This week, I wanted to let all my readers know about an amazing historic find that has just come to my attention: "The Blog Cabin," a Web-log kept by President Abraham Lincoln during the latter days of his presidency. Read it and be amazed at the depth of information now available to us about our 16th president, written in his own words and posted to his own Blogger account! (Entries are in reverse chronological order, of course, so start at the bottom and work your way up.)
One of my all-time favorite Snide Remarks. This entire blog page needs to be replicated on myspace.com so that it can be seen by more people (or more teenagers, I guess, considering it IS Myspace).
Whoah... I only just realized that the comments & reactions section alludes to the fact that you authored it. I'd assumed it was something you found. I've also enjoyed that page for some time now.
Good stuff.
Wow. That was AWESOME. I got a kick out of the fact that some spammer had sent Abraham Lincoln an ad for payday loans after commenting that the blog was very nice.
OMG. So. SO. FUNNY.
Just 'bout peed my pants giggling in my cubicle. Co-workers now think I am either
a. "mentally challenged"
b. on drugs - or-
c. wasting time.
THANKS!
Always been one of my favorites. No matter how many times I've read it, the jokes are still hilarious. Nearly the entire thing is complete with quotable phrases that simply need repeating, and often at that. Brilliant, brilliant idea.
"It's in the effin' Constitution!!" Classic.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Love it!!!!
My favorite part are the "linkz." Especially the one to Coldplay's website.
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A few weeks ago, my friend Smacky posted a couple blog entries that he'd just written that were alleged to have been written in 1990. They had lines in them that were ironic or funny because of the way events unfolded thereafter -- which of course he knew, which of course is why he wrote them.
Anyway, it gave me the idea for blogs written by historical figures.I had recently read Time magazine's special issue about him, so that's probably why Lincoln popped into my head before, say, George Washington. Desiring to keep things historically accurate (to a point), I perused many Civil War- and Lincoln-related Web sites for timelines, biographies and such, and I think the details are mostly reliable (except where they are obviously false for humorous purposes). I mention this solely to toot my own horn for doing research.
I could have just posted the text of the entries here, but I figured it would be much funnier if they were housed in an actual blog with all the trimmings. Which makes this a first for "Snide Remarks": Where certain previous columns have been in the format of something else (movie scripts, comments left on The Daily Herald's Web site, radio talk shows, etc.), this is the first one to use the bells and whistles of the Internet to make it actually LOOK like the thing it's parodying, not just sound like it.