the cheat sheet is a bunch of crap though. It doesn't mention fafblog, and the blog it does list as the "funny blog" is not in fact funny. And we all know that Yglesias is a hack who can't spell -- we should all be reading Tom Hilde.
I'm guessing that, among the many surprising things that blogging has done for Yglesias, getting him a mention in Playboy has to be the most surprising. Probably helps with the ladies, though.
One more thing. How did the Yglesias-Kaus smackdown fail to merit a mention in this space? This is not only an Yglesias fansite, but an Yglesias fansite run by an avowed Kaus apologist. How could that one pass by without comment?
I'm a Kaus apologist too! Otherwise I wouldn't argue with him. He's totally wrong about that whole union thing, though. I do, however, heartily recommend his book.
He can't still coast on that. That's like recommending the Violent Femmes' eighth album because "Add It Up" rocked. (Note: While in Milwaukee I saw the VF's drummer play an improv-jazz show in a tiny club that was really quite good.)
"Give Me the Car" is on the same album as "It Does not Mean a Thing If It Does Not Have that Swing," "I am not misbehaving," and "I Want To Be Sedated," right? (Joke courtesy Rlz Chast.)
the cheat sheet is a bunch of crap though. It doesn't mention fafblog, and the blog it does list as the "funny blog" is not in fact funny. And we all know that Yglesias is a hack who can't spell -- we should all be reading Tom Hilde.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 3:35 PM
Unfogged was the pornographically minded Yglesias fansite long before Playboy came on the scene.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 3:59 PM
We were even supposed to have our own pinup girl, but that seems to have been a tease.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:01 PM
But someone is serious about the job.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:05 PM
And I'm serious about playing in the NBA.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:07 PM
y duz cpt's Qt's hve uh pik of Michael Moore? ah don gt it.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:33 PM
tho ah Do appcte the pik of the almst-nkd fml jxtpsd wth teh blog ttle, "hit & run".
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:35 PM
nix six
Posted by Mchl | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:36 PM
I'm guessing that, among the many surprising things that blogging has done for Yglesias, getting him a mention in Playboy has to be the most surprising. Probably helps with the ladies, though.
One more thing. How did the Yglesias-Kaus smackdown fail to merit a mention in this space? This is not only an Yglesias fansite, but an Yglesias fansite run by an avowed Kaus apologist. How could that one pass by without comment?
Posted by pjs | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 4:58 PM
How did the Yglesias-Kaus smackdown fail to merit a mention in this space?
It was a smackdown about the Davis-Bacon Act. Why didn't the apostropher mention it?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 5:02 PM
By the way, your use of "apologist" has been noted in the building.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 5:02 PM
It would have been gratuitous.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 5:26 PM
I'm a Kaus apologist too! Otherwise I wouldn't argue with him. He's totally wrong about that whole union thing, though. I do, however, heartily recommend his book.
Posted by Matthew Yglesias | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 6:01 PM
Is that book the End of Equality, which I understand to have been written before Kaus decided his God-given purpose was to be pointlessly annoying?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 7:56 PM
Blogs got a mention on Gilmore Girls tonight.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 8:37 PM
You haven't seen that Hilary Duff movie yet, have you?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 8:41 PM
Are you implying that Hillary Duff and TV's answer to 1930s screwball comedy are on the same level?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 8:46 PM
No, HD was there first.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 8:53 PM
I know. I'm just sensitive to GG slights.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 8:57 PM
Last week's "mp3 device" bit was funny.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 9:08 PM
Yeah, The End of Equality.
Posted by Matthew Yglesias | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 10:15 PM
He can't still coast on that. That's like recommending the Violent Femmes' eighth album because "Add It Up" rocked. (Note: While in Milwaukee I saw the VF's drummer play an improv-jazz show in a tiny club that was really quite good.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 10:20 PM
The Violent Femmes' eighth album is a live set with Add It Up on it.
Kaus still sucks, though.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 10:44 PM
Not if you count compilations, he says desperately.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-27-05 10:49 PM
Probably the Yglesias-shortness rumors were by analogy to Kaus.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-28-05 6:03 AM
I intend to use "Give Me the Car" by the VF when I have to explain to my daughter why boys are not to be trusted.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-28-05 7:52 AM
"Give Me the Car" is on the same album as "It Does not Mean a Thing If It Does Not Have that Swing," "I am not misbehaving," and "I Want To Be Sedated," right? (Joke courtesy Rlz Chast.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-28-05 7:59 AM
Your mother is so obese, that when she has the occasion to recline around her abode, she reclines around her abode!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-28-05 8:11 AM
Your mother is so obese, that when she has occasion to recline around her abode, she reclines around her abode!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-28-05 8:11 AM
Oops.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-28-05 8:12 AM
Hey, here's another blog arrival indicator. It's a business case about what to do about an indiscrete blogger within a company.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 09-29-05 10:19 PM
Hello,
Have a nice day, vhtram
Posted by vhtram | Link to this comment | 10- 5-05 2:37 AM