Economics and similar, for the sleep-deprived
Given that his book has been published now, and the guy is apparently starting a blog, I think it is important to point out from the outset that I am not the author of "The Isle Of Dogs". I can't do personal appearances to promote it and I am not able (that's "Not Able", not "notable", thanks very much to engels and matt for pointing out that Freudian slip) to make media appearances talking about having sex in cars. Now's also probably a good a time as any to make it clear that despite the emails that some spammer keeps sending around with forged headers from my Crooked Timber email address, I do not have any phentermine for sale and I can basically do nothing about the size of your penis. Maybe the other Dan Davies who wrote the book might be able to help, I'll put a link up to his blog when he gets one.
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Shorter Steven den Beste
As part of my New Year's Resolution to pick a really nasty fight with someone, and as a potential supply of more regular updates, I've decided to become a "watcher". I believe that this was all the rage in weblog circles about a year ago.
Anyway, I want to do it, and nobody convinced me that there were better targets for a jihad than Stephen den Beste, so I picked him. It also helps that, as far as I can tell, he's incredibly thin-skinned (see my comments board somewhere for proof). Now, I thought of doing "Smarter Steven den Beste" (note that part of my strategy is not to use a consistent spelling of his first name), but that would probably completely dominate my blog, and besides "fisking" is like so five minutes ago. (Being a "watcher", however, is retro and cool).
Besides, people don't necessarily want a Smarter Stephen den Beste. Part of the joy is watching a man who knows nothing about anything except the innards of mobile phones trying to understand a complicated world around him with no sources of information other than the Internet. What people want is a Shorter Stephen den Beste; one that doesn't take about ten thousand words to get from A to halfway through the downstroke of B. So I'll be posting one-sentence summaries of posts on the USS Clueless, on a reasonably regular basis, until I get bored. Here's today's batch:
- I've never served in uniform.
- My dislike of the French is independent of any facts about the world.
No thanks, please, I do it for the love.
Update: Fuck me, this is gonna be more work than I thought. Here's another one:
- I have intricate knowledge of the command and control structure of the Iraqi Army, and astonishingly enough, the news is Good For The War Party!
posted by the management 2/05/2003 10:24:00 AM
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