Last Chance to Say NO to the Terrorists
It’s the last week of the Canadian Blog Award voting, and we’re up to the finals as Best Non-Partisan blog. If so inclined, please vote here.
It’s been one FUCK of a month, and I need something nice to happen.
That is all.
“It’s been one FUCK of a month, and I need something nice to happen.”
Sorry to hear it. May I be so bold as to suggest you spend less time watching movies about stuffing dead musicians into instrument cases, as a possible mood-lightener?
You mean you didn’t win best post, balb? I haven’t been watching, but you shoulda won!
Ok. Heading over now.
Sarah: I’ll take that under consideration. Perhaps I should screen my copy of Claude Lantzmann’s “Shoah” again. (Actually I did, with a couple of friends who had never seen it before – and that was probably not the best thing to watch in a glum month).
skdadl: thanks, very kind, etc, etc. But we don’t do it for the honour and glory, the fame or the recognition. We do it to get the truth out there, to shine the light in dark corners, and, of course, for the extremely lucrative product endorsement gigs.
Boots. Poem. Now.
Best non-partisan blog? I can see funniest, most erudite, quirkiest, most intellectual, but non-partisan? Help me out here, balb, where in your archives are those balancing pro-Harper posts?
OK, ok, done.
Lulu:
BOOTS. POEM. THEN!!!
But here it is again, cuz I like it:
An Ode To Lulu’s Boots: (Originally published Dec. 1st, as commanded)
Warm, glowing dark skin tone of Zulus
Cool feminine moon-curves of ulus
Sheer style of J. Choo
Mystique of Manchu
These just HINT at the Boots that are Lulu’s.
Peter: I interpret non-partisan to mean “we don’t like anyone very much”. The one explicitly, consistent message espoused by Stageleft (the guy, not the blog) is “don’t vote”. He’s an equal opportunity disdainer.
Done.
Thanks, Doug. Nice to see that SOME discerning readers don’t need an ode written to their FOOTWEAR to do the right thing. Sniff.
@balbulican – I see your “sniff” and raise a “Hah!“.
Peter,
This blog, Stageleft, qualifies as a member of the Blogging Alliance of Non-Partisan Canadians because he is not a member of the Blogging Tories, the Libloggers or the Blogging Dippers. It doesn’t mean that he’s a-political. And, although he is highly critical of Harper, Bal is speaking more for his point of view, rather than relying on the talking points of the various political parties — none of which I can see him being comfortable joining.
Why doncha just post a pic of your dog with a pistol pointed at its head and the cutline: “Vote for us or the dog gets it.” It worked for National Lampoon. And, in a slightly more twisted way, for Harper too.
Don’t you remember what happened when we tried that in 2006? It took a week to scrape the doggy brains off the wall, and the stain in the couch never did quite come out. Poor dear Woofy. I can never sit on that stain without a little twinge and a misting of the eyes.
James:
If balb ever founded a party for non-joiners, I think I’d join it. I imagine we wouldn’t agree on anything and therefore probably couldn’t run in an election, but think of the wonderful food fights at the conventions.
“I can never sit on that stain without a little twinge and a misting of the eyes.”
I think that’s just a reaction to the stain remover.
Whooee! I cast my ballot in yer direction, Balbu. I reckon it’s like Jamesy Bow sez, if yer not out wavin’ the banner for a party, then you ain’t a partisan.
I ain’t joined up with Jamesy’s NPB’s on accounta I’m a party member an’ partisan puppet dancin’ to the tune of the gal I adore, Earth Mother Lizzie May.
These here StageCoach Riders is all over the left side of the map an’ they ain’t cheerleadin’ fer any political party, that’s fer dang sure.
This is one o’ the most civilized boogs, no two ways. Tolerant. That’s what.
JB
Oh, fuck off. We are not. (blush)
“Why doncha just post a pic of your dog with a pistol pointed at its head and the cutline: “Vote for us or the dog gets it.” ”
Could that be how Harper got his prorogue?
Given the lack of transparency, could be…
Or maybe Harper’s meeting with the GG was so long because many nasty and sordid things were going on in the maid’s chambers off the Rideau’s kitchen?
Best of luck, Bal! If you win, it will be a well deserved victory. Though I still have my hopes. If I win, it will be my first victory of this awards, period. I may need to kick my blog up a notch.
Mark Francis: “Or maybe Harper’s meeting with the GG was so long because many nasty and sordid things were going on in the maid’s chambers off the Rideau’s kitchen?”
Are you trying to make Harper’s day by accusing him of seducing the GG? If I recall correctly in on of his first comments in the House as PM, he had never been accused of seducing even his wife…
SL/Balb/et al at SL, voted for you already.
Sorry you’ve had a fuck of a month. Here’s hoping you win, and also plus life gets AWESOME really soon.
What does non-partisan have to do with balance?
That aside I would suggest that you would have a difficult time finding many posts here that require a pro-Harper post to provide balance to, however…
In the partisan dens of the blogoshphere there is a very prevalent, ‘if you’re not with us then you must be for the other guy‘ – it’s an incorrect assumption brought on by excessive partisanship, you should work at overcoming that.
Oh SL, I’m proud to tell you I’ve been summarily dismissed as a “liberal” on several sites on the dark side, occasionally in full and frank language. Gotta admit that hurt. I could have handled “lying douchebag”, but “liberal”?
This ain’t the US Peter – “liberal” is not a dirty word. Usually it just means you lost your virginity before marriage, sport a pony tail, or have once smoked something.
Wouldn’t be too worried about it.
Might I suggest raising the bar just a wee bit. I mean that’s half of Calgary right there, and that’s hardly “liberal” country. What if you exclude bestiality. That might narrow it down, a bit anyway. See what I mean?