…I’m looking all over the web this morning and I don’t see a thing on TV or that is of the least bit interesting. The Number #1 story on memorandum is Sullivan attacking Glenn Reynolds as a racist for daring to blow up (not even photoshop) an image in the White House Flicker basket.
Expect Charles Johnson to follow shortly, what has happened to those halcyon days of the four of the Ablogalypse?
Those happy days of 2003
Only Reynolds remains unchanging, as he was death it seems quite appropriate.
My thought on this; were stamps really 32 cents in 2003?
Update: Here is a question: Who would be the four horsemen today? I say Robert Stacy, Michelle Malkin and the Captain would join Glenn. (Ed Morrissey will always be the Captain to me).
Update 2: You know there must be a written rule that I can only get an Instalanche when I’m asleep or haven’t been looking at my computer. Welcome all and take a look around, there wasn’t much going on today or yesterday due to the annual open house, but see my review of the End of Time part 2, Learn why Babe Ruth is greater than Aaron, Williams and Bonds, Get caught up in the Johnson wars if you wish, take up the green man’s burden, and don’t forget to come back on the weekends for links to my Amazon reviews of everything from games, to movies, to Doctor Who audios.
Update 3: And go visit Peg as well, I owe her, she was banned for me.
Update 4: Time for a poll to select the new Horsemen
Update 5: You know you’ve made it when Althouse links, now if I can just turn this into 40k a year somehow I’ll be all set.
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There is method to my madness. The reason I started blogging about anime is because it is utterly inconsequential, and thus won’t attract the attention of readers who are earnest.
http://chizumatic.mee.nu/uss_chizumatic
There is certainly nothing wrong with Anime, my son loves it as do many of his friends. If you enjoy blogging Anime that’s no different than my long posts on Dr. Who.
I’ve always enjoyed long essays and subjects covered deeply, the USS Clueless was exactly my ticket. I’m reminded of something said many years ago, it’s like being Earl Anthony. One of the greatest 10 pin bowlers ever but remembered only by people who follow those things.
The USS Clueless might be an odd thing to be remembered for by a stranger, but some people aren’t remembered at all.
Thanks for stopping by.
“The reason I started blogging about anime is because it is utterly inconsequential, and thus won’t attract the attention of readers who are earnest.”
What a plan. I expected the Den Beste reason to be for the furry anime porn moments.
I am so not going there, but I am laughing at the thought.
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I remember that post well. Ah, back in 2003 — when some of us had been blogging for over a year, and thought we knew what we were doing.
Well… Glenn knew, which might be the reason Instapundit is still crazy (good) after all these years.
Whatever the reasons, Mr. Den Beste, I miss you but respect your decision and wish you well.
Glad you kept your archives up and available.
Well, I’d nominate Wretchard at the Belmont Club. Extremely thoughtful, well-written commentary from someone schooled in the classics. His commenters are pretty good, too. Alas, he probably doesn’t get the traffic others do, but then again, maybe that’s a feature, not a bug…
Got here on a link from Instapundit, two of the first four comments are SDB and Vanderleun….dude, you’re in the big leagues.
Captain Ed was always too closely aligned with the Republicans as a party for me instead of conservatism generally (as are Michelle and Hugh Hewitt). You can still find Den Beste chiming in occasionally at Chicagoboyz and if you want a drop of daily links Maggie’s Farm is a must read (fusionist conservative/libertarian). NRO’s “The Corner” should be the goto fusionist blog but it has devolved into a horse-race blog and is rarely interesting to me.
Read about the Four Horseman of Male Emancipation, which come into play once the excesses of feminism collapse in on themselves.
I saved the 4 horsemen graphic I liked best. It was originally at meanmrmustart.net.
Darn it! That should be “meanmrmustard.net”.
Damn, Steve. I’m still passing your “Tribes” along to all my contacts. Has to be the best blog post of the year. Thanks!
Bill Whittle’s blog, even though I don’t think he posts there anymore, is long-winded and kick-ass (the archives, anyway)- check it out, even dated, it still rocks:
http://docweasel.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/eject-eject-eject-is-a-great-blog/
As far as the four horsemen are concerned, Powerline Blog replaced Andrew Sullivan, Ed Morrisey replaced Charles Johnson, and Richard Fernandez replaced Den Beste.
The Belmont Club has replaced the “in depth” posts I once found at USS Clueless; Belmont Club has been picked up by Pajamas Media under the link of its principle author, Richard Fernandez.
Victor David Hanson would fill in well for Den Beste, until he, too, goes off the deep end, and starts talking about raisins all the time.
ESR would be good, except, dammit, he forgoes posting in favor of doing actual useful work. Worthless scum.
Mike Vanderboegh of the Sipsey Street Irregulars. Now there’s an apocalyptic horseman for ya.
Or Anthony Watts, Carbon Belching Motorcyclist of the Anti-Apocalypse.
And Mike of Cold Fury has just been freezing all the pipes to hell and gone recently.
Oh, and I still read Den Beste, because he actually makes all that crap sound interesting. He sees what the animators were trying to do better than they did, and it’s wonderful, even the stuff I turn out not to like so much.
Steven, how dare you imply that serious Art such as Anime is inconsequential?!
[Notary’s testimony: Bob delivered the above line while keeping a straight face. Mostly]
Steven, I would have preferred you just “cat mailbox > /dev/null” and keep writing as you did. But it’s your choice, and our loss.
I was wondering when someone would remember the four horseman. Man, how things have changed. I would like to thank SDB again for his efforts. It was like getting hooked on blogs with the pure stuff. Call me a moron for nominating the AOS blogger, what’s his name. His comments section rivals LGF in it’s heyday. Maybe it’s me but the Blogoshere seems coarser these days.
Every chance I get:
Thanks to Den Beste for doing what he did, even though he doesn’t do that now. I learned something and that’s not something I say about many blogs.
As per your Update question: Rachel Lucas, Frank J. and Emperor Misha now ride alongside the Puppy Blender. Cap’n Ed is great, and McCain is a rising star, but those three are unswerving guideposts of Bloglandia, banging it out today same as they did in the day.
I just want Steven to know I still miss him every day, I refer back to his USS Clueless posts, and I still refer new friends (now on FB) to his incomparable essays as timeless bits of perfection.
I’m also amazed at the postage rate changes. Still looking for ways to NOT use the USPS!
Johnson and Sullivan, 2 insane peas in a pod. I had to take my printout of the Four Horsemen off my desk overhead finally because I couldn’t stand looking at those 2 anymore…
Thanks for the memories, datechguy!
I, too, miss Mr. Den Beste’s ventures into more consequential matters than “fan service,” but one who comes close to being a worthy successor is Richard “Wretchard” Fernandez of Belmont Club fame. He’s another “big thinker” in the vein of Mr. Den Beste.
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I think you’re right Pawn, I think it’s because it is a larger and less geeky group, sort of like the national parites, the larger they become the more likely they will clash internally.
I’m with you Chap, even if you didn’t agree with Clueless it was a great source of solid arguments for his opinions.
Thanks for commenting TC. I used to read both Rachel Lucas and Frank J a lot more than I do now. ( His I am Arrrnuld stuff used to crack up my boys). The Emperor is a little more vulgar than I like but he has the virtue of a very long time out there and a loyal following, but vulgarity certainly wouldn’t disqualify him from the list.
Peg always a pleasure and you are quite welcome.
I’ve always had good luck with the post office myself.
Jay Tea, thanks for visiting, Fernandez is good, would you nominate him as a horseman to replace him as well?
Very True Nicholas it was good stuff.
Bob I know a lot of Anime fans who would have a fit over your comment.
Docweasel I’m with you on Whittle, I still have links to his best rants.
Although I hesitate to endorse anything Cthulhuish… Yeah it’s nice, only the 2nd since I’ve had the blog. Now if I could only find someone visiting here who wants to hire a tech support guy for remote work then I’d be all set.
Actually I take that back, the Arkham Horror board game is Cthulhuish and is pretty good, I’ll have to review it on Amazon soon.
It’s amazing how much that stuff sticks in your mind all these years.
Thanks for coming over to visit Mr. Green , hope to read you here again.
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After some additional thought, I’d also nominate Tim Blair, who lays down a daily dose of withering fire at the enemies of liberal conservatism.
The fourth horseman (along with Glenn, Wretchard and Blair)? IOWAHAWK! Except instead of a “horse”, he would scorch Gaia, the ultimate MILF, astride his Coupe of Justice.
Tex I can’t believe I forgot Tim Blair. Now I’m wondering if he should replace the Captain on the list?
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It took me a long time to get over Den Beste’s decision. What a beautiful voice. I was upset by the reason for his departure. I remember that post, when he told us the hate mail was just too much. One of the greatest writers on the web, giving us beautiful, helpful essays, for free, and idiots had to wreck it. I’m just glad he found something else he wanted to write about.
My favorite blogger these days, in addition to Insty, is Jules Crittenden. Nice variety of subject matter, conservative but individual, great voice, good strong war reporting–he was embedded in Iraq, and his series from there is terrific. Good sense of humor, too.
SDB now does occasional columns for the Green Room on Hot Air, so there is hope.
Can someone enlighten me on what happened to Charles Johnson? I took a break from reading LGF years ago and recently took a look at it and was completely surprised by how much it had changed.
I agree that Richard Fernandez,VDH and Tim Blair need to be on the list somewhere. Does that now make the 7 horsemen?
Chrenkoff too was an incredible blogger.
If you want to find out there are a ton of posts on the subject here and at a bunch of other blogs as well.
Johnson no longer merits attention.
For the current list neoneocon makes the cut. Day after day for years a great output and great comments.
neoneocon.com
I agree that neo is great, and if we’re doing psychbloggers, Dr. Sanity is also way great. Shrinkwrapped is also right up there, in my book.
Chrenkoff: Yeah, baby.
I guess it’s not the four horsemen anymore… more like the Many Horse Tag-Team of the Ablogolypse.
Datechguy, great post, thanks.
On those days when I am pressed for time, the essential stops are at Pajamas Media for Wretchard, VDH, Ledeen, Simon, Radosh, Vodkapundit, and the rest, but Belmont Club always, even if the others must be deferred.
For a laugh, Tim Blair excels, and Jules Crittenden has smarts and laughs. Iowahawk might be the best satirist writing today. Glenn Greenwald and Sullivan aren’t satirists, right?
Tigerhawk and Maggie’s Farm are great for pithy posts and many links, and Instapundit’s dizzying output remains a great treasure trove.
The Captain was worth reading, but Hot Air is a hideous site so Ed Morrissey now goes unread.
Vanderleun and neoneo are always full of good stuff, and anything Mark Steyn posts is worth a read.
Instapundit and Richard Fernandez are
I’m usually up by 6 a.m. EST and as a news junkie see what is going on early but some days the news just isn’t.
Thanks for the shout out Seppo.
Pace Den Beste but for my money when it comes to sites the commenters can (but don’t always) make it.
Two cases in point that I touched on above: Belmont and Neoneo always have great comment threads. I’ve lately taken to posting good comments from either in my main or side column.
Belmont:Neoneo– ‘Come for the posts. Stay for the converstation.’
Datechguy – you are a sweetheart to link to me, too! As for getting banned… I reiterate. If you don’t help out of common courtesy, if you don’t extend yourself … what is your worth? Sadly, too, getting banned from LGF actually placed me in the class where I more properly belonged.
In addition to Glenn, I always visit Ed at HotAir (he’s “the Captain” for me, too!) – along with Kudlow, Megan McArdle at Asymmetrical Information (one of the few voices at the Atlantic worth reading any longer), BookerRising blogspot (firm proof that there really are black conservatives and moderates out there), Greg Mankiw, Volokh Conspiracy, and my friend, Professor Keith Burgess-Jackson. I know; more than 4 – but – sometimes four is just NOT enough.
Congrats on your Instalanche! I’ve gotten a couple; very exciting and fun. And now, I have Instalanche Ricochet – thanks! :)
It is genetically impossible for a person of Sicilian dissent to forget a favor.
DTG – personally, I believe that in the long run, we ourselves are aided when we do a favor.
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Gotta agree with most of what people have suggested here, but I couldn’t let Protein Wisdom go unmentioned…warning: don’t enter the comments section without having monitor-cleaning supplies ready.