You know, over the last year we've gotten a few choice comments about our use of the collective voice. "Trite," "precious," "pretentious," "stupid," "idiotic" -- and while we love us some reader feedback, we're rather set in our ways when it comes to that. It's not like there aren't plenty of other blogs out there. We've even heard that it's really easy to start your own! But thanks to an enterprising Trojan, any complaints on the subject shall hereby be answered with the URL to Singularist.

Eric Richardson was so mad about it that he was checking LAist "once or twice a day," but got tired of waiting for the editorial policy to change. So he spent some time coding a script to bring nearly the entire network into compliance, whether we liked it or not! He admits that he's no whiz with parsing sentences himself, so Singularist has some difficulties conjugating verbs, contractions and site references in the third person. Ross Mayfield thinks that SFist MattyMatt's interview with Charo was improved using Singularist, but we (and we do mean we) scoff at the idea that post could possibly be any better than it already is. Okay, Ricky Martin could have dropped by and left a catty comment, but that would be gilding the lily.

So for all of you who just refuse to read SFist because of our funny little habit, you now have no excuse. What we're really waiting for is SFSOSist -- where a script replaces every instance of "The Gavster" with "our dashingly handsome genius of a mayor," "Chris Daly" with "that petulant crybaby," "municipal power" with "communism," and "citywide busing" with "class warfare" -- in other words, something to make our free-market fundamentalist readers happy! Where's the invisible hand when you really need it?