And not just for revenge for being de-linked so PUBLICLY by that Eccentrica wench. But because I think it's time I played some hardball.
It cuts you to the bone, don't it - when someone TAKES YOU OFF THEIR BLOGROLL. It is the worst fate in the world. Look at how broken up Michele appears to be over it. My goal in life is to be on as many blogrolls as I possibly can. Maybe that's why Eccentrica calls me a "trollop".
So fine. I'm taking Eccentrica off, too. And now that I'm started, here's an announcement:
Not one blog on my blog-roll is safe. I am going to veerrrrry carefully go through each and every one of your blogs tonight, juuuuuust to make sure that every opinion on each blog is in line with mine. Because if not? I must de-link you. Publicly. I will not contaminate my own moral purity with the disturbing disagreement of others.
In all seriousness:
Good comments from Wizbang: on this whole blog brou-haha:
Unless your name is Glenn Reynolds, the world is not preoccupied with the content of your blogroll.
Exactly. People who are obsessed with blog-rolls, in general, get on my nerve. I get emails all the time: "Could you put me on your blog-roll?" "I have linked to you a couple of times - could you put me on your blog-roll?"
Uhm - No. The only reason a blog gets on the blog-roll is cause there's a slight possibility I might want to read that blog every day. I don't do it because it's good manners, or because someone asked nicely.
It's my blog-roll - what the hell do you care??
I still think the comment on Wizbang is an exaggeration, although I very much like the sentiment. The world? Uhm, really? The WORLD cares about Glenn Reynolds blog-roll? No. The "real world" would say "Glenn Reynolds who?" and "What's a blogroll?" So it's only a very small group of people who actually give a shit about Glenn Reynolds' blogroll.
Posted by sheilaCopy-catting tramp.
Posted by: Eccentrica at March 31, 2005 5:43 PMHell, I don't even read Instapundit, let alone allow myself to be pre-occupied with his blogroll. I'm not even pre-occupied with my own blogroll. How arrogant do you have to be to think anyone gives a crap?
I mean, I suppose if someone wrote a post that read "I'm beginning to think that Hitler bloke's ideas about the Final Solution weren't half bad" I would probably quietly take them off my blogroll. I removed LGF when the pancake jokes became too much for me to bear. But I didn't announce it like I was delivering the @#$%ing Gettysburg Address. I doubt Charles even noticed, let alone anyone else.
Posted by: Emily at March 31, 2005 5:52 PMI read his big de-linking pronouncement this morning and literally rolled my eyes. Pompous self-important ass.
Posted by: red at March 31, 2005 5:55 PMNow would be a good time to start blogging, just so you can publicly delink me. I'm jealous. ;-)
Posted by: Dave J at March 31, 2005 6:21 PMDaveJ - I almost wish that jackass had linked me, so that he could then de-link me, and I could be all upset about it. That would have been fun.
I mean, just the name of his blog gives away his outlook on life. I've got no interest in that.
Posted by: red at March 31, 2005 6:23 PMWhen you put it that way I guess "world" is a bit strong. Life in the fishbowl tends to distort...
Posted by: Kevin at March 31, 2005 6:42 PMHey, I'm in that fishbowl too!! :) I very much liked your post on this de-linking thingamajiggie. Good stuff.
Posted by: red at March 31, 2005 6:44 PMI liked Titanic, I swear!
Posted by: Bill McCabe at March 31, 2005 6:51 PMhahahahaha!!!! Bill is completely abandoning his principles for a spot on my blog-roll.
Sorry, dude, you've already made your contempt known - so you are TOAST.
Posted by: red at March 31, 2005 6:54 PMWhew! To think I almost made a snarky comment about Britney Spears the other day...
;-)
I like Orlando Bloom, I swear! Ooops, wrong blog.
Mike, in that vein, I hear that Annika has a whole CATEGORY dedicated to ripping on Britney. Not that I'm one for stirring up trouble or anything. ;-)
Posted by: Dave J at March 31, 2005 7:34 PMI delinked you this morning, Sheila. Then I linked you again, hard, and then I breathlessly delinked you again and....
I need a cigarette.
Posted by: michele at March 31, 2005 8:54 PMUh....I suppose this would be a bad time to bring up never seeing any of the LOTR movies.
Posted by: Dave E. at March 31, 2005 9:01 PMI think I might be safe, insomuch as I'm possibly dying of cancer, and a de-link might be the last straw.
Then again, Sheila sounds like she's on quite the rampage. How many innocents have to die to sate her appetite for blog destruction?
Posted by: Big Dan at March 31, 2005 9:30 PMThen again, she's never had the name of my blog right on the blogroll anyway. Also, I kind of liked (here's the kiss goodbye) you-know-who in her Jerry Macguire role.
Posted by: Big Dan at March 31, 2005 9:33 PMIf Michele and Sheila don't stop all this linking and de-linking, I'm liable to have an aneurysm...
Posted by: MikeR at March 31, 2005 10:07 PMAh.. there's nothing like a bit of arrogance and self-aggrandizing in the morning to make oneself feel important... although, personally speaking, by the afternoon.. "Doh!".. every time.
Posted by: peteb at April 1, 2005 5:57 AMWho is Glenn Reynolds?
Posted by: Jen at April 1, 2005 9:43 AMI really DO like Jack Nicholson, I swear. Don't delink me, Mommy!
Posted by: Lisa at April 1, 2005 10:11 AMHmm.. on re-reading my previous comment - and to avoid any potential misinterpretation - I should probably clarify that it was a comment on Mr 0%er's 'delinking' post.
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Posted by: peteb at April 1, 2005 2:39 PM