First the Monterey Pop v Woodstock debate. I wasn’t at either but did see every showing of Monterey Pop the day it came out. I recorded Woodstock the other day after i realized I have only seen snippets, but only seem to watch HGTV or health care reform centered shows.
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Hi you old faithful friend. I gave you a little party the other day as keeping you up for five years marked a milestone in my life. It was the longest I have been ever able to do anything. Now that you’re five there’s no telling what we’ll be able to achieve together.
Blog let me be honest. There are a few rivals for your affection. First is Facebook. FB is usually fun. If only I could be pithy clever…sort of like Bill Maher who I spent last night watching, with a group of friends, while eating Southern food. We kept rewinding and I still couldn’t remember all his one great one liners on the subject that seems to have overtaken my thoughts–health care reform.
He did ask, and blog you and I have wondered the same, what plans the Republicans have if they hate our plans so much. The only one I can remember is McCain’s “you can take your insurance with you.” As I was paying $1300 a month because I lived on the UWS and had a faux-Rolls life style, that wouldn’t be doable on a greatly reduced income.
OK blog you’re asking as any sane blog would, what does this have to do with FB? Many people seem to plan their days around putting in pithy clever or pithy zany remarks. If I could remember all the awesome amazing incredible interesting thoughts I come up when there’s absolutely no way to write them down–in the shower, on a walk in the beach usually in the water, or when I half wake up at night, the world would know how truly clever I am. I know, I know, everybody says that, but….
Big Question blog: how are you going to help me? We, you and I, lurk in blogs where bloggers who call themselves writers use “your” when they mean “you’re” over and over again. We’re never sure if that’s done on purpose as some kind of weird affectation that seems to work. People just love these blogs that, well, aren’t very well written. Or, we think, interesting as the bloggers uh excuse me writers don’t know how to tell a story or stand away from the pack and let their quirks show. They are super-friendly, often with alcohol inspired blogging names, attend blogging fairs and often write about subjects that were tired three years ago. Yes there is no such thing as a new subject but there should always be a new way to say it.
Blog we have traveled some roads less taken together and some roads most people wouldn’t brave at all. Let’s find a straighter road, not the most traveled, but not apart from the crowd and finally achieve something that will bring in some dinero.
You make a good observation. The art of writing is writing well. The art of blogging can be whatever you want it to be, but the art of successful blogging doesn’t seem to be good writing. I continue to believe that a blog is a bad marketing tool, but maybe a good way to keep friends and maybe a good way to practice writing.
I think you’re wittier than Bill Maher, but I’m not a Maher fan and I am a Pia fan.
I too lost my affection for Maher some time ago. I do still watch him, to catch his one liners though.
Luckily I will never have to make money from my blog. It started as a blog and will always be a blog, until it’s gone or “the man” not a man, tells me to stop. 😉
Although at one time I had, text link ads the kind they sneak in old posts and aren’t labeled “text link ads” and it’s good for a few hundred a month, it just pisses Google off.
I love it when you talk to your blog. More, please.
~ Signed,
Bone, a Pia fan club member since 2005. (OK, 2006 really. I was still on my 90-day probationary period in ’05.)
People just love these blogs that, well, aren’t very well written.
I’m not sure I get that. Some blogs I know that are super popular are horribly written. HORRIBLY. I mean, I’ve had my share of typos in three years, for sure, as well as more-than-my-fair-share of poorly written posts. But it seems to me sometimes the posts and “writers” that are the most popular just post crap.
I know bloggers who can write “busy day, see ya’ll later” and get 30 comments. What’s up with that?