Do bloggers dream of Selectric type? (Erin)
Sunday June 29, 2008
Categories: Varia
Now that Rod's back, I wanted to write one last post before rejoining "all of y'all" in the comment boxes. Last week, after I'd just started guest blogging here, I had a funny dream. In it, a series of frustrating...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Mr. Dreher, thank you for picking such a talented substitute-blogger to stand in for you. Milady Manning did an excellent job, if my opinion is worth anything. I would even go so far as to say that, should she decide to get a blog of her own, you would be faced with formidable competition.....so make sure that she gets a big pat on the head and an extra-large bit of something for her troubles.
(Ms. Manning, you can send my commission to Fulton at your earliest convenience.) ;-)
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Hear, hear.
Well done, Erin!
fbc
Erin,
Bravo for your virtuoso guest performance on the blog. It can't be easy doing an average blog but to keep pace with the number of diverse topics that Rod normally covers has to be exhausting. Whatever it is that we were passing around a few days ago, wine, gin, Jameson, Šljivovica, I lift one and salute you.
BTW, if you are dreaming about blogging, you need a much deserved furlough. I used to spend as much as sixteen hours a day on the computer (not blogging or even reading blogs, which scarcely existed then) but doing technical design (before the web there was gopher!) I did dream about some of that and found that a wee dram of Irish poteen (given me by friends who ... errr.... made it themselves without the advice and consent of the revenue agents) lulls you into a beautiful dreamless sleep with no after effects. No wonder they call it uisce beatha (water of life).
Thanks for a great job, Erin. Rod and you when he has to be away start my day.
Well said and well done, Erin!
Thanks Erin,
It was great!
Chris
Well done as always, Erin. But ...
Hate to be the skunk in the garden party (especially after poor Rod's experience coming home), but someone -- I think Jillian -- commented in here the other day that Crunchy Con is ultimately a profoundly culturally conservative blog, and that cultural liberals are only grudgingly tolerated at the sole discretion of the host.
No one disagreed. I find that telling.
And it's certainly my more doleful impression of CC compared to your understandably more sanguine one, Erin.
Funny, anonymous June 29, but reading the posts and comments on Sorokin, culture and Bobby Jindal, I honestly found myself wondering how "all them 'libruhls' got up in here". :) Unless the discussion went way over my head, not totally out of the realm of possibiliy.
Seriously, this is the only blog I comment on simply for the general civility. This is not to say that when I have given my usual knee-jerk reaction comments, I haven't had my ears slapped back a time or two, but it has helped me learn to weigh what I am about to say a little more carefully. Then I usually post the nonsense anyway to see what will happen.
Another reason I post here. This is the only place I can come to to say how exited I was this weekend to score a copy of Russell Kirk's "Edmund Burke, a genius reconsidered" from a "two-dollar a bag" book sale at the yearly local craft fair and know that other people will be happy for me. Even "Teacher-Boy" my husband gave me that tolerant expression he usually reserves for second graders and kitties who have climbed to high up the curtains.
Yes, Rod, thank you for all the hard work you do here. Thank you Erin, for so capably stepping in, saving many of us from "Crunchy Con" withdrwal. And a big Thank You to Julie for allowing the circus to continue.
Oh, and Erin, cool nod to the book my all-time favorite sci-fi movie, 'Blade Runner' was based on.
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