This is one of those moments where you pinch yourself to see if you are awake. I did, and I am.
I saw this headline in the OrangeJuiceBlog feed and I couldn’t resist taking a look.
Welcome to the world’s first blog coup. Â
To our readers:
I hereby resign as webmistress and editor of Orange Juice Blog. In fact, I’m taking Thomas Gordon and Carl Overmyer with me over to The Centrist OC and resetting the layout of this site. I am inviting all of the OJ bloggers as well as our readers to join us in contributing to our new site. Please note: as each blogger owns the intellectual property of their work they are free to do with it as they please. As the site designer, I personally own the rights to that. Accordingly, the actions taken here today are not actionable legally or in any other way.
We’re tired of Art’s constant censorship, arbitrary rule, lack of leadership, flip-flopping, and personal insults behind the backs of those he calls friends. Also, people are not happy about Sean Mill coming back (I only wanted him here for professional reasons) or Art’s off-the-wall stories (i.e. ‘Bustamante may have been drunk when he hit a police car’), so we’re choosing new teams. We’d love to have you all on ours.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in the future.
Sarah Michelle Spinosa
Managing Editor
TheCentristOc.com
While I’m not one to kick a guy when he’s down, Art is a different case. He should have seen this coming. Of course, he didn’t because his ego wouldn’t let him. For a while now I have ceased posting or even reading OrangeJuiceBlog much any more. It is too depressing to watch a once respectable blog collapse in upon itself like a black-hole.
Art has managed to establish himself as the village idiot, only rivaled by Stanley Fiala and Steve Rocco. While I will keep Art’s train wreck on our blog roll (on the left) for the benefit of our few readers who may want to rubberneck, I am dumping the garbage that has been cluttering up our rss feeds in our Liberal Launching Pad.
BTW, Thomas and Phil must have hit a nerve, because in the last few days, Orange Juice has most closely resembled a teenager’s MySpace page used to rag on social rivals at high school.
The posts remind me of the “Two Minute Hate” in the novel 1984, with which the residents of Oceania began their work day.
The young man who took my picture was very nice and polite with me. I have had more young people from the local colleges take my picture. I think there are more important things to discuss.
(I printed a copy of this post for her to read and comment on.) (She wrote on the back and gave it me to post for her)
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Matt — you’re still reading that site? It’s like the election never took place and all th same faux outrage.
dan, i come here because this is my favorite blog site it means something to me. so when one of my own acts like a moron i have to call him out on it. as it urns out many others did as well. i mean i have never seen people turn on somebody like this until i saw prevatts post. it really does say a lot about him besides the obvious. and once again, quit protecting him! you only make him look more like a coward.
one more thing, why didnt he apologize?
Jose,
I did not apologize because I do not feel it was or is necessary. I recieved a photo which was funny in the context in which it was presented. The photo was not of a bum fight, it was of Aloha, a real human being who seems to have gotten a kick out of it.
I understand that some people see the posting of the photo as being in bad taste. I disagree.
But i’ve got to ask, what exactly does the photo of Aloha, from months ago, recently reposted by Sean Mill over on Orange Juice, have to do with the topic of this post? If you want to feign outrage, go over to OJ and proclaim it over there. Over here, we’re moving on.
“i did not apologize because i do not feel it was or is necessary” of course you dont prevatt and that right there speaks volumes about the type of man you are. why do you think the comments were shut down so quickly? i cant ever say ive seen one shut down that quick simply to protect the poster. earlier in this very post you say “spirited debate is what we want” unless of course it means that you are taken to task by the commenters then it’s a different story. i brought this up because of what dan told that ed guy about comments being censored on this blog. you did also say “if you want a debate START ONE!!” in this very post. i had to remind you that yes, sometimes censorship does happen on this blog but when it’s done to protect a little man when he does something really cruel thats just wrong. the homeless woman needed the protection not you prevatt.
Jose S.
I am willing to stake my character in comparison to anyones, at any time. You are entitled to your opinion about my character. But since I have no idea who you are, I can only say that I am willing to take the heat for my comments and actions as is demonsterated by my posting under my name. I would say that demonstrates a level of character missing from your own commentary.
uhhh…..but you didnt take the heat remember? you were spared the ass kicking you so deserved. somebody came in and saved you by blocking the comments. and as far as character, you showed none by not apologizing. go ahead and say you have character by posting under your name i also post under my own name and i am a loyal reader of this blog and if i see a case of abuse i will call anybody out on it. even you.
Jose –
Thanks for being a poster child example of why I shut the comments off on that string a long time ago. You repeatedly call for an apology that’s not going to come. And you can post a call for it 100 more times, and its not going to come.
The subject of the photo posed for the picture and was tipped/paid for it. She did not find it offensive even if you do. Again, if you don’t like the content here, feel free to read other blogs. But you’re in no position to dictate the content we put up here. You’ve made your position as clear as day. We disagree. Time to move on.
This matter is closed. Move on to other things that are current and relevent. If you want to try to comment more on it, your posts will be deleted.