This Blog Is Full Of Crap

There are just some things beyond parody, satire, and mocking in this world.

Crap like this fits within that category.

I'm not sure what $76k plus bennies is supposed to buy METRO, but if something like that was what they had in mind for the sole post of the day for their vaunted public weblog, they must have some kind of compression chamber in the basement of the DTC for cranking up and giving each other nitrogen madness.

Sure, I think at some point I suggested to her a ride-along liveblog of the buses and trains, using her keen reporter's eye to watch for itneresting thigns that happen whoch others might benefit from.

But this? Packaged as a lame excuse for why Austin and other municipalities have in-vehicle wifi access and METRO's still trying to figure out how to screw people with smartcards or run a trian through a city that doesn't act as an informal left-turn-and-red-light enforcement device?

What am I not getting here? What am I not seeing?

I remember not being able to comprehend MeMo or the au pair Chron.Commie blogs, and it had to be explained to me by Dwight... I am not the target audience.

I remember not understanding why Debra Duncan was handed a radio show, and Baker explained Ken Charles' logic of counter-programming Limbaugh to me. (Looking back, it was still pretty fucking stupid)

But this piece... this Gibbonsesque liveblogging piece by Sit on a template so much more wretched than Liveblog itself... do my best... grandmothers with whips and chains, chitchatting about BDSM... a gang throwing signs to each other in the back of the bus (happens on the 9 every so often)... a deranged drunk shouting to his fellow nutcase conspiracy whack-jobs...

There's so much potential, but someone might point to Sit's piece and say "Sure, it's loony, but you didn't even come close to the original."

Maybe she's testing us, trying to throw up parody-proof garbage that will rob us of our momentum and end the constant ridicule she's being subjected to on MIFOC?