Flipwhack metaloop

[imomus]

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[Poll #1429518]

Comments

[rhodri.livejournal.com]

I think Click Opera should become a daily video blog, showcasing your efforts to literally shoehorn an elephant into a thimble.

[(Anonymous)]

This poll is rigged, since anons can't vote and there is no secret ballot. Momus, the one-man Soviet Union!

[god-jr.livejournal.com]

I agree with rhodri's comment above and,
while it never crossed my mind, before reading this poll, that Momus might occasionally be writing some of the Anonymous comments, I could totally see him writing this one here.

[dermfitz.livejournal.com]

There should definitely be a greater 'what I had for breakfast' element. I'm all about breakfast at the moment. But that could be because it's 10.30am.

[spoombung.livejournal.com]

I started filling in the poll then gave up... as most of the answers to the questions appear to be opposites (or binaries) which is kind of consistent with your blog, sir!

Your blog has mellowed in the past year or so and is a bit more playful - which I like.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm glad you realized that, too. it reads like some U.S. poll---yes, no, right, left, good, bad, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, the irony. The one place where so far you don't have a single reader is Japan.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm in japan but can't bearsed with the poll

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of tongue-in-cheek options within this poll, but the funniest part by far is that so far 13% of the readership have indicated that Momus is to the right of them politically.

Who are these (batshit insane) people?

"In my spare time I like bombing animal testing labs with the A.L.F and campaigning for Raw Foodism to be taught in schools."

The structure of seeming.

[faunflynn.livejournal.com]

I am definatly to the Left of Momus.

[(Anonymous)]

About our finally meeting up in Hawaii next week.

[(Anonymous)]

He has already financed me to invite me on last Friday.

[(Anonymous)]

Eddieもいなくなったし。。。。
そろそろ。。。。とLewisは思っていることろ。

[gubia.livejournal.com]

Converting to Catholicism
8 (21.6%)

[parallel-botany.livejournal.com]

Well, that was a hoot.

• I had trouble with some of the answers because the options were too either/or, when I'm somewhere in the middle. Like, sometimes I think the Japan articles are quite interesting, and other times I find them a little tiresome. To be honest though, I'm not particulary interested in Japan, so your success rate with me is actually fairly high. My favorite Japan article in recent memory was the one about women's hairlines. That was great.

• Also, not all Anons are created equal, but I think there is a sufficient number of Anons who further and enhance the debate that they outweigh the ones who bring down the level of discourse.

• On the last question you should've written "Click all that apply." I didn't realize I could pick more than one.

• I could be totally wrong about this, but Twit Opera feels like an American to me.

• What did you have for breakfast this morning?

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

"I could be totally wrong about this, but Twit Opera feels like an American to me."

Twit Opera has used too many British colloquialisms correctly to be an American.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought this was another of your graphical jokes on the reader until I found that as a non-citizen of the blogosphere I cannot vote: and now I know that it is your joke upon the bean-counters and a select group of your readers get to play along at making happy statistics.

Anonymously yours,

Henry Wessells

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I shall count this as a dangling chad.

Click Opera Revisited

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading Click Opera on a daily basis since its debut, and your imomus essays before then. Several months ago I also started reading Click Opera from the beginning; all the old comments, too. The posts, after they've had time to settle, are even better the second time through. I also spend more time on this second pass clicking through all the links and researching various people and things referenced within the posts. If Click Opera were to cease forever, I would certainly be in the NOOOOOOOOOOOOO camp. I don't care how uncool or fanboyish all of this makes me in anonymous eyes, but the blog is flat out the best online reading experience I've ever had.

Re: Click Opera Revisited

[imomus.livejournal.com]

And that's my motivation right there!

We may want to quote you when Click Opera is published as a 24,000-page paperback.

[anglerfish96.livejournal.com]

Too many binaries for an well-adjusted agnostic.

Funny but I can't answer it all in good conscience. Maybe.

Yay! A poll!

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

That was (hopefully pointless) fun.

Apart from the lack of the option to answer "I do find click opera annoying, but that's part of the fun" and any way of suggesting it's about time you realised post-modernism is and always has been incoherent (please note, I understand this will never happen, though I prefer to think of this as willful ignorance :)), that was admirably thorough and as light as a leaf in the breeze. Please don't convert to Catholicism, though - at least, not if you're going to blog about theology: that would be even more annoying than your post-modernism.

When are your books actually released into the wild in the UK? I enjoyed the extracts from the Book of Scotlands a lot.

Best wishes,
Simon.

PS

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

For the record, I'd like to echo the words of your fanboy anon above: it's (usually) a great pleasure to read your blog, and the essays which preceded it.

I think it's about time you invited your readers to tell you what they have had for breakfast, as well.

Simon

[(Anonymous)]

flipwhack metaloop
sniff sack of doggy poop
turn around and tell a friend
umptious bumptious gullyhen

[eptified.livejournal.com]

I want buff momus. You and Jamie Stewart should become the Hans and Franz of the swiftly vanishing 00s.

Dr. Momus,

[endoftheseason.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that now it's your responsibility to go through the responses to this poll (with its very limited range of possible answers, which is, naturally, the way it's got to be) and declare whether the responses of each Momusite match what you'd guess, assume, or expect of that person.

[dogsolitude-v2.livejournal.com]

I found this blog by accident whilst Googling. I was nosing around trying to find some info about this weird musician who wrote this song about a monkey some years back.

Anyway, I found this blog, friended you, and have been reading it ever since. I'm not an artist or performer by a long shot, but your blog gives me a new window on various things that I would never have otherwise bothered to think about.

I live in a world of html, css, .Net classes and stuff like that. Most of my friends are in the alternative/Industrial scene, and it's rare that I get a chance to chat to those who work in creative industries, the media, performance art and suchlike. The nearest I get to that in everyday life is designing the odd banner-advert in Photoshop.

When I was 16 I had to make a choice in my A-levels: Maths and Sciences or Art, Theatre Studies and English. I often wonder where I'd've been if I'd've insisted on studying the creative side of things, and developed that part of myself instead. Sure, I stil have a crack at writing the odd song on my PC, or doing a bit of artwork/photography, but it's not the same as developing these skills full time, and really living it.

...So your blog has allowed me to peep in to this world, sort of by proxy. I get a window into the life, world, works and interests of someone who's 'lived it'.

:o)

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

I've been reading you since 1998, and I do miss the old essays, which though they only showed up monthly or so were more expository, more thorough, and better thought-out than most of your LJ posts. LJ is a different sort of thing, I understandm, and it encourages a different, more daily and off-the-cuff kind of writing, but I wish you'd spend more time really organizing the concepts and polishing the shape, arc, and trajectory of each entry.

I keep hard copies of some of your old essays, the ones I love best or which stimulate me the most (even today) or which have inspired me. I don't get the same kick from "today I ran into another Japanese chick at the market".

[eclectiktronik.livejournal.com]

is this is the click opera equivalent of komar and melamid's work?
- if so, i'm interested ;-) what are you going to do with the answers?!

[shadowshark.livejournal.com]

It's one of my very favorite spots on the internet, so I hope there isn't any real chance of it disappearing.

But you're posting more and more entries like this, which seem to reveal growing unhappiness (maybe there are other things going on; maybe I'm just stupid).

Perhaps you could stop reading/replying to comments? It would save your time for the other things you might like to do, and your entries always get more interesting when you're out doing things!

Momus' Calvinist Essence

[endoftheseason.livejournal.com]

Just how strong is it?:

http://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/nieuws/article2050113.ece

Re: Momus' Calvinist Essence

[imomus.livejournal.com]

C-Factor of 28%.

"You aren't a Calvinist at all. A Catholic, rather. In every aspect your life differs from that of the Calvinists... You are a hedonist."

But I'd say it's a little more complicated than an online quiz score can describe. I'd say I'm a post-Calvinist -- in other words, all the things I am are defined by Calvinism, but negatively. A flipped mirror image, trying desperately not to be the thing that, ironically, defines him even in defiance. A man saying "No!" to the big "No!", and therefore saying "Yes!" to it, in a way. An arrow pointing out of frame, but still framed. A playa reading Pat Kane's The Play Ethic, congratulating himself -- prematurely -- on being free of the Work Ethic.

[rhodri.livejournal.com]

Pat Kane just posted on Twitter about how brilliant Book Of Scotlands is. I'd link to it, but for some reason he deleted the tweet. Maybe he realised it was crap, although I appreciate that's unlikely.

[rhodri.livejournal.com]

Ah, there we go.

http://twitter.com/theplayethic/status/2647483609