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I’ll make the most of it,
I’m an extraordinary machine
A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. – Alvy Singer
I started blogging back in September of ought-2 (I always wanted the opportunity to use ought-whatever) at the urging of Atrios back when he was still a gym teacher dividing his time between his own blog and posting at Salon’s Table Talk. He kind of showed me the ropes and sent me on my way once I was able to snatch the pixel from his palm. That’s when I became tbogg, which is just a contraction of my first and last name.
Yes, I am Tony Orlando Boggworth-Folderol. That guy. No, not that guy. That other guy. Yeah. Him.
So for years, I was just tbogg, nothing more, nothing less until, somewhere along the line, I may or may not have allegedly made some passing reference to Ann Althouse, who then informed people that I was a "somewhat popular blogger" and, like the "tbogg" from Table Talk, it kinda stuck.
Now being a "somewhat popular blogger" may sound glamorous, but once you get past all of the awards, the leggy supermodels, the MacArthur Genius Grant, and the guest appearance on Joey… it’s pretty much just like your life. If you’re not blowing MacArthur Grant money on coked-up supermodels, that is. Yeah, I’m talking to you, Jim Yong Kim.
Anyway the whole "somewhat popular blogger" thing is pretty played out. Even the baristas at Starbucks are starting to roll their eyes when they call out, " A venti decaf misto with soy for Mr. Big Shot Somewhat Popular Blogger". I really need to move forward. Keep it funky fresh, as they say.
So you can imagine how pleased I was today to see that I have received a free upgrade from JuCo Toynbee, Donald Douglas:
None of this is statistical confirmation for a generalized hypothesis on the hard-left’s secular demonology. But it’s demonstrably clear that folks from top bloggers like Markos Moulitsas and Andrew Sullivan to the nihilists at Sadly No! to TBogg’s demonic conservative ridicule-machine are on an endless quest to destroy their enemies with a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.
"Demonic Conservative Ridicule Machine".
Hmmmm. Maybe:
"Somewhat Popular Demonic Conservative Ridicule Machine"
I like that.
But I’m gonna need a bigger business card.
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You have so arrived, dude.
I think this calls for sterling silver nipple clamps.
You’re hot man, sizzlin’ I mean, just hot-a-tot-a-tot-a-hot.
Then again, everytime you link to him I swing by and attempt to break my world record for vulgar insults contained in one sentence. I’m up to 13.
I’m so old I don’t know what is called for. But whatever it is, DO IT!
Why not take the whole thing (with a few ellipses to keep it as your own)?:
TBogg’s demonic conservative ridicule-machine… on an endless quest to destroy… enemies with a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.
Right, like I could score a hot wife and a place on the beach in San Diego. I’d be lucky to just tread water in your wake, dude. I don’t even have one damn basset. I do have an Ipod, though, so I’m working my way up.
And when he backfires, you want to plug your nostrils!
There’s a new demonic ridicule generator in town and it’s the Sarah Palin baby name generator. It’s become somewhat popular as well, but not as somewhat popular as TBogg.
I think you should combine the two and become somewhat demonically popular.
I am so proud to be but a small cog in the Tbogg Demonic Conservative Ridicule Machine. Please let me tell people I’m a part of this fantastic endeavor because, you know, I know how to type things in the little response box and hit the right button to make it come out in the comments and all. That should count for something. If I wasn’t already retired I’d put that on my resume.
No one ridicules demonic conservatives like you do. It’s like you’re a machine or something.
But why do the posts of yours he links to both have something to do with The Virgin (no more) Ben?
There are those far more Demonic than that…
…a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.
I can see it now in liberal 7-11’s nationwide: DCRM Cola. To the hate and intolerance you’ll want to add some methylxanthines (including caffeine), B vitamins, herbs,guarana, taurine, one or more forms of ginseng, maltodextrin, carbonated water, inositol, carnitine, creatine, glucuronolactone, and ginkgo biloba.
It’ll be Red Bull for people who can read and think.
I am imagining this spoken by the late Dean of Voice-Over Artists, Don LaFontaine.
You rock, Tbogg. When I want clever ripostes, sharp analysis, and basset penises, your blog is the first place I visit.
Keep up the great work!
I remember the Salon Table Talks (the White House threads, no?)… that’s how I found you in the first place.
You had me at hello.
:O)
That’ll teach Donald: don’t let your modifier get all dangly.
Ewwww….. Why’d I do that?
Wooooooohooooooo! No longer shall I be merely GWPDA, yclept Damaged Historian! I am GWPDA, yclept Historian of teh Demonic Conservative Ridicule-Machine.
Ur right, TBogg. Bigger ID Badges for everyone!
Nihilists? Damn. Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.
When your reviews from the hard right includes phrases such as: “demonic conservative ridicule-machine” and “on an endless quest to destroy …. enemies with a venomous brew of hate and intolerance”, well that is high praise indeed.
Obama could learn a thingy or two from tbogg.
Yes, but can you destroy the blogs of Very Serious People with but a single post?
Nihilism is thinking that Sarah Palin should be president.
I think you need a theme song to go along with this talk of demonic machines. Satan is my motor is one possibility that comes to mind. This doesn’t mean you should go challenging Donald Douglas to any races though. Its very possible Jesus built his hotrod.
on an endless quest to destroy their enemies with a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.
Ha! As if THEIR blogs are “an endless quest to build up their enemies with an angelic brew of love and forbearance.”
It sounds like you’re actually GETTIN’ TO ‘UM!
Keep it up.
The good work, I mean.
Yes, that is *is* quite a feather in your cap!
Especially as it comes from an “enormous mendacious disembodied anus”
Actually X, you say that jokingly (I assume, anyway), but this place has, like, the best posters around. I haunt many a blog and this is the gold standard.
If you don’t use “A MacArthur Grant recipient blowing his Genius Grant on coked-up leggy supermodels blogger”, can I have it?
BTW, if I was Sarah’s kid my name would be Package Wichita Palin. I ain’t sayin’ nuthin’, but…ya know.
Then there was the time that Patterico used the power of The Google (mad investigative skillz!) to dig through San Diego high school womens’ soccer records (not creepy at all!) and expose for all your true identity, Kaiser Sozebogg. Not that he wished you any harm, oh no, nothing like that, he just wanted you to be aware… threatened? no, not threatened. Nothing like that.
As for Prof. Donald Douglas, I wonder if he’ll abandon the “pro-victory” moniker after Gen. Petraeus’s comment that, well, “victory” is not something he’ll ever name in Iraq. Probably not.
…a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.
Real Libruls don’t do 7-11, Neal, unless their gas is $.25 cheaper than the stuff at the Exxon-Mobil station. And from a marketing demographics standpoint, colas are a wingnut vice. DCRM would have to be one of those designer coffee drinks.
“I’ll have a large DCRM latte, extra hot, to go.”
I’m just no good in the morning until I’ve had my steaming cup of venomous brew of hate and intolerance (black, please.) But usually what happens is I snort it out my nose all over my keyboard when I read TBogg.
Ack! All this time I’ve been drinking the “steaming cup of venomous brew”
thinking you were offering me ‘venison stew’! No wonder I go away hungry for more! Ah lurvs ya tbogg.
I also remember that Patterico’s wife came by to tell us he was grounded and wasn’t gonna be able to use the computer for a couple of days.
Gone, gone o form of man,
And rise the blogger Etrigan!
me, aka Rope Hoover Palin
Mr.Tbogg: You might have to arm wrestle the Sadly, No!s for the use of that moniker. Unfortunately, your odds would be really slim. They have more arms.
Ummm… Isn’t the whole faith-based thingy nihilism? According to Merriam-Webster: “A doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths.”
I proudly sign this: Drink Hack Palin