Never one to pass up a tradition started by others that requires next to no work on my part, I though I'd join the multitudes in the blogosphere who enjoy Friday Catblogging.
Here is Karina, who rules the lap with an iron fist and gravelly tongue:
For today's concert clip, we'll take the easy way out and go with my favorite song of the year (at least, I heard it first this year), "Not a Crime ", by Gogol Bordello (h/t Atrios for the vid). Their live show is utterly insane, and let's face it, how many other gypsy punk bands are there? |
BTW, if you haven't heard of it, check out the incomparable Archive.org music library for over 35,000 free, completely legal concert recordings (thx Alex for reminding me).
Ok, the title is ripped off from Colbert, but it seemed appropriate. If you look to your right, you will likely see a mouse and a mousepad. Look less to your right, so your eyes still have the monitor in view. Over in the righthand column, there are a bunch of links to other blogs. As a blog, we have the blogospheric responsibility to link to blogs, blog about blogs, and especially to link to blogs blogging about other blogs and their links. Anyway, to save you some trouble, I will begin a multipart series describing what each of those websites is like, since clicking on each one in turn would take at least three minutes of your time, if not a full five minutes. Ahh, but where to start. The obvious choice is the biggest blog out there (Daily Kos), but I'll start with the one I've linked to the most so far, which is undoubtedly Eschaton, by Atrios, a.k.a. Duncan Black, who sat in front of me at a Gogol Bordello show in Philadelphia. Did I mention the show was insane?
Anyway, Eschaton is one of the biggest liberal blogs out there, certainly in the top five in terms of overall traffic. This may seem strange at first, since Atrios doesn't actually say all that much, often content to limit himself to a snarky comment and a link, like this, or even just a comment with no link at all. Keep up with him (he has 10-20 short posts per day), and you will find that beyond just being incredibly sarcastic, he has extremely good political instincts, links to every major happening in politics in a given day, and dispenses less BS than just about anyone else around. My esteemed colleague may worry about empty lefty rhetoric, but I would argue a quick read will show how much more actual content there is in Eschaton's snark than in much of what passes for news.
Recurring themes include Friday Catblogging, the always fun "wanker of the day", and late night links to cool youtube videos. More recent recurring themes include calls for a "blogger ethics panel" when journalists are guilty of the same low standards that they always accuse bloggers of having, finding examples of "journamalism" where the mainstream media just basically punts their credibility, and my personal favorite, actually writing down the lengths of time various pundits and politicians claim are crucial for determining the fate of Iraq, and then calling them on it when these periods expire. This latter item has led to the introduction of the "Friedman Unit", or F.U., named after Tom Friedman of the NYTimes, who said "the next six months are crucial" every six months from November 2003 until this past May! Suffice it to say, when I grow up, I want to be like Einstein, but if I ended up like Atrios I'd be pretty happy anyway.
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2 comments:
You forgot the Biden Shot (BS).
I also forgot simple answers to simple questions, a format that I love for it's sheer obnoxiousness, as in the most recent example:
Ezra asks:
When will the media realize Bush doesn't care what they think, cease talking about what he should do, and begin, relentlessly and mercilessly, talking about what he is doing?
Never.
This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
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