Hey something happened at kottke.org!

January 4, 2002 7:04 PM

Hey something happened at kottke.org! I'm gonna post it to metafilter. Wouldn't metatalk be more appropriate for this kind of thing? I think so.
posted by skallas to Etiquette/Policy at 7:04 PM (72 comments total)

How 'bout a new metatalk category for the big yellow K?
posted by alan at 7:14 PM on January 4, 2002

I still want to know how he likes his eggs...
posted by machaus at 7:48 PM on January 4, 2002

Can somebody please explain to me what it is about Jason that inspires this weird cult of personality? His 'blog is certainly competent, his design adequate, his entries are occasionally mildly entertaining, but there's absolutely nothing there that I can't find at at least a dozen other sites. So why are there people willing to catalog his daily bowel movements and post about it here?

...and I thought the whole Megway thing was really quite torturously unfunny.
posted by MrBaliHai at 7:59 PM on January 4, 2002

he honestly deserves his own category...

bitching.about.kottke.on.metatalk.metafilter.com anyone?
posted by boogah at 8:00 PM on January 4, 2002

What's the capital city of Norway?
Kottke.

Avogadro's number?
The number of molecules in one Kottke.

Sex with furries?
No, my friends. Sex with Kottke.
posted by dong_resin at 8:05 PM on January 4, 2002

Light is both particle and Kottke.
posted by dong_resin at 8:06 PM on January 4, 2002

It's obviously personal taste, as with liking any personal websites. But it oughtn't be on Metafilter. Likewise, this thread about eod.com having new stuff on it.

We can all post about what's happening on our favourite personal websites. And wouldn't that be annoying. So please, don't do it.
posted by kv at 8:08 PM on January 4, 2002

When Kottke dies, or, more accurately, when Kottke's body dies, I dibs the ashes, so that I may roll up a dollar bill and merge the Kottke.
posted by dong_resin at 8:09 PM on January 4, 2002

Mmmm, that's a goooood cup of koffke.

posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:56 PM on January 4, 2002

Nikita S. Khrushchev:
The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality. Be warned, comrads.


posted by Mack Twain at 9:24 PM on January 4, 2002

I propose that all A-List bloggers be granted the honorific "al" (for A-List, of course). Thus Jason would become "al-Kottke" or, if you prefer a different latinization, "al-Qhottki."
posted by kindall at 10:35 PM on January 4, 2002

Does anyone else have a big scar in the shape of a "K" on their chest? And everytime Kottke's site is down they pour candle wax on it as a symbolic gesture of their bond with Kottke? Just wondering...
posted by geoff. at 11:51 PM on January 4, 2002

  O /
/(K)
 /  \
kottke man? or disco kottke?
posted by moz at 12:17 AM on January 5, 2002

kottke, today.
posted by eyeballkid at 12:32 AM on January 5, 2002

stavrosthewonderchicken--HA!!! You crack me up. And I thought chuckling only happened in books.
posted by ashbury at 12:33 AM on January 5, 2002

My spidey-sense is tingling. Something has happened here, but I don't know what...
posted by ashbury at 1:16 AM on January 5, 2002

kottke and metafilter have merged into megauberkotkehowiezord!
posted by owillis at 1:38 AM on January 5, 2002

Yeah something is different! If you look carefully it say I posted this at 7:04 PST when I'm certain it was 7:14 PST.
posted by skallas at 1:39 AM on January 5, 2002

Looks like megauberkotkehowiezord.com is available, not surprisingly.
posted by j.edwards at 1:52 AM on January 5, 2002

My god... it's... full of stars...
posted by dong_resin at 1:52 AM on January 5, 2002

So snazzy back here... look what I've been missing...
posted by dong_resin at 2:00 AM on January 5, 2002

My god... it's... full of stars...

That's my username on Morpheus. Now who said God is dead?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:01 AM on January 5, 2002

Now who said God is dead?

Nietzscottke.
posted by j.edwards at 2:10 AM on January 5, 2002

Bwahaha!
posted by dong_resin at 2:18 AM on January 5, 2002

I figured it out. Kottke is Mango

No one can put their finger on it, but there's something drawing us all to him. Sometimes you can hear his name being whispered on the wind: "kottke, kottke."

Can you know the mighty ocean? Can you lasso a star from the sky? Can you say to a rainbow 'Hey, stop being a rainbow for a second'? No! Such is Kottke!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:23 AM on January 5, 2002

wow, Matt's really different lately...
posted by dong_resin at 2:32 AM on January 5, 2002

Is this the secret? No wonder Jobs has been so giddy.
posted by owillis at 4:54 AM on January 5, 2002

My god... it's... full of stars...

Open the pod-bay doors, Jason.
posted by MrBaliHai at 5:47 AM on January 5, 2002

I think Matt has waaaay too much time on his hands. Someone give that guy a job!
posted by Steven Den Beste at 6:48 AM on January 5, 2002

I was about to make some offhand comment on the whole Kottke personality cult ("KottKult?"), but then I saw the Kottkefied layout of the thread, and I forgot what I was going to say.

Hey! The Preview screen is still the old one! Unacceptable! ^^,
posted by brownpau at 7:12 AM on January 5, 2002

This is priceless. Please don't change it back. Whoa hey me no like Preview screen.
posted by riffola at 7:20 AM on January 5, 2002

Has anyone noticed the state Osil8 is in lately?

Heh. You A-Listers are hilarious.

I miss the Megway.
posted by brownpau at 7:43 AM on January 5, 2002

brownpau, I think it's 0sil8.com.
posted by Big Fat Tycoon at 8:48 AM on January 5, 2002

Why can't Kottke be someone normal, like John Ritter?

posted by crunchland at 9:38 AM on January 5, 2002

From Oliver's hint I think I can deduce that Apple's surprise announcement is -- the Megway.
posted by kindall at 10:21 AM on January 5, 2002

Except probably metallic, or else translucent.
posted by kindall at 10:24 AM on January 5, 2002

well, that was quite the surprise.. my main "lol" though was for the css comment (in source).
posted by lotsofno at 10:47 AM on January 5, 2002

Every thread that mentions Kottke should look like this.
posted by rcade at 11:04 AM on January 5, 2002

HE comes and teaches us, but don't you guys realize that this is HIS old design...
posted by goneill at 11:05 AM on January 5, 2002

Two Kottkes were walking down the street.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:54 PM on January 5, 2002

and one of them was assaulted ... kottke.
posted by jessamyn at 2:01 PM on January 5, 2002

A kottke has two kottkes...
posted by eyeballkid at 2:27 PM on January 5, 2002

...and *they* told two Kottkes...and so on...and so on...
posted by metrocake at 3:33 PM on January 5, 2002

Now she's gone
and I'm out with a friend
with lips full of passion

And Kottke in bed.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:46 PM on January 5, 2002

Is that some kind of joke?
posted by Kottkesque at 4:07 PM on January 5, 2002

Uh oh. Someone's replaced the fine Kafka we usually serve with Kottke.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:23 PM on January 5, 2002

"Hey Matt, betcha I can get myself on MetaFilter."
posted by tomorama at 5:04 PM on January 5, 2002

As I was walking home this evening, a little Kottke was riding its bike in the middle of the street. It still had the training wheels on as it wobbled and struggled to peddle. It reminded me of when I was little and how badly I wanted a bicycle but couldn't get one. My parents wouldn't let me have a bike until I was 12; my mom was too afraid I'd hurt myself. I'd pass the bike section in the store and just look, having given up asking my parents about it long ago. I eventually did get one after much pleading and begging. Amazingly, getting my driver's license at 16 and the subsequent borrowing of the family car passed without incident.
posted by jjg at 7:27 PM on January 5, 2002

kafkaesque, pass the codeine please...
posted by machaus at 8:10 PM on January 5, 2002

And now it's back, without a murmur of explanation. Weird. Eerie.
posted by webmutant at 12:39 AM on January 6, 2002

Weird. Eerie.

Obsession. By Kottke Klein.
posted by j.edwards at 1:38 AM on January 6, 2002

could somebody pass the mescaline?
posted by boogah at 3:35 AM on January 6, 2002

This is your brain.

This is your brain on kottke.


Any questions?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:00 AM on January 6, 2002

What did Kottke ever do for us?
posted by feelinglistless at 2:18 PM on January 6, 2002

feelingkottke

(apologies, fl)
posted by jpoulos at 2:32 PM on January 6, 2002

Jpoulos -- we are all fulfilled under the radiant glow of kottke. I lay back in the grass satiated.

kottke is everywhere, he's all around us, here even in your room. You can see him out your window, or on your television. You feel him when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. He is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

(incidentally this thread has been listed at blogdex).
posted by feelinglistless at 3:48 PM on January 6, 2002

now serving 82,200 people
posted by feelinglistless at 4:01 PM on January 6, 2002

No wonder, he has his own secret laboratory!
posted by machaus at 4:28 PM on January 6, 2002

Okay, Matt you need a real job. If I had one I would give it to you, but I don't. Variegations of yellow are hard on these old eyes.
posted by bjgeiger at 9:09 PM on January 6, 2002

Hey something happened at kottke.org! I'm gonna post it to metafilter.

Well, if mathowie got away with it...
posted by eoz at 4:47 AM on January 8, 2002

MetaKottke ...
posted by walrus at 6:39 AM on January 8, 2002

can i borrow a fiver? till tuesday?
posted by clavdivs at 7:50 AM on January 8, 2002

What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was Kottke y pues Kottke y Kottke y pues Kottke. Our Kottke who art in Kottke, Kottke be thy name thy kingdom Kottke thy will be Kottke in Kottke as it is in Kottke. Give us this Kottke our daily Kottke and Kottke us our Kottke as we Kottke our Kottkes and Kottke us not into Kottke but deliver us from Kottke; pues Kottke. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine.

posted by fnirt at 1:27 PM on January 8, 2002

I always thought 'the kottke' was a secret sex position.
posted by ewwgene at 2:11 PM on January 8, 2002

Well, I have to say it, then.
posted by dong_resin at 8:09 AM on January 9, 2002

secret sex position, and all.
posted by dong_resin at 8:10 AM on January 9, 2002

Ahem.....
posted by dong_resin at 8:10 AM on January 9, 2002

Bukottke.
posted by dong_resin at 8:11 AM on January 9, 2002

Yes, I know.
I'm sorry, but my hand was forced.
posted by dong_resin at 8:12 AM on January 9, 2002

What does "Undesign" mean?
posted by brownpau at 8:55 AM on January 14, 2002

It's an anagram of 'Nude Sing'.

Draw your own conclusions.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:30 AM on January 24, 2002

"Ending us", too.

(nude's gin, anyone ?)
posted by XiBe at 4:25 AM on April 19, 2002