Category: Blogs & Blogging

Parody — a false, derisive, or impudent imitation of something

Very Very Happy parodies the Rightwing blogs, starting with Instapundit:

THE MEDIA’S WAR ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION continues unabated. Recent events have combined with the media’s anti-Bush agenda to paint a misleadingly dark picture of Iraq. If you received all your news from CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Army Times, The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, USA Today, the Sacremento Bee, the San Jose Mercury News, The Orlando Sentinel, The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Lansing State Journal, the Dallas Morning News, the Boston Globe, the Houston Chronicle, UPI, Reuters, or the Associated Press, you would be under the impression that things are pretty bleak in Iraq.

The Lileks parody is even better.

My other halves — corny and sly

Functional Ambivalent has some kind words — I think

I’ve added [linked to] NewMexiKen. When I’m travelling, I like nothing better than reading local, small-town newspapers, and NewMexiKen has some of that flavor. He lists celebrity birthdays, covers events of note in Albuquerque, and keeps the pictures of his grandchildren off to the side where I can ignore them without too much trouble. He’s also funny in a half-corny/half-sly way. He had a thing up recently bragging that he’d had his highest traffic day ever: 239 visitors. Now that Functional Ambivalent has linked to him, his traffic will doubtless shoot up to 242 visitors a day. Soon, I’m sure, he’ll be begging for donations to pay for bandwidth.

The Babe

NewMexiKen is decidedly not a Red Sox fan, but the photo of Babe Ruth at Bambino’s Curse (default style) is priceless.

One can’t help but be reminded of the story in Robert W. Creamer’s delightful Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (1974).

There is a story, probably apocryphal, about a time [Ruth] and [Bob] Meusel were barnstorming together. They shared a hotel suite. Meusel was half asleep when Ruth came in with a girl, went into his room and made love to her in his usual noisy fashion. Afterwards he came out to the living room of the suite, lit a cigar and sat in a chair by the window, smoking it contemplatively. When he finished the cigar he went back into the bedroom and made love again. And then came out and smoked another cigar. In the morning Meusel asked, “How many times did you lay that girl last night?” Ruth glanced at the ashtray, and so did Meusel. There were seven butts in the tray. “Count the cigars,” said Ruth.

Playing around

Regular visitors to NewMexiKen know that I am always tweaking the appearance — and often overhauling it. Now I’ll give you a chance.

Tired of this plain vanilla appearance? How about some color?

Or this?

Prefer plain, come on back.

If this works correctly, whichever style you have when you close the page should be the one that appears next time you return.

Except of course, if I change it.

Oops

NewMexiKen inadvertently turned off the comments for all entries prior to April 28. I had intended to close comments for entries older than 15 days, but the fickle finger of fate intervened, and I hit enter before I had made the change from 5 days to 15. Oh well, it’s not as if you were standing in line waiting to comment.

Turning off the comments only prevents new comments for those entries. It does not erase existing comments. They’re still there. Some blogs have been barraged with spam, so the comments are turned off to diminish the danger (to the blog, not to you).

Should you absolutely need to comment on an entry from before the 28th, let me know. I can reopen the comments. I’m just not going to do it manually for ten days worth of entries.

NewMexiKen’s April

The statistics for April are nearly complete and I thought some of NewMexiKen’s readers would be interested.

  • Number of visits: 3,272
  • Unique visitors: 1,588
  • Most visits one day: 162 (April 27)
  • Biggest user of bandwidth: Google
  • Added to Bookmarks (Favorites): 51 (estimate)
  • Blogs linking to NewMexiKen: 7 (that I know of)

Visitors were from these countries:

Continue reading NewMexiKen’s April

Amazon

You know that little Amazon button somewhere down the right-hand sidebar? Please don’t forget about it. Amazon.com is actually crediting me with a few dollars this quarter.

This blog is a full time job. I love doing it (addiction, I believe it is called), but a little external recognition is necessary too, be that your comments, or a few dollars from Amazon every quarter as a result of using that button.

NewMexiKen thanks you for your support.

Howling at a Waning Moon

Colorado Luis discusses two new, as he calls them, “Blogs with Altitude.”

The first is SLV Dweller, “San Luis Valley History, Culture, News and Information.” As the San Luis Valley really should be part of New Mexico, NewMexiKen has added a link in the Blogs of Enchantment.

The second blog Luis describes is Howling At A Waning Moon, “Tracking the Bush Administration’s assault on the environment, our health, and our children’s quality of life.” Now that’s a full-time job. Take a look at the photos on This is my home town.