Dear Leader now an official draw

Submitted by Wolverine In Exile on

Just got my notice from the Alumni Association for the annual Official AAUM Homecoming tailgate, and lo and behold who is listed as a "special guest"?

 

"Appearances by special guests including: University President Mark Schlissel, MGoBlog creator Brian Cook, and New York Times bestseller John U Bacon."

 

Dear Leader has now gone mainstream. Cue the Ric Flair "Stylin & Profilin" gifs..

 

http://alumni.umich.edu/connect/go-blue-homecoming-tailgate?utm_source=…

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WindyCityBlue

September 24th, 2015 at 7:11 PM ^

...but Brian was a writer (more than a performer), so his stage time was sporadic.  

I remember Brian (I think it was him) wrote a pretty dope sketch called, Weekend at Yeltsins.  It was a play on the Weekend at Bernie's film suite that tastefully jabbed at Boris Yeltsin's rumored failing health (remember, this is the later 90s) and his mischief as the Russian President.  I played the affable Andrew McCarthy analog.  It was classic.  

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M-Dog

September 25th, 2015 at 8:47 AM ^

Haloscan was the Blog's primitive technology platform pre-June 2008.

There was no MGoBoard.  So the comments section of every thread by Brian became the de-facto board.  It was the wild west . . . think a liveblog for every thread.

By the time you got 25 posts in, the comments had nothing to do with the topic at hand.  A comment 100 posts in might be arguing with a comment 50 posts above it.

There were so many disjointed posts per thread, it became a big deal to be the first post on a thread.  Sometimes you will still see someone say "First!" on a thread as a tribute to Haloscan.

You could also steal each other's IDs and comment as someone else.  This caused some, um, dustups now and then.

Fun times. 

 

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