Hate to disappoint you.
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.
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:
Wizbang’s comments are notable on this whole blog brou-haha:
Unless your name is Glenn Reynolds, the world is not preoccupied with the content of your blogroll.
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?”
No. I can’t put you on my blogroll. 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, or because I am on THEIR blog-roll. This is a meritocracy, baby. You gotta earn my respect. It’s not freely given. To anyone.
Besides: It’s my blog-roll – what the hell do you care?? Do you realize how stupid and nerdy obsessing on this stuff is?
I still think the comment on Wizbang is an exaggeration, although I like the sentiment. The world? 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. And a. know what a blogroll is b. know who Glenn Reynolds is.
Perspective, peeps.
Hell, 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.
I read his big de-linking pronouncement this morning and literally rolled my eyes. Pompous self-important ass.
Now would be a good time to start blogging, just so you can publicly delink me. I’m jealous. ;-)
DaveJ – 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.
When you put it that way I guess “world” is a bit strong. Life in the fishbowl tends to distort…
I liked Titanic, I swear!
hahahahaha!!!! 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.
Whew! To think I almost made a snarky comment about Britney Spears the other day…
;-)
I delinked you this morning, Sheila. Then I linked you again, hard, and then I breathlessly delinked you again and….
I need a cigarette.
Uh….I suppose this would be a bad time to bring up never seeing any of the LOTR movies.
I 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?
Then 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.
If Michele and Sheila don’t stop all this linking and de-linking, I’m liable to have an aneurysm…
Ah.. 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.
Who is Glenn Reynolds?
I really DO like Jack Nicholson, I swear. Don’t delink me, Mommy!
Hmm.. 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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