November 6, 2002

Salon Blog Quality Tour for You

Christian Crumlish

Bloody depressing day here in Salonville if you ask me, everybody all worked up about the election and such. Boohoohoo, the Democrats lost, and oh Dear Lord, what will that wily Bush character do now? Buck up people, and look at some of the entertaining things on Salon today.


Standing Room Only has a lovely new graphic of the Blessed Virgin. There‰s also a piece about shoes that I missed a couple of days ago which had me chuckling to me self until I started getting a tad uncomfortable and I said ëIs this lad Hugh a little funny or something? I mean, not ha-ha funny, but funny? And then I scrolled down a bit and Aye‰n‰be‰gorin, I had to click right out.


Different Strings is rather gloomy today, but scroll down with your eye on the right side and you‰ll find the cutest little guest map, populated with little tiny people from all over the world.


Salon Blog Death Watch.Howler‰s Dog Blog, born July 25, 2002, died August 1, 2002. This blog chronicled the adventures of Hara and Random, both of who were of the canine persuasion. Do you know those people who can talk endlessly about their pets? They really can‰tá


Well, it‰s a bad night, and I‰m about to get the blues. The Irish Blues, you understand, and I‰m not just talking about Van Morrison. Let me explain it to ye. We take [editors note: next follows is around a page and a half of what Marcus would call blarney. We are translating the best that we can. We continue later.] áso I can‰t even get me some comic relief from Pesky the Rat, cause they‰re all depressed too. So I know where to go to cheer me up before I head to the pub. Rene O‰Hoornweg‰s Blog. She says (or could it be he? Those foreign names can be hard to figure out. Like Rene O‰Brian, the finest Irish linebacker to ever come out of Penn State), oh, I don‰t know how to end a sentence like this one. So Rene is talking about that great Irish writer, Truman Capote, and she says ‹waaronder schrijvers als Truman Capote - en, zei hij, vriendelijk glimlachend, en natuurlijk uw illustere literator Arthur van Schendel.Š I love it when they speak French.


Well, then, Goodnight from Marcus, your guide to Salon Quality.

[Mark Hoback]

Posted by xian at November 6, 2002 10:29 PM
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