(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Monday, June 03, 2002
Thanks for the invite to join--at the urging of my boss, the incomparable Grady Olivier, I gladly accept.
Dipping my toe gently into the world of the warblogger, I find myself almost immediately distressed. I stumbled into the world of one Christopher Cross, who ID’s himself as “a soon to be law student in Los Angeles.” That’s all well and good, Chris, and while even that scant description manages somehow to make your life sound slightly more interesting than (judging by the site) it apparently is, you are far too modest---not even one mention on your blog about your previous career. Otherwise, an unimpressive collection of pointless, underwritten crap; a story on gay Afghanis allows Cross to use the term “Al-Gayda” and query, “Do we call them the ‘TaliMAN’ now?” Yo, that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard since the big Jim Teter show at the Prairie Capital Convention Center. For a guy who makes bad gay jokes, Chris also makes a lot of references to his fiancée. I’m not saying he doth protest too much, I’m just saying.
I fear this is all I can take right now. I must rest; further, the lights in one of the tanning beds have burnt out, a situation calling for my immediate attention.