March 30, 2004

Welcome to John and Belle

Posted by John Quiggin

I’m pleased to announce that John Holbo and Belle Waring have joined our group and will be posting regularly on Crooked Timber from now on. John and Belle are famous for the catchphrase “and a pony!”, but apart from that I’m not going to attempt to summarise them.

Like me, and some other members of the group, they’ll be maintaining their own excellent blog as well.

Posted on March 30, 2004 11:13 AM UTC
Comments

Good.

You know, one day y’all are not going to invite a guest poster to join, and there’s gonna be some feelings hurt.

Posted by david · March 29, 2004 09:19 PM

“Like me, and some other members of the group, they?ll be maintaining their own excellent blog as well.”

That’s not very modest.

Posted by james · March 29, 2004 10:17 PM

Congrats all around. CT blog-coolness continues to dominate all rivals…

Posted by Russell Arben Fox · March 29, 2004 10:41 PM

A great blog just got greater. Cliopatria will try to restrain her envy.

Posted by Ralph E. Luker · March 29, 2004 10:51 PM

Wo, cool.

Now, Ralph. Cliopatria has nothing to be envious of. Not a thing.

Posted by Ophelia Benson · March 29, 2004 11:03 PM

No Zoë? I hope she didn’t get a better offer from the Volokh Conspiracy.

C.

Posted by Carlos · March 30, 2004 12:29 AM

Excellent, well done. The best blog going just got better.

Posted by DJW · March 30, 2004 12:54 AM

I think the Timberites should take a design tip from John and Belle: each of you should find an old, gloriously pulpy paperback, and select a face from it to serve as your posting avatar. Class up the joint. Y’know?

Posted by Kip Manley · March 30, 2004 02:48 AM

Word to that, Kip.

Posted by Belle Waring · March 30, 2004 02:53 AM

Happy happy happy! Oh boy oh boy, I can’t wait for tomorrow and having my CT dose include John and Belle!

Posted by Jeremy Osner · March 30, 2004 02:53 AM

Yes…“and a pony”, too.

Definitely one of the great “memes” of the era.

A friend and I spent all day yesterday day working it into sentence after sentence. (That, btw, at a horse show.)

Posted by David Sucher · March 30, 2004 05:38 AM
Followups

→ The beautiful game.
Excerpt: Kieran Healy notes that CT now has the numbers to field a rugby side. Down in the comments, Cryptic Ned asks: When’s the home-and-home against Fistful of Euros set for?
Read more at A Fistful of Euros

→ The beautiful game.
Excerpt: Kieran Healy notes that CT now has the numbers to field a rugby side. Down in the comments, Cryptic Ned asks: When’s the home-and-home against Fistful of Euros set for?
Read more at A Fistful of Euros

→ That other conspiracy.
Excerpt: Jacob Levy notes that, with the recent addition of John and Belle, Crooked Timberites now outnumber Volokh Conspirators. [Hat tip to Will Baude] If I may be so bold, I'd like to nominate myself to help fill the Volokh Conspiracy's...
Read more at The Audhumlan Conspiracy

→ That other conspiracy.
Excerpt: Jacob Levy notes that, with the recent addition of John and Belle, Crooked Timberites now outnumber Volokh Conspirators. [Hat tip to Will Baude] If I may be so bold, I'd like to nominate myself to help fill the Volokh Conspiracy's...
Read more at The Audhumlan Conspiracy

→ That other conspiracy.
Excerpt: Jacob Levy notes that, with the recent addition of John and Belle, Crooked Timberites now outnumber Volokh Conspirators. [Hat tip to Will Baude] If I may be so bold, I'd like to nominate myself to help fill the Volokh Conspiracy's...
Read more at The Audhumlan Conspiracy

→ That other conspiracy.
Excerpt: Jacob Levy notes that, with the recent addition of John and Belle, Crooked Timberites now outnumber Volokh Conspirators. [Hat tip to Will Baude] If I may be so bold, I'd like to nominate myself to help fill the Volokh Conspiracy's...
Read more at The Audhumlan Conspiracy

This discussion has been closed. Thanks to everyone who contributed.