The Arianna Huffington celebrity mega blog, which Tim Blair expressed some scepticism about a while back, is up and running. The Village Voice review isn’t flash:
So while it’s true, as Jack Schafer wrote in Slate, that reading the Web’s torrential response to the site has been “like watching a swarm of fire ants invade a robin’s nest and turn the chicks to red pulp,” don’t misconstrue. Huffington fans may want to paint the hostility as a right-wing-bloggers’ conspiracy, but it’s vaster and more complicated than that. Though the site is overwhelmingly about national politics (with a few token conservatives like the National Review’s Byron York and David “Axis of Evil” Frum thrown in), the reaction is not. It’s about cultural politics. The swarming bloggers aren’t so much attacking the enemy as gawking at the squares. And who can blame them? Watching these bigwigs try their hand at blogging is like watching that poor, pudgy Star Wars kid try out his light-saber moves in the home-video classic that saturated the Web a couple years back. Sure, maybe they’ll get the moves down eventually. But for now?Äîcome on. You’re gonna tell me that shit ain’t funny?
Elsewhere: The LA Weekly thinks the blog will backfire on liberal Hollywood.
I had a look. The LA Weekly has a point!
I had a look. The LA Weekly has a point!
Whoah, kids, whoah. Hasslehuff is a powder puff, but the blog itself has some interesting posters. F’rinstance: Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest. Lure Michael McKean in there and you’ve got the Holy Trinity.
There’s also a link to a review of SW episode III, “The Wonder Years”, sorry, “Revenge of the Sick”, by none other than John Podhoretz, whinging about the Anti-Bush messages in George Lucas’ latest merchandising venture. Of course, it drew the predictable loony fringer comparing the Sith to Islam. God I love blogs.
Interesting stuff. A damn sight more interesting than other blogs I’ve read. [I'm looking at you, Glenn Fuller].
Whoah, kids, whoah. Hasslehuff is a powder puff, but the blog itself has some interesting posters. F’rinstance: Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest. Lure Michael McKean in there and you’ve got the Holy Trinity.
There’s also a link to a review of SW episode III, “The Wonder Years”, sorry, “Revenge of the Sick”, by none other than John Podhoretz, whinging about the Anti-Bush messages in George Lucas’ latest merchandising venture. Of course, it drew the predictable loony fringer comparing the Sith to Islam. God I love blogs.
Interesting stuff. A damn sight more interesting than other blogs I’ve read. [I'm looking at you, Glenn Fuller].
Kimberella and I are just channelling the bloggers vs. amateurs thing, I think Fyodor.
I agree that the LA Weekly has a point though – if Hollywood execs and luminaries write huff and puff about politics, it’ll add to the whole “evil liberal Hollywood” thing.
Kimberella and I are just channelling the bloggers vs. amateurs thing, I think Fyodor.
I agree that the LA Weekly has a point though – if Hollywood execs and luminaries write huff and puff about politics, it’ll add to the whole “evil liberal Hollywood” thing.
Shocking layout on the site. I’m with small t tim on this one.
Shocking layout on the site. I’m with small t tim on this one.
“I agree that the LA Weekly has a point though – if Hollywood execs and luminaries write huff and puff about politics, it?Äôll add to the whole “evil liberal Hollywood” thing.”
SFW? Conservatives have already written off Hollywood. I couldn’t care less where someone works or doesn’t work. If they have something interesting to write, I’ll read it. Incidentally, I find this “bloggers vs. amateurs” fracas more than a little amusing. AFAIK any wingnut can set up a blog, and I don’t give a stuff who they are or what they do. If they’re good they’ll be read and stick around. If they’re not, they won’t.
All this huffing and puffing is bringing back psychedelic memories of H.R. Pufnstuf. Is Ann Coulter Witchypoo?
“I agree that the LA Weekly has a point though – if Hollywood execs and luminaries write huff and puff about politics, it?Äôll add to the whole “evil liberal Hollywood” thing.”
SFW? Conservatives have already written off Hollywood. I couldn’t care less where someone works or doesn’t work. If they have something interesting to write, I’ll read it. Incidentally, I find this “bloggers vs. amateurs” fracas more than a little amusing. AFAIK any wingnut can set up a blog, and I don’t give a stuff who they are or what they do. If they’re good they’ll be read and stick around. If they’re not, they won’t.
All this huffing and puffing is bringing back psychedelic memories of H.R. Pufnstuf. Is Ann Coulter Witchypoo?
The difference is the media attention and serious money behind Huffnpuff’s blog.
The difference is the media attention and serious money behind Huffnpuff’s blog.
So? Did you think the Internet was immune to the power of wealth and fame? Welcome to reality, Mr. Anderson. Now take the blue pill and go back to work.
So? Did you think the Internet was immune to the power of wealth and fame? Welcome to reality, Mr. Anderson. Now take the blue pill and go back to work.
Indeed I shall – off to meet with my doctoral supervisor.
Indeed I shall – off to meet with my doctoral supervisor.
Reality bites, don’t she?
Reality bites, don’t she?
It’s all good, Fyodor.
It’s all good, Fyodor.
It’s like the Onion (unintentionally) but funded with Republican petty cash. With its disturbing mish-mash of ‘pop’ writers I almost wonder what an Aussie version would be like and who would be in it…
It’s like the Onion (unintentionally) but funded with Republican petty cash. With its disturbing mish-mash of ‘pop’ writers I almost wonder what an Aussie version would be like and who would be in it…
I hope Huffington’s blog survives. I hope all the Hollywood insiders and celebrities keep on giving us their keen insights into moral engagement with the world around us.
And then I hope they all go out and campaign for Democratic candidates.
Again.
I hope Huffington’s blog survives. I hope all the Hollywood insiders and celebrities keep on giving us their keen insights into moral engagement with the world around us.
And then I hope they all go out and campaign for Democratic candidates.
Again.
Check out the “User Agreement”. It’s one of the less clueless out there, but still… a user agreement? On a *’blog*? Bad medicine!
Check out the “User Agreement”. It’s one of the less clueless out there, but still… a user agreement? On a *’blog*? Bad medicine!