a post-blog
Can anyone be of assistance with a small procedural issue?
(in hushed tones)
Hail, fellows.
Out on one of the Far Eastern turnpikes of the information superhighway, there exists a bulletin board site notorious for many things, including blathering, bickering, and questionably-real accounts of nerds rescuing dames on the public transit. And within this vast valley of disinformation exists a thread dedicated to those obsessed that members of other Asian countries are all inherently criminals and generally bad people.
Thy hapless scribe Yxram is now under constant surveillance from these folk, and every time I elucidate the castigation over here on my side, the remarks are extracted for use in the foes' narrative, creating a curious loop.
The inquiry at hand is to validate whether enough overly-antediluvian language and hidden meanings can keep certain messages out of their insidious glare - although I wish to more openly advocate a gander at the other pitch to see how abject their ambitions. But this is nary a war, and for now, I will circumvent the magnification of hostilities.
Posted by marxy at September 1, 2006 5:48 PMEt-say our-yay ncoder-eay o-tay Ig-pay Atin-lay:
Or-ay ou-yay ould-cay ite-wray t-iay n-iay ll-aay iragana-hay. At-thay orked-way en-whay e-thay oblem-pay as-way Momus.
Run everything you post through a Jive filter.
Or get Lance to write for you.
Posted by: Brad at September 1, 2006 6:51 PMI think Lance is in college now. Crazy how fast these kids grow up.
Posted by: marxy at September 1, 2006 7:25 PMShakespearean language is nice. I particularly like the phrase "Hoist on your own petard".
Posted by: Momus at September 1, 2006 8:44 PMYou should just start writing blind items like a gossip column.
"I hear that a certain secratary who is likely about to get a promotion is actually a direct decendent of a class-A war criminal!"
Posted by: lauren at September 1, 2006 9:17 PM"W. David Marx ('93-'95) (aka "Dippy Dave") recently graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in East Asian Studies."
Well fuck. That explains quite a bit.
You really ought to write a bit of a biography, David - if not for anything else, but the sake of context.
Posted by: check at September 1, 2006 10:41 PMWhat - that I was "Dippy Dave" at nerd camp some time ago?
Why do I need to write a bio if my readers are going to snoop around Google for background info anyway?
Posted by: marxy at September 2, 2006 2:14 AMAnd why doth thou allow thineself to become piqued at the incoherent ramblings of a group that could, at best, be classed only as foul degenerates? Knaves, cads and bounders to a man. Their raving should be given no more heed than one would normally reserve for any other denizen of the informational turnpike; that is to say, none at all.
Posted by: Andy at September 2, 2006 7:08 AMBecause I want quotes like yours should be picked up and syndicated!
Posted by: marxy at September 2, 2006 11:09 AMActually, I was looking to find some music from the remains of your band "young, alive, in love".
The band name - copy of a copy or not - sounded tremendous, and during my searching, I was linked to the aforementioned page.
Apologies that this searching wasn’t anything more conducive to paranoia or cynicism.
As for background - it always explains a lot.
If this were the 80s, would you be studying the market psychology behind shoulder pads in women's suit jackets? If so, haw haw.
Posted by: zzzzzzbbbrrr at September 3, 2006 5:10 AMI particularly like the phrase "Hoist on your own petard".
As in, Ho ho, you deserve being bedeviled by intarwebs uyoku knuckledraggers for telling it like it is ? Oh bravo, Brave Sir Momus. Perhaps marxy should instead immediately close neomarxisme and apologise to the Sankei shinbun for disturbing the nation's glorious slide to the far right ?
The Japanese media has returned to the role it played from the 1930s to the first half of the 1940s, as a public-relations organ for militarism. - Minoru Morita - from JT yesterday
Posted by: matt at September 4, 2006 10:55 AMWhoever that foreigner Morita Minoru is - he should go home to his own country! Along with Norimitsu Onishi!
Posted by: marxy at September 4, 2006 11:34 AMhear hear! And we should all applaud Abe's proposed "enforced voluntarism" for university students as the first glorious oxymoronic policy of our new overlord!
Posted by: matt at September 4, 2006 2:08 PM