Posted by Amanda Marcotte March 3, 2007 in Pandagon!, Art
I’ve invited Michael Bérubé to be a weekend poster at Pandagon, having dug him out of his post-nuclear fireball bomb shelter. Hi, Michael!
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Welcome Michael!
Yay!
Woohoooooooooooooo!
Man, Pandagon’s got everyone now. How are you bribing these people?
Dammit, Marcotte! Now that you’ve touched him, you can’t put him back in the nest. I hope you’re willing to be the one to change his litter box and take him for walks.
Hooray! Coming on the heels of SadlyNo’s failed attempt to contact him, this clearly shows who’s the boss of the intertubes!
My sister and I were just predicting Bérubé’s imminent return to blogging based on his ubiquitous commenting on this blog and others, and we love to be right. Also, I really missed him.
Berube? Isn’t he the guy with the 20,000 word posts?
Betsy, my partner and I also KNEW he’d be back, partly due to his presence here, but also because he just missed us all.
Woooot!
Chris Wilson can count to 20,000?
Yo Auguste — repeat after me…20001…20002…20003…
Sorry, I’m too busy worrying about 21500.
Can someone make the requisite “welcome our dangeral overlords” joke? I’m busy rewriting my next post to include more postmodernism.
Good choice, Amanda. And welcome, Michael
Does this mean we get to stage another show trial?
WAAGNF forever!
Can someone make the requisite “welcome our dangeral overlords� joke?
Well, I for one welcome our new dangeral overlords.
Welcome, uh, person who hasn’t actually posted anything yet. And isn’t Professor Bérubé supposedly oh-so-busy in Denver today? Five will get you ten* that his first erudite, loquacious post will be ready some time after Ms. Marcotte resumes normal blogging.
For that matter, what if this is all an elaborate head-fake from Ms. Marcotte, to get us to be on our best behavior while she’s away? Professor Bérubé’s blog never had the troll problem that Pandagon is experiencing, because trolls feared his big ol’ ghostly head. Well, except for Kirby. And Horowitz defenders. And that guy in the red hat.
*Jonah Goldberg rule for online wagers applies.
Berube never had trolls because trolls don’t take speed-reading, and those insufferably long posts scared them away.
And me too. Amana must be really angry to have him do the subbing. Maybe that’s it! Punish the trolls and scare them away with Berube!
As a person with ADD, I am highly offended that you would compare me to you.
What are you guys talking about? The Dangeral One had all kinds of trolls and nemeses. In fact, they almost formed a kind of league, or at least a gallery, of villains. There was The Lutheran Surrealist, and Dr. Jacques Albert, who combines two traits any good superhero must have in a nemesis–a sinister foreign name and being called either “Dr.” or “Professor” (in fact, since he has this in common with Bérubé, he may be some kind of doppelganger or half-brother or something). Then there was Turbulent Velvet and his bevy of sidekicks, especially the infamous et alia. This crew was rather reminiscent of Zartan and the Dreadnoks . Then there was the guy with the red hat, who wanted to sleep with Lynne Cheney, or something. And who can forget good ol’ Ed Herman? And that was only in the few months that I was reading his blog!
In short, this could be quite the stormy weekend.
huh? explain please. My point was that Berube-for-the-weekend is an Amanda plot to scare her trolls away.
ADD? Compare to you? Huh?
nothip, isn’t it just a little bit sad that our conversations with our loved ones include speculation about what our favorite bloggers are up to, or might be up to in the future? I guess though that if you read the same blogs, it must be love.
And there was another one, I seem to recall. Can’t quite remember who it was.
So does this mean that we get Arbitrary But Fun Saturday?
Bienvenue, Professeur! Nous sommes heureux que vous etes ici!
(Should I have used le subjonctif for “vous etes”?)
What are you guys talking about? The Dangeral One had all kinds of trolls and nemeses.
Well, among other things, I was talking about such diverse subjects as:
. Kirby Olson, of course, was the putative Lutheran surrealist. Or… was he?Geez, now I know how Gary Farber feels when he links to an extensive post of his on the subject under discussion, only to have someone make many of the same points later in the thread. Well, except without the link to an extensive post. And without having made any actual points, other than those implied by a non-exhaustive troll list, which might have been clearer with a reference to the Spanish Inquisition. Plus, I can’t truly know how Gary Farber feels, for his is a high and lonely destiny. Regardless, I hope I’ve made my point.
Hi, Maureen, yes, you should have. “… que vous soyez ici.”
[ /french grammar nazi]
Yeah, I know the thread has moved on from “ooh yay!,” but
Ooh! Yay!
YAY!!! I second or fourteenth or whatever the yaying!! THis is the G*R*E*A*T*E*S**T thing to happen soince CHris Clarke came on board!!
I simply cannot express how thrilled I am. PANDAGON has become the heaviest weightiest blog in all Liberaldom!!! (and I think that is good!)
Hi Michael, I miss your blog!
And for those posters that complained about the length of Bérubé ’s posts there is always the Evelyn Woodhead Speedreading Course(mp3) which gave me the ability to Speed Read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations(YouTube video)
Welcome back to the interblaghs, Professor!
So where is he then?
Ahhhh, don’t you worry, don’t you fear, Bérubé will soon be here.
Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael!
So where is he then?
O ye unbeliever. He is always with us.
Except when he’s in Denver.
Attica! Attica! Attica!
I knew Bérubé wouldn’t be able to stay away from blogging! And I must add, it’s good to see Marcotte addressing a need for greater awareness about disability issues at Pandagon.
You won’t hear an “I told you so” from the Mostly Harmless crew. Nosiree.