18th Jul 2004
Paper, the New Blog
I was at a picnic this afternoon with, among others, Elizabeth Spiers. I’d link on her name to somewhere but, despite the fact that she was once the “It Girl” of bloggers, she no longer blogs anywhere. After leaving Gawker nearly a year ago to write for NY Magazine, her NY Mag blog The Kicker has been defunct for a few months, and her personal site, ElizabethSpiers.com, is experiencing operating difficulties at the moment.
So at the picnic, I see her pull out a paper journal and start taking notes. “Your new blog?” I wryly observed. We joked for a few minutes about how hard-bound diaries or magazines should be “the new blog.” I then recommended that she write a column for the magazine that fact-checks blogs. She agreed it is a great idea, so new millennial post-ironic, but I doubt she’ll ever get around to it, so I thought I’d go ahead and scoop her and get credit for it here. While blogs are still even partway relevant, anyway…
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Shit, I’ve been doing that for you for free. Spell checking anyway. PN+10,000. How ’bout a fuckin’ blog with a fuckin’ spell-checker. How about that, genius!
Do I hear some anger in your posts, Pablo? Do you want to talk about this? Curse words? That doesn’t sound like you…
A magazine column on spell-checking blogs would not be funny, just tedious as hell, even more tedious than this highly regretably exercise in Proofreader Nazi Spelling Points.
BTW, you didn’t even bother to correct two obvious spelling mistakes in this post. I’ve since corrected them. No points for you!
Just a little over the top attempt at humor, that’s all.