"The bandarlog" is baa's blog. He gave me a quiz a long time ago about what I find funny; he and I agreed on Chris Rock (and other things, as I recall).
Speaking of "funny"... or, I guess I should say, not so much "funny" as "so scarily over the top and self-parodical that it must be funny even though you just can't bring yourself to laugh." That kind of funny.
Doubt away, I don't care. I was genuinely looking for Alameida, am not a regular reader of Unfogged, and hadn't seen her posting in a while, so I checked here.
Not that I know of any other identity she might post under, given her anonymity, but if you did, and read the current top post on another blog where she posts, it might tell you that she's on vacation.
Not necessarily. Someone who had a policy of only reading posts authored by alemeida, rather than a co-blogger, wouldn't know where she was. That would be a weird policy, but a possible one.
In fact, alameida fan did not say anything false (unless you consider the implicit claim to be an Alameida fan)--it's just that if he (?) were a real fan, he'd have known the answer to the question he asked.
Damn. You win -- I was addressing a.f.'s implication, rather than his words. Of course (perking up), his words are false on their face, unless you're prepared to accept that all else is as dross. Given that the Cuban sandwich I just ate was indubitably not as dross, you lose again!
I certainly wasn't claiming that my sandwich was better than Alameida, only that it was not as dross compared to her postings. Dross doesn't have roast pork and ham.
Despite my flippant tone, it wasn't a pleasure trip, alas. My father-in-law was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer last week, and we made a trip to see him before he starts on chemo. The prognosis is better than I had gathered before we left, but it still isn't good.
Thanks mike. I know there's a relative dearth of cubans and their sandwiches in Sarasota, but in visits past I've usually been able to scrounge one up. The genius who can someday advance sandwich technology to include a third type of pork--perhaps bacon?--in a single sandwich shall win my eternal admiration.
Well you know, if I've been missing the fourth(!) blog at which she posts, you could just, um, answer my first question and tell me where she's posting.
Hey, alameida fan. Go to each of the three blogs at which she posts, and read the first sentence of the top post at each. Time-saving hint: you can start at her first, home blog.
Well, no, the point of her posting here is that it's not associated with any of the other places she posts. At her first blog, her home blog, if you like, there's a post up top *right now* that explains why she hasn't been posting.
At least you like Chris Rock.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:52 AM
Come on, that first cartoon has "Bandarlog" written all over it!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:54 AM
Some of them in the past have been ok.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:56 AM
I liked the first one best, in fact!
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 10:06 AM
I can't follow the comments. But those drawings, they are funny.
Posted by Claudia | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 10:20 AM
"The bandarlog" is baa's blog. He gave me a quiz a long time ago about what I find funny; he and I agreed on Chris Rock (and other things, as I recall).
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 10:23 AM
Generally, our senses of humor were aligned. Except that ogged found sick children funny.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 10:28 AM
Not as funny as dead puppies, however.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 10:30 AM
Since you bring it up, aren't the original Bandarlog not particularly nice?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 10:40 AM
Correct! They are filthy, jeering apes with no memory or accountability.
More here
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 11:13 AM
Where's alameida gone to? She hasn't posted at her other blog(s), and all else is as dross.
Posted by alameida fan | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 11:24 AM
the cartoons are great. the marketing-speak between them is insufferable.
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 11:24 AM
Yeah, I don't read the marketing speak.
Alameida fan, I'm doubting your fandom.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 11:25 AM
I agree with the second part...of 13.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 11:30 AM
Speaking of "funny"... or, I guess I should say, not so much "funny" as "so scarily over the top and self-parodical that it must be funny even though you just can't bring yourself to laugh." That kind of funny.
Posted by Walter Sobchak | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 11:50 AM
Alameida fan, I'm doubting your fandom.
Doubt away, I don't care. I was genuinely looking for Alameida, am not a regular reader of Unfogged, and hadn't seen her posting in a while, so I checked here.
Posted by alameida fan | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:14 PM
I'm doubting because there was a post up at one of her other blogs that explains why she hasn't been posting.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:15 PM
Not that I know of any other identity she might post under, given her anonymity, but if you did, and read the current top post on another blog where she posts, it might tell you that she's on vacation.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:16 PM
There's a specific reason for the doubt. In particular, something you said is plainly false.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:17 PM
Not necessarily. Someone who had a policy of only reading posts authored by alemeida, rather than a co-blogger, wouldn't know where she was. That would be a weird policy, but a possible one.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:19 PM
Yes, I am humbled. I had forgotten who wrote the post on the other blog explaining where she was.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:21 PM
In fact, alameida fan did not say anything false (unless you consider the implicit claim to be an Alameida fan)--it's just that if he (?) were a real fan, he'd have known the answer to the question he asked.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:23 PM
Hey! No fair retracting before I correct you!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:23 PM
Bow before my superior nitpicking speed!
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:24 PM
No, you didn't nitpick the same thing I did. You said "not necessarily false," I said "definitely not false." Boo-yah!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:28 PM
You'd think that with The Blogger With Ovaries out of the house, this place would go to the roosters quick. Not so much though.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:31 PM
Damn. You win -- I was addressing a.f.'s implication, rather than his words. Of course (perking up), his words are false on their face, unless you're prepared to accept that all else is as dross. Given that the Cuban sandwich I just ate was indubitably not as dross, you lose again!
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:32 PM
(Matt, please don't be funny when I have a mouthful of beverage. Thanks.)
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:34 PM
I think 'as dross' is contextually determined. Compared to Alameida, even your Cuban sandwich is as dross. Is it not so?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:34 PM
28: When did I say anything funny?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:35 PM
I don't know about that. It was a pretty good sandwich. Does Alameida come with pickles?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:36 PM
Depends on how you use them. ATM. (Take that, 26!)
Posted by Who, me? | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:38 PM
Unpickled cucumbers are more traditional, I thought.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:39 PM
Not so limp, certainly.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:41 PM
(30: The nitpick wit was on a slow burn until your boo-yah, which boosted it enough to catalyze trans-nostril fluid dynamics.)
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 12:51 PM
Well, there's the classic argument that a Cuban sandwich is better than Alameida.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 1:56 PM
Cubans are a tough and resilient people; I can't imagine they'd make very good sandwiches.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 1:58 PM
What argument is that?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 2:01 PM
Nothing is better than Alameida.
A Cuban sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, a Cuban sandwich is better than Alameida.
(Doesn't that come out as sound in Heidegger's system?)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 2:04 PM
I certainly wasn't claiming that my sandwich was better than Alameida, only that it was not as dross compared to her postings. Dross doesn't have roast pork and ham.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 2:06 PM
36/38/39 make it seem like you guys are some vaudeville comedy team. Which isn't so innacurate, I suppose.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 3:04 PM
Y'know, I was just in Florida for three days, and I didn't manage to one stinking Cubano. Dammit.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 7:46 PM
Chopper- you were in town, and you didn't stop by to say 'hi'? I'm offended!
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 8:12 PM
mike -- didn't realize you were a Sarasotan.
Despite my flippant tone, it wasn't a pleasure trip, alas. My father-in-law was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer last week, and we made a trip to see him before he starts on chemo. The prognosis is better than I had gathered before we left, but it still isn't good.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 8:38 PM
Sorry to hear it, Chopper. Best to your family.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 8:40 PM
Thanks, ogged.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 8:41 PM
Chopper, not a whole lot Cubans in Sarasota, at least not compared to this side of the peninsula.
I'm sorry to hear about your father-in-law- best to him and all of you.
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 8:49 PM
Thanks mike. I know there's a relative dearth of cubans and their sandwiches in Sarasota, but in visits past I've usually been able to scrounge one up. The genius who can someday advance sandwich technology to include a third type of pork--perhaps bacon?--in a single sandwich shall win my eternal admiration.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 8:59 PM
Well you know, if I've been missing the fourth(!) blog at which she posts, you could just, um, answer my first question and tell me where she's posting.
Posted by alameida fan | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:31 PM
Hey, alameida fan. Go to each of the three blogs at which she posts, and read the first sentence of the top post at each. Time-saving hint: you can start at her first, home blog.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:34 PM
Well, no, the point of her posting here is that it's not associated with any of the other places she posts. At her first blog, her home blog, if you like, there's a post up top *right now* that explains why she hasn't been posting.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:35 PM
You owe me a coke.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:35 PM
Alameida fan will give it to you.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06-23-05 9:39 PM
Well, I'm just stupid then, and I'll cop to it.
Posted by alameida fan | Link to this comment | 06-24-05 3:50 PM