Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Reviving a hot fashion statement from 2002: Some smarmy git is cataloging all the things that make Americans inferior to real-people. The prevailing overtone is one of “they all carelessly stereotype” or something.
I know I’m a bad American myself, because I live in a world all my own. See, off in my corner of the universe, when I read a sentence that says “Scotland would be horrified to see the way Americans use paper towels,” call me funny I guess, but over here that says a great deal more about Scotland than it does about the United States. A bunch of damn Yankees eight time zones away, and their use of a paper product, somehow rates on the palette of everyday concerns over in Scotland? So Scottish people are are bored, is that it? Perhaps I owe the Scots more respect than to just take what’s-his-name’s word for it.
A decent fisking is done over at Spleenville, by way of our blogger friend Sonic Charmer at Rhymes with Cars & Girls, who has a list of things he’s noticed about non-Americans. Kinda. I tried to help him out. One thing I missed though, not so much about “non-Americans” but about non-Americans who air laundry lists of pet peeves about Americans: They look down with disdain on materialism, and also with a special brand of snotty derision against Americans who don’t travel, and it seems to have gone flying over their heads with a big “whoosh!” sound that, here in the states, traveling is necessarily materialistic. We work some and we play some, striving to maintain a balance. When we play, we might come to Europe, or…maybe we’ll just live frugally and drive the earth-friendly but non-pretentious 4-cylinder out to the coast. And there, the seagulls can curse our materialism while demanding more croutons out of us, thus bringing us all the non-American culture our little hearts desire.
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Spleenville. Feh. Another waste of a blog. I happened upon it about a month ago and went back tonight for only the 2nd time after following the link.
It’s written by a snarky, petty woman who seems to spend a ridiculous amount of time complaining about idiotic things. Kind of says it all, that she posts pictures of her cat instead of a husband or kids.
I offered what I thought was some constructive criticism a month or so ago, and her response was to suggest I’m lacking in reading comprehension, and/or tell me where I could go, if I didn’t think so much of her petty drivel and pointless whining. Snort.
Just amazing, Morgan. I mean, I like *you,* but for some reason just about everyone you link to seems to have serious problems in the head.
- cylarz | 10/26/2011 @ 20:55Except Severian and Philmon, I should say. Definitely got their heads on straight over there. Those guys are awesome and then some. Just love em.
- cylarz | 10/26/2011 @ 20:58