Monday, May 17, 2010

In Which Ironicus Announces: We Are Precogs

OK so you probably come to this blog thinking no matter how badly things are going in your life, at least you aren't Ironicus Maximus. That's all right. Socially redeeming value is overstated anyway and though this blog may be the scale that forms along the toobz of these here inter webs, we proudly proclaim that we also serve who only...uh...waste your time.

Well, that probably could have been phrased better, but our point is that even though your visit to our little neighborhood is preceded by low expectations, occasionally even we rise to the level of mildly informative. To wit: Last week in what has become semi-regular visits to the red hat club we wrote the following:
His strong comments placed the blame for the crisis squarely on the sins of pedophile priests (who, he pointed out, are legally not employees of the vatican, but private contractors), repudiating the Vatican's initial response to the scandal, in which it blamed the media as well as pro-choice and pro-gay marriage advocates, sun spots, the economic collapse in Greece and the designated hitter rule for mounting a campaign against the church and the pope.
Now, admittedly that part about those in the church employ being private contractors was a throw away line, one of those things our fingers type while our minds are occupied  with higher thoughts, like when did they add a Hajib competition to the Miss America pageant? However, it those very times when we have totally distracted ourselves, even from our distraction that we are open to higher signals, to the force if you will, to echoes of future time, to eternity, to the very voice of god. Stoli helps too, but we'll let old Benedicto tell it:
The Vatican on Monday will make its most detailed defense yet against claims that it is liable for U.S. bishops who allowed priests to molest children, saying bishops are not its employees and that a 1962 Vatican document did not require them to keep quiet, The Associated Press has learned.
 Yes, ladies and gentlemen you heard it here first. El Popo Grande is cutting the boinkers loose. May the sweet Jebus and his sainted momma watch over their  pasty white behinds 'cause misters, this here church is aloha.

Now don't go getting all huffy either padres. Read your bible, Matthew 28:20 says Jesus is with you until the end of time, but Bene? He jets.  See ya don't want to be ya.

9 comments:

Jenna McWilliams said...

Because I'm a blogger myself, I've come to wonder how much time you spend working on your blog. There's the writing, right? But there's also the research and the thinking and the dealing with comments and spam and so on. So what do you think: How many hours a week or a month do you spend? Certainly you're one of the most consistently prolific blogger I know.

Ironicus Maximus said...

Research? Thinking? Have you read the blog?

You crack us up.

Well, OK. We read your post on educational research and you are quite serious about this, so we'll step out of character for a moment and give you a serious answer.

The posts are generally written in fits and spurts as having uninterrupted blocks of time in the day is usually not an option, so I really can't say for certain how long the writing and research is, but I have to believe it is somewhere around a couple of hours on average for a post. Thinking is usually reactive, meaning something catches my eye and as the post grows, things I've read before, or that occur to me would be useful get added--research is also reactive I guess.

I tell my students this is 3D writing because it allows the reader to dig into what I'm saying and see where the ideas come from as the ideas develop rather than waiting for a dead list at the end of the paper like in 2D writing.

Spam is usually slight because of sign-in and I read comments but generally don't respond to them as I feel the comment section is for the commenters, so unless someone addresses me directly I pretty much let people talk amongst themselves.

I guess I'm "prolific" because I'm a writer, a writing teacher and writing is how I best express myself. I think anyway.

Hope this helps. Students! You're all so cute when you're serious.

scripto said...

Another shithead bishop heard from. If this keeps up I'm going to become an Episcopalian. I swear I will. Just watch me.

scripto said...

Hey - over here! Nobody asked but I'm a blogger, too. I spend about 10 minutes a week on mine - 5 for thinking and 5 for writing. I get about 5, sometimes 6 hits a week. How do I do it? A little thing I like to call The Process

Ironicus Maximus said...

Hey - over here! Nobody asked but I'm a blogger, too. I spend about 10 minutes a week on mine - 5 for thinking and 5 for writing.

Yeah but the guy's a Michigan fan fer chrissakes. Now we know you're a Laker Jenna, but we feel we've gotten to know you a little through your blog and we believe you're a Spartan at heart, so there's really no need to listen to someone who comes from such a deprived background.

scripto said...

You got me confused with some other guy with nothing better to do than comment on this blog. That's Go Lions! as in Nittany Lions. I hate the Vulvarines almost as much as I hate the stupid Fuckeyes. Hell, half the time I'm rooting for the Thpartans to pull off some sort of miraculous upset and win a game.

Ironicus Maximus said...

Wait. There's another team named the Lions? Oh yeah. That's the team coached by that old guy.

Jenna McWilliams said...

Now we know you're a Laker Jenna, but we feel we've gotten to know you a little through your blog and we believe you're a Spartan at heart, so there's really no need to listen to someone who comes from such a deprived background.

Does it make any difference that at different points in my life I've also been a Ram (Colorado State), a Hoosier (Indiana U), and a...what do they call MIT's mascot? Oh, yes--a Beaver. Because MIT's sports teams weren't getting quite enough ridicule before.

Ironicus Maximus said...

Does it make any difference that at different points in my life I've also been a Ram (Colorado State), a Hoosier (Indiana U), and a...what do they call MIT's mascot? Oh, yes--a Beaver.

Ah, grasshopper...it matters little what we wear on our sleeve. It is what's in our hearts that matters. Go Green.

Beavers? That's just...disturbing