Tag Archives: The Passing Parade

Death of a young princess

Akaky outdoes himself in this essay on the unexpected death of a young friend. A pavane, indeed.

Shameless self-congratulation

Akaky celebrates a milestone, aided and abetted by the lovely Roberta Vasquez:

"…from the day I first mentioned her, my site meter tells me, Roberta Vasquez has always been among the top five reasons why people come to "The Passing Parade," and I would like to take this opportunity to thank her for her help in getting this blog to its 30,000th visitor."

Just goes to show that you can fool Google and its brethren search engines from time to time. 

A modest proposal

"Everyone bemoans the commercialization of Christmas but no one does anything about it, as Mark Twain famously didn’t say."

So Akaky Bashmachkin, of the Passing Parade, proposes a solution: instead of Xmas every year, how about making it every five years? Works for me, although Mom and Mr. Boy, the Christmas-addicted here at the Rancho, might strenously object.

Blog links

Now that three (or more?) blogs have me in their blogrolls, according to Technorati, I want to list them and recommend them to y’all as interesting places to visit because the proprietors are able writers with interesting turns of mind.

Top of the list, because he was the first, is Simply Jews, an Israeli satirist who goes by the nom de plume of Snoopy the Goon. His pose as an Elder of Zion, a director of the alleged Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, is pretty funny, if you like that sort of thing as I do. Next up is another satirist who uses a nom de blog, New Yorker Akaky Bashmachkin, at The Passing Parade. If his name doesn’t immediately remind you of something literary, do a Google on it. And, most recently, there is Deborah, of The Thought Mill, a Russian feminist with a Western view of life.

Among others who have linked to posts of mine, at one time or another, are the venerable Instapundit, Navy veteran Crazy Politico’s Rantings, the graphics-crazy Good Richard’s Alamanc, and Murky View, a Canadian blogger who recently decided (on the strength of one post at Instapundit) that I am "disconnected from reality." Given the opportunity, I would dispute that, of course. All are worth your time. 

New link

We’re moving on up to the big time, as the old TV line had it, or at least becoming available to the readers of a funny blog called "The Passing Parade–Cheap Shots of a Drive By Mind" in New York, as we previously did to those of SimplyJews, another satiric blog in Israel. Most of the links in my blog roll are just ones I like, not folks who actually link here. But Akaky Bashmachkin, of The Passing Parade (the first half of whose title reminds me of a Reader Rabbit computer game Mr. Boy used to play) said in his post New Blog: "If you are interested in what goes on down there deep in the heart of Texas, then I suggest you go over to Dick Stanley’s fine TexasScribbler blog and take a look at what he has to say about life, politics, and other important things down Texas way and throughout this our Great Republic." Thanks Akaky, we’ll try to live up to that. Akaky’s nom de plume is taken from Russian writer Gogol’s short story "The Overcoat."