The Alabama Gang, remembered
We are very sad to report that “Steak Earnhardt” here at Daytona’s Hyde Park restaurant does not involve a mangled, burning steak emblazoned with countless logos.
February 2008
Self-review: Popery
I liked the guest popes. A comic pope-trope that was timely and zany. Will save it for the next papal death fiesta, oh yes, count on it.
Self-review: 2005
A bad year in the beginning. Witness a boredom so intense I set out to describe everything I could see from my office chair in a former Jesuit dorm, where I did nothing all day long, ferociously.
Finally.
Chris Mohney: Each night before drifting off to sleep, he douses his loins with canola oil and wanks himself silly to a photo of Alex Balk’s naked, hairy ass, a photo that he clandestinely procured with a cell phone camera that time Balk passed out with his pants around his ankles in the men’s room of The Magician, circa 2004.
Sure, Alex would like everyone to think it was “clandestinely procured.”
Self-review: Dating bloggers
In light of all this, the clumsy analogy takes a sexy sheen of relevance!
Self-review: Rent Me
Okay, perhaps this is my favorite “comical” photo of 2004. But part of that is knowing Frank, pictured, and the steamroller, also pictured. Rentor of the steamroller neither known nor pictured.
Self-review: The end of TMFTML
There are many embarrassing posts from 2004, but this one is a standout.
Self-review: Dante's Inferno
All these 2004 Coney Island shots were among my favorite “non-serious” photos of the year.
Self-review: Flag and chopper
Probably my favorite “serious” photo of 2004.
Self-review: Stipe vs. Arafat
Still one of my favorite simple photoshop jokes.
Self-review: Donut beverage
Easily the most popular post of 2004. For some reason it got linked on a lot of (self-described) conservative political humor websites.
Self-review: Cormac McCarthy will not die
This post on casting a movie version of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian still gets comments as recently as now, not including “female foot domination” spam.
Self-review: 2004 onwards
I am engaged in a time-travel review of my first blog, Diztopia, which started in February 2004. Here I vent spleen about not getting hired to run Gridskipper the first time. Bonus Nick Denton and Choire mentions.
My first emphatic infix.
Chris. Fucking. Mohney.
He'd do it, but he's too busy writing the other two.
Someone should start up a Famous Original Fake Nick Denton tumblr.
see, the head-fake here would be the Fake Alex Balk blog.
Even with this, I still am liking this other Denton more. With luck they’ll start riffing on each other and spawn a fungal patch of bloggy homonculi.
The meta-hunt begins.
nickdenton: is tumblr me actually you?
chrismohney: Ha! Sorry, not me. Saw it, but was disappointed it didn’t go into a full-bore Fake Steve Jobs direction.
