The Blog Mob
"Written by fools to be read by imbeciles."
......Every conceivable belief is on the scene, but the collective prose, by and large, is homogeneous: A tone of careless informality prevails; posts oscillate between the uselessly brief and the uselessly logorrheic; complexity and complication are eschewed; the humor is cringe-making, with irony present only in its conspicuous absence; arguments are solipsistic; writers traffic more in pronouncement than persuasion . . .
"by and large, homogeneous"?I think we can all agree this is false.
"careless informality prevails"?I have to admit the term 'asshat' has always come across as a tad familiar. So, though I don't think I've ever used the term, in the interest of formality, I'm prepared to label Joe Rago: Mr. Asshat.
"uselessly brief"?touché
"uselessly logorrheic"?huh?
"irony present only in its conspicuous absence"?
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'the uselessly logorrheic...'
ReplyDeleteWell, he got you there -- that was almost ideally ironic! How come you don't got none o' that irony stuff on your webby blog?
The empty space is where I didn't use irony to refute his charge of "a conspicuous absence of irony." The perfect refutation would have involved irony, but!, I knew that, therefore my non use of irony is, in itself ironic.
ReplyDeleteIt was also the easiest thing to do. Which suited me as I was feeling fairly logorrheic anyway.
Irony???
ReplyDeleteYeah, I fell asleep in English the day we covered irony, but I believe it has to do with working ferrous metals into the conversation. (as if it were possible to have a civilized conversation without ferrous metals coming up)
ReplyDeleteWhat would a good axe be without Irony?
ReplyDeleteJust a stick. Exactly.
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