Well, That’s The First Decade Done
Yes, as of today, this blog is officially ten years old.
I have to say, back in February 2007, I had no idea what I was doing and no expectation that I’d still be doing it a decade later. Much as I’d like to applaud my own obstinacy, the fact that I have a slightly better idea of what to do, and am still doing it, is due in very large part to you heathens. Without readers and commenters, and feedback and inspiration, and links to news items about exploding toilets, I doubt this disreputable establishment would still be here.
So, er, group hug.
And now that we’re all feeling warm and fluffy and well-disposed, I’m going to slyly remind patrons that this rickety barge is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to help it remain buoyant for a while longer, and insert a coin for the dancing monkey, there are buttons in the sidebar with which to monetise any love. Debit and credit cards are accepted. For those wishing to express their love regularly, there’s a monthly subscription option top left. Additionally, any Amazon shopping done via this link or the search widget top right, or for Amazon US via this link, results in a small fee for your host at no extra cost to you.
For newcomers wishing to know more about what’s been going on here for the last decade, and in over 2,000 posts and 60,000 comments, the reheated series is a pretty good place to start. If you can, do take a moment to poke through the discussion threads too. The posts are intended as starting points, not full stops, and the comments are where much of the good stuff is waiting to be found. And do please join in.
Again, thanks for the support, the comments, and the company. 
Wasn’t there something about comic books once?
Seriously, congrats!
You know, I hate to say this but, I think I’ve been reading this blog since February 2007. Haven’t missed a post. I feel like a dork.
Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.
Congrats, David. It’s been a wonderful, strange trip. Here’s to ten more!
[ spills drink on the bar ]
Oh, sorry ’bout that…
Great great work. Many more years. I read every post. Have done so for years. Friday is one of my favorite linkposts.
Tip jar rattled.
[ knocks over the tip jar ]
Sheesh.
Why yes, I’d like another. *hic* How’d you know… ?
*Plonk* goes the tip jar.
Thanks for the decade. Here’s to many more posts and much health and happiness besides.
Cheers!
Why yes, I’d like another. *hic* How’d you know… ?
Siiigggghhh . . . All right, who let Spiny use more than one tea bag at a time?!?!?
Congratulations David. One of the best, if not the best read on the Internet and yes I have been reading this blog since 2007.Guys like yourself put the MSM to shame.Tip jar will be hit on payday.Oh, and what happened to the Gorilla? I was rather fond of him.
So, er, group hug.
Look, just take the damn money. *hits tip jar, runs away*
Congratulations, David. I don’t post here very much but a quick search of my emails reveals that I’ve been linking friends to your blog since at least January 2008, usually with words like “inimitable” or “indispensable”. I too miss the gorilla, although I think as you found your métier he started to seems a bit incongruous.
Does this make you a silver age blogger?
Have a bottle or two on me.
Well done! This blog is now one of my regulars. My blog started, unbelievably, in 2004. Still enjoying it!
You know, I hate to say this but, I think I’ve been reading this blog since February 2007.
No refunds. Credit note only.
I’m English, so I don’t go in for those – what do you call them – “group hugs”? Urgh. I have however tossed a few sovs into the appropriate receptacle. Carry on.
Will it be a manly hug?
Congrats. Hitting Amazon now.
Been coming here since it opened. Best place in town (after the fried chicken shop near the flyover) .
BTW, the toilets have backed up again.
BTW, the toilets have backed up again.
When Julia drops by, I’ll let you hand her the tools.
Ive been coming here for years. Great content and Thanks!
Here’s to another 10.
Pinged.
Tweet of the day.
https://twitter.com/sjw_nonsense/status/829464400167788544
Also, congratulations!
Heh.
Congratulations, David, and thank you!
Donation to follow…
David Thompson: come for the incisive commentary, stay for the “What…I….what the hell did I just watch?”
Many felicitations, and here’s to another decade.
Something to keep the wine cellar stocked. 🙂
Thanks to all who’ve chipped in so far, or subscribed, or done shopping via the Amazon links. It’s much appreciated.
Dropped something in the kitty. Might I ask,though, that you change the credit card statement notification to something other than “Lesbian Meter Maids In Bondage.” Domestic harmony is important, you know.
Meanwhile, Godfrey. Or this if you prefer.
Meanwhile, Godfrey. Or this if you prefer.
Not sure how a duplicate comment occurred. I moved to the new “Brave” browser which seems to be OK, without the SJW implications. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
Meanwhile, Godfrey.
Heh.
In other news,
Par-tay.
BTW, I searched the archives of my now off-line blog which existed from 2006-2011. There’s a reference to you regarding a Cadbury Gorilla advert in 2007. My first substantive post inspired by these pages was in 2008, entitled Ne nos inducas in tentationem. . .
. . . sed libera nos a Malo which commented on your Cost of Piety post.
Something for the retrospective dinner later.
We should all thank the left-wing radicals who have contributed so much to this blog. It could not have been done without them.
More seriously, the American far left appears to be embracing violence in a way we have not seen since the 1960s. Antifa, BAMN, BLM … these are becoming terrorist organizations.
Which means this blog will have plenty of political material for a while yet, although some of the humour may be missing.
More seriously, the American far left appears to be embracing violence in a way we have not seen since the 1960s.
Speaking of which.
The “through the looking glass” world of the campus radical. I should be shocked at the stupidity and total lack of self-awareness, but I’m not. Next week, they do something even more infantile.
Every one of those “editorial” writers is a future resentful Starbucks barista.
BTW, as I understand it, the perpetrators of the Kristallnacht also believed they were “acting in self-defense”.
Here’s to the next ten years’
Forget the “leaky barge” thing- I prefer to say “an oasis of sanity”.
Forget the “leaky barge” thing- I prefer to say “an oasis of sanity”.
Heh. No pressure, then. But I think one of the reasons this place is still here is that the peculiarity of some modish ideas, among supposedly clever people, prompts a look to camera and the question, “Is it me, or is that really as messed-up as it seems?”
Hi David:
*Clunk* [Sound of a tin cup being hit]
I do miss the baboon. What was the story behind it?
Time to re-read “Brain Wave”; we may have just re-entered the Galactic “Slow Zone”.
–Bad News
I do miss the baboon. What was the story behind it?
This one?
I think it was lifted from an old issue of Fantastic Four, the particulars of which now, sadly, escape me. Ten years and all that.
And here’s a chap making the most of a noisy laundry appliance.
This is oldest page of the blog I can find archived. Really takes you back. Heh.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070223094526/http://davidthompson.typepad.com/
Oops sorry about the URL mess–just click on one of them.
Put up a Bitcoin sticker next to the Visa flag, and I’ll pay to watch the show. This is 2017.
David, thanks for making my long commutes much more enjoyable. And thanks to all here for some great comments.
*hits tip jar*
Been lurking and laughing for years, David. Tip jar hit.
Any favourites?
Any favourites?
Um, well, I don’t really have favourites as such, but the Reheated series has plenty of things I found entertaining to write, and the end-of-year summaries are fun, for me at least. This post, from 2010, seemed to strike a chord with quite a few people. And this one pretty much wrote itself.
This just in:
And yet she wonders why so many people mock her and find her disagreeable.
There’s an implicit dishonesty, there. Several, actually. First, racism is held equivalent to slavery directly (!), thus cannot be held as any kind of lesser sin than the actual imprisonment, rape, and debasement of others; and second, she disallows any claim to not having engaged in any kind of racist acts oneself – enslaving and invading are just things some person called “white people” does. Racism is a mystical miasma, you see, by which oppressive slave/slaver relations are transmitted to people.
To sum up, “slavery (and invasion, but only if committed by white people) produced a lingering racism, which is reflexively equal to slavery in every way, and for which every white person carries a blood guilt even if innocent in every possible way it is possible to be innocent”.
Saurie, Lorry, I reject the premises. Wholly, as should anyone.
I’m going to guess the super ape picture is from FF Vol 3 #3.
And happy decanniversary.
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This cartoon that someone I know posted on Facebook seems to be trying to justify pre-emptive violence. If anyone can explain it to me I’d be most grateful.
And yet she wonders why so many people mock her and find her disagreeable.
Ah, it seems the “red pill” has completely worn off.
All this monkey talk and not one Harambe joke. This truly is a classy place. I dropped a few pounds. Pick up a case of Night Train. Party on, Wayne.
Congratulations! Tip jar hit
This heathen appreciates what you do. Ten more years!
Along with the baboon, I seem to remember a kind of radio dial turning between “Hard” and “Harder”, on a device labeled “Blow”.
Oh yes.
Good times.
Great blog, David. *hits tip jar*
One for our host…
‘Learning To Scream Again: Promoting Leftism for Artists and Writers’
https://medium.com/@LeavittAlone/learning-to-scream-again-promoting-leftism-for-artists-and-writers-92dd18f6715c#.yyuc0pnjs
Congratulations and thanks, Dave.
Learning To Scream Again: Promoting Leftism for Artists and Writers
Wow. It’s almost in Laurie Penny territory. But apparently the Democrats have moved “so far to the right” that it’s necessary for writers and artists, the “creatives,” to “fight back” against the election of Donald Trump with – wait for it – crisp typography.
It’s strange how these “creatives,” these grown adults, so often sound like teenagers in a student union bar.
It’s strange how these “creatives,” these grown adults, so often sound like teenagers in a student union bar.
What’s amusing is that these “creatives”, our supposed “intellectual betters”, have everything exactly reversed.
Oh, and this little “factoid”:
…the popular vote was lost to the tune of 3 million plus.
Grandma Clinton won California by almost 4.5 million (how many of those votes were by
illegal aliensnon-citizens? A million? 3 million? We may never know, because an audit would be rayciss…). Trump won the entire rest of the US by more than a million votes.BREAKING!
http://hewillnotdivide.us/
“The Museum Has Abandoned Us”. It’s a sad day for art.
‘Learning To Scream Again: . . . .
As far as I can figure out, the gist seems to be that for someone who is left wing, possibly extreme left wing, then everyone else, from the conservatives out through the right wing, are off to the right.
Well, yes.
And of course the same applies in reverse; for someone who is right wing, possibly extreme right wing, then everyone else, from the conservatives out through the left wing, are off to the left.
Presumably, any followup essays will note that water tends to be wet, and that sunrise tends to be seen when looking east, and sunset occurs off to the west.
It’s a sad day for art.
Can’t help thinking there’s some symbolism there.
Many happy returns! 🙂 And here’s to 10 more!
Every one of those “editorial” writers is a future resentful Starbucks barista.
Not necessarily. Some of them, a few, may end up in positions of varying influence, as columnists, TV writers, etc.
Thanks for hours of good reading. Consider your tip jar hit.
Blaxploitation movies streaming; women and children hardest hit.
(The service is actually a couple of months old; in doing some searching on the Internet I found that Black-oriented sites like The Urban Daily and Hip Hop Wire actually like the idea.)
Saurie, Lorry, I reject the premises. Wholly, as should anyone.
It’s also worth noting that while Laurie imagines herself as heroically and selflessly fighting against “hate,” her own worldview, as illustrated in that tweet and any number of others, is premised on fostering resentment, tribalism and scapegoating. In this case, by encouraging brown-skinned people to believe that “every white person is personally complicit” in some pervasive racial animus that can be construed as explaining almost any failure and dissatisfaction a person might have.
An inch or two further and we arrive at “fuck whiteness” and then, inevitably, “fuck white people.”
An inch or two further and we arrive at “fuck whiteness” and then, inevitably, “fuck white people.”
Because Caucasians . . . .
Congrats, Mr. Thompson!
I bookmarked your U.S. Amazon link and I’ll do my best to feed my evil consumerism and sate my obscene desire for material goods in the coming year. Gaia be damned!
Keep up the good work. We’re entering an era of peak liberal lunacy. Yet even more comedy gold lies ahead.
I bookmarked your U.S. Amazon link and I’ll do my best to feed my evil consumerism
I’m sure that if you concentrate you’ll realise that there’s a long list of very expensive things you suddenly need.
Congratulations on 10 years David. Much pleasure,hilarity,disbelief and even anger has been experienced.
So, er, group hug.
Profers hand, mutters somthing about not being Americans.
Also check the tip jar, I just bunged a few left-over zlotys in when you weren’t looking.
Proffers hand, mutters something about not being Americans.
May your toilet roll remain dry even after your other half has had a suspiciously long and thorough shower.
Thanks for the laughs and insight. Tip jar has been hit accordingly.
A few months ago I sent my son a couple of links to this blog to help him cope with life at university and now he’s a regular reader. 🙂
Happy to buy you a drink.
I sent my son a couple of links to this blog to help him cope with life at university and now he’s a regular reader. 🙂
I believe that makes you a “based mom.” Or a person of interest for social services. Could go either way, depending who you ask.
And again, thanks to all for the support. I shall endeavour to keep on trucking.
Excellent blog….bravo Monsieur !!
And, ten years on, the Guardian remains very much the same. Here they let us know that Johnny Depp spends his own money – that he has earned himself – on things that make him happy, such as guitars and even – wait for it – expensive wine. Because of this we must all now disdain Mr Depp.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/11/how-i-loved-you-johnny-depp-purple-tinted-truth?CMP=share_btn_fb
If you want to, you can become a Friend of the Guardian, so that they can continue to be the touchstone of moral clarity in the murky world of journalism.
Love expressed via Paypal.
10 more years!
On a slightly different tack: alleged ‘comedian’ Sarah Silverman gets it very wrong, with hilarious results!
http://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/830923187479277568
The whole thing was, ironically enough fueled by the swastika hoax culture. She, seeing a poorly drawn swastika (or so she thought) automatically chalked it up to another “h8r” with a lack of literacy. Except… not only did her rarified sense of better-ness (all who disagree with me are plainly fools, and thus would a Nazi be) get the better of her, but she fails utterly to recognize the origin of bad swastikas in general.
Hint: not the actual neonazis.
The fact that she crowned her idiocy by displaying ignorance of regular people’s ways and the working man is icing on the cake, really.
Professing herself to be wise, etc. Pride goeth and so forth.
At this rate I shouldn’t be surprised if the letter “K” eventually gets mistaken for a bad swastika.
Big fan. Coin inserted.
Thanks, David. Token of esteem on its way.
That dial going from blow to blow harder was about the first thing I saw on this blog. So that’s how long I’ve been hanging round this dubious neighbourhood.
That dial going from blow to blow harder was about the first thing I saw on this blog.
Likewise.
Congratulations on ten years. A question, if I may – when did you remove that dial from the site? I definitely remember it being here when I first started reading, but I didn’t realise you’d removed it. Also, I will be monetarising my fondness for this establishment when my dividend from a recent business venture comes through. You should find a little something in the kitty by the weekend. Slainte.
A question, if I may – when did you remove that dial from the site?
Um, can’t recall. A couple of years ago, maybe more?
Happy birthday/anniversary,David’s blog!
Congrats from Melbourne Australia where your blog remains vital.
Glad you’ve been entertained, Lisa. My bosom is swollen with bonhomie.
My fondness for this place has been duly monetarised. Have a pleasant weekend.