note to both robin carmody and luke heronbone :
no - don't give up!
(Heronbone : "on the page, it became clear to me that it's all shit." / Mr Carmody: "i recognise now more than ever just how *different* i am from so many of my blogging contemporaries...")
Need it be said, it's because both present a divergence from the 'mainstream' of blogdom that they're two of the best. That's if there is such a thing as a mainstream; how quickly we move to judge and segregate something that is tout court an indisputably good thing. but nevertheless if anything is needed to make sure blogdom remains vital and an example of everything good about the web, it's such people's resistance to the tendency to gravitate around 'global' concerns and universally-accessible modes of expression: which otherwise would inevitably lead to an homogenisation (one million sub-mere-pseud-mag-editor dissections of what was on MTV last night/on the news this morning), a capitulation to all the bad things about the web and 'global' culture.
We need the imperfections of : Heronbone because he bothers more than most to look beyond the TV screen and the newsagent shelves, tells us something about his plot of reality, and talks like a person not a journo; THAWE because he has an unashamedly idiosyncratic take on everything, and uncovers flabbergastingly unexpected connexions wherever he goes.
That's my opinion, anyway, as a six-month old blogger...
Just start typing...you'll feel better immediately
Echo the above, but Robin C should lay off with his inexplicable attacks on the lovely Scott Neil.....
Posted by: mark k-punk at April 3, 2004 11:04 PMaha, so you haven't been stricken down too, mark? Was beginning to wonder...no posts in what, 36 hours?
Posted by: undercurrent at April 3, 2004 11:12 PMof course, I know neither Scott or Robin (btw in this situation we really ought to armwrestle to determine who will be called 'the other' Robin, although on actual or blog seniority [nb: of course, I was wrong on the actual bit, as per recent revelations; it just hadn't sunk in yet] Carmody wins hands down), but I enjoy R's penchant for barrelling headlong into virtual punch-ups; it's only words after all, and there's enough bland niceness out there already without bloggers adding to it, I applaud his forthrightness!
Posted by: undercurrent at April 3, 2004 11:19 PMKnow what you mean, but it's when he attacks ppl for no reason and won't even explain the motivation that it gets a bit problematic.
Posted by: mark k-punk at April 5, 2004 02:03 AM
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