Results tagged “yearinreview”

If so, your focus on detail could pay off big tonight at Seattlest Trivia at the Old Pequliar. Tonight's quiz is an all-2008 retrospective, 80 interrogatory nails in the coffin that was last year. The top 3 teams win cash, while the last place team wins unvaluable swag and a round of applause. Fourth place at halftime wins a free pitcher of beer--as does one lucky team that can answer this question and email the answer to james at seattlest.com before 6:00: Beyoncé and Akon were the only two musical acts to do what in 2008? Stuff to know before you go: The quiz starts at 8:00, sign-up starts at 7:45. You can have 5 players on your team for $5, or 6 players for $7. (That last brain costs extra.) All the rest will be revealed when you show up. See you there!

Someone who seems to think he's Michael Kinsley responded to our cherry-picked quote from Kinsley's talk at the City Club Year in Review event. Watch as we eviscerate his feeble appeal to a coherent "truth." We've seen Rashomon, Kinsley.

I never said (at the City Club event) that bloggers in general are distasteful or that they don't have the right to say anything they want, unpleasant or otherwise.

You should have thought of that before not saying it. Ha. Check! Your move, Kinsley.

In fact, I said the precise opposite. I was describing some comments about me, and they WERE unpleasant. But of course they have the right. And, as I said, blogging nets out a positive force in journalism despite some creeps.

Oh. *scratches chin* The precise opposite isn't very quotable, is it? But okay, we'll live with it.

Thanks for letting me clear that up. It's a sore point, obviously.

Our pleasure. Please accept our apologies for any misunderstanding. Look, how about a new hed: "Kinsley Says Blogging Nets [...] Creeps." Good?

(UPDATE: Apparently Michael Kinsley did not call blogging in general "extremely distasteful." That makes the remainder of this post less interesting. We don't advise paying much attention to it.)