Matt Yglesias, Hit & Run, and Design Observer, as snipe targets for John Derbyshire and Daphne Merkin. Who seem resentful and enervated by the whole thing.
So if you want to read snipes by Merkin (who doesn't read blogs) and Derbyshire (who does blog at the Corner, one of my daily reads):
Derbyshire
Merkin
Merkin
You can also go over there and, um, engage with them.
Reason snipes back.
Daphne already thinks we are tedious neocon policy wonks, and I am going to drive the nail in the coffin of our reputation by reminding our readers that we do like Mike Weiss of Snarksmith - the instigator of this blogsnipefest - because we run into him at Christopher Hitchens debates and because he organized the Denmark Solidarity Rally, oh, just about a year ago.
We have pix and reporting of that event here, here, here, here, here, and here.
And more on the rallies in other cities: Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, London (with the best t-shirt)
And lots on the Motoon controversy itself here, here, here, here, here,here, here, and here.
Yes, that's how wonky we are. 20 posts on the Danish Mohammed Kartoon Kontroversy.
We are getting some traffic from this blog mashup, so what the hey.
PS We also like Nick Gillespe because he was also a fan of Steven Vincent and linked to our blogburst commemoration of the first anniversary of Vincent's murder. And we might like John Derbyshire if he gives Cryptonomicon a good review.
Judith | 03/07/07 at 08:47 PM | Categories: - Around the blogosphere
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We love you KT, despite your being collectively on the weird side of flaky. But I must confess that when I read the second Malkin snipe I felt that Van's unique sense of, um, humour had been nailed. Some of Van's pieces I like a lot, but some do seem peculiarly pointless, like the one cited.
Still, 10/10 for linking to the pieces.
Wow, Freudian slip there. For "Malkin" read "Merkin".
One trusts this Merkin is phthalate free....
Every time I see Daphne's name I am remided of its definition:
mer·kin /ˈmɜrkən/ Pronunciation[mur-kuhn]
–noun
false hair for the female pudenda.
[Origin: 1610–20; orig. uncert.]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Isn't that about the silliest thing you have ever heard?
Robert Schwartz | March 7, 2007 10:31 PM
So Rob didn't like Sondheim meets South Park, and neither did Daphne. But you both read it, and Daphne applied her powerful, biting New York intellect to the piece. And Rob commented on Daphne's comment about my comment about my son's comment on "Blame Canada," which commented on timeless political issues.
My final comment: the piece succeeded because people read it and had something to say about it. I'd rather be reviled than ignored.
And I commented on Daphne's post explaining the background on Shmoikel.
I thought Daphne might warm up to my Dangerous Dildos post, but there's no accounting for the public's taste.
LOL Robert
Alcibiades | March 8, 2007 12:27 AM
Van - no comment (:>)
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