I’m about three quarters of the way through Eric Boehlert’s excellent Bloggers on the Bus and I am struck by how little I knew about some of my fellow bloggers as well as the back-stories on quite a few of the events/controversies/kerfuffles over the past several years amongst the lefty savages. Part of the reason may be that I tend to skirt the perimeter of the lefty blogs while spending more of my time mucking about in the fever swamps of the right looking for the ridicule-worthy; that is my job… or so I am told. I’m not ashamed to admit that, while reading BOTB (soon to be as instantly recognizable as LOTR but with fewer hairy dorks speaking Elvish) I’ve had many "I did not know that" moments. (Spoiler alert: Digby? Total chick. Not. A. Guy. Yuh-hunh. Swear to gawd).
All and all BOTB is a fascinating overview (without being too "inside baseball") of where lefty progressive dirty-fucking-hippy blogs came from, where they are now, and what the heck they had to do with getting that black guy elected President and getting the EmmEssEmm to, if not behave themselves, at least watch their ass(es). If you don’t buy a copy for yourself, you should consider buying copies for your friends so they’ll understand why you spend so much time reading blogs while they’re looking at porn stealing office supplies from work having sordid affairs twittering under the name KanyeWestForReals spending time with their families. and enjoying God’s creation.
There are also lots of swearing included in the book which I have always felt is the hallmark of fine fucking literature. That, and scratch-n-sniff*
* You can see why I’m never asked to provide back-cover blurbs. Elitist jerkoffs.




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Are the TDoggs in the index? ‘Cause if they aren’t, I’m not buying it.
wait, ann althouse is a woman??
Well, this is disappointing. Here I’ve been depending on Tbogg for all my important information about the world at large and how to keep myself safe in it, and now I find out he’s the last fucking person on the planet to discover that Digby is a woman. Her ‘outing’ was done at a big-time blogger conference by Digby her ownself and it was the talk of the town for awhile.
So tell us, Mr. Tbogg Smartass, what else don’t you know about? I’d like a list.
Gonna pick up a copy. And Tbogg, since you have wallowed in the muck more than anyone, perhaps you should be the one to document the right side of this equation. I would call it “Bloggers on the Shorty Bus”.
Your loyal Demonic Minion,
Hatmandu
I just saw the funniest thing I think I’ve ever seen.
Colbert just deconstructed the the Alberto Cutie beach canoodling scandal and the subsequent “excusal” by its’ holy perpetrator with the following:
(gotta give we in the antipodes a little time slack)
“Catholics with options are called Protestants.”
Fucking brilliant!!!1111!1!
Actually I was the third person to know Digby was a woman (after Jane Hamsher and Mr. Digby, of course). When Jane finally convinced Digby to have lunch, Jane called and invited me to come up to Santa Monica to join them.
That’s not in the book.
Would you care to bet on that last part? I suspect there is a fairly sizable contingent of the hairy, Elvish-speaking dorg contingent among the bloggerati.
I’ll bet Jane Hamsher’s damned Poodles are in teh book. And the AtriKitties.
but wait .. fine fucking literature is exactly what i come to TBogg to get ..
oh the funcking humanity .. eh ??
Oh, good. My faith is restored in your snarky goodness.
I am an older person, and sometimes when I’m really busy I miss the dry wit completely and make an ass of myself. I should never have doubted you were on the very deepest levels of the inside of the great blogiverse.
Jane Hamsher was the first to out Digby, writing about that lunch and clumsily using the pronoun “she”.
There’s a whole chapter on the Alaskan bloggers called “Saradise Lost.” I think we all could have done without Sarah Palin, thankyouverymuch, but on the other hand, she turned Shannyn Moore into a STAR!
i always knew digby was a woman. i’m just smart that way.
now driftglass — i was totally surprised to find out he was a dude! omg!
That may indeed be the best reason. Nobody in my family understands.