The snake is long ... 7 miles
"Do you blog?", a friend asked me the other day. I looked cautiously about to see if anyone was overhearing us.It reminded me of a similar question asked of me many years ago in a classroom. "Do you masturbate?". I had to throw the same cautious glance then, as I did now. Guilt? Perhaps. "No, I dont. Why would I!", was my answer. Same answer, almost 20 years later.
Why did I choose to blog? There's a million out there. Every 3 seconds a new one appears. Content created out of nothing. Especially out of nothing. Bloggers are writers selling themselves short; way short. Or perhaps just wannabe writers; who dont have the time to write a coherent story in a disciplined fashion: sentence by sentence, page by page. And then go to publishers, one at a time. Kiss some ass, do the small-talk. Till they get a deal for a thousand copies. Then the rest is history, or they go back to teaching the arts; or marketing herbal shampoos to stay-at-home moms... and writing blogs. 1 blog ever 3 seconds. How wild is that? We have created more content in the past 5 years than there has ever existed in mankind before that. At a time when the reading habit is only a fraction of what it was before, it means that the number of eyeballs that will see that content is somehting like an abyssimal 100 per blog. And those are just the ones that will read the title. Pathetic. Thats the value of blogging. Cheapen content, like it's never been cheapened before. Disgusting.
The only thing more disgusting than blogging, is reading blogs. Why would you do it? To improve your vocabulary? In the past ten minutes my eyes caught the following words: 'short skirts', 'boogers', 'porn-o-copia'. I knew them from before. (I read books in my previous life). Notice, they are all blog titles. Notice thay are all provocative. And notice they are as shallow as hell. No, my vocabulary hasnt improved. Nor has my knowledge. I just invented some nonsensical blog statistics. And in this part of the universe, they're on the way to becoming a fact. People will quote them, Google will find them and thats that. And I'm only fessing up cause I believe in honesty; think about the million other tit-bits floating in the murky sea of blog. Shameful; all that filth gurgling in the protoplasm. Making noises that probably go 'blup, blap, blog'.
But I blog. Just like I masturbated then.
"Ride the snake.... he's old. And his skin is old."
posted by Lemmor Ergnod at 9:01 PM
3 Comments:
interesting post....I wrote something on bloggint too yesterday...take a look and tell me what u think!!!
Disclaimer: I dont promise an improvement in vocabulary...
"Bloggers are writers selling themselves short; way short."
I don't think blogging is selling myself short. I will always blog foremost because I have no one telling me what, when or how to write. And especially I have no one telling me what to change, when I already like my piece. I want to be in control.
I think it's something wonderful that now writers can have an equal (sort of equal) chance at being published and read.
"the number of eyeballs that will see that content is somehting like an abyssimal 100 per blog. And those are just the ones that will read the title."
That is funny.
And I love reading blogs. They suit whatever attention span I have at that moment. I can read certain blogs for hours, I can read for only a half hour, or I can read a whole niche topic of different blogs for as long as I want, consistently.
And I do find good writing. I do learn writing. Often, I learn from mistakes. I do come to see certain, particular errors so often that it drives me crazy. But it's sort of OK that no one's perfect. Great writers can use "which," "that" or "was" wrong. And your blog even has typos. My blog has had its lower moments, too, of course.
"I just invented some nonsensical blog statistics. And in this part of the universe, they're on the way to becoming a fact."
Very, very bold thing to do. Interesting.
So yes, I love blogs. And hey, there's nothing wrong with masturbation. It's safe. We should rather the kids do that than something risky. It might even help steer some away from such things.
Blogs have some safeness to them, but they are also extremely dangerous. There are a million points to illustrate both, so I'll just let you think about it. Both are bad, both are good.
Blogs are blogs. They're things like anything else in the world. They're like people; it depends on the individual. They can't be judged in whole.
what are blogs?
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