I’d just like to say that it’s been a privilege to co-blog with my fellow ‘Roasters, and I will be thinking of you all tonight as I share a few last, small intimacies with close friends, empty the freezer, cancel my trash pick-up and await the Inevitable.
UPDATE: FALSE ALARM. Even though the clock is still posted, Breitbart admitted on March 2 that he was merely joking around. But then, why was my second link not working? And why are all the stars winking out?
Where else can a person go for funny that stays with you all day, with real nutritional content? Not to mention unequalled bonhomie, from the most delightful collection of snarkologists anywhere.
Try getting that from a cupcake.
To all of my fellow Roasters, and especially Kevin K! Thank you so much, KK, for creating the ultimate Safe Space for Snark.
Starting this weekend the proprietor(s?) of ############ launched an attack against Rumproast and, more specifically, my wife (who has absolutely nothing to do with this blog) and me. You can head over there to read what’s been going on. The first related post (“Thank You For Your Support”) was published on January 23rd. There has been a steady stream of posts about the “attack” on the main HillBuzz blogger (whom I will refer to as “Mr. HillBuzz”) since then that contain several false accusations about Rumproast, me, Betty Cracker and Mrs. Polly’s long dormant Snarkopolitan blog. What follows is a quick, FAQ-style rundown of facts related to this debacle.
Q: Was Mr. HillBuzz “attacked”?
A: A UK blogger named TheBigotBasher, who has no affiliation with Rumproast aside from occasionally commenting here, used Mr. HillBuzz’s real name on the internet and referred to him as a “racist.” From what I gather, TheBigotBasher posted this info in the form of blog entries, diaries and/or comments at his own WordPress blog, StupidPumas.com (currently offline—don’t know why, don’t care), Daily Kos and Democratic Underground. I won’t link to specific citations because the ones that remain contain Mr. HillBuzz’s real identity. Mr. HillBuzz is also claiming he was subjected to various forms of offline intimidation (calls to his employers, physical threats, etc.), but since I’ve concluded that he’s an unrepentant liar I don’t believe any of it without proof, which he hasn’t provided.
Q: Did TheBigotBasher attempt to reveal Mr. HillBuzz’s identity elsewhere?
A: Funny you should ask that. Yes, TheBigotBasher attempted to leave a comment with that info here (including the identity of ############’s domain name admin, who appears to have nothing to do with HillBuzz’s blogging activities) a week or so back, but I deleted the comment the minute I saw it and basically told TheBigotBasher to bugger off. I do not support, nor have I ever supported, the outing of people who blog or comment under aliases, regardless of what I personally think about them. This occurred before I was aware that TheBigotBasher was posting this info elsewhere and before Mr. HillBuzz went public about his “attack.” Mr. HillBuzz was informed that I deleted the comment in my very first email to him (more on that below) but he continues to write that Rumproast actively promoted TheBigotBasher’s accusations. That’s simply a bold-faced lie. I also banned TheBigotBasher from commenting here based on that comment as well as past issues I’ve had with him.
Q: But didn’t Mr. HillBuzz originally think you were TheBigotBasher?
A: Yes, he did. I have no idea how he came to that conclusion (nor can I figure out most of the conspiratorial nonsense he’s currently confabulating over at his blog), but early in the morning on Sunday January 24th he published a post at HillBuzz containing my full name in the title and several times in the body of the post, pictures of me, and my entire work history that he culled from my LinkedIn profile (which he also linked to). He also wrote about my wife, asking where she works and if “her employer know [sic] what her husband is doing,” even though, as I stated earlier, she has absolutely nothing to do with this blog or the blogosphere in general. Because he’s classy that way.
Q: What did you do?
A: I immediately sent an email via the HillBuzz email account demanding that he take the post down and threatening him with legal action if he didn’t do so.
Q: Did he take it down?
A: Not until I sent a second email to his personal email address. The post came down at approximately 4:15 AM after being online for at least three hours. Yes, I had to stay up all night and I was really sick.
Q: Was he apologetic?
A: Not at all. He just made more wild accusations.
As a lefty blogger it’s bad enough that you have to read wretched rants from wingnuts, but when you start encountering fetid, nonsensical mewling on an hourly (or even minute-by-minute) basis from players on your own team it’s too much to process without going batshit crazy. I’m taking a break for a couple of days (I more or less started yesterday). I don’t know how a newly-minted Democrat like John Cole doesn’t curl up in a ball and cry himself to sleep every night after surveying the landscape and seeing that he’s signed on with a contingent of self-defeating, irrational, barking-mad lunatics.
To all of the books and films I’ve neglected in favor of reading a steady stream of bug-eyed blogosphere bullshit, come to poppa.
If you can look at this graphic without wincing, you didn’t have enough to drink.
WAKEY, WAKEY! It’s the first day of 2010 (or “XX0X” in the Old Rumpic Calendar). And no matter how early it is, Teh Stupid has already been upright, blogging and making fools of themselves on FoxNews for at least an hour.
Sure, it hurts to move. And, yes, you’re wearing the clothes you swapped with a junkie at the Greyhound Station. But, gosh darn it, staring at the toilet and making kitty-hairball gacking noises isn’t going to move the Overton Window, dictate the acceptable limits of Online Progressive Dialogue or unsled Sarah Palin’s Idiotarod to the White House in 2012.
Kevin K. has given us this safe, nurturing, trigger-free platform from which to unleash Psionic Waves of 4th-Generation Asymmetric Snark against the Evil Outernet of Unassimilated Nobots and Nutters. But, as a poor but wise man once observed, these rats ain’t gonna fuck themselves.
Let’s brush off the peanut shells, fish the butts out of our beer mugs and squint blearily into the blazing dawn of the Decade of Rumproast! Deus Lo Volt!
In honor of the blue moon we’re getting for New Year’s Eve tonight, here’s Dino singing, of course, “Blue Moon”...
p.s. So what are you doing tonight? Do you guys want an open thread again this year or would you prefer to just hang out in the Rumper Room? Your opinion matters!
15) Steel Panther’s “Death To All But Metal”—A perfectly goofy, risque and politically incorrect ([Trigger warning.]!) send-up of all of those “Hot for Teacher”-style videos of the 80’s. The lyrics could not be more appropriately moronic or offensive. Features a cameo by Sarah Silverman as a horny principal.
14) The Flaming Lips’ “I Can Be a Frog”—A cutesy-odd little semi-animated video featuring a girl in a bikini imitating critters (and other things) and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O providing the sound effects. Deceptively adorable.
Because Rumproast is probably the only poliblog that posts new music videos on a regular basis and I’m doing everything possible to avoid all things political these days so that I don’t run around headbutting everyone, tomorrow I’m going to roll out my top 15 music video picks for the year. There were some exceptional music videos released this year, so it was hard to narrow it down to just fifteen. Presented below, in alphabetical order, are all of the fabulous videos that were in the running for best of the year, but sadly didn’t make the cut. Enjoy.
Consider this an open thread for posting your New Age bumper-sticker messages of cosmic good will, covetous materialistic desires or holiday revenge fantasies. If, like me, you have no friends and your whole family is dead, this may also double as a live-blog of tonight’s Senate cloture vote cheerless repository of Seasonal Affective Disorder, since the cloture vote is now scheduled for 1:00AM Monday.
Every now and then we get weird traffic surges via search engines here at Rumproast. One I see every now and then is image searches for—surprise!—Giada De Laurentiis. Today, though, wooooooaaaaaah, we’re getting slammed because of image searches for “puppy” via Bing (screen cap below). And this is what searchers are getting: Lipstick Puppy.
Co-bloggers, take the rest of the day off. Lipstick Puppy is running this joint now. It cannot be defeated. Bow down to the awesome power of Lipstick Puppy.
