Apparently so. Being a fake celebrity is weird.
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09 Jul 2007 06:36 pm
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Vegas is full of Yglesias impersonators these days . . .
We're still waiting for the Matt Yglesias t-shirts and mugs, no doubt now being planned to coincide with the book launch.
"who, unlike most of Washington, DC, has no shame in dancing when the spirit moves her"
One of the main things that creeped me out when I was in the District was the near universal reluctance to dance.
One of the main things that creeped me out when I was in the District was the near universal reluctance to dance.
Always suspicious of bipartisan consensus, eh?
"Always suspicious of bipartisan consensus, eh?"
It's a one a way street in a one horse town
One way people starting to brag around
You can laugh, put them down
These one way people gonna mow us down
Broder don't dance and we think he should Broder don't dance and you know that it ain't no good Broder don't dance for his hamburger Momma Broder's gonna be a napalm star
That's an unexpected formatting result...
You're not a "fake celebrity," Matt. You're an extremely minor, yet real, local celebrity. I'd guess that your name recognition is below all of the Wizards and Redskins, but probably above some of the Nationals' relief pitchers and most of the non-panda zoo animals.
I'd again offer my criticism that this chumminess between your strain of the blog universe creates an even more myopic, trapped in a bubble dynamic that makes your combined commentary little more than a cliquish echo chamber. But I always get yelled at when I do. So forget it.
where was Jonah?
All celebrity is fake. Yours is just as real as anyone elses. Accomplishment, achievement, respect, are real though.
All the DC bloggers were at the Black Cat last Friday and no one wanted to see Half Japanese at The Rock and Roll Hotel? Kids these days.
I'd again offer my criticism that this chumminess between your strain of the blog universe creates an even more myopic, trapped in a bubble dynamic that makes your combined commentary little more than a cliquish echo chamber.
Whose fault is all that? We had the blogosphere it was going to kick that MSM in the teeth. Real people putting forward opinions with commentary by real people who weren't constrained by some group of elite editors. Citizen Journalism and all that crap.
Give it a few years and all the traffic goes to a handful of old school, dead tree media paid bloggers. They didn't do that, we did that. We get what we deserve.
Oh, but don't rub our nose in shit and hang out with Eli Lake, that really is repugnant.
Just make sure you're wearing underwear when you get out of the limo.
"... who, unlike most of Washington, DC, has no shame in dancing when the spirit moves her."
It's been a while since I lived there, but this just means "unlike most of white Washington, DC", right?
--PK
Ha. And I thought that link was going to direct me to a story about Nicole Richie's pregnancy ...
"Give it a few years and all the traffic goes to a handful of old school, dead tree media paid bloggers. They didn't do that, we did that. We get what we deserve."
Who's "we"? Did we convince The Atlantic to make MY an offer he couldn't refuse? Don't get me wrong: if I were Matt, I would have taken the deal too. I'm sure whatever they're paying him is more than the $300 per week or whatever he was getting from Google ad revenue for blogging (not that he didn't have a day job as well, but I'm sure doing this beats doing that).
Nevertheless, if I were the HJIC of The Atlantic, or another dead tree sponsor of bloggers, I would try to get some geography between my bloggers. Keep one or two in DC, to be sure, but get some out in the rest of the country: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, also, smaller cities. You could probably get some great, low-cost blogging by offering a small stipend to a grad student at, say, U of Wisconsin-Madison. And instead of giving that stipend to another Poli-Sci, philosophy, or other humanities student, why not hire grad students in engineering, finance, biotechnology, accounting -- fields where they could apply their substantive knowledge to relevant public policy issues.
Fuck! Where is my (e)vite Matt? I'm a big-time DC blogger too. I mean, I'm not trying to toot my own horn but... beep beep.
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Dorks.
Posted by blah | July 9, 2007 6:49 PM