Can’t Stop the Bleeding is devoted to posts that contain quotes from articles that take up 3/4 of the entire post, indignation at other sports blogs, and an unhealthy fascination with dead people. It’s a great example of providing nothing and whining about everyone else not playing fair.
As you might expect, I take great exception to the above claims.
a) some of the posts contain quotes from articles that take up 100% of the post.
b) re : “indignation at other sports blogs” Not nearly so much, I think. The percentage of such sites that are covered favorably here by far outnumbers the handful that have been dissed. But it is somewhat curious that a blogger whose idea of originality is repeatedly slagging off the same sports media household names that every other fucking blog on the planet is dumping on, is so baffled by an “unprovoked attack.”
c) “an unhealthy fascination with dead people.” I think most medical experts would insist that Scott Weiland and Tom Sizemore are very much alive.
(just because the parts still work, we don’t require a demonstration, thank you)
It’s also kind of funny to see CSTB characterized, even jokingly as a spam factory considering the accuser’s history of carpet bombing blogs with more traffic than his own (ie. any) with snoozy commentary and links to his own thoroughly generic site. Magically, when said links were deleted (if you want an ad, motherfucker, pay for it), his contributions vanished as well.
Of course, it would be very much in character for the jilted party to pronounce CSTB as “boring” after having left substantial evidence of his or her frequent vists. But far be it for me to suggest this desperate dolt’s efforts are as uncredible as they are unreadable. After all, we’re only supposed to criticize famous people who are unlikely to ever see this.
we feel your indignation
This is one of Leitch’s boys, who is doing this. On deadspined he makes a comment about everything when he knows nothing. Do you think Leitch told him to do this?
I highly doubt it. However low my opinion of the Leitchster, I really doubt this tool is on Crunchy’s radar other than the usual RSS scan of stories to link to. If Will actually took 5 seconds to check out the actual content, he might not be so wild about the association, however loose.
But it does seem like standard practice — issue “commentary” to blogs that actually have a modicum of traffic in the hopes of boosting your own. Lots of people do it, but fewer are as dishonest about it. He makes cryptic reference to “one email” that inspired him to action, yet doesn’t reveal the content, context or source, perhaps because there isn’t any. He brags of “unreal traffic”, yet Technorati ranks him at a staggering 2,035,877. That’s not just unreal, that’s almost non-extant. He promises implementation of comments, yet wasn’t getting any back when they were functioning before the whole blackface episode. He’s threatened some vague reprisal from a mini-cadre of likeminded “sports bloggers,” yet seems to be fighting this losing battle by his lonesome.
He’s on his 3rd design (and I use the term loosely) and 2nd blog in 6 weeks. But why mess with perfection?
So who knows what’s going on in his delusional mind? Maybe he really believes, deep down, he’s got an audience and something to say besides flaunting his own ignorance. Perhaps when he looks down, he hallucinates that he has a cock.
That said, I do appreciate there’s occasionally some subtle humor to be found, however unintentional. I mean, if you’re gonna describe the academically challenged Texas Longhorns as “Dexter Manley bad,” you might wanna clean up the following passage :
If he lacks the guts to put his name on his writing, whatever. There’s not much to be proud of. But it might be nice to see the diploma from Fucktard Community College, just so the dumb jocks have something to measure themselves against.