Some of you are aware that I will be pursuing a religious calling and will have a little less time to devote to this blog that I so enjoy. My plan for the future of this site was to create a site where someone will be able to sample the most literate, the silliest, the angriest, the most knowledgeable - well, let be put it this way... The Goomba News Network now offers some of the very best blog personalities on the Internets.
DC is my blog brother. We have seen the worldwide web grow to be the global phenomenon it is today. DC's original blog, the ill-fated Uncle D's Kartoon Kastle made its debut in 1979. He is a true online pioneer.
Rhod is my blogging hero. Woe to anyone who attempts to challenge this American's encyclopedic knowledge or test his patience. He is a passionate Patriot, a generous and learned New Englander.
Opus #6 is the most energetic presence on the Internet. She specializes in snagging the hottest stories in the news and presenting them to the world before your local newspaper has even begun to warm up the printing presses.
LL is a dark and mysterious character. As a member of Goomba's Justice Society of America, LL has one great super power... Political Insight. When LL shares his point of view on any issue, take the time to read it carefully. He has a startling record of accuracy.
Toaster 802 is one of our newest members and yet another representative of New England. He's rough around the edges. He's mean as a wounded wolverine and not afraid to take on the enemies of Liberty and Freedom.sig94 was hard to c
orral. It took a bonus and multi-year offer to get this cynical and poetic ex-cop to fill a cubicle at GNN headquarters. Look forward to this guy's observations as we enter America's Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn of discontent.This is a talented crew, and I give thanks they're on our side!
48 comments:
NickieG, I've met LL's type before. 1994, Clinton's advance protection team visiting the UK for D-Day 50th anniversary. The man in charge came up to me and said, "Secret Service" and gave me his business card - it was blank.
HogMan... LL would have considered that guy a blabbermouth.
LOL!
This is what LL posted once about the Secret Service:
http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/11/7/633616570623109208-secretservice.jpg
Nickie, you are so kind to everybody. No wonder you have so many friends. Over 1000 followers now. Awesome!
Thanks for the kind words, Opie. As for LL's poster, I've sorta adopted that as a life philosophy.
" He's rough around the edges. He's mean as a wounded wolverine and not afraid to take on the enemies of Liberty and Freedom."
Nobody could say it any better!
Thanks for bringing me on board Nick.
I love this blog. The comments are the best anywhere.
Opus. Nickie. Get a room.
Toasty, I admire passion and talent. You've got them both.
Zio... You gotta be careful with those kinda statements. Opie's not some blogosphere bimbo. She's a classy dame.
And thanks for the kind words. Someday I may publish a book of some of the best comments.
Goomba is back from the dead. It's like...unbelievable. And I thought Obama was the Messiah.
I am forever in awe.
Hola Nickie, excelente tu post,
compartes un magnífico texto, tu blog es interesante, te felicito.
ha sido un placer pasar por tu casa
Que tengas una feliz semana
un abrazo
RMC
As I am of you, Cao. I'm so happy I found you again.
I'll add a link to the sidebar.
Gracias, RMC. Tengo que utilizar un traductor en línea para visitar los blogs de español e italiano, pero vale la pena. Les invito a pasar por en cualquier momento y visita. Yo también le deseo una buena semana.
Respetuosamente,
Nickie
this blog would be better if you didn't have so many conservative aholes
aholes? Oh great, another Hawaiian critic.
Rhod should have his own blog.
Wetz, are you related to the guy? His agent, maybe? You sound like you've chatting with Rhod.
Rhod signed that contract and, in California, that document was perfectly legal. I'm not letting the talent go all Conan O'Brien on me.
They're the rockin'est! I'm a big fan of GNN, and these guys (and gal) are why (and you, too, Nickie, of course).
Thanks, Fuzzy. Your comments here certainly raise the level of discussion.
Wetzy, I'm just a low-rank leg in this platoon of mechanized talent, but I appreciate the private offer to move in and live with you, rent-free, for the rest of my life. We can discuss meals and meal times, cable and transportation later. You're the best.
Oh yeah, without patient conservative aholes and this blog, Anon would have nowhere to vent his rage after a day of painting eye dots at the Mickey Mouse Doll factory.
Be thankful, Anon. Conservatives like us are the only thing between you, a temper tantrum and your replacement, that Chinese-made automated stylus.
Nick, don't forget Opie's turnip inquiry. I haven't.
LL, Toaster and Sig are angrier than I am, which makes me feel better by comparison.
DC...well. DC is okay.
I should get PoliSci credit for reading this blog.
Michael, I took a PoliSci degree a long, long time ago, urged on by the pandemonium of the 1960's. Look what it got me! Save yourself.
Rhod, there's a limit to how many turnips one can physically shove into one's pockets. You're becoming a target of ridicule every time you walk to town.
I say this as a friend.
And I agree, DC is, well, yes... okay!
Thanks Nickie for the opportunity to join such exalted company. I am truly honored to have my avatar placed below the names of conservative aholes and the lesser, but still highly regarded, bholes of the blogosphere.
Tears come to my eyes as I recollect that I, myself, started out as a starstruck fhole. And to think that it took me years before I was able to sign up for the ehole+ certification course - the instruction manual, the cd and the complementary ehole salt&pepper shakers.
Can I get my money back?
Michael...
You study at the feet of masters, youngster. Your future is bright.
Rhod, don't discourage the kid. We've got a first class short-order cook in the making. A Picasso of the patty melt.
Sig, write and I'll send you a couple Conservative Ahole Pine Scent Deodorizers to hang from your rear-view mirror.
I'm switching to eggplants, Nickie. The injections worked.
Nickie, Michael has to learn. To hide the PoliSci degree we used to say we majored in "pre-law".
You, know, though...I got a bang out of Plato's Republic and that shadows on the cave wall deal. That was cool.
Rhod, we share a common self loathing for I too have a BA in the dark arts of Poli Sci. Sadly, my most powerful incantations against the democrats proved to be ineffectual against the liberal juju of the 1960's and 70's.
That crew scares me!
Rhod, I was a Communications Major (what a waste of the GI Bill). I told everyone I was in Theatre Arts.
I recall a song parody...Eggplants in Your Pants to the tune of Strangers in the Night.
"...common self loathing"
Sig, that was the original name of this blog.
Woody, this crew even scares me. Have you ever seen DC tear into a 72 oz. sirloin? You wouldn't sleep for a week.
Sig, I was attracted to the classical side, and eventually concentrated in Con Law. All around me were the liberal juju who dominated for the next 35 years....Nick was a Comm Major and he admits it?
Nick, the punchline is "You were supposed to put it in front".
I leave for a while and a "hole" new cast is hired.
I'm honored, you a-holes ...
Re: the "pre-law" bit, Rhod, let me share with you a little sage advice that a friend of mine who had just gotten his law license told me whilst I was still a wet-behind-the-ears, justice-seeking, law student:
"The only thing worse than being the scum of the earth is to aspire to be the scum of the earth."
I understand that Conan O'Brien left the Tonight Show because he discovered that the NBC big wig in charge of his show was a Comm Major.
Per Page Six, Conan is desperately seeking a Poli Sci major to have his love child.
DC, I've always believed that you joining this blog was some sort of social-climbing.
I agree with all of your assessments of course Monsieur.
Get back in your hole, Goomba.
What a great linup at one of my favorite blogs.
A Murderers Row indeed.
Chris, thank you so much. Indeed!
Zio Rico ... wasn't that the name of the villian in A Few Dollars More?
Zio Rico, {slap!}
Rhod, did you remember to inform your tailor this time?
Nickie, thank you for defending my virtue. <3
I'm only a bit miffed that GNN was upstaged by Big Government.com.
Many of you don't know that GNN planned to send Opie and Nickie in undercover into one of the ObamaNation's most sinister activities to expose their evil. Something about Nickie dressing up as a pimp...
Next time, we need to up our game. My plan (yet to be approved by the GNN Executive Office) called for DC, Sig94 and Rhod to infiltrate the Democratic Central Committee in drag.
I could pass for Bea Arthur or Ruth Gordon, LL, but they're both dead.
*sigh* Ok, ok.
I worked vice. I know drag.
But I'll be damned if I let DC kiss me! Rhod, not so much...
You really know how to turn an old guy's head, Sig...can I call you Sig? (giggle).
Call me.
Soon.
You are all just the most wonderful bloggers on the Internet! I am happy I am on your side, and you are watching out for us. God Bless the Bloggers! Good wishes to you, Nickie, in the pursuit of your calling. I wish all men in ministry were as good as you are.
Drag? Count me in. I have a sarong and was once mistaken in a Starbucks in Gdansk for Carmen Miranda.
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