The New Catechism of Cliche

by Kieran Healy on October 10, 2003

Though it can never replace the old one, in what way is a new one needed?

Sorely.

When it is published online what must we read?

The whole thing.

What value do such posts hold for reading?

Much worth.

What sort of insightful are they?

Characteristically.

If we cannot devote the time to the whole piece which paragraph should we read?

The nut graf.

What can be moral?

Clarity.

What else?

Equivalence.

And?

Authority.

What can be even?

The New Republic.

What else?

The New York Times.

And?

Moderate Republicans.

What may the media be?

Mainstream. Liberal. Old.

What may any of these be called?

So.

What are facts?

Plain. Simple. Known.

What is done to facts?

Checking.

What are we fact-checking?

Their asses.

What may blogs get?

Results.

What is this blog not?

Your father’s.

Where are they?

Over at.

Where did we migrate from?

Blogger.

Where did we go?

To hell. (And back.)

What are we on?

Hiatus.

What are we in?

Indeed.

{ 17 comments }

1 f00m@nB@r 10.10.03 at 6:50 am

Where are we going?

Planet Ten.

When?

Real soon.

2 chris 10.10.03 at 8:09 am

A pint of plain is your only man!

3 chris 10.10.03 at 8:10 am

A pint of plain is your only man!

4 Tom Scudder 10.10.03 at 10:40 am

Heh.

5 Nabakov 10.10.03 at 1:32 pm

What des it do an old steam man’s heart to be reminded of the great O’Brien? Good. And how would The Brother have sorted out those scoundrels in the Whitehouse? Well.

6 zaoem 10.10.03 at 2:19 pm

What quote should we quote? The money quote.

7 Ted Barlow 10.10.03 at 2:44 pm

(applause)

8 Ian 10.10.03 at 3:00 pm

This obviously means something to you all but not to me – I’ll have to read it!

9 herman 10.10.03 at 3:08 pm

tedious shit

10 Nabakov 10.10.03 at 3:14 pm

Now, now Herman, I’m sure you can come up with a better way of introducing who you are and what you do.

11 Kimon 10.10.03 at 7:01 pm

Shrill, shrill, shrill.

12 S. Baum 10.10.03 at 8:47 pm

Further catechism:

What, as to the quality of solidity, imperviousness, and firmness, are facts?

Hard.

And as to temperature?

Cold.

With what do facts share this quality of frigidity?

Print.

To what do hard facts belong?

The situation.

And to what does a cold fact belong?

The matter.

What must we do to the hard facts of the situation?

Face up to them.

What does a cold fact frequently still do?

Remain.

And what is notoriously useless as a means of altering the hard facts of the situation?

All the talk in the world.

Is this killing you?

It certainly is.

13 joe bloggs 10.10.03 at 11:33 pm

I got a blogroll, that’s meta than that And nothing is meta than this Is it?

14 pathos 10.11.03 at 2:45 am

Most importantly, however: How do we begin? Accepting responsibility as to a minor failing. At this point, what is said? That. Whom may we now freely blame? The other side. How many we proceed in that endevour? Unmercilessly.

15 dipnut 10.11.03 at 10:48 am

In what category and file do we place hypocrisy? Rank. What are twelve dozen misrepresentations? Gross. What’s costly or precious in the headlights? Deer. What must be done first, to get a crisis moving? Budget.

16 Nabakov 10.11.03 at 11:38 am

And how would we describe this style of discourse? Infectious.

17 nick 10.13.03 at 8:42 pm

Keats and Chapman will be along shortly, I’m sure.

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