According to
NormRobot the PathRhino blog is not a blow by blow account of everything you do in the course of a day. As Cracker walks between me and the laptop as I type. And then does another pass looking for rubs. He keeps passing over and over as the purring reaches a crescendo alongside Chopin's racing Fantasy-Impromptu. Now Cracker has miraculously made it onto my lap, as the other webpage has loaded. Damn my computer loads slow. What kind of netbook do I want I think to myself. The piano has calmed down and Cracker looks down at my hands upon the keys. I think of how the piano and typing rhythm coincides into one. The Soccer game on TV also plays along in the movement. Cracker is too big for my lap but that doesn't stop him from plopping himself there, one back leg cocked out on the floor, two front paws outstretched in his signature Superman pose. Ouch he just got up and his claws are too sharp as he digs into my naked calf. It is taking me a billion years to find that Norm blog entry where he shouted out this blog. Here is the text from his original entry:
PathRhino in da House
So Dave and I started blogging right around the same time, and have discussed the importance of having at least one fellow blogger to check in on your new material. Anything else would be simply unprofessional. With the classic dilemma of "Does anyone out there actually read any of this stuff?", it's nice to know that the answer is "Yes."Dave's blog is honestly what a blog should be; not a blow-by-blow rundown of "this is what I did today", nor a hip insider "news channel" for the micro-scene of your choice. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. But it's refreshing...The blog entry below labeled "DB#12000018" is in fact a "double blog" entry, in some ways a throwback to our mind-melding experiments from the early part of the year, but that was in another dimension entirely, and I never give away my secrets.
I have fallen into the blowbyblow thing now that i've been
twittering so forgive me if I have sold out to the mundane. I am getting into the groove this weekend by opening my social networking up a bit.
2 comments:
I think that, in retrospect, it is all about context (like everything else, go figure). I really enjoyed the "Pacifists Die Ignorant" post about getting "sparked" by the angry bike rider. This was a more or less blow-by-blow account, but a poignant anecdote. Indeed, a "micro interest". It's the more generalized Facebook/Twitter updates like "On my way to get shoes for the kids" or "Looking forward to another great week" that really seem to slip into the cracks of banality.
Note also that, blow-by-blow or not, my Blogger blog has completely fallen by the wayside. So a question posed would be: Is it better to blog about getting shoes for the kids, or not blog at all?
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