HULK SMASHED
so, whaddya want? A medal?
The concern troll nature of Correntewire and similar formerly liberal blogs becomes clearer every day
Consider this comment
The fact that Obama doesn’t care about so many basic Democratic values —like choice —is of concern to all of us.
Distracted by over caffeinated commenters, apparently.
Thems' with the most suck, wins!
Distracted by over caffeinated commenters, apparently.
Contort yourself!
the first 6 years--movie about eschaton
Oh man, Atrios should link to the first post or first page or something, so we can marvel at the change.
I never remember birthdays.
kids parents wife, g/f - I forget them all.
Oh man, Atrios should link to the first post or first page or something, so we can marvel at the change.
First post: Open Thread.
i wouldnt mind seeing some of the posts from early days
This year, severely jet lagged, I forgot my daughter's birthday until a day later. It cost.
Happy Birthday/Anniversary? I've been enjoying the suckiness since 2004. Thanks!
Hey, kid, rock 'n' roll, rock on.
One's all you need.
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missing someone special's birthday is a HUGE NO No.
contrition, submission, and massive overcompensation, in that order.
Whoa.
Happy blogiversary, man!
Uncle Blodge, I have them all in an Excel spreadsheet.
I've got a lot of siblings, nieces, nephews, and now a grandbaby, along with a fair number of friends.
"missing someone special's birthday is a HUGE NO No."
done it a lot.
My kids know I never remember b days so they don't give a shit when i forget theirs.
I'm headed out on the town.
Go look at my goddamn nudibranch, meanwhile.
God, it's been 4 freakin' years since I found this place?
Sunchyme
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PADegE6gNR4
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I've been doing this for over 6 years.
That's a lot of suck. - Atrios 22:08
Serious death wish issues this one has.
Watertiger, I think I've been here since '04.
Time flies when you're having fun.
Please please please is there any way to turn off the John McCain ad that keeps showing up just below the first post? I mean, he's my senator, why would I want to keep looking at his ugly mug??????
SMERCONISH: Look, I don’t get invited out anywhere. You do, Chris. … I’m grilling burgers in an hour in Philly. But let me ask you something. Isn’t this a violation of the dinner code? Isn’t this like a hooker who gives up a john? I mean, isn’t there some impropriety here?
MATTHEWS: I used to love that rule, that when you’re out having fun with each other, you weren’t sitting there with radios, you weren’t quoting them, you weren’t going to screw them in the morning. That’s the world I like to live in. But I have learned, everything you say can be used against you.
Thick soup.
I never remember birthdays.
kids parents wife, g/f - I forget them all.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
I've made sure that no anniversary nor birthday is that important. My kids get a family party that can be weeks or months from the actual date.
I dislike those people who burst into tears at the forgetting of such dates. If it's that so fucking important, tell the person.
I have also been reading since 2004. I was anxious about polls the summer before the election and somehow ended up here.
Fat lot of good it did any of us.
We do not celebrate birthdays. We just celebrate more on New Year's.
I have also been reading since 2004. I was anxious about polls the summer before the election and somehow ended up here.
Same here...came by way of Counterspin....
McCain deferred when pressed on whether he was familiar with Christie — a federal prosecutor appointed by President Bush — or Christie’s work. “I know it’s been good,” he said. “I’m certainly not familiar with the political environment here.”
Chris Christie, McCain has your back.
"I have also been reading since 2004."
reading that long - used to post under other names till I settled on this one
i probably came here from buzzflash, but dont remember when. 2003 probably
Oh, now I get it. Thought he'd missed a SO's birthday for 6+ years running. I was never that bad, I think.
Or was it late 2003? I can't remember now...
Uncle Bloge = Uncle Smokes?
Sploilers:
Oh no she didn't.
SHARON JUST TOLD THEM WHAT TIME IT IS.
i used to read comments by this kurt foster guy at the old salon board...he was always pimping this blog and i was like, wtf is up with some unemployed gym teacher and why is he pimping this blue place?
i didn't see much sense in that.
I go back probably to 2003 or 2004...
I know I was reading for about three months before I decided to ruin a decent thread with my bullshit....
"Uncle Bloge = Uncle Smokes?"
nope, though Uncle Blodge used to smoke.
used to use a few aol screen names and such - nothing anyone'd remember
Then Penguins won. Yay!
OK, out for real.
The Dean campaign site linked to MyDD I think, which linked me over her. It was the Dean campaign that lit up the blogs for me.
Thanks for six awful years.
When was the last time an american soldier was killed in iraq?
im pretty sure i came here in the runup to war in 2003.
I wandered in here via TPM or Buzzflash. I read for a while until I felt brave enough to comment. Somebody responded and that was it.
Except for making a few blunders and trying to puzzle out a few in jokes, it has been a wonderful and supportive community... foul mouthed, passionate, and obsessive about bacon...
"Thanks for six awful years."
that *is* a lot of fey videos.
Six years? YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!
I've been here since 2001.
Six years. Hard to believe.
What's even harder to believe is I've been addicted to this joint all but 6 months of those 6 years.
I've been reading you since '03. As Mister Natural would say, "Keep on suckin'!"
When was the last time an american soldier was killed in iraq?
seal | 05.09.08 - 10:28 pm | #
ntodd gave u a site to check on that yesterday.
I think I was a loyal Kossack when I heard Atrios had got his start there. Checked this place out....Now the Orange Satan just seems a little too-I dunno-Noisy?
I've been here for four years, I think.
Amazing how this place has changed and enriched my life. Seriously, at the risk of going all gooey -- Atrios may not even know what he's done for a lot of people...
Believe me, I wanted to forget my birthday this year.
And I don't particularly want to remember this one in the future.
I think I'll postpone celebrating until my wife's birthday this August... things should be a little rosier by then...
im pretty sure i came here in the runup to war in 2003.
Me too, many nyms ago.
Mrs. I (from below) -
They're on the road. Up a run in the 6th. Where the hell is Zap? I still want to heckle him about that unsightly ballpark, and this pitcher named "Boof."
-d.
Are you CRYING, Steve???
Atrios is neat, and he's cool, and he certainly plays it to the hilt, but I'm not sure he knows what 'Diddy-wah-diddy' means...
"I think I was a loyal Kossack when I heard Atrios had got his start there. "
wha?
altjough i think there might have been a few posts at bartcop's board????
What's even harder to believe is I've been addicted to this joint all but 6 months of those 6 years.
billy b | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 10:29 pm | #
That long, really? Do you remember how you found the place?
Joe Conason linked here, from Salon probably, back when I was looking everywhere for Plame info.
Stayed for the view.
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Atrios is full of turtle meat.
steve: probably saved my life, this place did...
altjough i think there might have been a few posts at bartcop's board????
jdw | 05.09.08 - 10:30 pm | #
or mwo? when did mwo fold?
A lot of people were hanging out at Salon during the aftermath of the 2000 election theft.
I can never remember how long I've been here, but it was pretty close to the beginning.
Read that famous "Atrios at the bookstore in So. Cal." piece at Smirking Chimp, IIRC.
"Do you remember how you found the place?"
through tom tomorrow.
Cats on treadmills is my new favorite thing.
I linked here through a reference from a MSNBC blog from the 2004 Dem Convention. Something about "who is Atrios?"
oh, hoss. you suck, and you're going to pay. flowers won't be enough, not by a long shot. 
i lurked in this sucky blog for a couple of years starting back around 2004 before i began boring y'all and annoying atrios with my own sucky posts.
dug finding some folks that made my own twisted political mind feel at ease. well most of the time, anyway.
cheers, atrios...
Atrios is full of turtle meat.
It's eschaton all the way down.
Happy Birthday, Eschaton.
How many times do I have to demonstrate to you... your guns are worthless against me!
"A lot of people were hanging out at Salon during the aftermath of the 2000 election theft."
god yes. anyone here from there? besides kurt, that is...
Atrios may not even know what he's done for a lot of people...
steve hussein simels
He knows. He just wonders why all these people talk so fucking much about everything except the topic of the thread.
I remember when Simels first started showing up... I kept thinking "I know that name from SOMEwhere!"
Took me a few months to figure it out...
HA HA HA HA
If I'm not mistaken an american soldier hasn't been killed in iraq for at least 4 or 5 days.
My kids know I never remember b days so they don't give a shit when i forget theirs.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Hell, I made a deal with the daughter, I won't remind her, if she won't remind me.
Saw Eschaton on a list of political blogs in the Globe and checked it out. Gradually got involved in the comments.
Atrios is full of turtle meat.
grilled turtle meat.
Holy fuck -
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PHILADELPHIA????
Should Congress renew the ban on assault weapons?
Yes 26%
No 73%
http://www.kyw1060.com/
fucking things just killed a cop and this?????
steve: probably saved my life, this place did...
ProfWombat | 05.09.08 - 10:31 pm | #
Ditto.
If memory serves, I found the place through TBogg or Hesiod...
"or mwo? when did mwo fold?"
man, that was a long time ago. the horse was great.
Atrios is full of turtle meat.
according to the cajuns, turtles have 7 kinds of meat.
Atrios may not even know what he's done for a lot of people...
steve hussein simels
He knows. He just wonders why all these people talk so fucking much about everything except the topic of the thread.
Willendorf Venus | 05.09.08 - 10:33 pm | #
Second Thread:
More Thread
The first time I came here, the whole place broke.
The stench of your foul breath is more than my stomach can stand!
That long, really? Do you remember how you found the place?
steve hussein simels
I always read a lot of BartCop. I'd heard of Atrios, the mysterious blogger over there.
After the 2002 election debacle, I wandered over here. There must have been a saucer of milk on the porch or something as I never left...
...and I missed my bloggiversary.
It was on May 4th, 2006, that OBI first went online to satirize the now-defunct Online-Integrity.
Way to go, Tacitus.
I don't know where I first Eschaton, but I'm glad I clicked the link.
I found this place via Tom Tomorrow during the whole Trent Lott thing where he longed for good ole days of Strom Thurmond.
What year was that?
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Lurk is so damned onomatopoeic.
Cats on treadmills is my new favorite thing.
Monica_A: Dammit!
The best best video ever? How about kittens and a box? (Below the best Pirates of the Penzance vid).
"A lot of people were hanging out at Salon during the aftermath of the 2000 election theft."
god yes. anyone here from there? besides kurt, that is...
jdw |
I had a subscription to Salon in 2002. It led me to here and a few other DFH sites. I don't post often, but I read daily. Atrios was an oasis in '03-'06.
Oh, and happy birthday Eschaton!
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once upon a time it was Bartcop and the Horse between America and apocalypse.
If I'm not mistaken an american soldier hasn't been killed in iraq for at least 4 or 5 days.
seal | 05.09.08 - 10:33 pm | #
really? how many iraqis have died? how is the war in afghanistan going? how about all the american soldiers that have been killed? or permanently disabled and living in some vermin infested hospital?
I think I've been here since early spring, 2004. A link from Buzzflash brought me.
I go back probably to 2003 or 2004...
Have no idea of the dates involved, but I know that I first became aware of Atrios via a VF Wolcott column. And that I first posted on the day that gay marriage became legal in MA - something along the lines of "Well, I drove into Davis Square this morning, waiting for the sky to fall..."
Are you CRYING, Steve???
annie | 05.09.08 - 10:30 pm | #
If he is, it's because you're still stinking the place up.
"probably saved my life, this place did..."
Life? Dunno.
Mind? absolutely.
through tom tomorrow.
Uncle Blodge,
I am fairly sure that is how I got here. Quaint that I used to give Salon money on a regular basis.
god yes. anyone here from there? besides kurt, that is...
Phoenix Woman used to post here sometimes. Posts at FDL now.
I remember that Greg Palast had a lot of people at Salon and then DU helping him investigate voter rolls purges, and so on.
I used to post at Salon under a different name. That was such a long time ago.
When Salon when pay-to-play, many of the political posters went to TAPs forum, then the Atlantic's, if I recall correctly.
My transition
Michaelmoore.com-----Buzzflash-----Cursor-----
here
"I had a subscription to Salon in 2002. "
He knows. He just wonders why all these people talk so fucking much about everything except the topic of the thread.
and why they feel like a public comment thread is a therapist's office.
[/runs out of the room]
I remember when this blog used to mean something.
2003---pre-iraq war
yeah ill never forget the horse. with that hat heh.
I found my way here thru Bartcop, indirectly. Linky linky clicky clicky.
[/runs out of the room]
COME BACK!!!
i googled my way here by searching for 'liberal blogs.'
If I'm not mistaken an american soldier hasn't been killed in iraq for at least 4 or 5 days.
seal | 05.09.08 - 10:33 pm | #
They've finally learned how to hide.
nd why they feel like a public comment thread is a therapist's office.
[/runs out of the room]
watertiger
wait, you mean it isn't?
If I'm not mistaken an american soldier hasn't been killed in iraq for at least 4 or 5 days.
seal | 05.09.08 - 10:33 pm |
David Irving tried doing history that way. Got pretty ugly.
Yeah, I know it used to mean something just before I joined.
I get that a LOT.
...and why they feel like a public comment thread is a therapist's office.
Atrios is really Bob Newhart???
I think bartcop was in my transition too
"Phoenix Woman used to post here sometimes. Posts at FDL now."
recently saw a series by PM at kos, acclimating hrc voters to obama.
lol.
Atrios is really Bob Newhart???
dave™
Mrs A is Susanne Pleshette?
We are all a dream
Hi I'm larry this my brother Darrell and this is my othe rbrother darryl
nd why they feel like a public comment thread is a therapist's office.
[/runs out of the room]
watertiger
wait, you mean it isn't?
olexicon, no seriously | 05.09.08 - 10:37 pm | #
i demand my money back!
Atrios is really Bob Newhart???
they have the same laconic quality.
Atrios is really Bob Newhart???
Nah. He's 'my other brother Darryl'.
I think I'm another person who came over from Salon though I have no exact memory of when that was but 2003 sounds right. Bad times, bad times.
On reconsideration, I think it was spring, 2003, that I first came here.
"and why they feel like a public comment thread is a therapist's office."
i use it to audience test long paragraphs from my next novel.
i think i started at rackjite, then found bartcop, then buzzflash and mwo, then mainly here.
i demand my money back!
pretzelattack
Or
CANCEL MY FUCKING ACCOUNT
...sometimes in life peopel need a fucking account
It's all a dream.
If I'm not mistaken an american soldier hasn't been killed in iraq for at least 4 or 5 days.
seal | 05.09.08 - 10:33 pm
I guess the dozens of the brown folk don't matter.
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
He just wonders why all these people talk so fucking much about everything except the topic of the thread.
Willendorf Venus
... there are topics?...
[/runs out of the room]
watertiger | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 10:36 pm | #
now that was just naughty...
wait, you mean it isn't?
olexicon, no seriously | 05.09.08 - 10:37 pm | #
More like the line at a movie theater on the upper west side (although with much more interesting people). I used to be amazed that people would loudly begin conversations with things like "So my therapist said my sexual issues ... "
(weeps)
Mediawhoresonline ruled
I ran into a friend a couple years ago who knew I was still alive by reading my comments here.
"I think I'm another person who came over from Salon though "
yer...yer...DICK STOUT!
Mrs A is Susanne Pleshette?
We are all Emily.
it was the primary campaign in 2004 brought me this way. used my initials for my first post after months of reading, got into a spat with gwpda, switched to this, in homage to the new criminal order we had birthed over there.
cokes all around for last episode of Newhart refences
jdw was one of the earliest posters here.
[bows to the mackerel]
I ran into a friend a couple years ago who knew I was still alive by reading my comments here.
Toby Petzold | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 10:40 pm | #
That wouldn't have been my impression.
"i think i started at rackjite,"
he still doing it? been many a moon since i been there..
I don't remember how I got here. I owned a Liquor Store from 91 to '05.
Mediawhoresonline ruled
olexicon, no seriously | 05.09.08 - 10:40 pm |
No lie. I loved that site.
"Phoenix Woman used to post here sometimes. Posts at FDL now."
recently saw a series by PM at kos, acclimating hrc voters to obama.
She was here the other night. Also had a great post at DKos a few days ago on community supported agriculture -- with great links.
When I was first here there was some regular "anonymous" person who was supposed to be a recognizable journalist. Does anyone remember that? Did anyone figure out who it was?
.
More like the line at a movie theater on the upper west side (although with much more interesting people). I used to be amazed that people would loudly begin conversations with things like "So my therapist said my sexual issues ... "
rootless-e
Occasionally we have to haul out Marshall mCluhan to shut up loudmouths in that line
7/17/02:
I wonder how long it will be until literally dozens of people are reading this on an almost monthly basis.
-Atrios 22:28
Whotta nut!
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"jdw was one of the earliest posters here."
i don't think so. i was turned off by the low quality, until i decided i had to do something about it if it was gonna ever get better.
"got into a spat with gwpda,"
hey me too.
it was something to do with my public statement that Phoenix was a shithole.
with a circle K on the corner.
When I was first here there was some regular "anonymous" person who was supposed to be a recognizable journalist. Does anyone remember that? Did anyone figure out who it was?
Was that the White House correspondent from AFP?
Sheesh. That should be 4/17/02.
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it was something to do with my public statement that Phoenix was a shithole.
with a circle K on the corner.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
that'll do'er
The ultimate comment on West Side movie lines was surely Woody Allen's, bringing Marshall McLuhan out to settle a point...
i don't think so. i was turned off by the low quality, until i decided i had to do something about it if it was gonna ever get better.
jdw | 05.09.08 - 10:42 pm | #
So when you gonna start?
"i think i started at rackjite,"
he still doing it? been many a moon since i been there..
jdw | 05.09.08 - 10:41 pm | #
i dunno, i should probably go leave a comment to encourage him if he is. his site was a lifesaver when i was surrounded by this bizarre republican concensus, both irl and wherever i looked in the media,(outside of the nation and a few other magazines.)
now we learn on correntewire that Obama is anti-choice.
Phoenix is not a shithole?
"that'll do'er"
yeah.
no sense of humor when it comes to Phoenix.
I remember when a 30 comment thread was a doozy.
When I was first here there was some regular "anonymous" person who was supposed to be a recognizable journalist.
White House Ho.
Phoenix is not a shithole?
ellroon bitterful | Homepage | 05.09.08 - 10:44 pm | #
No, it is a Major Shithole
As a person from Saskatchewan I have no right to declare other palces shitholes
"So when you gonna start?"
(spew)
"Phoenix is not a shithole?"
you're asking a philadelphian about shitholes?