TRIBUTE -- Anaglyph

Buddies,

I wondr ...  Is there really any need fer me to write a post payin TRIBUTE to th Revrend Anaglyph and Tetherd Cow Ahead?  Has he not awready been mentiond in just about evry TRIBUTE post Ive writtn thus far?  More importntly, has any blogski been mentiond and / or linkd here at JPS more than his?   Has any bloggr left a more discernible stamp on th bloggin here at th Show than he has?

No and NOski.  The Joey Polanski Show has in effeckt incorporatd a overt & ongoing tribute to bofe bloggr and blogski since th links were first establishd back in early Decembr 2005.  Th TCA link in th JPS sidebar was probly added below eight othr linkskis; but it has now fer years been unshakably atop th list.  Indeedski, of th 30 or so sites that were evr at one time or anothr linkd here at th JPS (yes, fokes, there HAVE been about that many), Tetherd Cow Ahead is th only one that can boast BOFE original & engaging content AND a seemingly endless supply o enthusiasm & energy.  Association wif TCA has been nothin short of a game-changr in Polanski Show histry; and I am so glad that that association began so early in my bloggin career.

But this final run o TRIBUTE postskis just woudnt be complete wifout one more focusd discussion o th part TCA and th Revrend have playd in Polanski Show histry and the place they bofe will always ockupy in my sappy Polack heart.  So lets do it.

I know Ive come close to sayin it this bluntly in th pastski, but probly still aint realy gone ahead & done it yet.  Tetherd Cow Ahead is th bestest blogski I evr playd at -- bar none.  It blends th comedick wit th critickle, th sarcastick wit th sentimental.  Its always original, prsonal, engaging, and inviting.  And, as youd expeckt, its as much about th bloggr as it is about th blogski.  Th Revrend woud still have a fine site and a popular one evn if he simply servd as th craftsman and nevr came out & mixd it up wif his comentrs.  Th Revrend, however, has that sense o play that distinguishs th great from th merely good enough.

And I gotta add here that, so far as I can tell (not bein able litraly to get inside anyone elses headski), th Revrend is probly one o only two JPS playrs (th othr bein Tomski) who seem to have "got" th Polanski Show from th very first exposure to it.  Oviously, th shtick aint evryones cup o teaski; but I been long convincd that many fokes coudnt stomach it eithr bcause they initialy coudnt sense that it was shtick or else bcause they coudnt evr undrstand th rationale bhind th shtick.  Well, th Revrend seemd to sense th shtick AND undrstand, at least vaguely, what it was all about; and I think its probly werf considring th relation btween Polanski Show shtick and th significkant bond btween JPS and th Revrend.

See, fer those few o yous who dont know it, th Revrend is a exspurt in sound.  He works as a sound designr & editr in filmskis.  (Nfackt, th reasn hes missin a good bit o these TRIBUTEs is cuz hes wingin his way to Los Angeles to do his thing on some pitchr.)  He is also a musickle composr and artist.  So he has bofe a sense AND a know-how when it somes to sound.

Bloggin, howevr, is largely about th writtn word.  So itd be very easy to conclude that theres very little about bloggin that has anything to do wif sound.  Oh, sure, a bloggr coud embed one o them dopey little musick-playrs that starts playin some annoying bit a crapski th moment you visit th blogski, whethr you want it to or notski; but them things aint really part o th essence o bloggin.  Rathr, theyre just ornamentardal doodads that a bloggr might use to covr up th fackt that he gots nothin werfwhile to write on his blogski.  No.  Th essence o blogging is writtn content.

But woudnt it be a mistake, fokes, to think that writtn content gots nothin to do wif soundski?  Dangd straight, it woud!  Writtn words are meant to be read; and readin words always conjures up to some dgree th sound o them words as spokn.

Now, woud it come as a suprise to yous if I toldjas that th secret to undrstanding The Joey Polanski Show is ALL about sound?  Yep, when you read sompm in Polanskiese, I long ago told a comentr who seemd not to get th shtick at first, youre spposta be hearin a distincktive voice inside yer headski!  If you aint th type who tends to associate th writtn word wif sound, then youll nevr appreciate eithr Polanskiese OR th POEMSKI game!  Aint poetry, whethr writtn or recitd, ALL about soundski?  Now are you hoopleheads startin to fuckin GET IT?

Th Revrend fuckin gets it!  Th Revrend always fuckin gets it.  Th Revrend fuckin got it from th fuckin git-go!  And hows come Im talkin like Swedgin all of a suddn?  Oh, yeah ... Cuz its ALL about th SOUNDski!

I found Tetherd Cow Ahead back when it was a Blogger blog.  Its title came up on th rolling list that usta appear on th Blogger sign-in page.  I noticd th Polanskiese spelling of 'tetherd', and I also thought that a blog title referring to a COW was oddly amusive.  My first visit took me to THIS post, where I left my first TCA coment.  I was happy to see that Anaglyph responded in a playful way.  I was evn happyer when he postd his first coment at JPS.  And it was just a few days latr that th Rev, replyin to a coment I left at th Cow, showd me that he GOT TH SHTICK.  Lickety-splitski, I linkd him, he linkd me, and th rest, as they say, is HISTRY!

A early part o that histry involvd my lookin back at some o th earlyer posts at TCA and finding THIS post, which introducd facitiously th idea that Anaglyph was to be calld 'Reverend'.  I thought that was great shtick, and so when I startd respondin to his coments at JPS, and when I intrduced him to JPS readrs, I included th title.  And I did it rathr consistently, which Id venture to say is what eventualy resultd in just about EVRYONE addressin him as "Reverend."

A latr bit o that histry had th Revrend publishing THIS postski, about making a homunckulus.  I dont need to tell yas that that led to lotsa good shtick here at th Polanski Show.

And ocourse there are so many othr running gags that have grown up among those o us who play reggalrly at th Cow -- (1) quack-echos, (2) the Unusual Thing, (3) Simple Graphics Man, (4) Sister Veronica, (5) Moo Medals, (6) Gilbert Einstein, (7) Red or Purple, (8) Sir Joey, (9) Pocket Jesus, (10) rottn turnips, (11) Joey's Shelf, and -- th most famous of all -- (12) Rasputin Dick Poetry!

And lastly Ill mention some o th most engaging and enjoyable little riffing opportunitys.

1. Cow Captions (Billy!)
2. Shepherd Captions
3. Crossboot Filmskis
4. Not-News Headlines (close to 475 coments, last I lookd)
5. Text Messages from Histry

When I announcd that Id be shuttin down th Show, I mentiond that I felt very strongly about maintaining th fruitful collaborative relationships Ive establishd wif othr bloggrs, and also that future collaborative projeckts wit them othr bloggrs was NOT ruld out by th ending o th Show.  It shoud be pretty clear that I aint inclind to kick th Cow to th curbski.  There's too much life, too much GAME there fer me to stay off that stage.  Plus, ocourse, I feel I gotta keep shouldring my share o th responsibility fer creatin th annual Rasputin thingy.  So, while there wont be a JPS stage fer us all to play on togethr, expeckt to see me now & again where th Tetherd Cow roams.