| I have to say that I find this phenomenon quite funny. "Blue Mass Group" is a clever play on words (for which I am not responsible, by the way). First, it reminds one of the popular and very cool theatre troupe "Blue Man Group," which features three guys with blue heads doing all kinds of wacky things with paint and other accessories. Imagine Bob, Charley, and me with shaved, blue heads, and you'll get the idea. But we swap "Mass" for "Man," to make the name refer to the lovely state in which we all live. Get it? Blue, for the "blue state" of Massachusetts; "Mass" which is short for "Massachusetts" but also kind of sounds like "Man," so when paired with the aforementioned "Blue" kind of reminds you of the hyper-cool Blue Man Group; and "Group," because there are three of us who run the site, plus all of you that make up the BMG community. Gosh, it's just unbearably clever, isn't it? ;-)
Anyway, so a little while back, we saw the formation of "Red Mass Group." Obviously, they copied us for that name (they even asked permission), swapping "Red" for "Blue" since they're wannabe red-staters. Problem is, the cleverness of BMG's name is completely lost with RMG, since "Red Mass Group" isn't reminiscent of anything except Blue Mass Group, so all that name does is remind RMGers of the fact that we were here first. Imitation does remain the sincerest form of flattery, I guess. So thanks for that.
And now, in light of the Senate race, we've got two more entrants: Gold Mass Group, which is backing Libertarian Joseph Kennedy and which says it's paid for by "the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts Federal Political Action Committee," and Purple Mass Group, operated by ... wait for it ... John Howard. Yes, that John Howard. Big John is running a write-in campaign for Senate, in addition to running his usual egg-and-sperm crusade. UPDATE And thanks to alert reader johnk for observing that Green Mass Group, too, is up and running.
Can "Black Mass Group," the local Satanists' blog, be far behind? |
