On Wednesdays, we wear pink.
When Nick first approached me about writing for Blogebrity, my initial reaction was “who the..?, what the…? Who the hell wants to read a blog about blogs?”
But Nick flattered me (”you’re brilliant [true], classy [true], and from your writing, I can tell you’re obviously a stone cold fox”…all true!), and then I saw the light: bloggers are inherently self-absorbed, I’m a self-absorbed blogger, and here’s my golden ticket to joining the ultimate circle-jerk of cyber-narcissism. Yahoo!
Then the shoegazing pangs of high school angst bubbled up. I mean, I’ve read all the derisive critiques from the A-list and B-list bloggers and I had to think long and hard: Would writing for Blogebrity be the equivalent of social suicide?
I’ve been home-blogging for over a year. Just recently, I’ve been invited out and about to join the world of the Blogeratti, which can be broken down thusly:
Freshmen
ROTC Guys
Preps
J.V. Jocks
Asian Nerds
Cool Asians
Varsity Jocks
Unfriendly Black Hotties
Girls Who Eat Their Feelings
Girls Who Don’t Eat Anything
Desperate Wannabes
Burnouts
Sexually Active Band Geeks
Art Freaks
Plastics
My initial impression:
“Were people nice?”
“No.”
“Did you make any friends?”
“Yes.”
Children may be still dying, the polar ice caps keep melting, and the world loses an estimated 137 endangered species each day, but I’m going to do my part to change the world: I’m going to infiltrate the ranks of the Plastics, er, the Bloggeratti, and report back my findings to you.
After all, everyone loves a bad teen drama.
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on November 29, 2005 at 11:08 am The Assimilated Negro wrote:
awesome.
consider your traffic SPIKED!!!
on November 29, 2005 at 11:23 am angelina wrote:
Hardly….I do it for the love.
on November 29, 2005 at 11:32 am sac wrote:
Dude, I ventured into that particular heart of darkness in person. It wasn’t pretty. Vipers, all of them!
on November 29, 2005 at 11:54 am The Assimilated Negro wrote:
I meant Blogebrity’s traffic is SPIKED!
This is the move of the century on their part. Brilliant. A sly tigress is just the touch/voice they needed.
sac - you know i still think about the fact you had a couple lines in the song I did for krucoff, and they didn’t make the cut. They were good though. I just wanted to share that.
toodles
on November 29, 2005 at 12:45 pm a beer sort of girl wrote:
Self-absorbed? Me too! But also wicked-awesome hilarious. Good move, Blogebrity. Angelina kicks ass.
on November 29, 2005 at 1:17 pm copyranter wrote:
Angelina is the smartest coolest spittin’-hottest avante gardest woman I know. Named Angelina. Who blogs. In NYC.
on November 29, 2005 at 4:14 pm industrywhore wrote:
i’m really more burner than burnout. ok, well, off to do a bonghit. xo
on November 29, 2005 at 4:41 pm angelina wrote:
i-whore: goddamnit, I love her.
on November 29, 2005 at 5:24 pm Neil wrote:
Dammit. One day here and you’re already getting ten times more love than I did. From all your New York buddies, of course. Well, Angelina, since we’re both new here, I see this is gonna turn into a East Coast-West Coast thing.
Let me lay the gauntlet down now. Your East Coast blogging couldn’t touch no West Coast blogging with a ten foot pole!
To paraphrase Dr. Dre:
“Now when I bomb like Sadaam, the world feels The Wrath of Khan,
Desert Storm in this modern day Babylon”
West Coast Bloggers,
We hit and then we gone!
Or something like that. Welcome!
on November 29, 2005 at 10:04 pm The Assimilated Negro wrote:
Shut up Neil.
HI ANGELINA !!!!
i-whore posts after bonghits? I’m so there ten seconds ago.
Hi Neil. I didn’t mean to be rude earlier, I just thought I saw Angelina walk by (she didn’t) and I wanted to say hello, no offense … anyways what’s up dude? You, like, blog here often?
(is i-whore a new product from Apple?)
on November 29, 2005 at 10:37 pm Neil wrote:
TAN, I thought you would be impressed with a nice Jewish boy from Queens quoting Dr. Dre. My mother was also a big fan, not of his rapping, but the fact that at least he was “a doctor.”
on November 30, 2005 at 10:39 am Erin Cooper wrote:
I am either a girl who eats her feelings or a girl who doesn’t eat, depends on the how tight my jeans fit that day. DAMMIT now I want a cupcake! (oooh, maybe I’m bipolar…)
on December 8, 2005 at 4:53 pm fat asian baby wrote:
technically, i’m a nerdy band geek who eats my feelings who also just so happens to be asian.