Blog Breakdown: Cartoon Explains All
As a paranoid book promoter, I can truly appreciate this cartoon.
At least this blog never has any knitting references.
[great Roz Chast cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]
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Huck Fin
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 9:43 am
That’s a little harsh don’t you think!
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 9:45 am
Sure, but it’s funny - and the humor absolves all.
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 11:45 am
So if I’m half self-promotion and half conspiracy theories (since many of mine are some form “the idiots of the world are out to get us”) I guess I’d be in the bottom right tri-drent if this were a Venn diagram. 
Claire
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 11:52 am
What? You mean you don’t knit, too???
Jim, Jim, Jim, you’re missing the big 100% mark!
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:15 pm
If only that upper left 1/3 option had included “cleaning your guns,” I would have had a Trifecta
Claire
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:21 pm
I think “cleaning your gun” gets filed under the paranoid conspiracy theory part. Sorry.
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:21 pm
LawHobbit, I’m not sure if lawyers’ self-promotion counts. That would fall under the “public service” category.
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:26 pm
Claire, if it was blogging about the difficulty of finding Hoppe’s No. 9 Solvent in the local stores, that’d be paranoid.
But otherwise… Isn’t it kind of like “Cooking with Smith & Wesson”?
Claire
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:35 pm
C’mon, Jim. You’ve lived near DC long enough to understand that anybody who owns a gun — let alone sits around cleaning it — is by definition a paranoid weirdo lone-nut conspiracy theorist.
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:38 pm
Ya, but like the Weaver case proved, just ’cause you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get you.
Claire
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:46 pm
Very true, Jim. But clever girl that I am, I just caught you changing the subject.
We were talking about you lifting your expectations high enough to make it into the “knitting and cooking crap” category.
Fess up, Jim. You want to make it a perfect 100 percent, don’t you? But you’re afraid you won’t make it as a knitter. It’s just (paranoid) fear of failure that’s keeping you from giving it a try. Go for it, Jim! Get yourself some wook and a couple of needles. Pretty soon you’ll have the whole blogosphere covered.
Claire
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:47 pm
Wook? No, don’t get yourself a wookie.
Wool … that’s wool. And I’d better get back to work while I still have a brain left.
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:52 pm
Claire, I recognized decades ago that I’ll never score 100% with the New Yorker….
Based on my ineptitude with knots in my Boy Scout years, I suspect I’d best shirk the needle… [the knitting needle, I mean]
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 12:52 pm
Woulda been great if that cartoon had had a Chesire Cat smile representing the NSA hovering over the blogger whacking the laptop. But that might have perplexed too many New Yorker readers…
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 2:12 pm
As best I can tell, Claire, Jim prefers to tend to OTHER people’s knitting, rather than his own…. 
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 2:13 pm
I feel my story unraveling…
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 2:30 pm
Do you mean your “yarn?” Just because you’re beeing needled?
Jim
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 2:32 pm
Didn’t expect to be besieged by the Pacific Northwest when I woke up today…
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 3:09 pm
NOBODY expects the Pacific Northwest Besiegement! BUWHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
Claire
Comment on Monday 19th September 2011 @ 4:43 pm
The Pacific Northwest Besiegement!
Yesssss! It’s another conspiracy to be paranoid about. And it’s so secretive I didn’t even know I was part of it.
Hobbit, you realize the cabal is going to have to liquidate you now that you’ve revealed the Secret We Didn’t Even Know We Had?
Personally, I’ll be sorry to see you go …
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Tuesday 20th September 2011 @ 9:17 am
Wait wait wait….how did this become about ME now? We WERE, as best I can recall from reading upthread, picking on our kindly and benevolent host, Mr. Bovard.
I think you’re just envious because *you* never got to bill a client for talking about cow abduction lamps and you’re looking for an excuse to turn the Awsome Powers of the PNWB onto my own humble self. 
Jim
Comment on Tuesday 20th September 2011 @ 9:28 am
On the other hand, Hobbit, Claire gets to make Wookie references - which you would be disbarred for doing in open court.
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Tuesday 20th September 2011 @ 9:36 am
Your feeble attempt to suck up to Claire and thereby save yourself from a Besiegement will not work.
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