Comments on: Cyberendangered Blogspecies

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:08:31 +0000

Yeah. . that whole audience thing some times trips me up.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:33:53 +0000

I did watch Party Down, and I love it! Who knows, it might end up in a blog entry. After all, Veronica Mars did.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:32:14 +0000

It would be far easier to write if there were no audience, but I see my personal journal and the blog as two separate things. I didn’t always, but I quickly learned that blogs are not diaries, and I should not post anything I wouldn’t want my mom, boss, girlfriend, and students to read—even they aren’t reading. But I don’t even write in my journal that much anymore. So, all-around laziness.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:36:31 +0000

What about those crazy introverts like me that have the non-updated Car Free Family Minneapolis Blog, The public Lyme Mama Blog, The SuperFreak Mom blog and the secret, by invitation only blog on the truth of Being a Mom with Lyme? I think I’ll take your fall class (the only one in the catalog that appeals to me, btw) in hopes that you will teach me how to let go of this deep dark illness of blogging. At the very least I might learn how to let go of one or two of those 10 million blogs and find my sanity again in one mildly successful blog. I’ve started posting youtube videos of Ted Nugent, The Temptations, Simon and Garfunkel. . . .I look to you, Jake to help transport me into the next phase of blogging.

By: Philip James Hart

Philip James Hart — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:06:38 +0000

I hear you, bro. Since I started working at that soul-killer of a TV studio, my enthusiasm for production has faltered considerably. And my personal blogging has been shanghaied by other tasks, lately, although I think the activities I’ve chosen in lieu of blogging are not altogether too different in their cathartic aftermaths, and perhaps better in terms of helping me to be more constructive. See, on my normal blog, I’m generally just dicking around and hoping to get noticed for said dicking. But since my last entry in June, I have performed other, perfectly excusable tasks, such as:

-Writing letters to women.
-Exploring the corridors of Minneapolis’ beautiful and deadly burroughs.
-Keeping a separate blog for a friend in Korea.
-Buying sex toys out of the vending machine in the men’s bathroom at Super America.
-Going to Treasure City and buying worthless shit.
-Drawing scenes of sexual debauchery.
-Working on my collection of erotic fiction.
-Pursuing a license to broadcast amateur radio.
-Sampling the root beer selections at Candy Land on 169.
-Rewatching films I loved or found confusing the first time.
-Developing a drinking problem.

So don’t feel bad, and for God’s sake don’t ever apologize for the quality (here determined by its amount and rate of publishing) of your writing. You told me that.