Comments on: Fafblog's back baby! Have some pie!

Fafblog's back baby! Have some pie!

JHarris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:58:16 -0800

After nearly 21 months of hiatus, whimsical politics blog Fafblog is back! And it's redesigned, too! Right now I would ordinarily include a link to best posts of the past, but I would have to include all of them.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:05:28 -0800

*faf* *faf* *faf*...

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:15:51 -0800

FafBlog is the best blog! I have to admit that the pseudonymous blogger knows how to turn a phrase: Once Iraqis were tortured and killed by an evil dictator. Now they are tortured and killed by freedom! Their genitals are shocked with the electrodes of liberty. They are mowed down by the machine guns of independence! Indeed.

By: scrump

scrump — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:19:24 -0800

This makes me ridiculously happy. fafblog was one of the very best satire blogs, and I've missed it sorely.

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:22:08 -0800

Oh, man. I kept FafBlog in my favorites list until just last month, when I finally decided there was no imminent return planned. The best of the web indeed... thanks, JHarris, I never would have known it was back. And, apparently, fie on me for giving up hope.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:25:09 -0800

Well, fine! Really, this is fine.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:28:08 -0800

Awesome.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:39:19 -0800

So I was going through some old posts, and figured a few pointers might help people remember the wonder... the wonder that is Fafblog. Except nearly every archive page I go to is at least 50% awesome! For example. Also, Giblets is Legend.

By: davejay

davejay — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:42:11 -0800

I was prepared not to like it, but then I liked it, so my preparations were for naught.

By: rtha

rtha — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:42:38 -0800

How did I miss this blog? I really must stop living under that rock. It's the perfect antidote to the depressing and enraging BushCo-related FPPs further down the page, so thank you very much!

By: deejay jaydee

deejay jaydee — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:44:26 -0800

i totally blinked!!

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:48:43 -0800

Funny!

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:49:27 -0800

This is the best thing I have seen today and I have been watching owls for 36 straight hours.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:55:53 -0800

All of the rainbow peril is very good. It's in the same league as owls.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:58:53 -0800

Ahh that is pretty darn funny.

By: solistrato

solistrato — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:03:27 -0800

Can the president eat a baby? I SQUEAL WITH JOY.

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:07:14 -0800

I feel like I am the only person alive who doesn't like Fafblog. At all. Please forgive me.

By: mkb

mkb — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:08:57 -0800

Fafblog and little Batman speak in the same voice in my head. Oh my.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:12:48 -0800

I feel like I am the only person alive who doesn't like Fafblog. At all. You'd probably like the GrayMouserBlog. /totalNerd

By: WalterMitty

WalterMitty — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:18:39 -0800

It's got rabbits on the top banner. I approve.

By: Dormant Gorilla

Dormant Gorilla — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:20:41 -0800

Oh god, oh yes, oh god yes. I, too, finally deleted this from my bookmarks, since it had been- what, two years? since the last post. I cried a little when I did it. When I saw they were back I worried that it was only for April Fools Day, but no! Glorious pie for everyone!

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:53:38 -0800

God this makes me happy. Fafnir. Giblets. All is right with the world. The election can go on.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:42:20 -0800

So, does anyone know what the deal is? Why they stopped, and why they're starting anew?

By: mmrtnt

mmrtnt — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:11:58 -0800

davejay: I was prepared not to like it, but then I liked it... So you admit you were against fafblog before you were for it? lobstermitten: Why they stopped, and why they're starting anew? It probably has nothing at all to do with the horrifically complex coding required to customize Blogger beyond any of the dozen-or-so available templates.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:26:46 -0800

You'd probably like the GrayMouserBlog. /totalNerd I had to look that up. I agree, that is totally nerdy.

By: bitter-girl.com

bitter-girl.com — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:52:16 -0800

In short: YAY!!!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:49:19 -0800

Fafblog makes me want to kill myself out of sheer happiness. I'm glad it's back.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:17:03 -0800

LobsterMitten, I read somewhere that the author(s) had health problems that flared up. Attempts to identify the Fafblogger definitively have met with firm requests to leave him/her/them/it alone. I can think of at least one bloggy near-outing that the author deleted.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:12:42 -0800

Chrysostom, the road to forgiveness runs through understanding. Maybe if we knew what you disliked about Fafblog? Maybe we could explain some of it to you?

By: Justinian

Justinian — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:24:55 -0800

No. There is no forgiveness for disliking fafblog, only the fires of retribution.

By: PareidoliaticBoy

PareidoliaticBoy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:29:38 -0800

Yipes! I've never seen this before. Flagged as fantastic.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:52:55 -0800

i_am_joe's_spleen: yeah, I knew that they were pretty firm about retaining anonymity, I was just wondering if they're planning to keep the blog running now or if it will be a more sporadic thing or what. If they were ill, I'm glad they're better now.

By: rkent

rkent — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:49:48 -0800

Oh god, oh yes, oh god yes. I, too, finally deleted this from my bookmarks, since it had been- what, two years? since the last post. I cried a little when I did it. Yeah, now if only we could get Billmon back, too. Dammit. (I just checked again, just in case. No luck.)

By: bravelittletoaster

bravelittletoaster — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:56:49 -0800

I don't like it because it doesn't give me any new information or insights. It has semi-shiney verbage which sounds as if somebody opened a dictionary and picked words at random. It is style over substance, which I detest with a goddamn passion. It is the britney spear's crotch shot replayed nigh unto perpetuity for drunken illiterate slobs who frequently lose the key to their parent's basement and have to break a window to obtain shelter. I could just be crabby, though, and in reality it's an ironic interpretation of existential cultural rhythms vernacularized by hyper-alliteration wassily placed between facile dumpsteresque dictionary diving and placebo driven hypo-sensitive schizoids on acid.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:12:18 -0800

No, it's funny.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:11:20 -0800

bravelittletoaster that was a very interesting sentence.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:28:05 -0800

Fafblog is the funniest site on the Internet. I was deeply saddened when it went quiet. ... Despite not being updated since mid-2006, it never quite got purged from my RSS reader. I thought my brain was tricking me when those first two posts showed up on the first. Giblets is my MeFi Moderator.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:29:24 -0800

Oh. One thing missing in the new, otherwise great, layout: The old Fafblog had a picture in the sidebar. It was always a bizarre, somewhat confusing picture. It was invariably accompanied by a hilarious caption.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:19:53 -0800

bravelittletoaster, with all due respect, you're wrong on this. Fafblog shows up the idiocy of the world by presenting it in a new light. It might all be old information, but it's certainly new commentary upon it. And it's sharply written; whoever is behind F/G/ML, they have an amazing facility with the English language. I've never seen a joke there that was overwritten without it being part of the joke (which may be the case with a Medium Lobster post). And Fafblog is as unlike Brittany's nethers as a thing can possibly be.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:06:16 -0800

Somebody's asking to get impaled on a britney spear.

By: bravelittletoaster

bravelittletoaster — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:32:43 -0800

I have a really dry sense of humor, thorrry! But I think my settings were set to "extra-crispy" last night. Apologies to all and enjoy the return of your favorite blog. I'll try it again later.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:47:26 -0800

Ah sparkletone, I remember that picture. I remember when the Great Head of Zardoz was there. Come back to us, Great Head of Zardoz! Whatever we did, we didn't mean it!

By: chairface

chairface — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:17:20 -0800

Lies! Lies? Must be lies. Can't be back. I buried the body so deep, so very deep. I used the extended shovel and everything.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:26:06 -0800

chairface, I understand the joke. But it isn't funny.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:37:34 -0800

Come back to us, Great Head of Zardoz! Whatever we did, we didn't mean it! The ones involving Ronald McDonald were always my favorites.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:55:49 -0800

Is anyone still reading? Here's a favorite: launchin a space probe into God!

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:03:41 -0800

So... are the posts just sort of whenever?

By: JHarris

JHarris — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:18:33 -0800

Yeah, I'm a bit impatient myself. But updates from before the Great Hiatus weren't daily, but every few days. It seems the unknown Fafblogger puts serious work into these, hence the delay between posts. But there's loads of archives anyway....

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:20:54 -0800

Ok, thanks. I sorta guessed that from the archives that I have indeed been reading, but I wanted to check.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:19:00 -0800

Woot!