Valkommen! Benvenuta! Kalo̱sórisma!

Now, this blog here is quite ah, well ***different***
from all the other blogs that you may have encountered so far, part of this network...!
Aye, this one is different -by its aim-
 from both categories that we'll be casting in (very) virtual stone here
with each spotlight attributed: 
Blogger or not Blogger, first off!
For we will include those to be found on Blogger itself -duh- as well as those from anywhere else, really,
as well as -occasionally- some from that most 
*distinguished category*
comprising those other blogs that 
actually make up the
TLB Prime Network 
right here...! 
(Hey - my own horn's prerogative, ok?)
For this one is simply a blog ABOUT blogs!
A blog that simply aims to give
*the spotlight* to blogs 
that the Blogger staff
will, maybe and most probably, 
never give it to...
whether purposefully or not!
This is a blog that rights things that way
and rectifies them - in its own way!
And this blogger pundit right here
(that's me - luminous (\ô/) luciano!)
reserves the right to predict
which blogs MIGHT be given the nod
by the "blogs of note" dudes...
And which ones never should
- or never should have! 
Forgive the verve here; 
but it's true!
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not reaffirm here that,
unlike the Blogger staff,
I am not bound by company policy
so I can spotlight blogs here
from any provider there is indeed -
as I see fit, obviously!
Typepad, Wordpress, Bravenet
Tumblr, whatever - you name it!
Still, having said all this
(or really typed it all)
I must add that
it is my deep conviction that
come 12/31/21
blogging of any kind
will be the furthest thing
from most people's minds!

:-!

One last thing though, before we go -
we'll also be doing vlogs here:

''Content'' Specialists

In this day and age, *everyone* is a specialist in this artform now; 

as people build up their own channels, networks, social media platforms 

they assemble CONTENT - to the content of their hearts! 

And they pass it on - they share it with their audience! 

Some redundancy is bound to be present - 

but it matters not! 

What matters is this: 

we share - therefore we are! 

Definitely as worthy of denotation 

as any blog... vlog... podcast and whatnot 

under the cyber sun! 

Jeremy Crow 4 Life

You saw this screen capture before here: 

It is imperative, however, to precise 

that this is not the first Jeremy Crow 

that could pop up as a search result, 

if you would simply Google the name...

''Crow'' is a highly suspicious last name; 

it might not even be his real name! 

And the fact is that, there is another 

Jeremy Crow out there 

(looks like a different dude, anyway!) 

one who is all over the place, too 

-Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter- 

and it is not the same guy - at all. 

The other Crow is... a satanist!

We would never support one of those, 

here, on the TLB PRIME NETWORK! 

Nor would Blogger, on its own 

''blogs of note'' feature, 

we are certain... 

So, make sure that your ''J.C.'' 

(if He Is not Jesus Christ Himself, that is) 

is, at least, the one we are showcasing today: 

''JeremyCrow4Life'' a.k.a the self-proclaimed 

''head whacko from the whacky world of whacko blogs'' 

and not the other guy who 

claims to be an ''archon'' 

from hell itself or something...!!! 

Having established that 

all-important dichotomy, 

let us draw the parallel now  

... just like I took the habit of invoking 

the lifestyles... quirks... or just style... 

of a plethora of 

''AQUAFICIONADAS''

over at my very own super-popular blog 

''aquamusings''...

''J.C.'' here 

has made it his mission 

to invoke the wisdom 

or many women 

(womentors...?) 

such as Kirsty Gallagher there 

on his mega-hit of a blog...

(okay, sometimes it is the wisdom of 

some male celebrity; Vince Vaughn was spotlighted, 

recently enough... And Sam Walton...

But it was after Bonnie Bedelia,  

Hope Davis and Kirsty were!)

As one who came from a matriarchy 

espoused into one as well 

and always believed in the concept, 

I can only applaud the initiative. 

And declare Jeremy's blog 

one of them *blogs to denote* 

- indeed! 

Ironically enough, JeremyCrow4Life also spotlights other bloggers he deems to be ''well worth noting'' as well...! He does it on TheWhacko.com - and although that dubious title (or whacko) is quite befitting to a ''T'' for one who would claim to be an archon of luciferian roots... 

We totally doubt that such a character would be distributing nods of approval to other bloggers and acknowledging the wisdom of noteworthy chaps and gals (mostly gals) left and right like this ''4Life'' guy does...! The other guy would just sing the praises of the devil himself - period! 

NOT our cup of tea... 

NEVER. 

Yeah - as far as our whackos go, 

we reserve the right to remain 

quite selective...

So... What Kind Of Patriot Are YOU?

The question can be asked as all of Canada celebrates their ''Queen Victoria Day'' - but one tiny province in its midst is found celebrating ''La Fête des Patriotes'' instead! Basically, three quarters or four fifths of that messy, confused so-called nation celebrates a crown (and a queen) that the fifth (estate?) counters by honoring the memory of those who fought (mostly bled to death, really; as some of their noteworthy poems say so well) that very same monarchy, trying to rid themselves of it...! (They should have taken lessons from the Portuguese and the French: two true nations that actually did get rid of the lazy-asses/profiteers that sat on the thrones! But that's another story...)

And all this exactly one week ahead of the United States' own Memorial Day...

And speaking of which...

These days, the most celebrated one unquestionably is the cheating Patriot who cheats in order to compete within a league of cheaters on the gridiron of destiny - but he cheats intelligently (at first anyways) before descending into easy subterfuges meant to take (some if not most of) the air out of his opponent; or, rather, mere obstacle standing on his way to success!

But that's another story, meant for another blog post really...

The patriot à la Mel Gibson: now, that is a honorable classic!

Granted, there were two films to choose from here: 

and I chose the one about an European hero, 

rather than this! Sue me, will ya?

Patriotism means different things for different cultures: a national hero can and should be something other than a natural at bloodshed and all-around self-sacrificial, reckless type. It an be a cultural icon: it can be a singer...

Incidentally, the ''Patriotes'' flag in Culbec looks a hell of a lot like the Italian colors - but sideways, horizontal in fact. The Gino way, one could say? But that's another story too - and another sidetrack.

When one speaks of patriotism, though, one always thinks of the USA - somehow... And since I started with the New England variety of patriotism, let's get right back into it with their favorite hero of all-time, no question about it (especially since it has been local boy Chris Evans portraying him on the big screen there, amidst all that explosive avenging action...)

Now these guys are true patriots, if you ask me...

But then there is the odd French twist on that: a patriot who went against the grain and bled to death ''so that the earth beneath his feet could thrive'' if one transliterates word for word here...

They even have a hockey team in this motif - in desperate-for-taxpaying-citizens Beauharnois...

Granted, when one says ''patriote'' and ''French'' here, it is meant to describe the oddest bunch of unrooted (déraciné) chaps there could be: descendants of first settlers who may have come from France but were, very quickly too, doomed to become a distorted version of it in no time at all: hence was born ''le Québécois'' (more on that on June the 24th... maybe!)

If you are this kind of Patriote, you will be found sipping beer on the first Monday before June 25th - every single year. You'll have some vague idea that it is about some guys who paid the price so your allegedly Belle Province became, er,  how to put it nicely... what it is today! And you will not know exactly why you have an off-day; you'll just be happy you do!

As Canada celebrates its Queen Victoria Day, one tiny part of the country has its Fête des Patriotes which is all about the anti-British crown regime there, a firm misguided stance if there ever was one in those forlorn parts, back in the day...  No wonder that country is one hell of hodge-podge of confusion populated by inept legislators that take after Clouseau more than de Gaulle; vive le Québec libre, hein? Libre... de quoi? De faire tout plein d'erreurs lamentables? But since it is always on such an insignificant scale, it goes unnoticed and, therefore, it isn't a big deal at all, so...

Anyway...!

The best blog we found that promotes patriotism would have to be this one; for it brings another extremely important dimension into the equation - compassion!

And, so, let's be compassionate and let the Culbec off the hook here, now - one more time...
(For the time being, that is!)

NO BALADI FOR BADAWI

We would be remiss if we didn't join the movement 

for the freedom -and unconditional pardon- 

of fellow blogger Raif Badawi 

recently condemned to years in prison 

on top of being flogged a thousand times 

for the mere act of blogging.

But can we truly hope for anything -

even now, as his chief accuser has gone on...?

Hashtags such as #FREERAIF 

#NoMoreFloggingForBlogging 

#SaudiArabianLiberalsUnite

and, perhaps, #ACartoonAgainstEveryLash 

are flourishing - and fighting on... 

for liberty of expression!

For blogging rights, rather than bragging ones...

For ''free-dommmmm'' -

and, yeah, we all know what that got 

William Wallace...

Everyone and their (most) D.C. (distant cousin) 

has joined on this worldwide rally 

clamoring for the immediate release of Raif 

and dispensing of the remaining hundreds 

of punitive whiplashes 

that were set to be administered 

to his scrawny back...

and all that just for having blogged!

Of course, I would draw a parallel 

between this ''radical blogger'' 

(it's a form of radicalism as seen by 

the Saudi Arabian regime, yes;

me, I haven't even read Raif's blog!)

and the recent tragedy that struck 

a bunch of freethinking cartoonists 

that often displayed a very bad sense 

of what humor is or is supposed to be -

and were met with swift retribution 

coming from the hands 

(from the guns, mostly) 

of radicals all their own...

Where the above picture was taken 

(in greater Canada - but, to be more specific 

somewhere closer to that nation's capital) 

political party leaders with an eye on power 

(namely the NDP's Thomas Mulcair)

and well-known journalists (there) 

such as Jean-François Lépine 

have vehemently joined this public outcry 

- even more loudly so, strangely enough, 

than for the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France.

Imagine that.

La liberté de quoi - d'être con? D'offusquer des cons?

Faudrait définir, une bonne fois...

Now, you know me by now - do you not? 

I will be squarely on the side of a blogger 

much more so than by a crude cartoonist's 

so-called journalist's back... 

I paraphrased Voltaire, in social media, 

in re: Charlie...

I stated that, like Voltaire, I would fight 

for the right that they have to express 

themselves, surely; 

but it would be inversely proportional 

to my degree of disagreement (or agreement)

with what they say or do...

In other words, 

if I profoundly dislike their crap, 

I would agree that they can still 

keep on producing such crap, 

but I would hardly lift a finger. 

Now if I happen to share the same 

point of view - then,

it is a whole different ballgame!

For, then, I would fight tooth and nail 

for the right of expression - 

for the message is worthy!

Important nuance, I think...

I doubt Mulcair and Lépine,

to name but those two, 

care so much about what was said,

written, blogged...

They are outspoken about the basic right 

to freedom of speech for one and all. 

But when one in particular and most all 

are foolish enough to express the wrong thing 

at the wrong time - and for the wrong crowd 

how can you back up such idiocy 100%...? 

One Frenchman at least made sense: 

cartoonist Jean-Michel Delambre 

                (a close friend of the Charlie Hebdo victims...)                

stated that he believes we can laugh of any subject 

but he also believes that we cannot laugh 

of just any subject with just anybody...! 

And what were the cartoonists of CH 

or this Badawi blogger thinking -

did they want to simply aggravate 

for the sake of it - 

simply because they could 

express themselves 

-in theory anyways-

freely?

There are risks to that.

It can go from a hundred 

or a thousand whiplashes 

all the way to 

une pluie de balles...

And there is also a time 

and a place 

for every truth -

that is 

if these guys had one 

worthy of sharing...

Judging from some of these CH samples, 

it is extremely doubtful:

Perhaps the only case when CH 

actually made one iota of sense...

But I am digressing...

Elles n'apportent rien de bon 

de toute façon...

The case is clear with CH...

The jury is still out on Raif.

+++

''Screengrabber'' - Does That Count As A Blog-Vlog?

I don't know and I don't really care either - for this is MY blog, MY vlog (sort-of... eventually... stay tuned!) and I shall put in here what I see fit!  And so, with that in mind...

Screengrabber grabbed my attention today (thanks to a Google Doodle gone horribly wrong - don't ask!) and I just had to add it on here - on the blogs to denote!

For it made such a valuable point: Adam Sandler used to be funny. Or he used to be perceived as such! That was mainly thanks to some clever little silly songs that he'd ''perform'' on SNL - songs that aren't either melodious or actually sung, in the end - but the words, those lyrics, were clever... at times! As clever as dirty-minded kids can be when they are trying their hand at innuendo in the schoolyard, that is: but you knew that! After all, it is Sandler... That is his trademark!

However, over the last few years and films he's made, he has been branded anything and everything from ''washed up'' to ''unfunny'' and ''talentless'' outright...! But Screengrabber caught something I missed, the other night: a return to (relative) greatness for the once funny guy! I would have to go back to my old habits and watch late night TV in order to catch those things now: and if there is one thing I shall never do is ''go back'' and regress into... that again! NO WAY!  I'll waste my time on the net - thank you very much! That's where Adam Sandler himself tries to find ideas to salvage what's left of his career too, I am sure...

And so, this many years later and after so many flops, to hear (and really hear it, too: the video actually played! Try it yourself now!) that Adam has found his touch again in a one-time event, if only that (which is the send-off tune he ''composed'' for David Letterman) - I had to give kudos to the site/blog/vlog/whatever that brought those news to light: for it shall inspire and give hope to everyone else who is stuck in a rut these days - and that is, well, a whole bunch of people out there!

Go grab it, Screengrabber!

Sleepless In The Blogosphere

Awake, beautiful blogger, awake...!

Oh, you are awake already...?

You're an insomniac, actually!

And you can't stop blogging at night...

Er... Cool!

Blog on...

Photo: Daphné Caron - URBANIA

Verily, if fellow wordsmiths 

-so-called journalists of the new millennium-

bother and care, long enough, 

to go and interview this blogger...

promote her blog...

officially give it their seal of approval...

How could I overlook it, here, 

on my good ol' Blogs To Denote... hmm?

Three things to keep in mind, though, before you check it out: 

it is on Wordpress... (strike one?) 

You need to be able to read French... (strike two!) 

And... well... it's like the whole chick flick thing there; 

this is a chick blog, too...?  

Now, I watch chick flicks all the time; 

but it might not be everyone's cup of tea...?

Hence, before you go and check it out, 

you should check out this article/interview 

with the blogger herself: 

Catherine Fouron 

(quel nom...!)

photographed by Daphné Caron for that occasion 

and (briefly) interviewed

(quizzed, really...) 

by up-and-coming chroniqueuse 

and out-of-the-closet-and-about 

Judith Lussier...

Now, if Mrs. Fouron's blogging 

is anything like Miss Lussier's 

ah, contributions 

to that newspaper (...) 

(which it logically should be; 

since the former attracted the latter's attention...)

well, I must say it will be 

something a tad irritating, at times...

I shall keep this tabbed as 

''reading for later''

(as in NBC's Later, yes -

same concept!)

Only if I cannot sleep, therefore...

Read the article (click the original article's pic, below) 

while you can - for it is online, too... for now!

And then you may check out 

the actual blog that we're denoting here today: 

catoufou.wordpress.com

Gee... she looks as though she may have died there, when vertical...

Why sleep when you can blog though - indeed! 

Plenty of time to sleep once you buy the farm...

BLOGGER'S NOTE:

Lussier's stuff 

cannot be so easily avoided: 

as it is, quite often, 

the only reading material around 

on any given day 

that is FREE OF CHARGE 

and readily available 

(heck, handed to you; 

force-fed!) 

every time you pass by 

walking distance 

of a subway station 

in certain townships...! 

But that's another story...

;-)

Veet-Veet; Va-Va-Voom: Gone!

Ahh, the power of the modern-day thingie called a BLOG! 

No sooner than a Jezebel cries foul and calls for it, does the public rally around that plea, a riptide of discontent runs through all of media and even a mighty company such as Reckitt-Benckiser will yield and pull an entire line of costly new ads that it was so sure it would please, it had announced all over the place with great fanfare. 

R-B had, in fact, told its more than 300,000 Facebook fans that the new ad campaign was coming: it visibly thought they all shared its corporate sense of humor because it had even precised on which show and at what time the first of the new ads would premiere (on Dancing With The Stars, of all things; a show that one has to have a great sense of humor just in order to watch, indeed! You call that DANCING? You shouldn't be dancing, Billy Dee Williams!  And that goes for most every other contestant, too! But that's another story...)

Ever since, it seems like all 300,000 plus ''fans'' have participated in the virulent backlash that has everyone in social media and the wild, wild web overall calling the peeps behind Veet such things as misogynists, stereotype-spreaders and homophobes too! Jesebel took the pains of describing all the videos at length, even embedding them all on her blog: she didn't expect, even in her most optimist-activist-on-the-spur-of-the-moment, that R&B there would be pulling any of them, definitely not on such short notice. But the fact is this is exactly what they did: they yanked all of the videos from YouTube!  The only reason why *this blogger* was able to see any of those ''awful'' ads was because the Yahoo ''reporter'' was a tiny wee bit more clever than the Jezebel blogger: she embedded onto her article page the two ads salvaged by something called Heads Ads (a public service, surely? One that would sound an alarm, raise an alert such as ''heads up, folks: look at what crap they're passing off as ads again! Ban them! Ban them all to Hades!!!'' - that sort of thing?) and so, now, they are still viewable for all of us who don't use Veet, don't watch DWTS or don't waste time in front of the damnable TV anymore...! 

Anyhow...

It was one particular blogger that blew the whistle on Veet here. One particular ''writer'' on Jezebel whose blog has, time and again, been the flagship of protests against everything and anything... odd, to be refined in language... She complains about rampant sexism everywhere. She criticizes the media overtly - and finally gets quoted by it (her brilliant retort to Veet: a new slogan for them, which was ''Good grief, please cease''... wha-at? Cease what? Cease growing hair? Veet would be out of business if it even attempted to plant that suggestion into the minds of their impressionable girly-customer-base! I don't think you thought this one through all too well, Katey; nor did the Yahoo article that quoted you on it, too! A Lilith, that one: Lilit ''sans le H'' - yikes? Lilit Marcus - who? But never mind all that now...)  Aye, the whistle-blower here was one Katey; Kate Dries. (Again... who? Exactly!) On that blog of hers, she carries on and forth with petty grievances and social commentary left and right, that makes her appear to be the proverbial chicken that just got her head cut off; things such as lamenting that ''petit fours'' shouldn't be the distinguished, less crude way to refer to that practice commonly known as... doggy-style?  Come on! (Why shouldn't it be, you Jezebel?!? The French gave us their bizarre way to kiss: they can make up for that now, with this...! Lest all you want is French Toast from them - which I would understand and condone, all at once... Mais c'est une autre histoire!)

''Jezebel'' Kate Dries can be proud of herself on this occasion though: her blog started a tempest-in-a-blog, an instant reaction to something distasteful (in the eyes of the p-c world, it is) a veritable mini-revolution that got the powerful ones of this world to back off...!  She wasn't as successful when clamoring for a trans teacher to get his-her-it job back in Texas. Nor with her crusade to get oafish U.S. customs agents (aka Immigration and Customs Enforcement; thus as ''I.C.E.'' and as cold as it, too!) to stop detaining pregnant women at the border as they deny they do but unquestionably still do... But she didn't refrain from clarioning victory with this one, as Veet did pull what she was reluctant to call ''stupid ads'' at first - but she sure does in the follow-up post, post-viewer backlash and ads-pull...

(Onwards to bash the Dove patch ads, hmm? Calling it bullshit won't get you anywhere though, girl; language, language! Maybe you want to keep it safe by keeping to the Tweet Beat instead, hmm?)

Bravo, Miss Dries! You're the most successful Jezebel yet: and that site is chock-full of them, trying and trying hard...! Carry on boycotting (girlcotting?) Veet and Dove, now - quickly find something else to shave with *and* don't forget some moisturizer, too...

Olympic Blogging

Not Olympian Blogging - there's a nuance there!
Olympic - as in Titanic!

If you can't possibly follow all of the events that are of interest to you at these 2014 Winter Olympics taking place in Sochi, in the erstwhile USSR-now-back-to-simple-Russia (hey, as prophetized! But that's another story..) - fret not, humanoids! 

There is a blog (or several billion blogs - but we cover them only one at a time, due to serious time constraints! Hey - if Blogger's staff can't do any better, why should little luminous pundit blogger me do it, hmm?) oh yes, there is a wondrous blog that can make you up-to-date with humor... er, mirth... and more whimsicality than you really need, actually! 

No kidding: it is a Y! blog, after all - again, one of those...

The blog is called ''FOURTH-PLACE MEDAL'' - is that whimsical enough for ya, folks? Helmed, for the most part, by one Mike Oz (a wizard editor, assuredly, for Yahoo's other offering called ''Big League Stew'' - the kind of wizard that welcomes tips all the time, probably needs them, badly, too: email him one now at mikeozstew@yahoo.com - what else?) with some occasional postings coming from other contributors (such as Sam Cooper or Kevin Kaduk, who nearly trivializes the scattering of the ashes of a deceased athlete who did not live to see her dream come true, in Sochi... Great job there, Kev! Just like a Kev to do it that way - Kevs, you know...) so that this thing, therefore, a worthless-for-entirely-fictional ''4th medal'' recounts, in humor, entirely true events...

That's a Yahoo's brand of journalism, all right!
(Not to be confused with yellow journalism now - nooooo!)
(Nor with blogging - whoa!)

Topics can be ranging from ''the bet'' (that never really was) going on regarding the outcome of the semi-finals game between hockey's Team USA and Team Canada (Americans turned out to be true Beliebers, in that one too; boo-hoo) to the top five things you might have missed during the opening ceremonies (like, the Russian police's choir rendition of Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' is a must for your ears; not that this Y! blog has it embedded at all; it relies, once again, on other media sources to deliver the goods - in this case, it's nbcolympics.com. Warning: all you may hear is a sweet, not-so-robotic, female voice telling you that ''this content is currently unavailable''...  Why... Y!... Why!!! Oh, never mind.) And then you might waste time reading about allegedly-colorful, supposedly flamboyant but actually-so-eccentric-he's-very-nearly-a-coocoo paradoxically named Sage...  and whatever he had to say - or do! (So he gave the insufferable Bob Costas pink eye, apparently - we wish he had given Bob a blackeye instead! But that's another story, too...)

It is as it always is, with such blogs: we wonder Y they even exist...

This umpteenth Y! blog also sins the same cardinal way that all other Y! blogs do: it follows the lead given to it by American corporate media (namely, in this case, NBC.)   It is truly abysmal that the latter ''great, time-honored, major'' network chose to air a 20th anniversary of the Kerrigan-Harding affair semi-documentary to lead into the closing ceremonies - instead of any number of uplifting stories on numerous athletes who just participated, totally and completely in the spirit of Olympic competition, and did not win any medal for all their efforts...!!!  Mike Oz, as a true Y! guy possessed of a sheepish mentality and ample desire to indulge in the sensationalism brand of journalism that makes American rags number ONE, followed suit and had to post the so-called highlights of that 20th anniversary ''special'' complete with interviews given to one Mary Carillo... Why, Mary, Why! Everyone with half-a-brain agrees that this was of extreme bad taste from NBC; but it doesn't stop anyone from still following that lead - and adding more to it.

We, of course, add on - by blasting it to smithereens - here!

(Not the same!)

Mike takes a malicious pleasure relishing upon the poor performances of particular athletes, too: cases in point can all be found in hockey, coincidentally, and in the USofA, too...  True Canadian, Mike? Patrick Kane and all of his sad faces were compared with those of his fellow patriotic countrywomen in women's hockey, Team USA, who also lost to Canada (but, in their case, it was excruciatingly painful: as they lost in overtime of the Gold Medal game!)  Now, do not get me wrong: the sadness, pain and outright despair of the Americans who failed so miserably at proving (if only to their own delusional minds) that they are ''the best - at everything'' in the whole wide world, and their weeping makes me smile, nothing else. They had it coming and they deserved it all (now, if only they had lost Gold to someone else; at least Kane and his sorry bunch of chokers lost the Bronze to Finland instead!) - in fact, I had wished to see Pat Kane weep oceans of frosted water back in June, when his other lousy bunch of mercenaries on skates were taking on a true team, one imbued with a family spirit, real sense of unity, true grit - the Boston Bruins! Ironically, Kane cried all the more when he and his fellow chokers couldn't score a single goal in the Bronze medal game against Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask! Sweet revenge, Tuukka! But that's another story once again...! So, yes, I seep it all in fine myself; but to devote so much time to that, as Mike Oz does, with ample visuals (GIF imagery included) of the simple, pathetic fact that Kane was crying like a baby at the end of those games, well... it's pathetic too, Oz!  And it is downright cruel when he adds a link to an entire slideshow with pictures of the women all in tears over their overtime defeat, too! Now that bordered on misogyny right there...! Shame on you, Oz - and shame on your wizardry too!

So, sure, you'll be all up-to-date; but the reporting will be either on the ''homer'' mentality - or it is juvenile, outright. Not all that different, hence, from Yahoo actual ''journalism'' in the end...

Now, since we've reached this Y! exclamation point of no return...

We would be remiss if we didn't bash the yahoos' attitude about their borrowed material; it is all ephemeral, all borrowed in the first place, too, and all destined to be as valuable as yesterday's yesterday's archival news from many yesterdays ago... Thus... WHY... Y... this:

The video cannot be embedded, eh?

The spirit of the Olympics has failed to flare up 

anything at all in the last traces of lizard brains 

that you may have left in your craniums: 

for not even the relatives of these athletes 

could make a dime off 

any embedding of this footage! 

No one wants to embed this stuff

other than to marvel at the feat 

(22 medals for the Dutch - wow!) 

share with friends, family, readers 

and all that in the exact same spirit 

dictated and described 

by Pierre de Coubertin

Now, you never got that message, 

you corporate rats,

did you?!?

This would be why Yahoo is in such sorry shape -

with its MILF CEO there... unable to do squat about it!

(Yeah - that's another *sad* story too!)

I so wanted to pin it on you, too, yahoos:

but it truly is the CBC that cannot help but typo 

''speeskating'' instead of speed skating 

while failing to pluralise ''medal'' on top of that 

(they're not up... to speed, one guesses?)

and it also manages to end with 

''this Olympics''

instead of ''in these Olympics'' too.

Yikes.

AND BLOGGING IS NOT UP TO SNUFF - 

DARING TO TAKE AWAY READERS 

FROM THESE ACCLAIMED 

''PROFESSIONAL'' WEBSITES 

that can even get their proofreading done?!?

Blogetty-Vlogetty Nonsense - Part One

Okay, this is not a blog per say - more like a vlog if you ask anyone... A mere parody in very poor taste if you ask *me* particularly...! Still... We can have a laugh at the expense of the fuhrer - right?