March 01, 2005

By Way of Illustration

This is how not to make fun of one of right-wing blogging's sacred cows: Shriek repeatedly that they suck. Of course they suck. A group blog led by a middle-aged clench-cheeked WASP with anger management issues, who adopts a nom de pixel that reeks of repressed homoeroticism--that blog would need divine intervention not to suck. MFYA, I am 100% with you on the sucking, but I need a bit more than that. You've got to find some way to note the suck with a little more flair and a lot more funny.

(You watch--whoever's running MFYA will turn out to be someone I "know" in some other blogging incarnation and they will just hate me for saying that. Though, actually, that's okay with me--just so long as they hate me in a way that's hysterical. I mean I want people literally falling out of chairs and rolling in the aisles and telling me I've been pwned. And seriously, I am hoping they'll hit their stride soon, because as a concept, this sort of blog was overdue.)

This, now, is how you step up and bring it to the chronically uptight.

Learn from the great ones, MFYA. May the force be with you.

UPDATE: But what if you really do take issue with the juju berries? Well, then you calmly make your case (with footnotes), instead of blubbering about "the left's march through our institutions," as though Hollywood had been solidly Republican before last night.

Posted by Ilyka at March 1, 2005 12:00 AM in hell is other people
Comments

My god! That Hubris post took effort. Is that what you expect from us? Wonkette doesn't seem to need it.

Posted by: ScreamingMimi at March 1, 2005 03:02 AM

Ah, but Wonkette is powered by Denton. And batteries.

Posted by: ilyka at March 1, 2005 03:36 AM

The "The Annotated Chris Rock" link: Damn awesome! That's worth getting another glass of wine before I get off my butt and go make dinner.

Posted by: Ith at March 2, 2005 02:06 AM