Blogging Is Incestous

NOTE: Dear and gentle readers,

I'm not providing a single link here.  And it's not just because I am really lazy with links, although we all know I am. You can find anything here I write about by doing a little clicking on other blogs and I am making the basic jump in reality that not only are y'all smart enough, your mouse works, too.

I started out blogging because I came across Misfitting.com and I loved the whole concept.  It was the first blog I had ever read and not only was the author a wonderful writer, the comments in the blog were witty, intelligent, well-thought out and very similar to opinions I held.  I heart Loretta.  (By the way, she's written a book, STONE COLD GUILTY, about the Peterson case and it's good.  BUY IT. You can go to her blog and click directly on the buying site.)

I read Misfitting for quite a while and suddenly, after pondering it for quite a few months, I decided I would write a blog.

My first few months were dismal and pathetic and really hollow.  I eventually hit my stride and even though I blog about everything, as my sister complains, I try to be humorous, honest to myself and honest to my subject if I am writing something newsworthy.

In blogging, I have been led to many other blogs I read daily and it's sort of like a big circle jerk (although I wouldn't know  precisely what one is as I am female and have never participated but I do have a vivid imagination). 

We all read each others blogs!  And a few others that we click on from our old faithfuls links.

Here is a sort of family tree that is really tangled and confusing but just click some links on all the blogs.  You'll see what I mean.

Okay,  I don't remember if the Domestic Princess found me first or if I found her, but she is my hometown girl, lives in the same town as me and is married to a guy I went to high school with. We've run into each other in Wal-Mart.   Hi Holly and Rich!  Holly reads Detroit Blog and now, so do I.  And from the Domestic Princess, I started reading Vintage Lilac, who is Holly's dear friend and now, Holly reads Brian at Faggoty Ass Faggot, who I stumbled across  blindly in the Typepad updated blogs list and linked because he is so funny and now Brian is linked on Slices Of Stacy, who took her blogging inspiration from me from the Adoption.com forum and Brian links Stacy and me under a heading called "Girlfriends"  and oh,  I read My Single Mom Life and Lana at Waiting for Someday and Kat at My Single Mom Life visits me from time to time and they are linked on Domestic Princess.  I read Sain't Christopher, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in person as well and he has me linked and Stacy and Mimi Smartypants, who I don't link but read all the time and Stacy also has Chris linked and Chris has Hammer and Peg linked and I have her linked and so does Ann Arbor Lisa at Mitten Musings and oh. my. God.  Lots of us read Suburban Bliss as well but she doesn't have any of us linked because we all are neophytes compared to her prodigal postings.

We are just all related and I think we all need to take like the Love Boat Cruise and sponsor Dooce, because we all read the Dooce.

Cocktails and good food will abound and we will all schlep more books than anyone can imagine.  Of course, none of us will actually read any of the books because we'll be too busy talking incessantly about the books and our blogs but hey.  What a hell of a family blog Reunion that could be.

Comments

[sierra]

No offence but some people have just got it, and some people haven't. But the maine thing is that you are enjoying yourself.I have tried to get into your writing, but it just doesn't do it for me. I really find your swearing, a bit attention seeking for shock value. Loretta has a very good blog, and she manages to do that without swearing.

[Lisa]

There is a really simple solution to your problem, Sierra, with the fake email, if you "don't get into my writing" find the profanity offensive, etc.

Don't read it.

By the way, Maine is a state, not a descriptive word.

So, utilize that little X up in the top right hand corner of your screen.

What does it say about you, that you waste your time reading blogs you don't like?

Buh Bye, now!

[Lana]

They have a "love boat" Type experience for all of us, possibly with more alcohol...

http://www.journalcon.com/

Some of my regular reads ( ie. http://weetabix.diaryland.com ) are even guest speakers...

I can see it now... "Journalcon 2010 - Detroit - Join us in the Murder Capital of the world"
What's weirder is we could organize our own little get together since we all for the most part live relatively close...
Scary thought isn't it...??? =)

[Stacy]

I wanna come to Journalcon -- but only if we call it a circle jerk.

And hey, "sierra"? I'd skip my blog, if I were you. The profanity is even worse.

[Michelle]

Sierra: Piece of advice. SHUT UP ALREADY. Don't read this blog if you "can't get into it" and the profanity offends you. I think you will find a lot of bloggers tend to use profanity. Just a word of warning in case you surf the Net and decide to "enlighten" somebody else with your comments.

[Holly]

Sierra bugger off ,you troll. We don't need your kind here anyway!

Love ya Lis! Love the post too. We are a bunch of cannibals aren't we?! We devour each other's links, stories,ideas and pictures! And we love it!

[Sain't Christopher]

Well, seeing as how I am only one of two guys in our circle jerk, I am totally willing to refer to it as a daisy chain . . .as soon as someone explains to me how one actually works.

[Darr]

Well, I'm not an official part of the blog circle jerk/daisy chain, but I have known Lisa forever (since the days when she spelled her name Lissa - hehe) and I too went to high school with Holly's husband and once worked with her mother-in-law, and Michelle is my new crime friend, so I feel I can chime in about Sierra's stupid comment too - I would write something scathing and witty, but I'm too drained from baby care, so I will just say - "yeah, what they all said."