After many hours of Booman Tribune involvement, I have come to the conclusion that while it showed a lot of promise, there are some aspects with which I cannot put up.
Like, um, one of the yellow pixels in the logo pisses me off. It should be blue.
I used to have high hopes for the Booman Tribune, the frog, the dog, the few number of recommends to get a recommended diary. But you know what… if my diary isn’t recommended by now who am I trying to fool… you are obviously bad-liberals rather than the good kind I have come to expect. That is obvious. Good people don’t not recommend something because it is crud, they recommend it BECAUSE it’s crud to inspire the recommender. Or is that the recommendee? I lost track of my complaint.
I mean who is booman trying to fool, obviously this site, while appearing to be about me (I see my own name to the right) is really about not-me. This just isn’t acceptable in a me-shaped universe.
It was nice while it lasted.
Actually I’m checking it daily. Just thought I’d get this out of the way and be the first one ever to write a Goodbye Cruel World Diary at Booman Tribune. And if someone points out I’m not actually the first, well that’d just be typical wouldn’t it… and prove my point as well. The point about the Booman Tribune being insufficiently aboutmeary.
Mind you, I’m sick of my (discourse) addictions being exploited in this way but. if the high is good I’ll be there… you bastards.
I swear I’ll write a serious diary soon. Or I’ll come up with an explanation of why this was in fact serious. Or I’ll melt.
I think that yellow pixel ought to be puce. Because I like the word puce.
but did you vote on the Default Comment Titles.
Cuz you can’t leave until you do.
Or the Tokoloshe will getcha.
I recommended the bastard. He sounds like Cartman.
You Pyrrho…it could be an impostor..After last night over at Dkos anything is possible now….You PYRRO could be a fellow Kossack who has signed up here, using PYRRO’s Dkos name just to be the first Impostor to write a goodbye cruel world diary here at the BooTrib. Can you imagine all the splainn you’d have to do…Maybe you are really Pluto Page..or Catnip or even Bill in Portland Maine or maybe even the Great and Powerful KOS.
catnip is far more beautiful and talented than pyrrho! (so I’ve heard)
i like you…you got on someone for callin me a fucker or something like that the other day at dkos..you stood up for me and I will never forget it.
They like me! They really, really like me! 🙂
You are most welcome.
I’m not denying I’m not him, nor refusing to deny it.
hey hey hey, now this is the kind of diary that has given me hope that maybe writing a first diary doesn’t have to be really serious/political or insightful …
so thanks and we can always use some levity because too much seriousness will rot your teeth ya know.
use common sense
learn from your mistakes
use the edit button (once we create it) to improve your diary after a little feedback.
have a thick skin.
I think the best thing about this site and Kos is that y’all can publish anything that pops into your head and get instant feedback.
I love it.
One of these days I’ll work up the courage to write something I guess ..I think I’ve got a thick skin it’s just that writing for me is kinda agonizing. Writing anything at length that is.
I have been over at Dkos almost 5 months…My first diary entitled “Becoming Tippi Hedron”, it took me months to even write a diary…I think 10 people looked at it…my next one I posted last week..entitled “Medecins Sans Frontieres is Awesome”, I had received my letter back from them after my donation for Tsunami relief and wanted all to know what awesome work they were doing. 8 people commented..But you know what…I loved writing them and a few others liked reading them and that made me happy. So write away my friend.
thanks for the encouragement. And now what I really can’t fucken figure out is how I missed a diary titled ‘becoming Tippi Hedron’ as I’m a certified movie nut. That would have caught my attention for sure. Although as I said I’ve been reading Kos for almost 3 years and just started posting several weeks ago.
Speaking of movie stars and Doctors without Borders, the movie Angelina Jolie/Clive Owen did with that subject was pretty good although noone but me seems to have seen it.
missed it too…yes..”becoming Tippi Hedron”…there was a time after the elections when I felt like the repug’s were the Birds and I was being attacked daily..not sure if it’s still over there…I have no idea how to whore or pimp a diary, so being unknown and not popular as a newbie…it fell to the bowels of dkos..for a while I was mcjoans (who I call mcriot) fucking newbie..love Dkos..be like it here..I love new beginings.
ha ha…that sounds like a pretty good analogy so far. Maybe when Kos site isn’t so screwed up I can find that diary entry?
As for that movie with Jolie, I always meant to rent it again. I knew a little about doctors without borders but thought the movie did a good job of portraying what they do and how dangerous it can be. I think Jolie is great especially since she seems to have become so socially concious and involved in these kinds of issues. Not that looking a Clive Owen was any hardship.
PLEASE post your Medecins Sans Frontieres Is Awesome diary here. Please. They are fantastic and kinda ballsy too… asking donors to stop giving for the tsunami and give to their Sudanese and other efforts.
cross posting diaries???? I would love to but alas, I am so inept at this computer thing. If it’s easy and someone can point me to the way to do it….I would try. I do love Medecins Sans Frontieres..
Go to your dKos diary and hit edit.
Click in the top box. Hit Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C
Then come here and hit New Diary.
Go to top box, hit Ctrl-X.
Repeat for bottom box.
Give a title, or you can cut and paste that to.
Finally, (if you want to) add a note that it is cross-posted elsewhere.
Dkos is down now..I will attempt it later. btw/ I now have an edit button on my diary..thanks for that..Last night it was Jumpin here..you must feel real proud to see your baby workin so well. I was a bit involved in the Kosnightmare the other evening prior to bobzdogh diary. If this new pathetic diary entry “what I don’t miss on dkos…” is an offspring of a certain person over at Dkos..I would also be intereseted in the outcome. It would speak volumes to me having been involved. Thanks.
I don’t know what happened over there. I read his diary and laughed my ass off. I think I made one snarky comment and then stole a little of Bob’s diary and cross-posted it here.
Then I forgot about it until someone mentioned there was a full-out throw down involving MSO and some others.
I still don’t understand it, so I’m staying out of it.
I’m completely ignorant about it too. But I kinda wish I knew just so I’d have an excuse to talk like Al Swearingen.
when you write click in the top box, what top box? which one? I am still trying to cross post my diary from there to here.
This is the top box.
And there is a box below, just like at dkos.
Are you using a Mac or PC?
Okay.
So. At Kos you see that you have text in the top box and probably more text in the bottom? Right?
Click somewhere in the top box. Hit ctrl-A, it should highlight all your text in that box.
Hit Ctrl-C
Then come over here and open a new diary.
Click somewhere in the top box and hit Ctrl-V.
Then go back to Kos and click in the bottom box. Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, come here, Ctrl-V.
If that doesn’t work, let me know.
thanks…take a look…I think I did it. if so…you are helping me become so much more computer friendly.
Are you absolutely sure you want me to write about what pops into my head? That could be messy, not to mention slightly insane… Then again, considering pyrrho’s entry…
I want you to write about anything and everyting.
I admire your writing immensely.
Flattery will get you everywhere. Keep it coming, Booman. 🙂
Congrats on your new site. So much insanity to spread – so little internets space for catnip…
Flattery has nothing to do with it! Catnip, I look for your diaries every day. Mo’, mo’, mo’. You Canadians are the conscience of North America. Then stop writing, and start invading …
oh, the compliment was for chocolate ink, but in my diaries I take 20% tax on all compliments (complaints need to see the complaint department).
lets leave it at that.
You are in Guam?
Come join US Virgin Islands over in World section.
Hey, we got anyone from the Northern Marianas? Maybe be can do something about the limbo of US territories.
Anyway, glad you are here.
Aha!!
There you are pyrrho!
Now…where the hell are we??
wazzzzzzzzzz uppppppppppppp…glad you finally made it over…I used your id up top…love that screen name. Isn’t this place awesomeeeeeeeeee
Wow! I’m famous. When do I get all of those royalty checks??
But I had the first diary to fall off the recommended list, neener, neener.
get back on.
Ohhh, I’m dizzy
I feel a whole new chapter opening in my life…
has posted it and a “goodbye cruel world diary” isn’t legit without it, I feel I must oblige:
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
If I recall, this is a mandatory post for GCW diaries. Someone should also complain about the waste of bandwidth,with sprinklings of “we love you, pyrrho, don’t let the yellow pixels get you down”, but I’ve done my part.
Recommended. (Now, we never see that in a regular GCW diary.)
…and I’ll write a “why we should ban pyrrho right now because I disagree with him and I’m more special” diary. Some traditions must never die… 🙂
I think I’ll go home tonight and write a Meta diary on why Goodbye Cruel World Diaries violate the diary police rules. 🙂
Hey did anyone bring the police light bar with them?
can set it up so that the words Goodbye Cruel in a diary title will trigger some animation in Froggie….Flashing eyes? Police light bars are so heavy to tote around.
Whoops. I think I packed it away in the attic for future use somewhere else. 😉
on this blog we say….
“goodby cruel frog.”
thanks! I’ll need that.
you cannot touch me now
no matter how you try
goodbye cruel world its over
walk on by
I also am outraged, for exactly entirely different reasons than your own.
This is my second comment on Booman, but it will be my last.
I am humiliated that I may have the fine distinction of being the only one so far disgraced by having a lower Booman UID than Kos UID.
It is unspeakable. And so I will speak no more.
— Stu
(Well, at any rate, not tonight. Gotta make a snack and watch part of the Daily Show I just taped. Or maybe the end of SportsCenter. Oooooh NIT highlights. Now that’s quality stuff.)
(In fact, I have just been begged to reconsider my rash decision by my many adoring fans, and I look forward to many fine nights spent here at “The House of the Tortured Frog.”)
What, no “all of the above” option on your poll?
And now that Kos is down with the DNS flu, whatever will we do without you, pyrrho?
a little bit of DNS hacking cannot stop pyrrho.
My first diary will be “I am bitterguy’s spleen”.