Thursday Thirteen Blogging Meme

Thursday Thirteen n. 1. A popular blogging meme, that uses clever alliteration to draw attention away from its rank stupidity.

Blogging v. 1. To blog. 2. To write worthless drivel for the purpose of distracting mindless readers across the internet from the utter pointlessness of their wasted lives.

Meme n. 1. A cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. 2. A concept or idea meant to inspire writing in bloggers who can't think of anything by themselves, typically passed around like a flu virus in a grade school playground.

Kyped from Paula.

1. Do you like the look and the contents of your blog?

No. I want it to look like a Shinto temple and read like a Raymond Chandler novel but it's only MY blog so, obviously, I can't do anything about it. Dur.

2. Does your family know about your blog?

Yes, telling them was slightly less embarrassing than not telling them and getting found out.

3. Can you tell your friends about your blog? Do you consider it a private thing?

They think I'm weird enough already.

4. Do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog? Or do you try to discover new blogs?

Now and then I go read random blogs. Some of the most amazing people are found this way.

5. Does your blog positively affect your mind? Give an example.

For a brief, shining moment after I post a nice picture or something that in my delusion I think was well-written, I feel as though I have added some beauty to the world. But I go have a glass of water and the feeling goes away.

6. What does the number of visitors to your blog mean? Do you use a traffic counter?

I refuse to whore myself out with stupid blog-memes just to up my visitor count.

7. Do you imagine what other bloggers look like?

Of the few who don't post pictures, I can't help forming an image. They're all reasonably attractive people but for the facial twitch.

8. Do you think blogging has any real benefit?

It dissipates focus and enables more shit slinging about the interwebnetosphere to no purpose whatsoever, so, of course, yeah.

9. Do you think that the blogsphere is a stand alone community separated from the real world?

No, though some of its members clearly are. Or should be.

10. Do some political blogs scare you? Do you avoid them?

Politics can be fascinating, but when presented from the single-minded viewpoint of an unedited amateur it becomes a total waste of eyeball.

11. Do you think that criticizing your blog is useful?

Absolutely, but no one ever has the gumption to do it. Or when they do, they're obviously WRONG.

12. Have you ever thought about what would happen to your blog if you died?

Who the hell comes up with a question like that?

13. Which blogger has had the greatest impression on you?

Asia, because when her blogging-mood intersects with her fresh vision of language, she writes amazing little works of zen prose-poetry.