We at Courting would love to thank Library Lady for the really intoxicating shout out she gave us. It was a great ego boost.
Lately we have been getting many shout outs, and while we would like to be all humble and bashful about it, we’re not!!!!!!!!!! We have also become addicted to the exclamation point and are seriously thinking about finding an A group for excessive use of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have been finding that Technorati doesn’t always pick up the links, and have been wondering if other people are having the same problem.
We do use the royal “we’ when we are trying to seperate ourselves from our work. Then there is Toto our imaginary dog who does begin barking if not given credit, and Savannah Falls Too, our computer, who refuses to operate properly unless mentioned often. When somebody is named Savannah Falls Too, you tend to listen to her.
We love writing in the second person as it too lets us be distanced from what we are saying. Yes, we know, Lorrie Moore is the only person who can write in the second person well.
Actually and more honestly we don’t know that. The same person who said “good writers borrow, great writers steal,” told us that. We don’t agree with that. Stealing is never acceptable. We have never been sure if the person who said that just really liked the line, and tried to work it into as many conversations as possible because it was her one great line.
At a party, this weekend, where few people knew each other we noticed an editor for a newspaper we read every day asking each group of people the same question. We noticed this because it’s a great technique for talking to strangers. Unless there’s somebody like me around who notices everything. We discretely followed this person, and listened to the different answers. The question itself was simple: “I’ve recently moved to the neighborhood. What’s your favorite restaurant?” As there are many restaurants on the Upper West Side, and everybody has a different favorite, it’s a great conversation starter. In the interest of full disclosure, it’s a question we have asked when we weren’t able to think of anything to say.
Then somebody approached us and asked the question he knew would make us begin talking, and not shut up for the rest of the night. It was a political question; not a question about blogging. People in New York tend to think less of blogging than people other places, though we have empirical proof that is changing. We are including links to articles on blogging that were in this past Monday’s New York Times.
As the mold farm is back and we have to walk around our 600 square feet of prime New York real estate in our exercise sandals, because the humidity is 100 percent and oppressive, we will stop while slightly ahead.
If anybody knows why technorati doesn’t pick up all links or knows a good alternative to it, please let us know.
One last thing. We hated Live 8. Hated it. Live Aid was so perfect, and Live 8 was so commercial and not worth it. We found that very sad.
It’s nice to see the terms “hated” and “live 8” in the same sentence. Most people are afraid to criticize much of anything, let alone something that is supposed to save all the impoverished in the world through second rate rock concerts.
They haven’t met me yet! Never afraid to say anything.
It was horrible!!
A quick note of empathy: Technorati sucks.
It’s picky in how it accepts pings via its RPM. It takes too long to update. And the new design is ugly. It’s too slow. And it often picks the *worst* things to read when you search.
Google should buy them and reinvent their processes.
Technorati: don’t get it. we get most things techie, but technorati and bloglines are beyond us we fear.
we like the royal we, and might adopt it for a while, at least in here. oh my, We do like it, though it makes us sound like that arrogant blogger (who shall remain nameless) who hates us because we spoke our mind one time too often. ah well…
we think the quality of music GENERALLY at the moment is so undescribably poor that there was really no surprise to us that live 8 was a total disaster, at least musically. as for the political messages, we are not sure the representatives chosen to convert us were those best suited to the job.
fianlly: your party sounds wonderful, we wish we could go to parties where people had conversations, and didn’t just get drunk….. alas we live in the wrong country…
My, my. Aren’t we plural today?
Actually triple. Am speaking for Savannah, Toto and myself.
And we love the royal we. It’s so aristocratic.
IMO, the only thing good thing about Live 8 was The Who. Considering only 2 original members of that band are still alive and they are both over 60 years old, that isn’t saying much.
I have a big problem with technorati, I know for a fact that sites that link to my blog are not counted. Such is life. They still suck.
I am not a fan of live 8, still from Robbie Williams to the end of the Hyde Park show (Williams, The Who, Pink Floyd, and McCartney) was entertaining. I am an old fogey at 36 I guess, but to see the Pink Floyd reunion was so big for me. I of course hate the goal of Live 8. The let us do the same thing over and over again and expect a diferent outcome plan just makes me ill.
Very witty blog you have here! I love the design also.
It’s not just me! Technorati and Live 8 hatred in one blog! I don’t know if this post is toppable. By anybody.
Seriously, the piety backdropped with the commercialism, or was the commercialism wallpapered with piety, hard to be sure … but argh!
Live Aid raised money, and consequently awareness; Live 8 was too good to do anything as tacky as raise actual money, they just wanted to be idolized while bitching. The acts will realize huge profits from sales, but only Pink Floyd is donating everything to Africa.
The ruination of music depresses me.
I don’t know what’s up with Technorati. They don’t seem to pick up pings very quickly… not for links or tags- not for the little folk anyway. I stopped pinging them for the two of my blogs that aren’t updated frequently.
I linked to you in a post on one of them a day or so ago. You weren’t taking comments or trackback; I didn’t bother pinging Technorati. Thanks for that info, by the way.