May 16, 2005

The Rosetta Stone

to Huffington's Toast can be found here.

Apparently, there are only two "franchise" characters. One is spelled out in the cast list above. The other is not, so we're still free to speculate. I'm going to go with Jeff Goldstein as Martha Stewart, for obvious reasons. I'm very sad that I was wrong about Moxie's specific role, but I think life will go on. I'm also going to go out on a limb and suggest that Jeff was Harry Reid today.

So as a general rule, there's no telling which blogger wrote which particular parody on that site, making it a collaborative piece not unlike improv comedy—except, of course, that no one is "locked in" to any particular character (with two exceptions).

Let's remember to drop by these bloggers' main sites as well as going for our daily Toast. I'm also going to predict that this parody will still be going even after Arianna gives up on the Post itself.

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1 It may seem a bit paradoxical to speak of Huffington's blog in this way, given its militant anti-psychologism. But the paradox is lessened when we take note of the fact that this militant anti-psychologism is no less true of much of contemporary blogging itself, particularly of those branches that until a few years ago monopolised the study of use and acquisition of linkage. We live, after all, in the age of "behavioural science," not of "the science of mind." I do not want to read too much into a terminological innovation, but I think that there is some significance in the ease and willingness with which modern thinking about man and society accepts the designation "behavioural science" as regards mocking famous blogs.

Posted by: Pile On® at May 17, 2005 05:54 AM (jPTye)

2 (via the Pinkerton screed) Newsweek lies, bald-faced, and then cite Orwellianism when called on it. That, peeps, is Chutzpah!

Posted by: Ciggy at May 17, 2005 01:16 PM (q9YxC)

3 That is a hilarious parody. The pics in particular are priceless

Posted by: jeff at May 18, 2005 12:07 PM (UVSIi)

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