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By: A few signs bloggers are taking themselves much too seriously « Letters Home

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:52:40 +0000

[...] a minute. Maybe you will. I first heard of this via Raincoaster, who pointed out that no matter how successful a blogger you are, there will always be someone out [...]

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:25:36 +0000

No, this whole thing is real. She set the autoposts before she died; some people set autoposts for certain holidays whenever they happen to find something that works for them. Since she’s dead, she’s not taking the sitemeter down, of course.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:25:19 +0000

If I lived where you are, I’d be paying bookoos of money for you to guide me.
Just don’t call me Grasshopper.
Unless I have good beer before hand.
Then …

By: dissfunktional

dissfunktional — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:45:21 +0000

Ok, what’s the dealio. I thought this whole thing was a farce. Didn’t it become decided that the jig is up? It was a ‘game’ and a bunch of folks fell for it, still are it seems? The sitemeter is always available too. You can go see yourself. hahaha…

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:08:02 +0000

Philipa, I think in the case of the women you know, the Prozac probably came AFTER the depression and paranoia; in this case, the substances came BEFORE.

max, sulz at bloggerdygook has a post on this post-necrotic blogging thing. The whole thing creeps me out.

By: max

max — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:32:15 +0000

I put up posts to be published on a future date and always have this creep out factor in the back of my mind when I do that, what if I die and the blog just keeps posting on without me?

By: Philipa

Philipa — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:02 +0000

Sad about the woman though. She was “increasingly erratic, paranoid, haggard, hard-drinking, and depressed in her last year or two“? That really does describe many mothers I know, one or two who are on Prozac.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:28:43 +0000

But read her blog: she did nothing but quote other people and put glamour shots of herself up. THAT is why I wrote it this way. When you look into the blog of Theresa Duncan, the void looks also into you.

Yes, I’m sure there are a lot of thoughts on this I’m only beginning to thunk…I read the VF article, and it seemed hollow, too. The earliest Gawker post I thought hit the nail on the head; chemically-induced paranoia.

By: ian in hamburg

ian in hamburg — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:47:47 +0000

Hi Rain,
That is amazing! I guess with blogging software giving you the ability to publish on any given day in the future, this might become a suicide note trend: for further updates on why you’re finding my body limp and lifeless, visit http://www...

I also have a theory that everyone who says bloggers are narcissists has got it all wrong. A true narcissist - I’m talking about the disordered, malignant kind - would never blog, because in order to blog successfully, I believe you have to put yourself into it. And true narcissists have no self, only their idealised, confabulated fantasy self, which changes every time they meet someone new. Just my musings, maybe a nascent post.