and Jake Gyllenhaal is telling you…

tia.jpgSo it appears, it doth, that I didn’t make the shortlist for the coveted Bloggies. And I didn’t make the shortlist for the Weblog Awards, either. But will that stop me from pimping my blog out for the Koufax Awards, the Engtech Contest, and any other ego rocketfuel I can find? Hell to the no!

Let’s sit back and let the great dramatic actor Jake Gyllenhaal explain it to you.

a writer’s life for me!

Stole this from Curtis at Can’t See the Forest. Someone alert Gawker: How did my biography get on the web already? Must be a leak somewhere; when in doubt, blame Judith Regan.

A writer's life for me! Cuz I be stupid, yo

Show me the luv at the Bloggie Awards, people!

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quiz: if you were actually important, who would you be?

Ah, the answer I was expecting. All things in time, mortals; all things in time.

You scored as Ruler of the World. Well, it’s almost as good as mine. Congratulations, and I hope you manage to assassinate everyone else who got this result.

Ruler of the World
 
100%
Homeless Guy
 
53%
Jesus – Wanna Be
 
47%
Jesus
 
40%
Stoner
 
33%
The next Hitler
 
27%

If you were actually important, who would you be?
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Shakespeare is a virus

go ahead, make Samuel L. Jackson's day, punk.

or at least a meme. Try this if you dare! Ærchie rushed in where tenured profs fear to type, and here’s a sample:

The quality of WordPress is not strain’d,
It droppeth little hints as the gentle rain
From DrMike upon the wordpress forum: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that writes and him that reads:
‘Tis mightiest in the blogosphere: it becomes
The throned monarch much better than all competition;
His stats show the force of technorati power,
The attributes of Andy’s widgets surpass all,
Wherein askimet doth ease the fear of spam…

Read the rest of this moving masterwork before Kenneth Branagh buys up the rights.

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blogging: act III, scene 1: an allegory in iambic pentameter (more or less)

NEED MORE MONKEYS

The Big Question

To blog, or not to blog: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the blogosphere to suffer
The flames and scrapings of outrageous trolls,
Or to take arms against a web of aggro
And by contacting their ISPs, end it? To ban: to delete;
No more; and by deletion to say we end
The meme-pests and the thousand spam comments
That blogs are heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To ban: to delete;
To delete: perchance to start a forum: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that Technorati void what YouTubes may rest unblogged
When we have shuffled off this blogging platform,
Must give us pause: there’s the dynamic ranking
That makes calamity of a dead URL;
For who would bear the Monty Python quotes and casino links of trolls,
The support staff’s delay, the corporate parent’s avarice,
The pangs of despised fandom, the copyright infringement enforcement,
The insolence of office workers and the spurns
That regular updating of the dilettantish LiveJournallers takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a critical keystroke? who would Farkers bear,
To grunt and sweat under flourescent lights,
But that the dread of missing a new meme,
The undiscover’d bit bucket from whose bourn
No blogmeister returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those glitches we have
Than fly to platforms that we know not of?
Thus WordPress does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of e-cool-hunting
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of doubt,
And blogs of great pith and merriment
With this regard their RSS feeds turn awry,
And lose the name of action.–Soft you now!
The fair Bloggie Awards! Nymph, in thy nominations
Be all my Top Posts remember’d.

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