After last night’s welcome to Peter and Georg, I’m very pleased to announce that Laura from Sorrow at Sills Bend and frequent commenter Steve Edney will also be joining the LP team. More group bloggy goodness!
Update: And a big welcome also to Cristy from Two Peas, No Pod!
I’m going to petition the ACCC to hold an inquiry into creeping acquisitions in the Oz blogosphere.
You should ask them to look into the Rafe virus spreading across libertarian blogs, Jason! How many blogs now count Rafe as a contributor?
A big welcome to all! Mark, are we gonna have another welcoming party for the new additions? I still have some Llamas and purple body paint left over from last time.
When Kim gets back from LA, Shaun – with the purple bondage apparatus… and the manual of secret Derridean codes for in jokes…
Yes I noticed that too, Mark. The Rafe virus has seeped out of Catallaxy into Troppo, Oysterium and Conjectures and Refutations.
The question is – will Tony Abbott inoculate himself against the Rafe virus first or last, given that the pandemic is obviously here!
More LP bloggers, eh. Clearly Mark and his fellow cyber flusies have been around the block a few too many times.
I question the framing of this discussion around the mythical ‘virus’ of Rafe. Such discussions only serve to confirm my suspicion of a vacuous moral hubris in the community.
Thanks for the welcome Mark and Naomi. I hope to post something both coherent and interesting sometime over the coming weeks.
but Rafe is a champion and part of the Soonshine blog.
does steve tell too many porkies? at least he is pink quite the hue for this blog!!
An alternative hypothesis, dk.au, is that Jason and I are joking!
Update And a big welcome also to Cristy from Two Peas, No Pod!
Rubs hands with glee, looking forward to lots of good stuff to read and stoush over.
LP is the Woolworths of left-wing blogs. Soon, independent corner stores like John Quiggin will become a dying breed. Something has to be done now! Think of the children!!
I guess I needed to work in terms like ‘abortion’ and ‘anti-scientific moonbat obscurantism’ for the satire to actually work. Oh well. you live, you learn.
Nah, Jase. LP is the BORG [Bjorn? "It's Swedish for You Will Be Assimilated" But I digress...] of left-wing blogs.
The name will soon be changed to Locutus Prodeo. No prizes for guessing which cyborg’ll be filling out Seven of Nine’s spray-on costume.
Locutus Prodeo.
Ya gotta pay that.
…or who’ll volunteer for the spraying duties.
[orderly queue]
What a great list! Now you lot, get to work..
ps – next problem is product differentiation.
Thanks for the invite, folks, I’ll try not to lower the tone too conspicuously. This is active blog #6 for me – so David has a point…
Fyodor you are tops. Despite the fact you are poser pretend Trek lover, you come up with the best TNG joke ever.
*stands, applauds*
Thanks also for the invite. Another outlook through which to avoid my Phd. Excellent!
I wish they’d bring back TNG. The Shield isn’t enough to fuel my own procrastination. There was ST Voyager, of course. The Federation gave a ship to a bird and she got lost. Be wary of Gillard, Australia.
CL,
If you don’t stop bludging and talking to pinkos here and strt writing something at your blog you will be assimilated.
Voyager was hopeless until 7 of 9.
The 7 of 9 cyborg I’m sure when she returns from LA (is she visiting Hollywood entities?) will be most flattered by Fyodor’s comment!
C.L. – Why do you hate Gillard?
Warning – I think a comment I made at either BP, Surfdom or Troppo asking EP “Why do you hate Sweden?” started something…
From little comments, big injokes grow…
Hate? I don’t hate anyone. There was no other prominent Labor woman appropriate for my Janeway comparison. That’s all, really. I do think she lacks the life experience and gravitas to be leader. But she seems a pleasant enough woman, as a person.
Joke, C.L.
Met her at a party in Carlton in 88. Nice and very bright person…
But I’d need a boob job to compete with 7 of 9! And I ain’t marrying any Republican senatorial hopefuls (or if I am – not complaining about the Paris strip club visits!)
Nah, Kim, you don’t. Don’t change a thing….apart from into the black leather catsuit…
Re: ST:V, gotta agree with CL.
* sneering comic-book guy voice *
Janeway is hands-down the WORST. Starship. Captain. Ever. Even worse than that numbnut Scott Bakula played in Enterprise [yes, I'm including Enterprise, Mandachka].
I gather Janeway has a neat kitchen, however.
Enterprise? What is this Enterprise? Sorry, I have a complete blank on that concept.
Janeway rocked.
was Ddoc Evatt a fan of DS9.
he wrote of the power in the Dominion(s)!
Now that was the best stat trek series
Ok, Fyodor, I’ll abandon my plans to retire from cruising around the Galaxy and idealistically take up teaching at a Boston public school…
Good grrl. You know it’s the right thing to do. Better than crusing around Gatallaxy, anyhoo.
But will I get to meet hot young English teachers?
Whaddayatalkinbout???!!
Kim can cruise around Gatallaxy anytime
Cheers, Jason, see you next time I’m in the libertarian quadrant! (If the latter isn’t more of a Rafean zone?)
With less chance of temporary detention & interrogation now that the Chafer’s swanning about other sites.
Is there a clause in the Catallaxy Security Act 2005 that enables Rafe to round up suspected Stalin apologists for sedition?
Looking foward to the contribution from the Pea, now definitely out of the Pod. Good work.