Wednesday, May 13, 2009

New Targets for the Old Range



Who am I not making fun of? What prominent or not-so-prominent writers, bloggers, actors, aliens, politicians, journalists, prevaricators, pontiffs, potentates, and poobahs am I missing? Who should Who Is IOZ? target next? What arguments are in dire need of diddling? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man?

Taking. Suggestions.

Posted by IOZ at 1:42 PM | email »
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53 comments:

Frederick said...

The Guys from Area 51, and, well, Agitprop to boot. Those assholes need to be taken down a peg or two.

1:57 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

The Defeatists definitely are not worth your time. we'll just wind up agreeing with you.

we're spineless.

it sure would be fun to get some more pwoggie twolls though. you should do something to upset people at Daily KOS. or Little Green Footballs. something like that. let's make this place a party.

2:02 PM
Christopher M. said...

You've spent a lot of time glazing your eyes over at Digby's, but if you really want your soul to die, try reading Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings.

2:05 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

this place should be like wheat gluten, or even plastic grocery bags blown into a shrubbery, at your alma mater. you know, really roiling.

2:05 PM
Montag said...

big bird. we need to shatter these little shits' (who are our future) illusions before it's too late.

2:25 PM
dhex said...

foodies. a worse-named group there has never been.

2:45 PM
Rowan said...

LOLcats. They're asking for it.

3:01 PM
Anonymous said...

Definitely Newell.

3:03 PM
romerocker said...

go inward IOZ.

3:09 PM
Anonymous said...

Peak oil lunatics, hyperinflation fantasists, and other apocalyptic types who think there will be some clean break in which The Future starts happening rather than the muddling along that's characterized all of human history—they're just as ridiculous in their own way as the pwog, even if far more sympathetic.

3:17 PM
Aaron said...

Goldbugs.

3:34 PM
lucid said...

Anon - But apocalypse is just good clean fun. :)

3:38 PM
Dawn Coyote said...

http://www.doublex.com/

4:03 PM
dveej said...

Well, you know, you've pretty much done almost everybody.

...almost...

There remain at least two targets:

1) your do-nothing, don't-got-a-life, vicariously-experiencing reality through the writings and opinions of somebody with a blog who is vociferous but not particularly expert at anything usefully enough to be paid for it and thus to have no time to blog;

2) yourself (see above characterization).

Love your blog, etc.

-a vicarious, no-life reader

4:25 PM
dveej said...

..oops, meant to include the word "readers" in the above first paragraph - not intending to slam you without first and more strongly slamming myself!

4:27 PM
Brian said...

your readers. We are undeserving of anything but scorn. It was the thrill of my comatose life to have the attention of The Ioz turned upon me during the "Drive Slow in the Fast Lane" imbroglio.

4:28 PM
Brian said...

oops. dveej more eloquently says the same thing. Which makes me even more worthy of scorn!

4:29 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

so you mean, um - hobbyists, dveej?

4:29 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

skeet shooters, then. and anglers.

4:31 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

weekend warriors!

4:32 PM
Dawn Coyote said...

Also, feminists. They are so totally asking for it.

4:36 PM
AlanSmithee said...

Whigs, Bull-Moosers, Suffragists and Auteurists. Especially Auteurists.

4:36 PM
Anonymous said...

Pandagon. Even Jesse Taylor writes like a twat these days. Or maybe the FireDogLake crew.

Other than that, we should make a soundboard and prank call various pwoggie pooh-bahs.

4:37 PM
dveej said...

Or, too, we could pick on those who don't merit it in any way, just to be different: newborn infants, small furry vegetarian mammals, idealistic people selflessy working for the good of the planet without recognition...

...but then we'd be Republicans, so fuck all that.

5:09 PM
Happy Jack said...

You need to be linked by NRO. Their fanboys are always a cornucopia of fun.

5:23 PM
Agi said...

You haven't experienced true proggel lunacy until you've experienced Shakesville.

5:54 PM
El Serracho! said...

I second the Shakesville request. Just spend a few minutes in the comments section.

5:59 PM
The CultureGhost said...

Oh yes...Shakesville is Proggel Disneyland...

6:04 PM
AlanSmithee said...

I'll third that. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Shakesville. Or Mos Eisley. Whichever.

6:06 PM
Anonymous said...

a little lazy there IOZ, no? if i am going to give you ideas, why not blog myself....and insert google ads to make 15, maybe 16 cents a month.

6:43 PM
sarahkane said...

Racefail

6:51 PM
Anonymous said...

Mencius Moldbug: bring on the Moldbuggery, IOZ!

6:53 PM
Anonymous said...

john stossel

7:00 PM
Edward said...

The street corner atheists are getting a bit of a free ride.

7:08 PM
Aaron said...

And hipsters.

7:15 PM
incgnfcnt said...

twitter
total abomination

7:35 PM
Schizo said...

well, this isn't really about ripping on things per se, but to go along with your increasingly earnest cultural commentary (movies, random links to opera, "foodie friday") -- maybe some discussion of your opinion of popular music?

8:11 PM
Jenny said...

Pandagon? Shakesville? Come the fuck on. they're feminist blogs, we need feminist blogs, damn it!

8:26 PM
Anonymous said...

Um, two suggestions.

1. Yourself.
2. Your overly PKD-influenced attempts at fiction writing. I mean, seriously. Who name drops THEMSELVES? Especially when the author in question- yourself- isn't good at fiction?

You are a goldmine. Start digging, motherfucker.

9:37 PM
The Promiscuous Reader said...

Lips that touch apocalypse will never touch mine.

10:33 PM
TGGP said...

The Emperor of All Woo.

12:46 AM
Anonymous said...

No one's saying they should be obliterated, Jenny, just mocked. Especially since they're also notoriously humorless and quick to ban dissent, leading their comment sections to become echo-chamber strokefests.

9:18 AM
Anonymous said...

Shakesville has become a right-wing parody of identity politics. If they print the word "fauxgressive" one more time I'm gonna go insane. They have a more stringent purity test then Rush Limbaugh ever dreamed of. Agree with them 99% of the time? Not good enough - you’re a "fauxgressive".
Every time I open Shakesville I end up wanting to marry Ann Coulter and work for the RNC.

9:53 AM
IOZ said...

Well, I was sort of hoping for a new Gates of Vienna, but this was worth it just for the denunciations of IOZ, especially the dude(tte) who accuses me of plagiarising procystic kidney disease in my occasionally alluded-to fictioneering.

10:29 AM
Anonymous said...

Here's a story for you...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html?_r=1

11:22 AM
Anonymous said...

I just think procystic kidney disease does a much better job of the whole distopian future thing.

11:30 AM
mac said...

Guys with slicked back pony-tails, little round glasses who wear overalls with the straps hanging loose

11:39 AM
lucid said...

Promiscuous Reader... so you don't live up to your handle then, eh?

1:10 PM
McAdoo said...

How about Washington Monthly? A fetid rotting corpse of a blog.

1:44 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

the Shakes crew was there for me when I needed them.

1:53 PM
bill said...

I think you should go look up everyone who has participated in this thread, except me, and just kill their asses. (Dead that is.) Your arrest, trial and incarceration and/or execution (I don't know how they roll, death penalty-wise, in good old Pittsburgh) would offer you a fecund source of insights and humor with which to delight all your remaining readers. (I.e., the 15 who refrained from commenting on this topic, plus me.)

2:17 PM
RobKob said...

Socks and Sandals

- try and make fun of the most comfortable combination of footware

(BTW, you have some clickjacking on this page...)

5:58 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

So. Why don't you like baseball?

11:12 PM

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