Weblog Sin Pies

Random Google user JoshuALI wrote:

We have been breaking our heads as to the origin of Funkistan. I was under the impression it an introduction to one of songs in the George Clinton regime. Please enlighten us.

JoshuALI,

Maybe? I wish I knew. I’ve never been a big George Clinton fan. A Google search yields nothing with regard to any Funkistan-Clinton connection except Hillary, but I don’t have the time or desire at the moment to figure out what that connection is.

To tell you the turth, I thought I made it up. I also thought I was pretty clever. While the former is likely true (inasmuch as I’m pretty sure I came up with it independently, regardless of whether I was the first), the latter is obviously not because it’s a pretty simple concoction.

Take this article.

It appears to have been written in 2004 (a full year before Weblog Sin Pies launched and about two years before I decided to change our slogan from “Not Porn” [which is true] to “The U.S. Jambassador to Funkistan” [which is not true, really]). Of course, I came up with the whole “Jambassador to Funkistan” thing many years ago. I used to claim I had “hiplomatic immunity,” too. You can use that, by the way. Free of charge. Just be honest if anyone asks where you heard it (no one probably will).

Some would have you believe that such a place actually exists. But it appears as though those people are trying desperately to dissuade you from going there, too. Their attempt has succeeded, at least for me.

Another search result pointed me toward Nation States, a MMORPG for the geography-nerd set. I don’t have the patience to find it, but someone apparently started a nation there called Funkistan.

No telling why I’ve gone out of my way to prove how clever I’m not, but there you have it. I don’t know, is the answer.

Thanks for reading, anyway! (Or did you find us because you were trying to figure out the Funkistan thing?)

Charley Daniels

JoshuALI wrote:

I did the same google search. The pics from flickr are ours thank you very much. As the Jambassidor from the U.S we can’t rightly get shitty on you when there’s Groove going on. What we came to call The Dependant Republic of Funkistan is the bottom floor of a duplex on the south side of Minneapolis. It’s spacious for a three bedroom but quite small for a country. The pictures didn’t show the fine DJ station that earned it it’s name and reputation. The place has been amongst our friends coming up on our tenth year now and it’s reunion time. October 21st is the day and we’ll be making up legends in the meantime. You deemed it yourself and you will be duly incorporated. Your Hiplimatic immunity will be in effect upon your arrival. Your presence would give an international flavor to the event. I’ll keep you informed of the proceedings Jambassador.

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It’s a small world when you’re a guy who’s only marginally clever (me). I’m not going to Minneapolis. Don’t get me wrong, I want to. If only it were next year and not next month. This isn’t over yet, though. I can … I can feel it.

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