Comments on: Bloggiest Blogs! http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:28:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chen http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20440 Chen Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:41:14 +0000 #comment-20440 I'm voting <a href="http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com">Eyeteeth</a> for best kept secret. Sweet blog. I’m voting Eyeteeth for best kept secret. Sweet blog.

]]> By: MBerg http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20417 MBerg Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:36:52 +0000 #comment-20417 <i>Well, I wasn't exactly expressing "facts" -- that was an interogative sentence, not a declarative sentence...</i><br /> <br /> ...in which you asked from a standpoint of affirmative assumption whether something had happened ("Wasn't it pretty much "proven" that Mitch did that?"). Just setting things straight.<br /> <br /> <i>You seem to carry this attitude that the world (or the blogosphere) is out to get you,</i><br /> <br /> Untrue. I'm out to get the world. Well, I wasn’t exactly expressing “facts” — that was an interogative sentence, not a declarative sentence…

…in which you asked from a standpoint of affirmative assumption whether something had happened (”Wasn’t it pretty much “proven” that Mitch did that?”). Just setting things straight.

You seem to carry this attitude that the world (or the blogosphere) is out to get you,

Untrue. I’m out to get the world.

]]> By: rex http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20406 rex Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:28:15 +0000 #comment-20406 Well, I wasn't exactly expressing "facts" -- that was an interogative sentence, not a declarative sentence. This whole internet thing would be a lot better with more questions and fewer answers.<br /> <br /> Anyway, now I remember that the "re-write" was the big issue. You seem to carry this attitude that the world (or the blogosphere) is out to get you, while at the same time practically demanding people act defensive in conversational situations. Dude, I ain't out to get you, and I don't have a "collective bubble" to burst. Chill.<br /> Well, I wasn’t exactly expressing “facts” — that was an interogative sentence, not a declarative sentence. This whole internet thing would be a lot better with more questions and fewer answers.

Anyway, now I remember that the “re-write” was the big issue. You seem to carry this attitude that the world (or the blogosphere) is out to get you, while at the same time practically demanding people act defensive in conversational situations. Dude, I ain’t out to get you, and I don’t have a “collective bubble” to burst. Chill.

]]> By: mitch http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20405 mitch Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:17:29 +0000 #comment-20405 To elaborate: I have never, ever altered or deleted a legitimate comment. I have never altered an anonymous comment, even a critical one, that was on-topic and remotely civil, or even not-too-uncivil. I have never altered or deleted anonymous comments that were critical, overheated, obscene and profane, for that matter. <br /> <br /> I reserve the right to remove or alter for comic effect comments that are anonymous, rude, content-free and abusive. I do it rarely. <br /> <br /> I've banned two people from my comments, ever. Oddly, both came from Eva Young's site.<br /> To elaborate: I have never, ever altered or deleted a legitimate comment. I have never altered an anonymous comment, even a critical one, that was on-topic and remotely civil, or even not-too-uncivil. I have never altered or deleted anonymous comments that were critical, overheated, obscene and profane, for that matter.

I reserve the right to remove or alter for comic effect comments that are anonymous, rude, content-free and abusive. I do it rarely.

I’ve banned two people from my comments, ever. Oddly, both came from Eva Young’s site.

]]> By: Mitch http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20403 Mitch Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:13:34 +0000 #comment-20403 Rex, you need to get your facts straight. <br /> <br /> When I was getting a commentlanche from a big lefty site, with people leaving insulting, scurrilous, topic-free, abusive, anonymous comments, I defaced a bunch of them (redundant, since they were themselves defacements. How does one vandlize vandalism?<br /> <br /> A couple of Eva Young's cowardly anonymous commenters got their undies in a snarl when I rewrote their abusive comments for comedic effect. They seem to think they have a first amendment right to have the majesty of their written brainfarts preserved in perpetuity on my dime. Not so (although maybe Blois Olson will file a lawsuit). Eva took the cowards' side. Go figger.<br /> <br /> Otherwise? Nope. Nothin'.<br /> <br /> Sorry to pop your collective bubbles. Rex, you need to get your facts straight.

When I was getting a commentlanche from a big lefty site, with people leaving insulting, scurrilous, topic-free, abusive, anonymous comments, I defaced a bunch of them (redundant, since they were themselves defacements. How does one vandlize vandalism?

A couple of Eva Young’s cowardly anonymous commenters got their undies in a snarl when I rewrote their abusive comments for comedic effect. They seem to think they have a first amendment right to have the majesty of their written brainfarts preserved in perpetuity on my dime. Not so (although maybe Blois Olson will file a lawsuit). Eva took the cowards’ side. Go figger.

Otherwise? Nope. Nothin’.

Sorry to pop your collective bubbles.

]]> By: rex http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20381 rex Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:02:14 +0000 #comment-20381 Bob shouldn't have backed down though, right? Wasn't it pretty much "proven" that Mitch did that? (I remember the scandal, but I don't remember the outcome.)<br /> Bob shouldn’t have backed down though, right? Wasn’t it pretty much “proven” that Mitch did that? (I remember the scandal, but I don’t remember the outcome.)

]]> By: whb http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20378 whb Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:57:59 +0000 #comment-20378 Just like that, Bob backs down.<br /> I already had my popcorn for the big fight. Just like that, Bob backs down.
I already had my popcorn for the big fight.

]]> By: alamn http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20359 alamn Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:57:13 +0000 #comment-20359 Mitch, I'm sorry. A quick review of your blog shows no monkeying with my comments. It was other MOBsters, not you, who did this. My humble apologies for my error.<br /> <br /> Bob Moffitt<br /> Communications Director<br /> American Lung Association of Minnesota<br /> <br /> Mitch, I’m sorry. A quick review of your blog shows no monkeying with my comments. It was other MOBsters, not you, who did this. My humble apologies for my error.

Bob Moffitt
Communications Director
American Lung Association of Minnesota

]]> By: m.a.d. http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20348 m.a.d. Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:53:19 +0000 #comment-20348 OK now that I've cleaned the santorum runoff on my leg, here's my belated nominations:<br /> <br /> Best Blog by Local Rock Band: <a href="http://shufflebrothers.blogspot.com/">Shuffle Brothers</a><br /> Most Depressing Hiatus: <a href="http://www.readexiled.com/blog/">Rocks Off</a><br /> Best Top Secret Resurrection: <a href="http://www.paulinekilar.com/weblog/">Dodging Invisible Rays</a><br /> Best Gay Blog: <a href="http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/">fiveoclockbot</a> (looks like we'll need a, er, runoff vote on this one)<br /> Blogging Expat Who Makes Our Minnesota Lives Emptiest With Their Absence: <a href="http://www.katesilver.blogspot.com/">K.S.</a><br /> Bestest Photoblog: <a href="http://rockimageoftheday.blogspot.com/">Rock Image of the Day</a><br /> Best Blog by Local Scribbler Who Gets Paid for Scribbling: <a href="http://www.rakemag.com/today/yoivanhoe">Yo, Ivanhoe</a><br /> Best Blog by a Busy Investigative Journalist: <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/pdemko/">Live Nude Weblog!</a> <br /> Most Concise Prose: <a href="http://www.migwire.blogspot.com/">i'm an idiot</a> OK now that I’ve cleaned the santorum runoff on my leg, here’s my belated nominations:

Best Blog by Local Rock Band: Shuffle Brothers
Most Depressing Hiatus: Rocks Off
Best Top Secret Resurrection: Dodging Invisible Rays
Best Gay Blog: fiveoclockbot (looks like we’ll need a, er, runoff vote on this one)
Blogging Expat Who Makes Our Minnesota Lives Emptiest With Their Absence: K.S.
Bestest Photoblog: Rock Image of the Day
Best Blog by Local Scribbler Who Gets Paid for Scribbling: Yo, Ivanhoe
Best Blog by a Busy Investigative Journalist: Live Nude Weblog!
Most Concise Prose: i’m an idiot

]]> By: whb http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/8677#comment-20339 whb Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:09:12 +0000 #comment-20339 ooooh. Snap! Things are getting real heated here as blogger takes on blogger. Later this week AlaMN will put down his pack of cigarettes and jog over to the flagpole where he's scedule to duke it out with Mitch "the phony"...<br /> Both will wear their blogging pajamas and let the first round be dominated by their cats lovingly featured on said blogs. (I can just imagine ALACat hunched over in the cold outside that damned bar in which he can no longer smoke...).<br /> Round 2 will involve "your mom" insults, which bloggers are really good at.<br /> And then we'll all lick our wounds and watch that SNL video "Lazy Sunday" that's been getting mad blog props lately.<br /> Now let's all be friends and drink hot cocoa... ooooh. Snap! Things are getting real heated here as blogger takes on blogger. Later this week AlaMN will put down his pack of cigarettes and jog over to the flagpole where he’s scedule to duke it out with Mitch “the phony”…
Both will wear their blogging pajamas and let the first round be dominated by their cats lovingly featured on said blogs. (I can just imagine ALACat hunched over in the cold outside that damned bar in which he can no longer smoke…).
Round 2 will involve “your mom” insults, which bloggers are really good at.
And then we’ll all lick our wounds and watch that SNL video “Lazy Sunday” that’s been getting mad blog props lately.
Now let’s all be friends and drink hot cocoa…

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