Good news for CalTechGirl – she got an Instalanche!
Bad news for CalTechGirl – unlike Glen(n) she allows people to comment on her site. So inevitably, a couple of those people who read the Instapundit every day, hating everything he writes about but unable to look away, shaking their pinched but impotent faces at the injustice of his popularity, but unable to emote…
Did so at her house.
Vampires, trolls and self-important prigs: Once you let any of them across the doorstep, it’s the devil cleaning up after. Doesn’t matter what the chart says.
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Bad news: I did a phone interview about the MilBlog phenomenon yesterday afternoon with a producer from the Los Angeles PBS outlet, KCET. You know: Small market stuff.
Good news: He was a really good egg. Did a lot of research, read many, many back posts, asked searching questions but didn’t come with an agenda. And he sported a groovy Columbian accent. With which he read this text from a three year old post:
Because flying a fighter is more than just a job – it becomes a part of you, a piece of who you are in a fundamental way that no one reading my words who has not been there will ever understand, and it
Lex, re-read your post about your, um, conversation. And noticed I promised a listing of “Types at Urinal” which I believe I never fulfilled. I will attempt to do so over the weekend.
Oh, and do we get to hear a transcript of the phone interview? I hear tell you have a nice accent of your own – Virgninian and Columbian – could be verra nice to hear.
Actually, it’s a lovely combination of Virginian and Irish when the proper spirits have been applied. In fact, I heard it had quite an effect in certain quarters two weekends ago…
Just a quick note. I haven’t seen it mentioned.
Tomorrow is Armed Forces Day.
President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.
On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days. The single-day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under one department — the Department of Defense.
Thanks.
I missed all that ugliness over in CTG’s comments. (I read it before the instalanche.) Pisses me off. Luckily she’s a smart girl (or she’d not be CTG) and will blow that stuff off and her regular commenters? They won’t let her have to take any crap alone.
Luckily I’ve had far more positive commenters than trolls so far. And some of them have had some incredibly profound things to say.
Thanks for the link.
CTG – I admire you for blogging. Funny how some need to tear down while others want to build.
As I said on your site, the worms come to the surface after a rain…
FbL ~ heh. I heard the same thing…
Nobody should be rude to Caltech Girl. I remember when I first “met” her, in the comments at Acidman’s.
She’s always seemed a cool-headed smart rational person to me, with good axioms.
I’ll now go and look at the probable slander about her, which you’ve just written about.
Gotta check facts, y’know.
Ok, had enough of that comment thread, there.
I stopped when I read some wisdom, about halfway down.
“A war doesn’t end until BOTH sides agree to end it.”
(emphasis mine)
Glad to know the interview went alright, sorry for diming you out:)