Category Archives: Allegory

Amusement Parks of the Damned

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Well, it IS in Coney Island.

Waterboard Thrill Ride at Coney Island

Waterboard Thrill Ride at Coney Island

Ladyflower Alert!

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The Adventures of Action Item

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Let us just say this is not the usual raincoaster lifestyle, and that is a very good thing, otherwise the number of mass murders in this city would tend to increase over time in a dramatic, action-orientated, not-for-profit-but-intensely-rewarding-nonetheless GTD out-of-the-box (unless you’re making a reference to Se7en) manner.

The Adventures of Action Item!
The Adventures of Action Item!
The Fun Never Ends! Or at least, the meetings never do!

The Fun Never Ends! Or at least, the meetings never do!

From TheProfessionalSuperhero, passed along by BugGirl.

Operation Global Media Domination: the Lolebrity Situation

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TIA Yay! My baby took her first unassisted steps today.

Well, okay, I may have had an assist in there, but she got the goal all by her own self. I didn’t even notice till the second Gawker thread had 84 comments on it.

Previously, she’d been held up by my daily links from Ayyyy and the occasional act of charity from AgentBedhead, but this past week she’s gotten two links from CelebuWreck without my even begging or linkbaiting for them, so she’s starting to toddle along nicely for a baby, or so I thought.

Until today.

Until she hit a new high of 1662 1718 and counting, with 12.55 hours left in the day, thanks to the fact that (I think) Nick Denton doesn’t yet know I own lolebrity.

Referrer stats:

Referrer Views
gawker.com 207
gawker.com/5033577/wintour-daughter-s… 106
ayyyy.com 37
google.com/reader/view 9
wordpress.com 6
google.com/reader/view/?tab=my 5
agentbedhead.com/index.php/page/2 4
google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&ta… 3
ayyyy.com/category/britney-spears 2
ayyyy.com/page/3 2
ayyyy.com/page/2 2

I’m unsure whether it’s good to get a ton of hits just before I stick ads on it, thus inflating my going rate, or get them just after, thus assuring the ad company and clients of my worth; do I feel guilty or clever? Ah, this is always my dilemma!

Also: Double Gawker Media Whammy! direct link from Defamer today, stuck waaay down at the bottom of the post and good for exactly zero hits so far. I didn’t even link to the NYT, for which I got the “via”; I linked to Valleywag. Is there a Gawker internal spat going on that I don’t know about? I GOT on Facebook; what more do I have to do to get in the goddam fucking loop? Eh? I ask yez.

Chinese Olympic Scandal!

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CHINA Olympic scandal!

CHINA Olympic scandal!

Dateline: the Forbidden City:

Today, shocking news has emerged of the sub-human conditions in which the Chinese Olympic Team (identities obscured here for their protection) is kept. Sadly, it appears that the famously controlling Chinese government is taking no chances on defections, forcing the diminutive athletes to train in specially-segregated gyms. The armed guards in attendance insistently deny to curious passers-by that the amazing feats of prowess observable are those of the products of Beijing‘s notorious “Population Density Optimization Eugenics Program, claiming somewhat lamely that the entire thing is nothing more than a “cicada circus,” the bigger, better Chinese version of a flea circus.

Their story:

The miniature sculpture works of Olympics sport events, pole jump, weight lifting, parallel bars, tennis ball and football made by handicraftsman Guo Futian, 52, are displayed at his home in downtown Beijing city, China, 04 August 2008. Maohou is a Chinese folk art form, and a form of Miniature Art. Artists build miniature sculptures using cicada sloughs and Magnolia buds. An old Beijing artform, Maohou sculpture came into being during the Qing dynasty. The most common Maohou sculptures feature dancing or posturing monkeys, with Magnolia buds used for making its body, cicada torso used for the limbs, and cicada antennae used for the tail. Legend has it that a Beijing herbal medicine shopkeeper designed such miniature toys for his son using the two traditional medicine ingredients since he was too poor to buy any toys.

What Would Amnesty International Do?