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Wednesday, December 6. 2006

All We Want for Christmas is Our Two Front Teeth

All we want at Maggie's Farm are more links, more blogrolls, and more readers.

For readers, we have a fine cadre of congnoscenti, who are hip to our deal and down wid us. You all have a capacity for irony - which means a decent IQ.

But, for Christmas, we want a mass market, like Michelle and Glenn. No - we want to be bigger than them: we want to be Glenn and Michelle and Kos and Powerline combined, and invited to the White House for chats! But, sadly, we just aren't good enough for that dream. Delusions of grandeur!

We don't even want money...well, we do want money, but we expect none from Maggy. She is cheap: we work for free. Galley slaves! Rescue us!

Please, Santa! We will be a one year-old blog (or two, really, depending on whether you count it from when we signed up with Truth Laid Bear) in February. 

Blogroll us, and link us, for Christmas!

We are sorta, kinda unique. Email us to your million intelligent, skeptical, inquiring friends, who might be deprived of their Daily Maggie's - to their detriment.

Gift-wrapping included! And the price is right! What a fine gift!

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:59 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hey, you guys are on our blogroll. What more could you want?
#1 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2006-12-06 09:22 (Reply)
A bunch of elves like Santa has.
#2 bird dog on 2006-12-06 09:56 (Reply)
Oh --why didn't you ask sooner! I love this place.
#3 apple pie on 2006-12-06 11:44 (Reply)
Ain't too proud to beg...
#4 bird dog on 2006-12-06 12:26 (Reply)
Bird dog: in return, a 16 gauge Parker might be nice...
#5 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2006-12-06 16:07 (Reply)
Hey, I'd like one too.
#6 bird dog on 2006-12-06 16:24 (Reply)
Gotta shift to where the love is. (Don't ask me for directions.) The blogoshere is undergoing a "settling out" that I find amusing.

You guys have a good group and I'm not sure that widening the audience would be a real plus at the momment.

Jus' keep on keepin' on might be the best.

Going wide does involve original content.
#7 Rick Ballard (Link) on 2006-12-06 22:58 (Reply)
Agree with all of the above. In fact, YARGB is quite similar in many ways to Maggie's, so I am sure you have thought about it.

The piece was written somewhat tongue in cheek, however. Not that we don't want some growth, if only for vanity reasons.
#8 bird dog on 2006-12-07 06:21 (Reply)

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