by Jerome du Bois
A lot of bloggers appeared to be impressed by Phil Boas's recent piece in The Masthead, "Bloggers: The Light At The End Of The Newspapers' Tunnel." I am not impressed, as I blogged about in "Brave Words." I won't repeat myself here, just point to Mr. Boas's most recent contribution to his pseudoblog --a "Quick Hit," they call it:
Quick hit for the day
Apr. 27, 2005 12:00 AM
'What's new pussycat, whoa, whoa'
Feeling nostalgic, I was listening to classic rock radio and made a discovery. The worst song ever recorded is without a doubt What's New, Pussycat? by Tom Jones. It's the harmonic convergence of bad music, bad lyrics and the cheesiest lounge singer hell ever concocted. It is irresistibly repulsive, the perfect distillation of all that is vile.
--PHIL BOAS, deputy editorial page editor
I strain in vain to name a subject more trivially irrelevant than this thin thought bubble. That doesn't stop azcentral.com from publishing a rebuke of Mr. Boas's position in this morning's edition, objecting to his use of the word "vile." Are we now waiting for his defense?
Of all the topics in all the categories in all the world, he picks a pop song to try to tug my sleeve with.
You need to read your own article again, Phil.
I sure did. Thanks for the advice.
(And, fellow bloggers, let's not be so pathetically grateful every time somebody from big media notices us. We are already overwhelmingly unignorable.)
Posted by Jerome at April 29, 2005 08:10 AM | TrackBack