So here’s the thing, folks – the Left of Dead server over on Discord is still pretty active but it’s getting harder to say the same thing about the Kinja sites…
which is a shame in a great many ways but it seems safe to say that several of the folks that brought you this place & that one have done considerable service above & beyond the call of duty to provide solace to those of us who are mourning Splinter &/or Deadspin (or even Jalopnik in this post PG era) & are keeping a concerned eye on the eventual fate of The Root & Jezebel & all the other odds & ends of the once-Gawker-verse…whose current overlords seem to be…
well, it’s hard to say what they seem to be doing without sounding like a raving paranoid lunatic on account of it doing a fantastic job of looking like they’re taking a bath on a considerable investment that might have earned them a tidy profit if they didn’t appear more interested in denuding it of each & every virtue or asset that might once have pertained thereto in favor of destroying its value as a set of going-concern business opportunities in a sort of Pavlovian approach to cross-breeding VC acquisition behaviors with the much touted ways & means of the catch & kill approach to journalism in what seemingly functionally amounts to an in-kind contribution to the re-elect-this-idiot campaign that is considerably in excess of both the limit on personal monetary donations & all logic or reason of the non-nefarious variety.
I’d like to be kidding about that because I find it hard to take seriously…but I also find it hard to take seriously a number of other phenomena (including but not limited to):
– Jim “the herbiest herb” Spanfeller
– Dumbass Donnie “Littlefingers” Dotard (toddler-in-chief & first of his lame)
– Bill “the lowest” Barr (the “president’s” unofficial personal lawyer & political apologist extraordinaire…aka the “OG AG” who knows no shame)
– “the bullshit they pull/when they full of shit too” as eminem once said
…so the sorry truth is that there’s a statistically significant possibility that that sorry-assed hypothesis is in fact the actual sorry truth about the spanners that have been thrown in various Kinja-works of late…largely by tools bigger than themselves.
So if you think you can fill some of these pages with some less tinfoil-laminated content that would be something you ought not to be keeping to yourselves…
hell, pretty much all of the below (with the arguable exception of yours truly, obviously…) managed it so I’m hardly setting an unfairly high bar, there…
That said, I myself may not be able to abide by that principle…so if you notice a section that references the Transmetropolitan comicbooks or their protagonist Spider Jerusalem…there will most likely be some venting going on thereabouts…
https://ifyoubuildit.kinja.com/until-jerusalem-1839815783
Starred!
For my high school talent show in 10th grade I performed scenes from The Blue Brothers as a one-man show. I can still recite most of the dialogue whenever I watch it on TV. It drives Mrs OldMan crazy.
Do you ever perform the one man show for her?