It seems like the internet refuses to realize that I made it. I have been a source of sweetness and light for the edtech blogosphere for almost four and a half years now, selflessly giving everything I have to anyone who wants some. But it seems that is not enough, now it turns out people actually want my analogies to be intelligent and subtle, and that is where I draw the line. NO MAS! Looks like you won’t have Jim Groom, a.k.a. the bava, a.k.a. the Reverend, to kick around the internets anymore.
I’m officially resigning my position as the leader of the edtech blogosphere, and will sit by and watch it devolve into chaos as a result, and then you will all realize just how much I made each and every one of you.
So long chumps, and I hope the page load hits you in the ass on the way out.
Please sir, can we take it in turns at pretending to be Jim Groom?
Was it that nasty CogDog that made you pack it all in?
I thought chaos was the desired state. Who will pick up the gauntlet and start tossing out insidious straw man logic snafus?
@Martin,
I love that idea, and I will freely give my username and password to anyone that wants to keep blogging here as me. That could be fun, a kinda fake jimgroom blog. An d it will help me enjoy my hiatus
@D’Arcy,
Hope you had a good trip, and if the photos tell a story, it is apparent you did.
Well now that you are back from Mexicolindo, I nominate you
Haven’t I been using you as a puppet for years?
I’m not sure where your insidious logic is going with this one.
@Tom,
See, your comment is a microcosm of the disrespect I have been subject to for years now. Let it stand as exhibit A.
hope this works….
dang….images disabled?
Peter,
Exactly right, I even have the necessary props on hand
How many people hear Jim Groom’s voice in their head?
@Bryan I do, and it makes me wake up screaming at night.
Bryan, there isn’t enough lithium on this planet to keep The Voice of Bava out of my head. Or, more precisely, the laugh. And “Daaahsee!”
It sounds kinda like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYR3dorshwA
I have risen!!
http://fakejimgrom.wordpress.com/
This is what I hear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZqa70p7MQ
Peter,
Notice who uploaded that video, I AM THE INTERNET!!!
What is the internet? “I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.”
At last! At long last!
You’re awful at being done with the Internet.
The internet is missing something– I don’t seem to hear that scratchy static.
It’s like a chanting, these voices. The Bavavox crying out, saying –
Love that the WP.com site is from the Fake Jim Grom. Leave off that second O for extra simulacrum.
Pingback: FU World! « Fake Jim Groom
Typos in URLs will cost ya big.
http://fakejimgroom.wordpress.com/
The Jim Groom will never let the Bava go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qmW2MDmZQ
Well, you know what they say…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkIWZzMTEJU
@John, it’s the other way around. The Bava will never have done with its human vessel.
The Bava will just move on to a new host when it’s done with its current vessel. it must be contained.
This is not exactly going how I planned it. I was hoping for a little love, and if my exit is not being celebrated or denigrated, I am being compared to John Carpenter’s The Thing, which doesn’t suck, but not my intention, damn it!!!!
This is not exactly going how I planned it. I was hoping for a little love, and if my exit is not being celebrated as an awaited event it is being denigrated as poorly executed. Add to that the fact that I am being compared with the alien from John Carpenter’s The Thing (which doesn’t suck, btw) and I would call this an exit fail. This was not my intention, damn it!!!!
Or maybe even for some folks to woo me back to my recently resigned role as blogging king, but nooooooooooooooo—you people just keep pouring it on, dontcha. I have a mind to start blogging again just to spite every last one of you ingrates.
I’m unfamiliar with your usage of the word “quit”.
quit?[kwit] verb,quit or quit·ted, quit·ting, adjective
–verb (used with object)
1. to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
2. to depart from; leave (a place or person): They quit the city for the seashore every summer.
3. to give up or resign; let go; relinquish: He quit his claim to the throne. She quit her job.
4. to release one’s hold of (something grasped).
5. to acquit or conduct (oneself).
6. to free or rid (oneself): to quit oneself of doubts.
7. to clear (a debt); repay.
awwww….c’mon…I was just getting the fake bava going!
http://fakebavatuesdays.wordpress.com/
Hey, think of Peter Watts’ retelling, “The Things.”
In keeping with the Minutemen link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iix18rtJmU0#t=35s
@D’Arcy,
I’m gonna quit you, boy.
@Peter,
Beautiful site, as I always say—fake can be just as good. And in this case, better.
@Bryan,
That is almost unthinkable. Almost.
@Grant
What do you want, your money back?
Do all of you realize what you are doing by encouraging this man? Those of us who actually have to work with him–see him everyday, listen to his insidious logic in person–have to deal with the fall out of this comment thread. Please, for the love of god, make it stop.
Let’s get it to 50 comments boys and girls, if we do—you have my word that I will make my colleagues lives at work all the more miserable—and let me tell you, it was pretty bad before this post.
Do it for @Martha!
I subtract two of my comments.
@mburtis Hear Hear! and. . . Here! Here! I’m only commenting in order to spawn the greatest of rants yet. We’ll get the video, and hold the entire interwebs for ransom. Jim pays up to us all for his bizarre abuse of the word “logic”, OR ELSE!!
@martha wait. he actually does WORK there, too? I always just imagined him holding court, ranting sermons from on high about how everyone should be doing their own thing, but according to His rules. And then yelling I MADE YOU! I WANT THE TRUTH! I AM THE TRUTH!
please don’t take this from me.
@D’Arcy that’s actually EXACTLY what it’s like to “work” with @jimgroom. Exactly. Sigh.
next time he starts up, gently remind him that I MADE HIM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xEhindB900

Just
sevensix more comments people, come on—don;t let the good folks at DTLT down.bava, your leash is too long
You rant when you are just wrong
You’ve been living in a bubble
Gettin’ edtech in trouble
bava, your leash is too long
I’m confused. Didn’t Jim quit blogging back when The Bava was bought out by Blackboard in 2007? I had simply assumed it was someone else writing it since then and that “edupunk” was simply a ploy by The Man to co-opt dissension. And now I find out it was Jim Grom the whole time? It’s like I’m stuck in a John Frankenheimer film and can’t get out! Who can I trust now? Who, dammit!
@Pumpkiny,
Nicely played, Jedi, nicely played.
@Scott,
You can trust in your lord bava.
Three more comments people!
Cheeseburger?
Hamburger?
Good work, now just one more, folks. Just one more comment to make me a frothing lunatic at work tomorrow. And on top of that, I’ll move my site to the Chronicle and sell posts for beer money.
No Coke! Pepsi!
I love you Scott Leslie!!!
Let the games begin….
Hold on.
Is it too late to get one more comment in here to congratulate Jim on his well-earned retirement?
Personally, I suspect that Jim is faking “retirement” so he can cash in as a traveling Blackboard sales rep. He’ll be the specialist on Blackboard’s mega-open iPad client.
Cheers,
Bill