So is Allah going to the drinking session?

Bring back Allahpundit.

Sorry, if my first comment is unrelated to the topic Ace, but if you can could you try to get Allahpundit to start his blog up again?

Open bar? Who's picking up the tab?

So, you are going to dump us so you can go get liquored up for free. Figures.

I loved your story about how you take your dates to police stations. lol! Talk about cheap dates!

Jeff G is live blogging it. You know, in that Protein Wisdom way. It's just like being back at the conventions.

Is he wearing his spidey "suit"?

meep, check this out, PRNewswire

Hey, Ace! Bring your camera and take pictures. It's the least you can do for us if you aren't going to blog it.

I must say this OSM is a great development. To see all of these great bloggers joining together for a common project is like... like... the first issue of Justice League of America. Wow! Superman, Batman, the Flash AND Green Lantern!

If Allah starts blogging again, maybe he could use this piece:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/16/051116134610.f5r7ssv0.html

I think it's just a bit premature to say that OSM is a great development. For instance, they have no development that can be discerned. Pajamas Media started with a stupid name, and concluded with a page that listed the profiles of the people who are on the board, before changing their focus completely.

The fact that I'm dismissive is not because I've been working on something more or less like what OSM is planning on doing. Not at all.

Who's picking up the tab?

could be a cash bar.

Should Ace and I drop in on the Pajama party tonight? Just get liquored up and stagger in all loud and obnoxious? "HEY JUDY, JUDY -- HOW COME WE AIN'T GET NO INVITATIONS?"

Wear lots of bling.

And don't forget your pimped-out zoot suit and fuzzy hat.

I shall greet Judy Miller with "the shocker."

Should Ace and I drop in on the Pajama party tonight? Just get liquored up and stagger in all loud and obnoxious? "HEY JUDY, JUDY -- HOW COME WE AIN'T GET NO INVITATIONS?"

If we all said no, don't do that, would it make a difference?

Allah, seriously, did you call the guest list guy? I posted his # on the previous PJ thread.

Allah, seriously, did you call the guest list guy? I posted his # on the previous PJ thread.

Nah, I don't really want to go. I'd feel completely lame walking in there as a failed blogger. It'd be like walking into a party for the Dallas Cowboys and trying to shmooze about how you once played high school football.

I do kind of have this fantasy, though, about grabbing the mike and saying, "HEY -- ANYONE IN HERE NEED A MUTHAFUCKIN' PHOTOSHOP? AWWWW YEAH."

I don't know how to tel you this, but you are not a failed blogger.

You are a legend.

Yeah, while the blogosphere glitterati are meeting in New York, the US military is kicking ass in Iraq.

United States Air Force F-15s, F-16s and Predators made air strikes against anti-Iraqi forces near the Iraqi-Syria border Monday in support of Operation Steel Curtain.

After ground forces with the Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines swept into Ubaydi, a town near Karabilah.

The intent of Operation Steel Curtain is to restore Iraqi sovereign control along the Iraq-Syria border and destroy the al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists operating throughout the Al Qa’im region. Approximately 1,000 Iraqi Army soldiers and 2,500 Marines, Soldiers and Sailors are participating in Operation Steel Curtain.

An additional 30 terrorists have been killed since last night, for an overall total of approximately 80 killed since entering the city yesterday morning. Most of those terrorists were targeted by coalition air strikes, although some were killed in direct small-arms fire engagements with Iraqi and Coalition Forces on the ground.

Several detainees were captured trying to sneak out of the area by crawling among a flock of sheep.

Sure. Go ahead and obsess over this "Open Source Media" kerfuffle. Meanwhile, events of real significance continue to occur in the wider world.

Banana Joe's your source in Tampa for drunken, violent, lesbo professional cheerleader action, has now begun offering "Cheerleader Nights," when professional cheerleaders can get drunk for free. Also, there's no cover if you show up dressed as a cheerleader. So, Ace, if that turns out to be a cash bar...

Incidentally, I saw this story over at Feisty Republican Whore, but the World's Dumbest Spam Filter won't let me post the link.

Nah, I don't really want to go. I'd feel completely lame walking in there as a failed blogger.

sputter, sputter, gasp.

What lauraw said.

If Den Beste can come back (sorta), you can at least make an appearance to pick up blog groupie chicks.

when professional cheerleaders can get drunk for free

And that is different from other nights how?

Nah, I don't really want to go. I'd feel completely lame walking in there as a failed blogger.

Failed? Hardly, were the Moon god to reappear (in whatever form suited the deity's capricious nature) the roar of delight from the blogospere would be deafening. Tsk.. tsk.. rough being a legend isn't it ?

Allah! Bastard! That's not even a live email address.

Okay, then, I think the problem a lot of blogger-dropper-outters have is falling for the blog paradigm. That's like wanting to be a writer and thinking that means you have to write for a daily newsrag. It dasn't got to be that way. Be a magazine. Or a quarterly. Shed the smelly old "blogger" stigma (someday, it's going to be so 2005), and write when you feel like it. I mean, who's the one and only god here? The faithful, they will come.

It's working for Iowahawk.

Did someone mention hot dyke cheerleaders? Enjoy the candids, compliments of the Big A.

If Den Beste can come back (sorta), you can at least make an appearance to pick up blog groupie chicks.

The first rule of being a beta male: venture not where alphas abound. Any scene that's got Glenn Reynolds, Charles Johnson, Tim Blair, and lord knows who else walking around means slim pickings for us lesser mortals. Although maybe the prospect of doing me and Ace together might pique some hottie's curiosity. DOUBLE DUTY, BRO! OH YEAH!

I've actually got an invite to hang out tonight with Karol and some of her possibly-cute gal friends. Will I accept? Will I meet up with Ace instead for the PJ party? Or will I instead stay home, surfing for more photos of hot dyke cheerleaders? Allah knows which way he's betting!

I'd feel completely lame walking in there as a failed blogger.

False modesty in unbecoming for the Creator of Worlds.

It's not false modesty. Today's a big day for political blogging and I'd feel pathetic going down there to share a little reflected glory. Let the people like Ace who have worked hard and stuck with it reap the reward. They deserve it.

Look at the bright side, Allah. At least you're respected for your opinions and not your ability to make fart jokes and 'Hillary's a lesbo' innuendo.

This reminds me of the time when Ace said he was going to hook-up with that Wonketter Ho.

Okay, Ace didn't say he was going to hookup with AnaCoxsucka, but he totally fagged out when he could have talked to her and made her feel stupid.

Okay.Okay. That's not how it happened, either. But Ace did or did not do something while Wonkette was or was not in the same building as him during a blog-o-whore convention, that I remember. Oh, that Ace.

Meh. Wonkette's picture is in the dictionary next to 'Smelly Pirate Hooker.'

Actually I never saw the woman. Maybe she was there for ten minutes; for another ten minutes one of her ghost-bloggers was there.

Since the Pajamas launch is the topic of the hour, anyone else notice any conspicuous omissions from the group's advisory board? Surely, a guy who wrote a book about blogs and who spends a not inconsiderable amount of time each day on his radio show yakking about them would have accepted an editorial position with PJM had it been offered.

So why wasn't it offered?

Nota bene: He's not on their blogroll either. Verrry interesting.

I'd feel pathetic going down there . . .

Sorry, previous non-comment sent by fumble-fingers here.

I'd feel pathetic going down there . . .

Not if you stick with your plan of showing up stoned with Ace! You would only add to the legend.

Oh Moon God, surely you've been following the amusement at DtP.

Allah:

Get your ass out of your apt. and go to the party with Ace. If you are that uncomfortable, give a false name. Be Ace's date for the eveining.

Be Ace's date for the eveining.

ALLAH AIN'T NO FAG, BABY!

ALLAH AIN'T NO FAG, BABY!

Right. Make sure you wear something pretty for Ace tonight.

Stupid question, maybe, but what's DtP?

You wouldn't be there 'to share a little reflected glory.'
You'd be there to greet other human beings who share a common interest, and who would probably be thrilled to pieces to meet you.

What's this 'beta male' stuff about?

They're bloggers.
I think its fair to say there won't be any feats of strength.

Or are you afraid...people might find out...you're an ordinary human being?

*insane shrieks of terror*

The "beta male" concept extends far beyond physical prowess. No feats of strength are necessary; this isn't Festivus.

Or are you afraid...people might find out...you're an ordinary human being?

Yeah, that's part of it. There's something to be said for mystique. Even reclusive-failed-blogger mystique.

RESPECT MY SOCIAL PARALYSIS!

sandy: DtP is Dennis the Peasant, former partner and now big enemy of the PJ people.

Allah: Ace is the only one who gets to play social phobic.

(someone, from the PJ party)

Any links providing more info on DtP?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Moon God: this is the dot.com launch party that uses all the money right before they Enronify, not the high point of political blogging.

They don't even have legal rights to the name "Open Source Media" (there's already another company doing business under that name, and "Open Source" is a service mark that Eric Raymond or somebody owns).

I say mooch off it if you can.

Yeah, that's part of it. There's something to be said for mystique. Even reclusive-failed-blogger mystique.

Then go incognito. No one will be the wiser. Maybe, gasp, you may just enjoy yourself, for crissakes. Maybe, meet some interesting people, some good looking women. I swear I hear someone singing Some Enchanted Evening in the backgroud.

Ace: Pick up Allah a corsage. Something that matches the tiny flecks of color in his eyes. :)

DtP came to LA to visit Roger a couple of months ago. Go check his website.

Random observation while I'm sitting here googling "hot dyke cheerleaders": am I the only one who thinks of Wonkette and Washingtonienne whenever he sees this ad?

When I think of AnaCoxucka and the other Ho, I think of two men in drag.

Exhibit A, your honor:
http://www.wonkette.com/archives/washingtons-other-w-twins-009699.php

Now Bart, put on the beer goggles and they ain't so bad!

So? Put on the vodka goggles, and even Allah ain't so bad.

Shit faced or not, Allah is an attractive man.

Oh colon you big suck-up, I bet you say that about all the major dieties!

Allah,

Whatever you are, you're not a failed blogger. You decided - in your own words - to quit while you were ahead (way ahead imo) and you've refused to come back even though everybody wants you to.

Please come back - you'll be making the big bucks with blog ads in no time.

max

Admit it, Brewfan. You would do him, too.

Blogads, Max?

I'd pay for a subscription.

I don't know how to tel you this, but you are not a failed blogger.

You are a legend.

Posted by lauraw at November 16, 2005 01:23 PM

Allah you rock.

Didn't ya have the "Hey comrade, George Bush fucked your mother" T-shirts on your site? And I was this close to getting one.