July 10, 2003

Working to a plan ...

Posted by Henry

Spooky. In an effort to explain to my wife precisely who Daniel Davies is, and why we’re now co-bloggers, I fired up my browser, and hopped to a random spot in the D^2 Digest archives. It turns out that the prophetic Mr. Davies did a long post on December 31, 2002 on a list of topics, starting with (a) a discussion of fridge magnets and, (b) thoughts on how digital video recorders allow you to skip ads. Which subjects have been dealt with by Kieran and me in loving detail in the first 24 hours of this blog, as you’ll see if you bother to read down a bit further. Your guess as to how Mr. Davies has done this is as good as mine. I’m leaning towards a Manchurian Candidate type scenario myself - quite possibly Kieran and I have been pre-programmed without our knowledge to blog on certain topics. Assuming that Mr. Davies’ prophetic powers/subliminal commands hold good, expect this blog to cover the following subjects in order over the next several days.

  • Shania Twain
  • Robert Mugabe
  • The politics of Malawi and Brazil
  • Corrupt Irish-American pols
  • Ann Coulter
  • Defining the left v. right dichotomy
  • JK Galbraith’s maxim that “the project of the conservative throughout the ages is the search for a higher moral justification for selfishness”
  • The singular of Weetabix
  • More meat in pies
  • File-sharing confessionalism

A diverse agenda, you’ll agree.

Posted on July 10, 2003 05:14 AM UTC
Comments

I would like to point out that the more Henry refers to “my wife” without mentioning her name, the more I become convinced that he and Maria are the White Stripes of the weblog world.

Posted by dsquared · July 10, 2003 08:11 AM

oooh, icky!!!

Posted by Maria · July 10, 2003 08:17 AM

I still don’t get who this Daniel guy is, though.

Posted by Maria · July 10, 2003 08:27 AM

You forgot the nonergodic processes dammit!

Posted by Chris Bertram · July 10, 2003 08:30 AM

By the way, if you managed to explain to your wife exactly who I am, I’d be grateful if she could summarise it in an email; I’ve been trying to find out for years.

Posted by dsquared · July 10, 2003 09:21 AM

God, whatever you do don’t forget Pound’s 45th canto!

Posted by Jeremy Osner · July 10, 2003 01:53 PM

The Shania Twain post will be illustrated, right…?

Posted by Thlayli · July 10, 2003 05:30 PM

expect this blog to cover the following subjects in order over the next several days. …

* Ann Coulter

Please don’t.

The amount of press that woman gets is shocking.

Posted by Julia Grey · July 10, 2003 06:46 PM

If corruption is what you are after, ignore Irish-American politics and get stuck in to Ulster.

Posted by dismal · July 11, 2003 08:42 AM

Galbraith’s other maxim should have been that “the socialist project throughout the ages is the search for a higher moral justification for theft”.

Selfishness, on the other hand, needs no more moral justification that the fact a person owns themselves.

Posted by Perry de Havilland · July 12, 2003 02:15 AM
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