Friday, August 05, 2005
Blogging, Politics, and Cheesecake
Last night I was told that I wrote the best of blogs and that I wrote the worst of blogs. We were at the Spaghetti Factory for a birthday party, and I had just discovered that an old friend is also majoring in Creative Writing. Her cousin, Joe, has been a friend of mine for a while and we got on the topic of Nashville is Talking. Joe, like most people I know, loathes uninformed political commentary. He feels that sites like mine, journalling the day-to-day lives of people, are really the only ones worth reading.
I was flattered, especially since just a few hours prior to that I'd been in a rather lengthy email-conversation about how "lacking" my blog has been.
"Why don't you ever say what you think about our country?" she had asked me, "Isn't that what this psuedo-journalistic mess is all about?"
She wasn't harsh about it, she just couldn't understand why I avoid what so many other people seem to embrace.
So, I was called the best and the worst. It seems like lots of bloggers out there right now have this division. In America, politics are the day-to-day common ground for us all. We divide everything along party lines. And to me, it's silly. I don't want my blog split that way, so that liberals come to cheer me on and conservatives to pick apart my arguments, or maybe vice versa. I want my blog to be me. So, to my political-blogging friends out there, blog on. Some of you are great at it. Others of you, well, will probably get better. But hey, either way, it's what you do. This is what I do.
Ramble.
The rest of the evening was great. We went to the Melting Pot to continue the celebration, and as a result I'm working through my Friday with even less energy than usual. The party's continuing tonight, both for Sarah and Tara. Then tomorrow afternoon it's a lunch cookout for my stepbrother, Matt, and an evening dinner for my stepdad, David. Then Sunday it's up to grandmom's.
What a week.
By the way, I found the Melting Pot to be a bit of a disappointment. It was fun being there with everyone, but Tiff's made better Fondu at school.
Except for the cheesecake. That was some awesome cheesecake. ¶ 2 comments
I was flattered, especially since just a few hours prior to that I'd been in a rather lengthy email-conversation about how "lacking" my blog has been.
"Why don't you ever say what you think about our country?" she had asked me, "Isn't that what this psuedo-journalistic mess is all about?"
She wasn't harsh about it, she just couldn't understand why I avoid what so many other people seem to embrace.
So, I was called the best and the worst. It seems like lots of bloggers out there right now have this division. In America, politics are the day-to-day common ground for us all. We divide everything along party lines. And to me, it's silly. I don't want my blog split that way, so that liberals come to cheer me on and conservatives to pick apart my arguments, or maybe vice versa. I want my blog to be me. So, to my political-blogging friends out there, blog on. Some of you are great at it. Others of you, well, will probably get better. But hey, either way, it's what you do. This is what I do.
Ramble.
The rest of the evening was great. We went to the Melting Pot to continue the celebration, and as a result I'm working through my Friday with even less energy than usual. The party's continuing tonight, both for Sarah and Tara. Then tomorrow afternoon it's a lunch cookout for my stepbrother, Matt, and an evening dinner for my stepdad, David. Then Sunday it's up to grandmom's.
What a week.
By the way, I found the Melting Pot to be a bit of a disappointment. It was fun being there with everyone, but Tiff's made better Fondu at school.
Except for the cheesecake. That was some awesome cheesecake. ¶ 2 comments
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"Her cousin, Joe, has been a friend of mine for a while and we got on the topic of Nashville is Talking. Joe, like most people I know, loathes uninformed political commentary."
I'm assuming your friend considers me the writer of uninformed political commentary.
I'm assuming your friend considers me the writer of uninformed political commentary.
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: 10:41 AM
: 10:41 AM
No, he likes yours. He enjoys the site as a whole, he's just an extremely aggressive fact-checker, and he feels that a lot of the referenced posts miss essential information.
It's hard to describe past that.... There was an episode of Frasier where he and Niles came back from the Opera and said something to the effect of "the only thing better than a perfect Opera is an Opera with enough things wrong with it to pick at all night." That's precisely the way Joe reads blogs. He finds the commentary, gets all worked up about it, then either picks it apart or hates it because there's not any facts for him to dissect.
Don't worry Brittney, I love NiT!
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It's hard to describe past that.... There was an episode of Frasier where he and Niles came back from the Opera and said something to the effect of "the only thing better than a perfect Opera is an Opera with enough things wrong with it to pick at all night." That's precisely the way Joe reads blogs. He finds the commentary, gets all worked up about it, then either picks it apart or hates it because there's not any facts for him to dissect.
Don't worry Brittney, I love NiT!
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