Ceci n'est pas une jello shot

this is not a jello shot

it is an allusion made in bad taste.

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See you later, Ben.
Au revoir, bon voyage, and all that shit.

On Blogging

Guardian ran these two articles on the art of criticism and the new role of bloggers in the journalistic process. Food for thought:

Getting down and dirty in the blogosphere brawl by Dorian Lynskey

"This is just one front in a wide-ranging battle between the blogosphere and so-called old media. In an ideal world, there should be room for both print critics and online ones, with plenty of overlap between them. Good writing is good writing, wherever it appears. But the campaign is in its early days and there are several years' worth of grievances to thrash out before a peace treaty can be agreed."

Getting down and dirty in the blogosphere brawl - part 2 by Peter Bradshaw

"Part of what's happening is that newspapers have, for hundreds of years, been a one-party state, and the net has brought that state to an end. Before the web, there was no serious opposition to the press in the press. Newspapers might express the most virulent opposition to every other institution in British public life: to the Church of England, political parties, the monarchy - anything but the press. Our media sections have nothing like the full-throttle, uncensored criticism of the press routinely expressed in blogs."

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Secular Conspiracy part I: Plans for Saving the World

It's educational

like Sesame Street, even.

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