RL journo experience.
He’s the guy that hires the teaboys, pays expenses and occasionally sees a story
making political decisions on whether to screw the politicians, depending on whether he has ahd a good freebie lunch from the right (or left) party.

He (always a man) hassles the working staff who really write and edit the paper occasionally to exert his power and write up reports to the Managing editor, who forwards them to the Executive Editor, who uses them to scratch his or her arse.

Thats the way Real paper/magazine run; trust me.

Archie
Chief Photographer

I don’t see how you giggling at your own jokes is humorous, absurdist or otherwise. Even Absurdism had basic standards, which you have failed to achieve: which is to make people interested and amused in your story.

Yet we don’t do the same for Miss Piggy, Optimus Prime or Sherlock Homes.

As for the nugatory discussion on the meaning of “Op-Ed,” I’m happy to accept J.W. Barrett’s 1931 definition of it stemming from “a distinctive ‘opposite editorial page’ consisting of two ‘columnists,’” that then, by extension, by 1970 became identified as being so called because “it runs opposite a newspaper’s editorial page,” both physically and metaphorically. Of course, as the Herald has almost no editorial stance to speak of – short of hating anything to do with Linden Lab – then, as Jessica (or Jess, who knows and who cares?) points out, the notion of a piece being an “opposing editorial” becomes moot, if not simply logically untenable. I’d be happy simply calling it a “here’s-my horn-and-the-toot-it-makes” column.

Other readers and friends of mine told me that Op/Ed was Opposing Editorial. I like ‘It Has To Be Said’ as a set off for my editorials. Especially as this is published on a scrolling web page. There is no opinion section.

@Kanomi
I must have missed the misspelling, either through spell check or that red underline that shows up when I say frak.

And honestly, I giggle, a lot, whenever I use the full line “Frank Oz is Miss Piggy. Therefore, I win.” “Therefore, I win” just alone is immature sounding. But when you add it to Frank Oz is Miss Piggy, then you have absurdist humor.

The rest of this gibberish just breaks down into random statements with unexpected italicization. I realize that this is business as usual at the Alphaville Herald — incoherent rambling punctuated by random stylistic button pushes (bold! Underline! italicize!) is de rigeur — but, “Therefore I win”? That just sounds like a 12 year old science nerd blowing milk through his nose, giggling with glee after his first successful ad hominem attack.

You go on: “What is important is that we are able to clearly communicate with each other as our community grows.” Anime jaw-drop.

OK, I think I get it now. You’re a parody of an Op/Ed writer, a satire of yourself. You’re a send-up of Second Life sentiment, deliberately designed for dumkopfness, matriculated on a medium as intrinsically moronic as itself.

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Sometimes I love this game :B