Remembrance of things posted
Timeless. Not to mention an apt image with which to shut down this blog. I’ve figured it out now and this is how it works: If I blog, I don’t work on the novel(s), but if I don’t blog but continue to read eight newspapers and several dozen blogs a day, I don’t work on the novel(s) either.
Which is not even to mention just how completely sick and fucking tired I am of American politics. Reading Jeff Sharlet’s “The Family” is helping me to realize that the super haves in this country have been fascists for as long as there’s been fascism. If anything, we know more about them and their agenda now than we used to (when we thought the two parties really ran everything).
So I guess what I’m saying is that I need to be done with this, this being this blog which is much more than just a metaphor for my incomeless life and deer-in-the-headlights take on this new but already ass-fucked and left in a ditch for dead century of ours. I could comment further, but I already have — far too many times.
While I haven’t really accomplished anything with this blog (shee-it, I couldn’t even parlay a decade of C-tier blogging into a free Netroots Nation membership) I have been on the winning side a few times. Well, once that I didn’t end up regretting later, anyways.
For them that foolishly think they can’t get by without my links, here are some folks that routinely post at least one links aggregation post a day (and several “real” posts), and all do so more coherently and straightforwardly than I ever did:
Steve Benen (Political Animal)
Avedon Carol’s Sideshow
Not to mention newssloggers like ThinkProgress, TPM Muckraker and Raw Story.
For straight up politics heavy on the writing and the ugly, do keep reading:
Firedoglake (I’m a firebagger, you’re a firebagger — hell, we’re all firebaggers except for the fucks we elect)
However much money you have, they’re going to fuck you out of it but for those who think otherwise here are some good blogs about money and economics:
For the few of you who liked my tech links, all you really need to know is TechDirt, TorrentFreak, and, if you’re into quantity over quality, Techmeme.
Minnesota? If you clicked on my Minnesota links, you already know more about those blogs than I do. No links as those I omit will just feel slighted all over again and I think I’ve slighted the DFL enough these last eight years.
Arts? Everything you ever got me from either came from James Wolcott, Max Sparber, JafaBrit or Eyeteeth. Food: Heavy Table. Generic weirdness? BoingBoing and Waxy.
Humor? There is no god but TBogg, whose memes I took in vain constantly. Honor my memory by reading him (actually, I think he’s on vacation right now but it’s a blogger’s vacation, i.e., working at his real job too hard to find time to snark). For the polytheists among you, I also recommend Roy Edroso, and if you don’t mind being baffled once in a while, Crazy Internet Beatz.
And if you need something to be outraged about, what KBR is doing to Jamie Leigh Jones should be outrageous enough to hold you until the start of the new school year. If not, check in with Clusterfuck Nation once a week.
Never stop being offended by the dirty, creepy things powerful people do when they think no one can hold them accountable but, for my part, accept that I can’t keep sorting through this shit day after day after day. Eight years of political blogging was probably about four years too many, especially when every link in the world wouldn’t be enough to make a difference.
The book(s), assuming it/they get written, probably won’t make a difference either, but they’ll be entirely of my own making, something the news never was.
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Acknowledgments: [insert selfless copy here, followed by mumbled this and that] … Minnesota Observer for being a contributing blogger once upon a time, Tild for countless inspired graphics, and my readers who, despite my telling them to go the fuck away, never did and yes, I still think you should talk to someone about that.
For the record, I am not killing this blog. I’m just not planning to write any more posts for the foreseeable future, with no plans for resuming posting without being adamant about it. Yes, this book(s) better be good.
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He wrote Hound Dog about the time I came into this world, and I’ve heard that song once or twice since then, not to mention having been a hound dog once or twice or mebbee five or seven other times besides.
Oh, and Amy Winehouse had no drugs in her system other than alcohol when she died. So I guess that was OK that she died then and that’s probably a good place to leave it (her and this blog).
I think you are a good blogger.
The blogs you list as go-to sources are great I’m sure, but when I started reading blogs yours was the first one that really clicked on practically all levels. So: you’ll be missed. I’ll miss reading you.
Melt into the world and make some great art. Godspeed.
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I’ll add this to the “Worthwhile Daily Blog Reading” list:
http://dailygrail.com/
Scroll down for the daily links. I frequently find stuff of interest here that I haven’t seen elsewhere. Kinda like Rense.com but without the hysteria, conspriacies and xenophobia.
The intertubes will be a poorer place without your blog and your snark, Wege.
Good luck to you, Wege. I can’t say that I’ve ‘enjoyed’ reading you cuz doing so tends to just raise my blood pressure. But your site was always the ‘go to’ place for political links. I always learned something new or became outraged by the sheer stupidity and greed of our society.
Best wishes on your book. I’m sure you will be happier and healthier (both mind and spirit) doing something creative that you have control over rather than the clusterfuck that’s become our nation and political environment.
I think about dropping out, too, and not reading the links as sometimes it’s just too much to ‘know’ even a tiny portion of what’s going on, and being frustrated and at a loss on what the heck to do about it. Hopefully little things will matter…talking to people, pointing out the hypocrisy, calling the Tea Baggers on their bull.
Best wishes! We will miss your snark but understand it’s time to move on.
I’ve always loved reading your blog. Good luck with the writing. I’ll miss reading you
Hey, the Fair is coming up isn’t it?
Wege, are you at long last going to join the festivities across the street and then run away with a thirty something Gypsy Girl? Or perhaps a barrel riding princess in her twenties from Ontario?
Outstanding idea.
Some seriously twisted sci fi indulgence via your pen sounds long over due as well, you could probably tie it all together in a worthy roll.
Always sit in Section168. Have fun, but if you come back with an Obama playing three dimensional chess banner, brace yourself for some imbedded shenagians that will make freebaseing look like Walt Disney himself napping.
All the best. See ya around…
I’ll miss you in a Norwegian sort of way. Uffda. And I want a signed copy of yer book, don cha know? (I’d even pay for it, it must be goot, fer shure) Thanks for the links I haven’t already been looking at… you will be missed :(
Thanks Wege. I am very flattered to be listed next to Matt Taibbi on your list of recommended blogs.
I am not so sure we won’t be seeing more of you. Oh yes, I can easily believe that you are frustrated, tired, hopeless, and all the other legitimate feelings appropriate for the era. But I believe that what is really pissing you off is the feeling that so MUCH should be happening and so little actually is. All the paths to solutions seem to have been blocked.
But let something start moving, and I am sure we will see the Wege return with a vengeance. In the meantime, write those freaking novels. They have obviously been percolating in your head for some time and need to come out.
Good luck man!
Nooooooo!!!!!
But….as long as you’re working on a novel, which means your fans will eventually get to read you again, I guess we can then say Go in peace. Write on.
But man, I sure will miss your excellent, lucid rants.
Ah, the book(s). Now that is an endeavor that could be far more frustrating than blogging. But you gotta do what you gotta do. Good luck, Wege:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/booknook/entries/2011/08/24/that_book_in_the_drawer.html?cxtype=feedbot
I’ve been a regular (sometimes obsessive) reader of your blog for some time. I will miss your point of view and I’ll probably be clicking into the Norwegianity site regularly just in case you’ve changed your mind. I hope you’ll find some way to keep giving somebody (who deserves it) hell somewhere.
What everyone said. Wege, I’ve known you a long time and I want to wish you the best on the book(s). For the hangers-on who have come to depend on you for politics and music, I’d like to recommend this blog:
http://snarkypenguin.blogspot.com/
I’ll believe it when I don’t see it.
Let me know if you need a resume.
—BD
I’ve long considered myself a blog-killer, but never for a blog that I never posted on. I just started reading you recently (surfed in from CH), but I’ve found your outrage cathartic and your links edifying. Good luck on the projects.
-Cynical Jason
Best-o-luck with the book. You’ve been a daily read that I’ll miss.
Blogging or not blogging you best beware – if I ever make it up to Minneapolis I will attempt to look you up. Hopefully, it will be after I retire, and I’ll be packin’ what I used to do when I was an untested young person.
I have resisted clicking in, since you said you would be gone until after Labor Day—-but the calling was too strong. And now I have read what I feared the most…your blog is on extended leave :(. I am hoping, selfishly, that you will return after your respite. But alas- if you do not- fair well my fellow Norwegian. I will miss you ever so much.
Barbara
Go true, not much…use the love
Black dirt to the west, east, south, and north. City man…got nothing but aggregation?
No breeze of A a a anarchy. You still afraid of your neighbors?
Be the love Wege.
Want to throw stones?
Ok then….
I doubt it.
Think you see.
Why not been doing it.
BE!
OH SHIT I GUESS YOU GOT THAT CONCEPT NOW! Gonna stick with it? 3 4 5 string where it takes you? Them word things.
Good, bad, and ugly motherfucker!
You just be.
Don’t worry us common almost literate union lads will pick up the pieces that are coming in principle and bits of shattered wares.
Why not?
Bring it with deep project if you got it.
Aggregation is may I boldly say a decade lost?
No not that decade!
http://vbox7.com/play:4132ea4f
Not going away has been.
run. get high in the trees with endeavor.
fuck aggregation
You want addition?
Subtract. Get some productive addiction.
you might have it. If so? shoot it!
You aren’t that old yet. Even though as a fool sometimes you wish you were.
Never forget that nor your wuss yeild to many of your comfortable readers.
No offense.
UNION! Never was about individual never about anything but UNION.
You want what lost
Write.
JUST TO FK WITH YOU LINK AND EMBED>>>
COULD BE !@ ZAPPA TUNES>>>>>Wick burn old could actually be and are more EEeeeducational.
Good luck Wege. I love ya man.
Eyes full and ears full will never be enough.
You have no idea how your aggregation was read. My guess anyway. It feed. Mostly simply frustration but you did feed.
There were perhaps a few loading and unloading folk too. LOL…bwhaahahwwwwaaaaaahaaa
Getting over that yet?
The pause of the wiremen, pipe fitter, tire man, and oh shit writer, word is world Wege.
Sci fi or not. You gonna ply your trade or bitch?
1 It is upon your shoulder.
2. WTF
3 yes
4 what you looking at
HAVE ANOTHER SDHOULDER TO YOUR OTHER ACTIVITIES!
GET ON WITH IT.
Encase and excuse the licking links , imbed, and WhaaaHaa, Ha, haaaaa way, haaaaaaa
Bwaaa, ha..haaa haaa
You still sleep?
might be done
In dout you are done lifting. Just have too
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT WE WANT NOT AGGREAtioinmlgudjyt5regcvboiujyhgfrtfygukbhliol’kjygrfgdcygu
even you old fuck, shy duimbass, what flow
let me go find it
dry…moving minds nothingh good
ITS LABOR DAY…WTF? yup that shit still goes on
Speak. I apologize for my rants. Stop stroking Wege. He is Romeo or could be he might figure it out yet and I am pretty sure he wants no advice.
Speak to your link free own words LABOR here today and over the next week or so.
We can keep him reading even if he gives up aggregation.
Definitely
BTW Rodin and sculpture. WTF with this header Wege left us with. How long? Way too cliché!\
Don’t you think?
For a Sci Fi guy Wege missed Flight of Night wich resides in MPLS.
Might be aggregation lag?
This ain’t no thinking thing it’s a Labor thing.
Flight of Night
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=rodin+%22flight+of+night%22+sculpture&um=1&hl=en&sa=G&tbm=isch&tbnid=8ddnn21lKLHSnM:&imgrefurl=http://mod4museumexperience.blogspot.com/&docid=EZIuiRb5xJXsdM&w=1600&h=902&ei=jqVkTtOBBavTiAKSlsyuCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=509&page=3&tbnh=106&tbnw=188&start=40&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:40&tx=104&ty=79&biw=1280&bih=637
Rodin and sculpture Flight of Night above with the long cut and paste above
She lives in MPLS if you have not seen her in person yet.
You should.
never enough fish
Check out Rodin in the back yard.
WTF with this header Wege left us with. How long? Way too cliché!\ ,.<.,/?.,..//.>?<?
Don’t you think?
Rodin and sculpture Flight of Night above with the long cut and paste
She lives in MPLS if you have not seen her in person yet.
Header is not only weak
i already literal eat most of the panels. Nothing figurative about it.
10 tune tube set inbreeded via inbed interrupted by three or four rants.
Life is good! I should do it though has been a great mix I got going tonight.
Pick up your China Doll. Mine sits next to my Buddha and left of my Jade Frog.
I love you all and hope we take the opportunity to meet in person over a weekend sometime.
Before Wege accepts an interview on Charlie Rose and shows up with short hair. In NYC.
LOL I see things and am seeing them right now, no LOL BTW. Aggregator sounds like he is flushing out his system without handle bar confusion to limited wheeled vehicles.
Fuck it might all get to ink..one way or another. The shadow independent just for starters and literally to be critical like a FUCK YEAH in advance. Spooky, good, true, solid. Who knew?
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ITS LABOR DAY!
Most of you are with May Day but have J O B
Do that one: then fuck it do the other five too.
its not a good idea but with any luck you will be glad you did for awhile
yup, it is going on all around you
meet your neighbor
relAX
nothing is now
lots of now
relax
see and be
KNOW
overlay this on the last tube
see waht you end up with
Just a little trespass. Is this a castle nation?
NO!
http://vimeo.com/9108556
You were always straight-up with us, and your leaving will mean one less voice for the good guys.
Nonetheless, we wish you all the best and will keep you blog in our sidebar in the hopes you will post time to time. Please keep us updated :)
links are blood orange recently. Just checking in and keeping you “news” sobor….
no push needed leave it to use gremilins and trools….
checking in.
I almost went to sleep after finishing up reading a few hundred links about current events and politics on a few dozen web sites, but then I had a thought. And, of course I wanted to share! My thought at least.
Do your traditional readers get a signed copy and more importantly for History’s sake do we get an unedited Xerox copy of the original manuscript before publication of the sci-fi novels, Wege? For the vault and all….
You just know some dude born in 2012 is gonna be curious when he is doing some research on the last few decades in 2037 in graduate school. Sort of like a warm smile to give him some Xerox gems don’t you think?
Banner art….is the current reflection modifiable?
I was thinking something along the lines of a natural fall setting before the first taste of winter.
for your filter. READER,
WTF wege it is now fall
blast if you must. W
banner please…..
step
in
its past round
oh yes four dozen plus
just tight
be the skin of a goat now and then
just the drums?
fuck
the
fucking
FUCKERS…
i say.
\ZAPPA knows best, nothing up with yeild
keep notes
busted set is always curious
i could be wrong
add to the load layer it
do not lift til
you
hear. here?
look at the load
put your ear on yop…
its just mucic
lift we all willllllll
that Banner? WTF! it is fall
you missed May Day this year
but you are doing your thing.
correct?
You tried quitting before. You were weak. Your habit overcame your will. Find a group, one saying all around, “I am a blog writer. One day at a time, I refrain.” Write a novel that would make Pynchon envious. Not that you can. But that you try. You don’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore. Kissinger may join him before you or comment writers do and we can be happy but cannot rejoice since he cloned himself the way he was cloned from somebody. I once was asked by someone I respect, “Isn’t fascism inevitable?” I don’t know. Make that a theme for the second novel. Ha. I looked at the boxes below the identification lines. “Notify me of new posts via email.” What’ll I get?
I tore up a bunch of snowmobiles hot-dogging across glacial moraine in the summer. I know about wanting and not wanting to quit. That novel. It’s like me finally buying an ATV.
Good luck, Wege.
(And I’m looking forward to discovering your new haunt, should you decide to return at some point down the road.)
Have a link. (best one I have seen in a spell)
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003561.html
Oh… what fun!
p.s. it is fast approaching winter. Change the banner. A seasonal change is the least you can do…LOL with an evil grin.. Well not really evil…sort of small a anarchist big S socialist. Evil enough I guess.
You should give me the keys for a few weeks. That could be fun….! Might not be good but it might be interesting? I guarantee my best effort at creating perplexed confusion. Or something near that, effort for certain and a good 1/8 might even roll over into content.
I will even “sell” tickets.
Hope all is well!
Red Dwarf.
Is patience fucked?
Fuck patience.
Then forget everything.
Three might be enough.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bkAeRXDs8&v=c7bkAeRXDs8&gl=US
By Loki and goodness. Your salts will, with any luck, preserve seeds of black dirt fictions.
Nearly without comprehension.
However, as the least of deserved favors. Change the banner, links may land here.
Grit a few teeth and just do it.
You could have been am anarchist all along.
That could never work?
Who knows*
Throw something, better yet keep on keeping.
Write!
That banner though!
WTF?
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=m8OStXJTu30
Well the exvacators haven’t shown up yet but can-crickets banner has to go.
You never know some young folks might stumble along.
Banner modifications, can of occupy.
You can do it…yes you can.
Is it that dangerous, the force might suck you back in for a link-o-ramathon?
Just a banner to make sure you are not going all Burkowski on us.
[IMG]http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/sites/default/files/Occupy%20Oakland%20General%20Strike.jpg[/IMG]
Well, I fail on photo imbeding but that is one of the best I have found thus far for a photo for the night. Just in case you are just stumped for ideas and the crickets are keeping you up.
I MISS YOU! EVERY DAY! ……….just sayin’
Herman Cain, all that and you stayed retired.
But now it is the bombardment by heavy artillery.
Newt. They are talking Newt. Newt, as if they’re serious. Serious about Newt as the non-Mitt salvation.
Can you avoid the bait? Can you spit the hook if you do bite?
Happy Thanksgiving! I know the pain of being a Norse love machine. Only good feelings and best wishes from your Michigan brothers and sisters. You breathed the life of music back into our soul.
Your efforts are part of a new beginning. May ye path be blessed by whoever in the fuck is in charged with blessing!
The Masthead seems to have changed from Jiminy Crickets to a distinctly Christmas theme. Could this be a sign perhaps that the Wege has finished the novel and is about to return to his adoring audience?
I’m wondering if the Wege has any observations or trenchent insights into the Amy Koch resignation from Majority leader and the totally coincidental departure of Michael Brodkorb from his Senate staff position?
Fuck, you’re right. Damnit — this isn’t the first time one of my blogs has been hacked by dirty, stinking elves!
I’ve been tweeting about stuff, the Brodkorb-Koch escapades included. I’ve also left some comments here and there but mostly I’m trying to get away from politics. In that regard I haven’t been terribly successful, but new and stronger New Year’s resolutions should take care of that.
“Brodkorb-Koch escapades?” The only public testimonial evidence the GOP is noting is job reductions, parallel in time, and “a male staffer,” and “a direct reporting male staffer” in the context of an “inappropriate relationship.” Isn’t there a jury instruction, however, that circumstantial evidence is as good as direct evidence, and that even where circumstances permit multiple inferences, the finder of fact can weigh preponderances? And – six geese – that must mean there are other shoes to drop?
Now if only we could get Hackbarth into the same rumor mill, a love triangle with one player carrying. That would be the cherry atop things.
Because it’s Brodkorb, have a look; minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2005/08/neighborgate.html
Atop that older blog format, “We let the truth speak for itself!” I like that exclamation point, and would he use it today?