April 21, 2004
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Oops, I did it again...
I listened to Air America on the way home and caught the first half hour of Majority Report. They are hitting lefty boggers hard for material - today Atrios was filling in for Garofalo.
Except, I didn't hear much from Atrios. Sam Seder fawned all over him and then just worked his way into the usual rantsand bad jokes (from memory):
'Sitting across from me is the blogger Atrios. He is behind a scrim-[to engineer] would you call that a scrim? Yes I think scrim is the right word hahaha.....anybody who thinks we don't have a Taliban-like problem in this country is out of touch'
Once again I was denied my blogger-on-the-air fix. Incidentally, the technical problems continue. Atrios' mic wasn't on in the beginning and they had trouble running a short loop of Garofalo 'joking' about the engineer's face turning "a color that is beet-like". ROTFL, I tell you.
I did learn that Atrios is maintaining such deep pseudonym cover that his 'friends and family' don't know who he is (once again, Seder tells us that, asks for a confimation and keeps blabbing). He's insta-prolific isn't he? What on earth does he tell people he's doing all the time? How does he explain the funny blogger screen on his computer? As a fellow pseudonym blogger I can tell you my friends and family know all about this.
I applaud Air America's idea of tapping the weblogging community for ideas. Now they should shut up and let them contribute because the on-air talent is only funny and entertaining in the way Plan Nine From Outer Space is funny and entertaining.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at April 21, 2004 10:09 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksWe at www.newamericanempire.org are also jealous of Atrios' success, Mr. Dreck.
Plan Nine?
Now that's just cruel.
On the other hand, like Doug Piranha, who nailed his wife's head to a coffee table, you're a cruel man, but fair...
Bah, they didn't let Atrios speak much because they were afraid the NSA would get enough of his voice to do a voiceprint comparison with Echelon intercepts...
(Of course, if you don't believe Atrios' real identity isn't an open secret in Dem circles, I have a bridge over the Schuykill River to sell you...)
There's a picture of Hatrios here. His face has been intentionally distorted.
That was taken at the Unity Dinner, so several people must know who he is. Plus, he's been on AirAmerica twice now, so somebody must recognize his voice.
If you're one of those somebody's, here's a hint: go to a public library and set up a geocities site using a yahoo mail account.
Lost you there, Chris. You're saying Atrios's identity isn't an open secret among Dems?
Here's what I think is the interesting question (and it has little to do with Atrios):
Do Garofalo and friends really think the US has a "Taliban-like problem", seriously?
If they're not serious, why do they think it's useful and good to pretend that it is so?
If they are serious, where can I get some of what they're smoking?
It's been pretty well established that "atrios" is a substitute high school gym teacher from Philadelphia. What has never been entirely clear, however, is why the Philly school authorities permit one of their employees to devote so much of his "working" hours to his blog and related activities.
As a fellow prolific deep-cover blogger (not only is my identity a complete secret, but my blog is too), the way you keep your activities secret even from friends and family is...
1. Don't have any.
2. Never tell anyone you have a blog.
3. Become nocturnal/diurnal (opposite of your friends/etc.
4. Write blog posts on pieces of paper, claim they are "to-do" notes to yourself. Never let anyone see them. Type them up in secret.
5... etc. etc.
I never realized Atrios' actual identity was such a secret, mostly because I never cared all that much.
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