Secrets of Famous Bloggers
Paul Krugman likes to dress up as a cowboy.
Michael Moore has never been to a baseball game.
Ana Marie Cox has a Twitter staff.
Josh Marshall requires his employees to do calesthenics each morning.
Arianna Huffington speaks unaccented English; she cultivates an accent for professional reasons.
Dean Baker is heavily invested in Goldman Sachs.
Brad DeLong has a huge collection of Cliff's Notes.
Ezra Klein is 14 and has to be in bed by 9:30.
Tyler Cowen gorges on Kraft's Macaroni and Cheese.
When Duncan Black drives his Hummer around Philadelphia, he likes to chew on a big cigar and affect a German accent.
Matthew Yglesias voted for Bush, but just the first time.
Michael Bérubé is addicted to John Grisham novels.
Jane Hamsher is into clog dancing.
Kevin Drum's real name is Seymour Wachekowski.
A close-knit group of five people write all the posts and comments on Daily Kos.
Megan McArdle has perfect 20-20 vision.
Christopher Hayes tried unsuccessfully to grow a mustache.
Brad Plumer has a riding mower and likes to take it for spins around the neighborhood.
Jon Chait is employed at The New Republic.
Mickey Kaus << CENSORED BY TPM MGMT >> .
Spencer Ackerman listens to Barry Manilow and gets misty.
Andrew Samwick has the Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers of America" on his Ipod.
"The Editors" of The Poor Man likes to call up his friends anonymously and say, "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
Where's the secret about Rotwang?
April 5, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
He fights crime by night with his robotic sidekick, Maria!
April 5, 2009 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
He slaps butch hair wax on his locks, puts on tight jeans, white socks, patent leather shoes, shoves his colar up and hangs out at a place where they still have a real juke box.
April 5, 2009 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
On Thursdays, he wears tailor made garanimals with pictures of Rocky and Bullwinkle engaged in unspeakable acts!
April 6, 2009 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hilarious.
April 5, 2009 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Inquiring minds want to know...and Rotwang spills the beans and dishes the dirt. But is this gonna make him the Jim Bouton of the internets?
April 5, 2009 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gee. Until now I hadn't realizes how utterly intelligent and enlightened Michael Moore was.
And what's wrong with an economist dressing up like a cowboy? Here in Texas they ALL do.
As for Brad Delong, why would he preserve ancient Cliff's Notes when we all have Wikipedia now.
Is Ana Marie Cox working to put Wikipedia out in a twitter version?
April 5, 2009 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brad DeLong has a huge collection of Cliff's Notes.
That's not a collection; it's inventory.*
* In this economic climate no one is exempt from the need to reinvent oneself.
April 5, 2009 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've seen some quick and dirty Photoshop jobs in my day, but somebody must have had a plane to catch when they cloned the shit out of those Cliff's Notes.
Also, the Megan McArdle snark is fantastic. It takes a few moments to sink, but it definitely works.
April 5, 2009 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this the Jane Galt blogosphere dustup you're referring to?
I must say I've got some sympathy for McArdle's argument.
I've long objected to those who noticed the housing price bubble taking credit for foreseeing the crash whose severity they never predicted and whose form they never described.
* A few did suggest a "possible recession".
April 5, 2009 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm a robotic scientist, not a graphic artist.
April 5, 2009 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aren't all scientists robots? I'm not a graphic artist either but kudos for Krugman, the Kowboy Kritic. We need a new sheriff in town, anyway. I'd vote for him even if it is, judging from the pic, Sheriff of Tiny Town.
April 6, 2009 1:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Another:
When TPM Cafe bloggers want to get serious, they still prefer go to the "MSM" to publish:
Bernanke's Radicalization
by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
He's throwing trillions at the financial crisis. What if his gambles don't pay off?
Washington Post, April 5, page B1.
April 5, 2009 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
That pict of Krugman is priceless! Oy. I'm keeping that one. I've always suspected that about Berube and Duncan Black.
What of Eric Alterman? How could you forget him and his Slacker Friday with the incomparable Charles Pierce? Seriously.
Rotwang's secret -- When the housing bubble began to burst, Rotwang plotted world domination and began chained people in his basement, manufacturing the new currency of Bernankes with plans on becoming Teh Bank Of US.
April 5, 2009 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
That looks to me like an over/under shotgun in the graphic. Ain' no cowboys carry no stinkin' over/
under shotguns!
April 7, 2009 1:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha ha.. you have revealed the secrets of many famous bloggers. What's your secret.
November 12, 2009 2:29 AM | Reply | Permalink