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Blog Breakdown: Cartoon Explains All

By on September 19, 2011

 

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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23 Responses to Blog Breakdown: Cartoon Explains All

  1. Huck Fin September 19, 2011 at 9:43 am #

    That’s a little harsh don’t you think!

  2. Jim September 19, 2011 at 9:45 am #

    Sure, but it’s funny – and the humor absolves all.

  3. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit September 19, 2011 at 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. 😀

  4. Claire September 19, 2011 at 11:52 am #

    What? You mean you don’t knit, too???

    Jim, Jim, Jim, you’re missing the big 100% mark!

  5. Jim September 19, 2011 at 12:15 pm #

    If only that upper left 1/3 option had included “cleaning your guns,” I would have had a Trifecta

  6. Claire September 19, 2011 at 12:21 pm #

    I think “cleaning your gun” gets filed under the paranoid conspiracy theory part. Sorry.

  7. Jim September 19, 2011 at 12:21 pm #

    LawHobbit, I’m not sure if lawyers’ self-promotion counts. That would fall under the “public service” category.

  8. Jim September 19, 2011 at 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”?

  9. Claire September 19, 2011 at 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.

  10. Jim September 19, 2011 at 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.

  11. Claire September 19, 2011 at 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.

  12. Claire September 19, 2011 at 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.

  13. Jim September 19, 2011 at 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]

  14. Jim September 19, 2011 at 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…

  15. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit September 19, 2011 at 2:12 pm #

    As best I can tell, Claire, Jim prefers to tend to OTHER people’s knitting, rather than his own…. 😉

  16. Jim September 19, 2011 at 2:13 pm #

    I feel my story unraveling…

  17. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit September 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm #

    Do you mean your “yarn?” Just because you’re beeing needled?

  18. Jim September 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm #

    Didn’t expect to be besieged by the Pacific Northwest when I woke up today…

  19. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit September 19, 2011 at 3:09 pm #

    NOBODY expects the Pacific Northwest Besiegement! BUWHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

  20. Claire September 19, 2011 at 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 …

  21. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit September 20, 2011 at 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. 🙄

  22. Jim September 20, 2011 at 9:28 am #

    On the other hand, Hobbit, Claire gets to make Wookie references – which you would be disbarred for doing in open court.

  23. The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit September 20, 2011 at 9:36 am #

    Your feeble attempt to suck up to Claire and thereby save yourself from a Besiegement will not work. 🙄