New poll up. Same list as before, but I want you to choose your least favorite In My World™ character. No wussing out on this one; even if you like them all, you have to like one less than all the others.
As for the results of the previous poll, out of 1048 votes cast, Donald Rumsfeld got 39% of the vote in a ten way race with 413 votes. Other than that, the made up characters mainly ruled the charts. Buck was second with 138 votes followed by Chomps with 96 votes. George W. Bush got 87 votes, though, followed by Melinda Hawkish with 76 votes. As a surprise to me, Zatoichi was next with 73 votes. Then came Condi with 54 votes, the barely used Karl Rove with 51, and Laura Bush with 42 votes. In last place was Scott McClellan, who only got 18 votes. I guess Chokehold Boy gets no respect (he’s one of my favorite to write for, though).
Comments spam is becoming a new problem. It’s only a minor nuisance now, but I’m afraid people filling comments with ads may end up being as bad as e-mail spam. Any smart people out there in the blogosphere know what to do? I’d hate to have to one day shutdown my comments.
Here is my vote for the New Weblog Showcase. Check it out.
Lastly, I finally have an idea for a full book that will use my style of humor I use on this site. It would compete against the books written by Al Fraken and Michael Moore. If anyone knows any conservative literary agents, I could use some help here. I figure the traffic statistics from my site could help get my foot in the door.
Oh, that’s another idea: a readership drive…
New In My World™ tomorrow starring Condi, Buck, and Chomps. See you then.
currently, scott leads with 100% of the vote heh
Frank J. voted for my blog?
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I’M NOT WORTHY! I’M NOT WORTHY! I’M NOT WORTHY…etc.
(seriously, thanks for the vote!)
Frank J., have no fear, MT Blacklist is here!
http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
(Evil bastard comment spammers! WTF?!)
D’oh! looks like your version of Movable Type is too old. Upgrade, damnit! Sir!
Lady McBeth …er Bush. She is too bosy and doesnt let dubya goof off.
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Frank, you can do the MT Blacklist thing (if you aren’t proficient in computer literacy, it’s not the easiest thing to install but you can get help and they have Troubleshooting guides—I’ll save you a step, you need to get WinRAR to unpack the file you download. That isn’t evident in their instructions.) You can also use Junkeater (www.junkeater.com) which seems to have knocked them off of my site.
Frank – I don’t know about literary agents, but Regnery is a good publisher that publishes lots of conservative titles. Good luck with the book.
You might want to consider self-publishing via CafePress.
Frank,
I thought Ari was the best- especially when he got to tippin’ the bottle. He’d get my vote.
why do they hate zatoichi? why?
hes a samuri! and hes blind! how much cooler could he be?
My analysis: this is excess bleed off of the massive hatred for the new matrix, wich i find equaly insane.
this world hates everything cool. bastards all of you.
Are you saying Rumsfeld isn’t a made-up character?!? Do you mean there is a real Donald Rumsfeld?!? I can’t believe it!
Take that you irritating blind bastard! I still ovted for chomps though.
aelfheld may be on to something. Why not take this blog thing to its logical conclusion and publish excerpts? You could do it in a daily or weekly series like the washington post does with woodward books. If it generates traffic it’ll surely be picked up.
“Use the blog Luke… Let go…”
“What’s he doing? He’s shutting off his computer…”
Forgive my ignorance, but by ‘comments spam’, are you referring to comments posted by people who are “outsiders” such as myself? If so, I (and hopefully others) will cease and desist out of respect for you and your talent. It would be understandable, as you get a few thousand hits a day, and the line must be drawn somewhere. I am a newcomer to this sort of thing, and so I am not familiar with any etiquettes that are particular to blog commenting. And I would be willing to bet a couple bucks that I’m not the only one.
No, comments spam is advertising in comments sections, for porn and the like. Anyone who isn’t actually Frank J. could concievably be called an ‘outsider’ here. As for commenting etiquette, the basic rule is “don’t be a douchebag.” Remember that there are other people on the other end of the internet, don’t stray too far from the topic, etc. Simply be nice, and others will usually reciprocate.
Hmph… I thought Scott would get 100% of the votes. Looks like I was wrong.
That freaking chomps deserves all the votes! Him and that damn blind guy.
If at least one of those guys goes, I expect the IMW to get EVEN BETTER!
Buck is my hero.
Couldn’t you get him to find and kill all of these so called “comment spammers” ?????
Don’t know about agents, but some conservative publishers include Regnery, ISI (isi.org), Eerdmans, and Free Press.