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My blog takes bring all the girls to the yard
Friend and former Ist colleague Eve Batey passed along the link to this hilarious “article” from the Onion today. It takes a swipe at the sad, self-involvement and disingenuous lack of greater-and-not-too-attainable goals of bloggers.
[from the Onion]
Now, if my friends happen to read my blog, great. If they e-mail others about it, fantastic. If people I don’t even know check it out— and according to my hit counter, as many as 62 a day have—so much the better. And if, say, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, or any other publication ever wanted to publish some of my blog entries for money, I guess that’s their prerogative.Look, if I wanted to be a “professional” print writer, I could easily do it. Last week I posted a very insightful piece on why Saturday Night Live is emerging from the bleak shadows of the past several years and may be on the cusp of experiencing a renaissance. Nearly three of the seven people who commented on the posting said they could envision the piece being published in the New York Times’ Arts & Leisure section. Hey, I didn’t say it, they did. And to be honest, by the looks of the section, they could use some new blood over there. Just saying.
I’m not some pathetic, lonely soul who sits in front of his computer refreshing his e-mail in hopes that somebody from HarperCollins, Three Rivers Press, or Random House will offer me a book deal. In fact, to prove how little I’m expecting from the blog career-wise, I’m taking the next few weeks off to focus on my spec script for Two And A Half Men — which I’m doing strictly for the practice, you understand. I could care less if it lands me an agent and a three-movie deal with Paramount.
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By jooley ann
May 4, 2007 8:12 PM | Link to this
Ha! Awesome. Thanks for this. :)