April 03, 2004
Let the Hating Begin! In
Let the Hating Begin!
In our last post, dear reader, we offered a truncated history of “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly”—a “weblog” that we hope shall become a must-read for the thinking man. Our crack staff believed that this summary discussion of our journal’s storied past would limit the number of inquires we have received from national and international media. After all, it appeared that the mere title of our publication has generated what Tina Brown, editor-cum-lowbrow, would call some “buzz.”Yet our potted history of “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly” has not reduced the many ‘phone calls we have received from the media to a handful. On the contrary. The queries regarding the origins of “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly” have only been replaced with those regarding another topic: Namely, when is the hating going to begin?
We, the crack staff of “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly,” must admit that our first week of Internet publication has been so concerned with getting our “web-bearings” straight that we have yet to begin to upbraid, to chastise, to scorn. In short, the many readers of “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly” may be asking themselves this very question: “Where’s the hate?” (Wasn’t that one of Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign slogans? Or perhaps a Taco Bell advertising hook? But we digress.)
To which we respond, “Let the Hating Begin!” In fact, we, the crack staff of “The Hatemonger’s Quarterly,” are pleased to introduce our First Annual Week of Loathing (April 4th to April 10th, 2004), which shall begin in earnest tomorrow. Our young staff hopes that it shall become the most rancorous, bile-filled period of contumely since Howard Dean made his infamous “I Have a YAAARRRHHH” speech.
So fear not, dear reader! In the days to come, our crack young staff shall treat numerous worthy targets to a veritable cornucopia of abuse. Plenty of cows—sacred and secular alike—shall be slaughtered; plenty of oxen—holy and profane alike—shall be gored.
As our founder, Mr. Eliot McPhee once opined, “There is so much to hate, and so little time.”
