Archive for the ‘Blogospheric Navel-Gazing’ Category
Programming notes
The second Balloon Juice ideas festival is taking place this afternoon (starting at 3) at McGee’s. Digby and Corey Robin will be on Virtually Speaking tonight.
February 12, 2012
· 
DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
10 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
Maybe your friends think I’m just a stranger
Okay, so we’re on for McGee’s tomorrow at 3 pm. I’ll wear my trapper hat so as to look recognizable. Hopefully, others will have balloons, stuffed cats, etc. to make us recognizable.
February 11, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 30 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Sunday get together
I called McGee’s and they said we should be fine near the bar on the first floor if we’re about 30 people or so. I’m a little reluctant to make a formal reservation anywhere since I don’t know how many people will come for sure (and I don’t want to make people RSVP or anything). [...]
February 10, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 41 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Balloon-Juice meet-up: good enough for me
Word ‘round the campfire is that the intended spot for the next BJ get-together may be too crowded, so we’ll try this place instead: McGee (240 West 55 Street Between Broadway and 8th Avenues). I’ll try calling tomorrow to make sure they can get some space for 20-30 people. Hope to see you there, Sunday [...]
February 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 26 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Late night open thread
What’s your favorite song ever about driving? I’ll go with “Nothing But The Wheel” and “Blue Driver” (these are both covers). A little obscure, for me, but I like them. Talk about anything else too. I think we’ll do the Balloon-Juice meet-up Sunday at McGee’s on 55th and 8th.
February 8, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 222 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Open Thread, Readership Capture
The lights are much brighter there: Sunday BJ meet-up at Walker’s Sunday at 3
All right, let’s do it: Walker’s (TriBeca) on Sunday at 3. I’m more of an Upper West Side G, but Walker’s worked so well last time I don’t want to chance it somewhere else. Can someone call and reserve room in the back for 20? I’m not good at that kind of thing. Update. Walker’s [...]
February 8, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 38 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Another BJ get together?
Is anyone in New York up for another Balloon Juice get together next Sunday afternoon? I was thinking the same place—because Walker’s was great I thought—but we could do something else somewhere else (e.g. a different part of town, but Walker’s was pretty subway convenient). Let me know what you think.
February 5, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 51 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Readership Capture
Crossing The Rubin Con On Romney
Oh, Jennifer Rubin. You really are a terrible hack, and why the Kaplan machine keeps inflicting you upon the populace, I’ll never know. Romney as the nominee will be flyspecked and criticized over every word. He needs to avoid actual gaffes. But he can’t keep the media from editing out all the inconvenient parts of [...]
February 2, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
“Israel firsters”
Tebow knows I’m not a speech police, and I agree with John that there’s nothing wrong with describing Jeff Goldberg as a “former Israeli prison guard”, given that his best known work is about his experiences as an Israeli prison guard, but I think everyone should stop using the phrase “Israel firster”. People like Spencer [...]
January 30, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 144 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
It’s Weird What Passes as a Smear These Days
I was reading Spencer Ackerman’s attempts to shame people for their use of terminology he dislikes in this exceptionally tedious debate about the smear campaign started against CAP and others (Glenn has a good piece on it), and came across this: On Tuesday, writer Max Blumenthal used a gross phrase to describe Goldberg: “former Israeli [...]
January 27, 2012
· John Cole · 103 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
GOP CURIOUS
For the lulz. He just can’t help himself. It’s this simple. One party talks about the debt, one party is trying to do something about it. One party wants to slash taxes and follow policies that would make the debt worse, the other is willing to come to the table and make hard decisions. That’s [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 56 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Bring on the Brawndo!, Burkean bells
Good-bye doesn’t mean we’ll never be together again
Steve Benen is leaving his Washington Monthly gig to be on MSNBC: I have some news to share: after three-and-a-half years at the Washington Monthly, I’m moving on. My last post will be tomorrow and I’ll start my new career at MSNBC on Monday morning. Working for the Monthly has been an amazing experience, but I’m thrilled about [...]
January 24, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 101 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
Favorite non-political blogs
What are your five favorite blogs that aren’t about politics? Mine are New York Cork Report, ProFootballFocus, Dappered, Can’t Explain, and the Rochesterian (occasionally about politics, but mostly more general local content). I’m constantly surprised by how much more I learn from reading blogs than by reading newspapers or magazines.
January 19, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 147 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
I’m searching for my mainline
I don’t find the future of the Democratic party especially interesting: I expect that ten years from now, it will still be the same moderate, corporatist-but-not-as-corporatist-as-Republicans party that it is today. The one change I see is that it will become less and less white, and maybe that will have some good effects. I think [...]
January 16, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 111 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Burkean bells
Oh. Wow. Guess I Missed That. Happy 10th Anniversary, Balloon Juice
So apparently we had our tenth anniversary on the blog a week ago, and I missed it. This shit show started ten years ago on the 2nd of January, 2002. Here is the inaugural post: Since nothing in my life is easy, I doubt this will work the first time I try it. If it [...]
January 10, 2012
· John Cole · 340 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
