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December 31, 2005
Extra second of 2005
So we have an extra second in 2005, me? I'm gonna spend it wisely by posting for no reason at all.
Hell, lots of "big bloggers" do it -- the I'm not posting posts -- and they get tons of accolades for nothing more or less. Throughout the year. Heh. Indeed.
While I consider that type of behavior to be beneath myself, I wanted one last 2005 post and a way to account for the extra second of 2005. Besides, I thought it would be fun to make like Pajamas Media and do something without knowing what I intend to do.
My extra second is long over.
Happy New Year folks!
I'll be back in full force on Monday. If I can pry Dick Cheney off me, that is. And that sneer is sexy. Hard to resist.
Posted by Moxie at 10:02 PM | Comments (4)
December 21, 2005
My Mum always said...
if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
For once I'm taking her advice. But over at the Axis of A**hole site, they are having their inaugural ButtJam™.
In the meanwhile, I'm going to get back to being a bitter shrew focused on holiday preparations. And chuckle at how proud Keith Olbermann must be to appear alongside an illustrious AoA member.
Posted by Moxie at 2:46 PM | Comments (4)
December 20, 2005
sometimes...
like now...I don't sleep enough.
Then I write something about how a certain lefty link makes a link from Glenn Reynolds look like a piss party on a midget farm.
And it ends up in a comic strip.
I'm Ahhnod. Never been good at phoetic spelling of dialects. So, in plain talk -- I'm honored.
Posted by Moxie at 6:36 AM | Comments (3)
December 17, 2005
to the newbies
I tend to spend my weekends driving my 20 year old German sports car, in a very personal effort to increase global warming.
Or I'm at the beach clubbing baby seals (it's only a baby seal the first 2-3 times you hit them with a baseball bat, then it becomes a liberal, or later a nice ottoman).
Since I closed the last thread and don't expect to post again until the last extra Halliburton stock certificate has been used as a cocktail napkin...I present my darling readers with an open thread.
The only rule of the Mox open thread club is: be nice to my pal Jeff G.
Carry on. See ya all soon.
Posted by Moxie at 1:01 AM | Comments (15)
December 15, 2005
someone bit my ankle!
Okay, so here I am trying to be fair and balanced just like Fox News. I tell it like it like it is (even if I am saying something not quite positive about fellow conservatives) and some guy John Cole has this to say:
"You know- no more links to the Axis of Asshole [sic], aka Althouse, Moxie, etc.
They are just bitter shrews who for some reason have a hard-on towards Roger and Charles. They are free to start their own competing businesses if they know so damned much.
And what makes me pissed off the most is that their commentary is so nasty and childish I feel compelled to defend PJ, even though I think they have made significant missteps."
No idea who that guy is -- he must have started blogging YEARS after I did. But "bitter shrew" is par for the course. I was asked many times to join the Pajama Game. I thought Pajamas Media was an awful idea and said as much.
I'm just darn glad these people don't get emotional.
For the record, I offered to fix Pajamas Media for them and put a 1 million dollar price tag on it. Still no takers.
Ann Althouse has inspired me -- she took "Berkeley house whore" and wore it proudly. Likewise, I am now your own personal "bitter shrew" and an enthusiastic member of the "Axis of Asshole ™" [sic].
I'm nothing less than honored. You too can become a member of the "Axis of Asshole ™" [sic]. Just comment and I will send your NDA out in the mail by morning.
UPDATE: Because I'm not the sort to walk around and think everytime something less than good happens to me, it must be because I'm a woman -- I failed to point out something pretty darn sexist --Dan from Riehlworld made an excellent point. Obviously I didn't see this because I'm just a broad!
Posted by Moxie at 7:06 PM | Comments (66)
Pajammin' question....
if Raj and Rerun were actually providing a good service via the Pajamas Media live blogging in Iraq....wouldn't Breitbart or Drudge just link it on the Drudge Report, rather than them having to drop all that cash on a day-long ad? On occasion, Drudge has linked to blogs. Rarely, but only when it was something *important* and a something not available elsewhere.
Aubrey, is anyone home? Your bank account has sprung a leak.
Posted by Moxie at 9:31 AM | Comments (3)
slip sliding away...we be pajammin
Alternate title: how to waste 7 million dollars of investor's money.
Steve H. mentioned that Pajamas Media didn't have their doubleclick ads on Michelle Malkin's site yesterday. Malkin is one of maybe 5 valuable writers attached to the mess. MM gets great traffic. MM has no ads. Where are they MAKING money?
I know where they are spending it. Salaries for 70 bloggers. EIGHT staffers, Roger's fedora/mortgage/accidental CEO fund. And get this -- ads on DRUDGE.
Yes, that's correct.
This morning I saw that Raj and Rerun have placed ads on Drudge. Ads on Drudge don't come cheap, my friends. Did they get a discount for idiotic conservatives? I doubt it. Matt Drudge HATES blogs.
My friend Andrew Breitbart (Drudge's right hand man) was the only one I heard good things about from the Pajamas Media mis-launch -- and as nice as he is -- I highly doubt that Breitbart worked a deal for them. If he did talk Matt into this, I hope Matt is awash in shame.
At this point if I were Aubrey Chernick, I'd be soiling my pants for giving these egomaniacs 7 million dollars, or some fraction thereof. If I gave Roger and crew even a dollar, I'd feel like I wasted a buck that could have been better invested in a gumball machine.
My five year old cousin could run this so-called company better than Roger L. Simon. The lights are on but no one is home over in PajamaLand. Anyone want to photoshop a map of that?
If those clowns did even one thing right, I think the entire earth would stop dead in its orbit.
Anyone care to guess how much an ad on Drudge goes for? I know. Guesses are also being accepted for how many investors lament the day they heard the name Pajamas Media/Open Sores Media/OSM?
This is like shooting fish in a barrel.
WELCOME lefties...if nothing else Raj and Pajamas Media have done what politicians could not -- brought the right and the left together on an issue. I am in awe of how many Atrios readers are visiting. It makes an Instalanche look like a piss party on a midget farm. Whatever that means.
Posted by Moxie at 3:49 AM | Comments (24)
December 14, 2005
If you love me, you will love Bob
I'm afraid no one on the right other than Steve H. and me truly cares about poor Bob Geiger.
I spent a whole 10 minutes on a photoshop and I get 3 comments? One of which was from me and another from some asshat who is trying to tell me what to write.
Get with it people. Let me know if you are helping the cause of the mighty Bob Geiger...I can't wait to see him take home that HUGE golden graphic from the PissBang Blawg Awards.
Posted by Moxie at 7:19 PM | Comments (4)
December 13, 2005
vote for pedro!
Everyone has seen Napoleon Dynamite, correct? Okay so in this case, we are voting for the mighty Bob Geiger of Yellow Dog Blog.
Bob is Pedro minus the moustache.
Bob Geiger is a liberal you say? So why do we want him to win? Because the folks running that farce of an awards thing-a-ma-jig HATE him. HATE him. And that's good enough for me.
Voting for Bob is your civic duty.
Voting for Bob many times a day is fun and good for your heart.
Voting for Bob lowers your cholesterol more than a bowl of Cheerios.
Voting for Bob makes Paul at PissBang cry.
Voting for Bob aids the middle east peace process.
As the Democrats say -- vote early and often -- this time for Bob. Click right here. You'll be glad you did.
Posted by Moxie at 7:24 PM | Comments (8)
paved
Since I've poked enough fun at the diminutive Roger L. Simon and his ill-conceived sleepwear venture -- Pajamas "failure" Media -- I thought it time to highlight something positive in the blogging world.
Sit down, take the Dick Cheney sneers off your faces. Here is a happy story, to calm your tummies after the Tookie riots.
My pal Marc Weisblott, experienced freelance writer and longtime veteran of blogging, has a position writing Paved.ca. Paved is produced weekdays in conjunction with the Toronto Star, whose staff provide ongoing support to the venture.
Unlike MSNBC or Fox New's fake blogs, Paved is a real blog. Go ahead and comment! Oh my lawd.
Weisblott has always been one of the most talented writers I know, and beyond dedicated to blawgging as a new form of media.
Go on over and read. Marc has a wonderful and unique writing style, you'll be drawn in and won't even care that you aren't living in Toronto.
Posted by Moxie at 5:03 AM
December 12, 2005
Los Angeles Riot update
tookie, tookie (lend me your tomb)
Sorry, my Mom used to sing and joke about that old song which somehow seems appropriate to mock.
Anyway, as I type, we're about 30 minutes away from official Tookie riot time. You know -- the moment when he heads up to heaven to start the crips in the sky -- and Pajamas Media will still be an embarrassing failure.
I digress.
All is still peaceful around the compound, except for some out-of-season fireworks. Or they could be gun shots.
The super soakers are loaded with water and lots of soap. I have my gay houseboy standing outside wearing a Dick Cheney sneer mask. The poolboy is standing by with the gillette razors, ready to shave any hairy liberal who dares set foot near my poolside paradise.
I found some tagging on the garage, but after taking a photo of it, Steve H. assured me it was hebrew. That's better. I think.
While all is quiet for now, Moxie.nu is your go-to place for the live blogging of the Tookie riots. Stay tuned.
UPDATE:
Saks Fifth Avenue guards report there are still no signs of Winona.
Posted by Moxie at 11:13 PM | Comments (5)
whores, pimps and link-addicts
In my more than five years of blogging -- I've watched lots of people linkwhore their way to the top. Have thought lots of very painfully true things about these people, but refrained from making them public. Steve's laying it all out on the line and it's a work of art.
Though I've been around a lot longer than Wizbang and most others, I'm hardly ever nominated for anything. And these days, when I am -- I never, ever mention it on this blog because it's not dignified to beg for votes.
When I link someone else on my blog, it's because of quality. Not because I'm hoping to build up traffic by sending people hits for their sitemeter counts.
So, go read what Steve has to say. He's dead on as always.
Posted by Moxie at 7:13 PM | Comments (8)
Riot watch from los angeles
when liberals attack!
I'm not pro death penalty, simply because I think it's far more punishment for the guilty to spend the rest of their days in prison, no chance for parole and having the daily experience of being some fat hairy guy's bitch.
But Tookie is going to fry and Los Angeles is on alert.
Most of the people begging for a pardon were Hollywood stars...so any minute now I expect to see "Breaking News" -- except I'm not sure how A-list celebrities riot. Blaming Bush? Posting something incoherent on the Huffington Post? Peeing in the pool at the Mondrian? Winona Ryder looting Saks Fifth Avenue?
And because most of Los Angeles liberals don't know what they think until someone from the movies tells them, I can see great problems of uncivil disobedience developing in the next 24 hours.
Don't worry about me -- I'm prepared.
I've got an arsenal ready should these whiny losers approach my compound. Last night I stocked up on the three things liberals fear most: soap, a 12 pack of Gillette Daisy disposable razors and the scariest of all, a framed picture of Dick Cheney.
Updates will be posted as things develop over the next few days.
Posted by Moxie at 3:30 PM | Comments (8)
December 11, 2005
administrative note
Because of my ginormous traffic (Pajamas Media must be jealous), this website is being moved to a new server. It sounds pretty exciting, new fully data redundant servers running RAID 1.
Anyway, I've noticed some of my comments haven't made it onto the site -- and I expect this has something to do with the move. Not even sure this is going to make it.
Just wanted to let folks know, comments and emails may not be working at this time. Will post an update soon.
UPDATE
I feel very smark. Fixed the publishing problem. Let me know in the comments if you find anything else that is borked.
Posted by Moxie at 6:54 PM | Comments (4)
December 9, 2005
ripped from the pages of the pajamas media handbook
falling apart times six
Move over Raj and Rerun -- someone else wants to take away the blogworld's prized title for stupidity!
Mena Trott, co-founder of sixapart.com and movabletype calls someone an asshole and drops the f word during a lecture about civility. You could try and write that kind of thing into a sitcom, and someone would say, "it's not believable. Could never happen in real life."
Wicked!
My favorite part is that this incident occured in France. World capital of rudeness, cheesy sauces and terrible decisions. Maybe it's something in the air? No, not the B.O.!
So much more on both sides of the debate here.
A friend of mine said I take a wee bit too much enjoyment in the failure of others. Hey, I have to entertain myself. If not all of you.
Maybe next week I'll do a feel-good piece on something positive and good. YAWN.
Posted by Moxie at 9:55 PM | Comments (1)
MoxJam
I'm pretty sure every time someone says, or types "bLogjam" Roger L. Simon gets wood. Because he thinks he's so clever and all. Let's test my theory:
"Blogjam"
Whoa! I think you hit my shin with your barely starched-stiff blogjammies, little man. You are SO punk rock.
Anyway, I've been getting a lot of emails about blogrolls, updates, etc.
If you have just found me (after FIVE f'in brilliant years here on the innerneck) congrats. If you've added me to your blogroll, it's clear you are from a superior gene pool. One that's not polluted with liberal urine.
Leave me a message so I can add you too. Please include your URL and the name you wish to appear in my blogroll.
If you haven't blogrolled me, or have no plans to -- I'll add your bloggy to my list of mental abortions. That means you Howard Dean.
UPDATE: My linking policy is simple -- with very few exceptions, if I'm on your blogroll -- you'll be on mine. Amusing to see which of my friends have dropped me from their blogrolls, while still lingering on mine. MATT! Brian!
Posted by Moxie at 9:29 AM | Comments (7)
the twelve days of things that make baby jesus cry (#2)
Bonus: Pajamas Media also makes their investors cry.
Double bonus: Pajamas Media makes their few readers cry. From laughter.
Posted by Moxie at 7:39 AM | Comments (1)
No direction
If someone tells me exactly what to do, and I think it's a great idea -- I have no problem producing those results.
Sometimes you get lousy instructions and what you construct isn't as intended. You know, you build an IKEA shelf that was supposed to be a comforter or children's bunkbed, or something.
Perhaps the shrink wrapped Pajamas Media/ OSM.org domain name complete with foolish investors package didn't have adequate instructions. Dennis the Peasant posted on this and he says it better than I ever could.
Anyway, more importantly, the only instructions I have right now are divine in nature. God told me to tell all of you that liberals make baby jesus cry.
And given the "holiday" season, I thought that appropriate. Carry on.
Posted by Moxie at 6:36 AM | Comments (4)
December 5, 2005
Pajama free days
It's been TWO days since I've last made fun of Roger L. Simon and the Pajamas Media debacle!
Just wanted to point that out. Carry on now. There's nothing to see here.
MORE
Moxie: i just posted something short but obnoxious.
Steve H.: you posted roger simon?
Posted by Moxie at 3:49 PM | Comments (15)
December 4, 2005
exposed in LA
One of the things I love about the Moxtopia compound, is that it is located in a tree and flower filled area of Los Angeles, where you can still walk to dozens of places AND is fairly safe. All the neighbors keep an eye out for each other, say hello and have short but meaningful conversations when we bump into each other.
About 5 days back an older woman fell and hit her head while walking her dog. There were no less than 25 people waiting with her, until the ambulance arrived. And she had as many offers to take care of her doggie until she got back. Even if she had chosen a completely random neighbor her dog would have been loved, well cared for, probably even spoiled.
This is why I was so shocked a few nights ago.
I stepped outside the compound gates in order to get a breath of fresh air. It was a lovely night. Spotted someone walking down the street. As he got closer, he crossed over to the other side of the street and backtracked a bit.
He walked onto the lawn of another home and stood in front of a light that illuminated the front of the house. He was facing me maybe even staring. Curious, I watched. No dog. Then he started to unbuckle his belt and began to remove his trousers. I know this much because I was certain I HAD to be wrong about this. This couldn't happen in my neighborhood!
I turned in the nick of time and ran inside the house. Double locked the doors but didn't have time to close the gates.
Some people like my frequent commenter "Spanky" may think cats are useless, but mine are like dogs who can handle crapping and peeing without my help. Brilliant.
Two of them were sitting at attention at the front door. Later all three of them were at an open window in the back of the house. There were some odd noises, knocks on the window and other alarming and odd occurrences.
The next morning I found a few beer bottles, food wrappers and other rubbish in both locations.
I'd just like to send a big VRWC welcome to my newest stalker...hope he likes my guns!
Posted by Moxie at 3:08 PM | Comments (29)
December 3, 2005
Carnival of the Bloated Egos #2
Big media guy: What's something you would want to talk about for a long time?
Me: Roger L. Simon and his ill-fated three hour Pajamas Media tour. And how it has discredited blogging on the whole.
Big media guy: Ok, not even three people out there know what a blog is, nor cares. Pajamas media or this Roger guy are too inside for the general public.
Me: Thank you.
This entry was blogged wearing exercise clothing: running pants and a jog-bra.
Posted by Moxie at 12:37 AM | Comments (9)
December 2, 2005
slinging the big swinging dick
Nut Alert: For those with a Pajamas Media allergy, this post was written by a woman fully dressed in STREET CLOTHES.
It's rare that someone slings a phrase I wish I had coined...here is one,
"I hate bad business models. I hate grown men playing Big Swinging Dicks when they haven't a clue."
Steve H. quotes an anonymous media insider here, read the whole thing as the Sleepytime Grand Poobah would say.
Or he might say, Heh.
Or if you want to go old skool, he might say, "Ann Althouse has more" except he hasn't has only linked her twice in two days?!!
If anyone can deconstruct decades of business fashion tradition by saying pajamas are the new business casual, it's Raj. Ruining blogging may be his venture's only success.
Posted by Moxie at 1:26 AM | Comments (5)
