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Last month's comments include the longest conversation I've had with [personal profile] nebris  in years.

I was chatty with a lot of others last month as well. )
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A silly calendar of March holidays
Thanks to [personal profile] nebris , who left the link to this calendar in his comment to Three years of COVID-19 arriving in Michigan and being declared a global pandemic.
neonvincent: For general posts about politics not covered by other icons (Uncle V wants you)

I was a little chattier last month than during June, leaving six comments. )
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Deja vu: Libya 2011=Romania 1989

I have a different song playing over there, but this one fits just as well.



ETA: [personal profile] nebris pointed out an error, which I responded to in Libya: History Repeating.
neonvincent: Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten T-shirt design (Detroit)

This past week was the busiest so far at Crazy Eddie's Motie News, whether one measured it in terms of posts (14), page views (1577), or comments (13). This topped last week, where the comparable stats were eleven posts, 832 page views, and only five comments, itself a very good week. For comparison, this blog averaged 560 views/week during all of May and June, 486 views/week for April, May, and June, its first three full months, and 488 views/week the week before last. As I mentioned in Boosting the signal about Oak Park's "War on Veggies", I thank the readers of Oak Park Hates Veggies for making this possible, with 369 referrals last month, at least 216 of which came last week alone. This puts Julie Bass's blog in third place as the source of views for this blog throughout its history so far, behind only Kunstler's blog, where I have been promoting my blog every week since my first post here, and Google, which just happens to own Blogspot. Again, thank you, and keep reading!

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This past week also saw another milestone--my first spam comments. I know a blog hasn't arrived until it gets enough traffic to make it a worthwhile target for spammers.That's the good news. The bad news is that I should be careful what I wish for.
Honestly, I'd like more comments. I could even deal with a couple of trolls, as I'm not above trolling my own comments sections.
Trolls I don't mind, as I can hold my own against them. Spammers are another matter. From July 13th:
This blog achieved a milestone today. It received its first spam comment. However, it's not such a milestone that it was worth saving. The spam was canned.
Now, July 16th:
This blog has arrived. I've gone from no spam comments to not one, but two spam comments in one week. I have advice for you. If you want to promote your blog or a relevant news story, fine. If you want to advertise for a commercial enterprise not germane to the topic of this blog (and education isn't really it), your comment will be hidden. Bye!
I don't make any money off this blog, so no one else gets to, either!

Enough of my swimming against the stream of spam--on to the week's posts in review. )

Above originally posted to Crazy Eddie's Motie News.



neonvincent: Lust for  for posts about sex and women behaving badly. (Bad Girl Lust)

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I mirrored James Howard Kunstler swims against the stream on gender role equality, too to my LiveJournal, where a lively discussion resulted. In particular, pay attention to this thread, in which commenters provided even more examples of Kunstler's misogyny and masculism, such as Kunstler's review of "Master and Commander."

The commenter Nebris has a special perspective. Kunstler was his summer camp counselor at Camp Mascoma during the early 1960s, so Nebris known him for a long time. For his insights, I recommend you read his entry In Which Her Prophet Cogitates Upon The Deeper Motivations Of Two Doomers. One of the two doomers is Kunstler, and Nebris' observations take new meaning in light of what I wrote yesterday. The other is John Michael Greer, the Archdruid. Nebs has even more pointed things to say about him. I plan to post commentaries on Nebris' observations of both of them as part of this month's series on bloggers swimming against the stream. Nebs himself will not be immune. He'll have his time in the spotlight this month as well.

Originally posted to Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
neonvincent: Detroit where the weak are killed and eaten T-shirt design (Default)
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One of my favorite posters on LiveJournal is [info]nebris.  Here's what I had to say about him when I recommended him to another poster on LJ.

If you want to be extremely adventurous, I recommend [info]nebris. He thinks very seriously about issues of empire and sustainability (he is a big fan of Joe Bageant and Ran Prieur, and James Howard Kunstler was his camp counselor), but he and his solutions are downright bizarre (for starters, he likes to post porn in addition to his serious musings), although some of them might just work. If you actually look at his LJ, don't say I didn't warn you.

Old Nebs is by turns serious, silly, outrageous, and sometimes downright offensive, and he's not everyone's cup of tea (He had a page on the now defunct Encyclopedia Dramatica and still has a scathing entry on the Fandom Wank Wiki), but I find him consistently compelling and never boring.

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