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August 26, 2007
Crap
With no warning, Max Sawicky is closing down his blork. Apparently he has a new job that makes it no longer tenable.
This distresses me. It was the high quality blugging there that was the main inspiration for this bligg. In any case, it sounds like you have one last week to go visit and say your goodbyes.
Posted at August 26, 2007 10:31 PM | TrackBackAmen. Conversation about economics in the US takes place in a very constrained space, with the prevailing ideology masquerading as certainty.
max stepped outside those boundaries.
Is there a post in the archives that lays out the inspiration for the thousand-or-so little variations on the word "blog"? Did you just get sick of saying it or something?
Posted by: at August 27, 2007 08:42 AMIs there a post in the archives that lays out the inspiration for the thousand-or-so little variations on the word "blog"?
No, and maybe there should be. But it would be short: I just hate the word blog, for reasons even I don't really understand.
Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at August 27, 2007 09:05 AMDid a blog bite you when you were a toddler?
Posted by: at August 27, 2007 12:35 PMThis sucks. That's two of my top three or four blogs (the other being Body and Soul) down the tubes in the space of a year, more or less.
Posted by: Donald Johnson at August 27, 2007 01:48 PMOK. Blork. Blugg. Blig. What does it all mean, Mr. Schwartz? I know that bleg is when you beg on yer blog. But what are all these other variants?
Posted by: atheist at August 27, 2007 02:34 PMBlork. Blugg. Blig. What does it all mean, Mr. Schwartz? I know that bleg is when you beg on yer blog. But what are all these other variants?
Well, it's very simple: they mean the same thing as blurn, bleft, bloyt, and blllllllllllg.
Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at August 27, 2007 02:52 PMThis blug and Maxspeak are my 2 favorites. I just hope you are keeping your same day job.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at August 27, 2007 03:10 PMWould I be out of line to say, "Jeez--rather than have people like Max and Jon have to shut down their blogs, perhaps us readers ought to pay them a little something to make a day job unnecessary?"
A buck a month to your five favorite blogs...?
Posted by: Mike of Angle at August 28, 2007 12:19 AM
