Friday
(0)Having said nice things about Instapundit in my previous post (below), I feel compelled (i.e. choose) to add that I have also today criticised him, here. My complaints concern, first, the unfortunate picture that is used at the top of his recent Guardian articles, and, second, a visual blemish that disfigures his otherwise impeccably laid out blog. Briefly, when he has a picture to the right of a posting, it usually has text jammed right up against it. When I have a picture on the right of something I post, it does not do this. The conclusion is inescapable: I am better person than Instapundit.
Queue an HM Bateman Cartoon, entitled The Man Who Criticised Instapundit, featuring a handsome, smiling, carefree young man (me), surrounded by guests in shocked statue poses who have just heard what he said.
Don't you mean "cue an HM Bateman cartoon"?
The great Izzard said it best when he uttered "You pronounce it 'erb', and we pronounce it 'herb'... because there's a fucking 'H' in it."
Posted by James at November 13, 2004 04:11 AM
Horace
Yes I keep getting that one wrong. Thanks, I think.
Posted by Brian Micklethwait at November 13, 2004 04:22 AM
let us not kid anybody...that picture is what the dead tress press thinks of bloggers...not quite human..
Posted by e m butler at November 13, 2004 01:47 PM
e m butler:
"let us not kid anybody...that picture is what the dead tress press thinks of bloggers...not quite human.."
Of course it is! That must be their rationale behind offering him regular exposure in a column on their publication.
The "dead tress press" as you so quaintly put it, you semi-illiterate fool, have come to develop a high regard for intelligent and eloquent bloggers. After all, they are journalists, and appreciate the power of the written words, independent of the medium. They do, of course, have a low opinion (shared by the rest of us) of unintelligent, bleating halfwits who think the fact that they have actually managed to type in and submit a blog entry puts them on the cutting edge of noo journalism.
You still need brains, dude.
Posted by Rollo at November 13, 2004 07:53 PM
hey rollo
I think my typo-ed report at least will guarantee me a job withe the Gaurdian.. and that photo was deliberate ,showing off their newly captured blogger in native dress and vacant stare..
Posted by e m but;er at December 2, 2004 09:53 PM
