I'm rather torn here because I like Will... He has such an avuncular face...

But.

He has a blog to fill.

And that makes pickpockets out of most people it would seem.

Oh, the curse of all those Cyber-Fagins!

- Leeches on the forums who then parade their newly garnered knowledge and insights on their own little vanity blogs...

... I also love most of our 'Trad' bloggers too - And they are all 'Trads', btw - Not a one of them has moved forwards from that position even if they call their stuff 'TNSIL' or 'Ivy'.

A while back I said that my love of Will was that he shared my love of the Baracuta G9 & a nip of Calvados... The irony was too subtle for most to notice I think...

Auchincloss is another nice case study - I chatted about him to Cooly over here & suddenly 'Harris' 'discovers' him all by himself...

- And then now, after I've just posted a snap of the chap over here on FNB, Dunderland's Christian M. Chensvold suddenly has an Auchincloss item on his 'Ivy' blog's 'news' section for the first time...

There was no Auchincloss on here before me. Ditto GTH. Ditto that Boston Cracked Shoe look. Ditto... Ditto... Ditto... 

- And God forbid that Horace ever points out what has been stolen from him with never a word.

For fun here's three blogs by the same man. These are their 'About' pages. And what are they about? I primarily see a photo stage managed to suit the site and an appropriately tuned biog:

http://www.ivy-style.com/about

http://www.dandyism.net/?page_id=2

http://www.fineartsla.com/?page_id=2

This is nice to read too:  http://stickpinmedia.com/

Why doesn't he have a DIY or a Gardening blog as well? I long to see him tricked up like Wurzell Gummage...   

http://www.cherryfairy.com/Images/worzel.jpg

I relished the day that that fake came my way. Harris had cleared off by then & I was just kicking my heels a bit...



So why not join in?


- Add your own blogging parasites here!



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Chumiest of Chums,

I must agree with me mates on the matter.

Tis not the blogging that bothers me,, but the bloviating and banal blogging business.  Allow me to break down.

Some may recall that I posted pessimistic on ol Russell’s threads in re Mr. Longwing’s links and TheSpeculum.net (or is it,, curriculum?).  At least on an open fora such as this,, there exists a level of ‘peer review.’  Whilst we perchance are not splitting the ol atom here,, if someone is taking the piss, we can certainly let them know it here.

As ol Horace points out,, publishing ones unchecked views and 'strains' of thought is rarely rewarding to the reader.  Worse,, there appears to be a pervading perspective that that these literati must blog on a daily basis,, thus setting a course for banality, banditry, and bloviating.  And soooo,, we are left sifting thru reviews of electronics pieces,, rehashes of fora discussions, and all manner of whatnot.  Not the end of the world what.  A bit like an electronic Speakers’ Corner at ol Hyde Park, no?  If one does not like the speaker,, well then in the words of my ol chum, carry on ol sport. 

On the bothersome business of banditry,, I must admit I have mixed views..  I like to think that it was a private consult with ol Russ that lead to his epic Stop Thief thread.  For Tchauncey tho,, the distinction comes in how the borrowed ideas are treated.  Allow me to illustrate,, let us assume that a poster “H” mentions something in a memory of times gone bye.  Now let us say that another poster,, oh… lets just call him Stinky, now starts a new thread on that thought or item. Now our friend ol Stink could say, ‘someone recently mentioned…//or// I was recently reminded..”   But of course, our trad trickster generally cannot.  For mistaking the ol interweb with his prep school newspaper,, he feels compelled to publish this new concept,, and add hisself as the hero.

If a blogger is adding their own opinion, providing pictures of their kit, or adding to the virtual circle jerk,, then good on em.  If they are just bloviating,, then it becomes bothersome right quick.  .

Much like the mythical Wahoo bird that flies in ever decreasing concentric circles until it flies up its own asshole!

A caveat.  If a blogger has sooo far slipped the coil of reality that he starts giving lessons to the lessers,,,por ejemplo, oh lets just say some bloke were to start giving Intro to Wasp lectures,, then please do not slap them back to reality because it provides ol TChauncey far too much entertainment.  There should be a law that such naffs must allow uncensored comments tho.  And that is where I see ol FNBs site providing a public service.

Now,, I have bloviated enough.

Cheerio.

Last edited by tripchauncey (2008-12-20 09:54:20)

Can I raise the thought that the forum is somehow more the man of ideas' medium than the blog?
The cut & thrust and the creative challenging that goes on.
It all depends on the forum of course and who is on it & how it is modded...

A blog is a monologue.

The distaste for the 'Ivy Style' site was that all contributions were reworked into the image of Chevsnold by Chevsnold and as nobody rated him on the subject of Ivy nobody would put up with it.

Other 'Trad' blogs give us endless quirky perspectives and somehow because they come from real enthusiasts, no matter how well informed they are or are not, we read them and enjoy their contributions to the larger debate. Hence the fact, surprising to some, that WASP 101 has more credibility than Ivy Style and that  The Squire is looked on with more affection than the opportunistic Chevsnold.

Personally I still look with fondness on 'The Curriculum' site's efforts - It's a bubble world & they know it & they are keeping it that way. Fedora to the hilt.
What I dislike is the dishonesty elsewhere from those who pose as knowing what they are talking about and only mislead the newbies & the easily lead. I personally found Manton's defence of 'Trad' disgraceful. No - I'll be honest - I found it delightfully disgusting. It showed him up wonderfully.

'Trad' has had endless chances to reform, revise and try to be something real. Instead all its best brains spend their time in justifying things which cannot be justified. To read Alden Pyle is to marvel at the waste of a brain.

And so as always Gomez wins. His objective was to make the iGents look ridiculous, mine was to open a door to lead those with a real interest into a much more interesting debate...
- And today with 'Trad' we still have much more to laugh at than to think about 4 years on.
... I'm inclined to blame the medium of the Net. as it is now & the sort of people it attracts personally. It only has itself to blame for its bad reputation out in the real world.

Such a waste!

But so entertaining... Just like Bedlam was to our forebears.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/The_Rake%27s_Progress_8.jpg  --

Best -

J.

http://www.filmnoirbuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=630

^ Ahhhh - The 'Genital Hat'!

I note that due to the credit crunch these are on sale now at give-away prices and so with Christmas just around the Johnny-Horner (is that real slang or just something that Bill Mateson says?) I've bought up a lorry load for us to distribute around the Net. to those in need.

That's what Christianity means.

Your nominations please, Gentlemen: Who needs a little something extra in their lives so they can stop over-compensating on the Internet and lead a happy normal life?

The hats come in all styles, Fedoras included. Some even have 'drape' for those iGentiles amongst you.

Best -

J.

^ Very different times back in Sept.'06. ...

I'd say FNB was genuinely bored & Cooly thought my meanness was too mean.

The Great Seamless Shetland Scandal was to open more peoples' eyes to ol' 'Arry & over time FNB got a little more used to the sound of my voice. Daily. Without respite...

How nice to reopen that old thread again here!

Now - Genital Hats?

We didn't even have 'Trad' blogs back then I don't think.

Back then it was fellow forum members nicking stuff off 'Orace back when he graced (our newly trolled into being) AAAT. Now it's the bloggers who have the sticky fingers.

The lighthearted malice of the 'G.hat' thread was to suggest that the posturing posters of the fora were trying to compensate for some lack in their lives with all their 'sainted' BS. For fun I thought I'd suggest that they were all hung like Hamsters, but more accurately they're probably compensating for crap jobs, crap lives, crap wardrobes.

... All of this makes me think about myself - An iGent in reverse. Why do I post here posing as a scumbag when I'm really such a terrific guy?

I guess I must feel guilty about my all round tip-top loveliness when so many are so yucky...

We all have our cross to bear.

^ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... I once got banned for telling people that for the smoothest **** shaving couldn't compare with using a cigarette lighter...