The Music of the Trolls

35 thoughts on “The Music of the Trolls”

1. the artist’s ???

   One mans trash is another’s treasure I suppose.Report

2. I see a strong influence of Allen Ginsburg in Ender’s piece; its raw emotion building to a crescendo is so reminiscent of Howl it gives me the shivers.

   And do I detect an homage to e.e. cummings offered by Samara?

   There’s some talented, well-read folks out there.Report

   1. As I understand it, Samara was once known by another name around these parts before becoming the first recorded recipient of the League’s banhammer.  But even then, the ee cummings influence was unmistakable.Report

      1. brilliant analysis!

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   2. Right-wingers would write poetry like this, but they’re too stupid.Report

      1. …more brilliant analysis!Report

3. May I compliment you on the amazingly apt art you chose to introduce this post?Report

   1. It just seemed a natural fit.Report

      1. I would have gone with the Three Wolves Shirt picture, but that’s a matter of taste.Report

4. This Is Awesome.Report

   1. On so many levels.Report

5. Don’t feed the trolls.Report

   1. I love ya, dude!Report

6. Intriguing indeed that  you chose to take “trolls”, mangle their words, rather than address the points they made. I’m reminded of when your fellows chose to artificially rewrite the posts of others and in a few cases simply posted fake posts under the same name in order to tar and feather someone.

   You’re more intellectually dishonest than anyone had heretofore believed. Have fun beating up on strawmen, since you aren’t capable of engaging in honest conversation.Report

   1. I’m reminded of when your fellows chose to artificially rewrite the posts of others and in a few cases simply posted fake posts under the same name in order to tar and feather someone.

      That incident that happened that one time and then everybody jumped all over that one of our fellows (even though, in that particular case, it was hardly “tarring and feathering” someone since there wasn’t, yanno, an actual real name attached to the comment in question)?

      You got us, dude.  We’re a bunch of hypocrites.

      Odd that you spend enough time hanging around here, when there are so many other islands of intelligent discourse on the Internet.Report

      1. As Official League Historian, I am embarrassed to say that I know not of the incidents to which our interlocutor refers.  Can someone direct me to these alleged posts?Report

         1. It was a one-time thing.  Somebody’s first week as a promoted front pager.  I can’t remember precisely who and I don’t want to accidentally accuse the wrong person (and there were profuse apologies and mea culpas as I recall, so it’s sort of a singular event on many a score).  I didn’t see the original post, so I have no idea how trolly it was.Report

            1. Here is the post with the “re-written” (Seuss-ified) comments — 428 comments altogether but luckily the incident is very early on. Unsurprisingly, the editing was done due to bad language and rudeness, nothing to do with content.Report

               1. Oh! That was the “pee tardier” thread!

                  I made the best pun of my life in that thread.Report

               2. Ahhh, many thanks for the linky. That would appear to have been at the height of my hiatus, which explains how I missed it. I have to say that I’m sad I missed it- a most amusing bit of anti-trolling.Report

               3. That thread confused the hell outta me at the time. Bad language was bursting into floppy rainbow flowers between page refreshes and literally right after I’d chided the troll in question to stop trolling from the left. For one heady moment I thought I’d developed super powers. *sigh*Report

            2. Hey, a little shite on the shirt tale? Whas the big deal, Barry’s gummint and his media whores do it hourly!Report

         2. I’m not sure about any rewriting, but I think the rest of what he is talking about refers to a recent OWS by Jason that he had to shut down due to trolls.Report

   2. That’s a nice effort, but it doesn’t quite reach the lyrical heights of Tod’s selections, IMHO.Report

      1. Ah, he’s probably talking about me. Late one night, I was up drinking, and I got a bit depressed by some particularly stupid, braying comments from one commenter that were basically like the first poem up there, but with lots more vulgarity and “retard”-bashing- incidentally, I’m assuming that all of our left-leaning trolls are the same person; or the left suddenly has developed a serious hatred towards the developmentally disabled. Since I lack that hatred of the mentally challenged myself-and actually towards African Americans as well since this particular troll was especially fond of the words “nigger” and “retard”- this comment in particular annoyed me and, instead of just deleting it, I replaced the words like nigger, retard, fucking assholes and so forth with terms from Dr. Seuss books. It made the original comment- actually I think it was two of them- a lot more pleasant and no less logical, but we all agreed after a long thread that it was wrong of me to change the comments without notifying anyone that I had done so. Inevitably, of course, it also revealed to the entire Internet that we’re fascists who censor the shocking truth about Republicans being retards because we’re intellectual cowards. So, sorry for that. Cat’s out of the bag, unfortunately. Report

         1. One good thing came from it- I think that’s where Wardsmith came up with the limerick idea, which I like.Report

         2. I remember that!  I also remember thinking it was fishing awesome.

            I understand why it had to be a one time thing, but it was still rising awesome.Report

         3. I, too, am flawed!Report

   3. I may be a mere sub-blogger hereabouts, but if I may presume to speak on behalf of the League writ large as an occasional main page contributor, I will happily go through the “points” made in the original comments poetically modified above:

      1) Not all Republicans are retarded.  Or old.

      2)  Dunno the specifics of Dave’s beef, and thus it is difficult to address his “point.”  The best I can come up with is to shrug apologetically and say that sometimes shitty comments get deleted.  It’s a hard-knock life here on teh Internets.

      3)  I am delighted to know that drexl515 is thinking of the children.  Finally, finally someone is.

      4)  I will pay cash money to anyone who can suss out a point in Ender’s comment.

      5)  While no fan of the Tea Party movement, I am not aware of efforts to “expluse” anyone.  Nor of the existence of the word “expulse.”

      6)  See above re: the occasional deletion of shitty comments.  Presumably the deletion of the comments in question was due to their inherent shittiness, and not because of a pro-fascism bias here at the League,  With the possible exception of Kuznicki, whose frequent posts in support of untrammeled government power are a cause of  concern, I think we’re all safely “non-fascist” as a rule.

      I await your cogent rebuttal.Report

      1. Don’t pick on Jason.  Anybody who supports Perry as much as he does can’t be all bad.Report

7. Also, I must say that this is pure win.Report

8. I wanna hear the dubstep version.Report

   1. I was going to say that, if you could get a smooth jazz band to perform these, it would be the best thing we ever did here.Report

      1. I would buy that CD and listen to it on repeat during my commute to work every blessed day.Report

9. I think they need the full Shatner treatment.Report

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