What a rotten World Weblogger Day! I feel robbed.
1. I didn’t know it was Weblogger Day until I read ‘Chef’s post that night.
2. It was my first day in 3 months that I didn’t spend half the day laughing.
3. I spent most of my day with my boss in deep discussion, realizing that if I wasn’t my most charming, I could lose everything I had achieved. (Lucky for me, I was very charming.)
4. In the end, I was so exhausted that I couldn’t hold poses in yoga, so I had to leave early.
5. My parents were evacuated due to a tsunami alert.
6. I couldn’t think of anything funny at all to say once I logged on.
This much madness can’t be the will of any good fate. Certainly, I have incurred the wrath of some otherwise unknown god - does anyone know the god of blogging?
Addendum: My mom called after the evacuation was cancelled. She told me she was never worried because, "the government has such a good plan in place." According to her, the Red Cross is organized to provide food, lodging, and emotional support for all 10 million dead people in the event of a catastrophe. Now you see where I get my sense of humor.
15 comments:
I didn't know about this "Weblogger Day" either! Plus it was "Flag Day" yesterday! I would have taken the day off from work!
Glad to hear your parents are tsunami-free. I don't even think it made the news here way out on the east coast, I heard nothing about it! I would have thought anything with the word "tsunami" involved, after last year, would be a big story.
World Weblogger Day? Did they even bother to tell the world's webloggers?
I'm not personally acquainted with the god of blogging, but I expect he's the son of the son of Hephaistos (who, as we all know, is the god of computers). Hermes is probably the other granddad. Mother? I have no idea. Aphrodite? Given how much we all lurve our blogs, and blogfriends, and all...
They say that laughter is the best medicine. What they don't tell you is that laughter is also the best drug - or worst, depending how you look at it - in that it's highly addictive and pretty soon you're like the worst sort of junkie: always looking for the next fix, incapable of functioning without your daily/hourly fixes. And blogging is the same way. Combine the two and voila! - you're basically toasted.
(head down) Hello, my name is Jon, and I’m an addict.
Don't know the god of blogging, and while I *am* tempted to put on the mantle (i.e. create & maintain said god's weblog), I don't think I'm up to the task.
Still...hmm. Quick trade study:
Pros
* No topic shortage
* No boundaries
* Can claim infallibility
* Go apostate at 1st sign of trouble
Cons
* (I'm thinking, gimme some time here)
Nope, blank for Cons.
There'd be the added benefit of most likely annoying and/or incensing religiously intolerant people throughout the world.
Definitely tempting. I nominate G.Lo.
disclaimer: "No offense intended." :-> Personally I believe in a creator / designer God, and consider myself a person of faith, probably "religious" by most common definitions. And while I understand how some people might see like, Bruce Almighty or a god's weblog as pinnacles of blasphemy, I'm not one of those people.
Jam - no concerns about offending. I love poking fun at religion, until it becomes cruel or narrow-minded, then I rankle the same as I do with racial slurs, political dirt throwing, or any other extremist warfare.
Please tell me that you are qualifying me ONLY to toss into a volcano, not to be a goddess or demi-god. I would give very silly answers to prayers. (And I'm sure Cate would tell you that my mercy, etc., is tragically low.)
We need an idol of some kind. Scroob has given us a lovely mythology (I like the idea of that slut, Aphrodite, giving us the spawn to whom we pledge allegiance), but he needs a frightening, powerful visage that I find hilarious.
As I plan to have pictures added to the blog by tomorrow, I propose a contest. E-mail me or post a link to your invention of a Blog-God that can become my associated sign-on image thingy (yep, I'm a computer genius).
Contest ends when I give up on every receiving anything.
Oh - and Omar - the tsunami barely made the news here. It was a reluctant, "Oh, I guess we can put a small runner during primetime" event, but they evacuated the beaches in San Diego - probably just for fun, though. Nothing as amusing as watching beach bums stumble about after dark.
Pictures?
Contest?
(frantically putting together an image of Blog-God)
Don't let me down, man. This is your chance to step into history.
Lunch hour over, back to work.
I, for one, would hope that the blog-god would be a relative of Dionysius. Wine, fertility, and merrymaking...I figure those all make for good blog topics.
This contest intrigues me too… although my photoshop skills are a bit rusty, doesn’t mean I won’t give it a try, even if my attempt looks like that of a blind 3 year old (an untalented blind 3 year old mind you).
Chef - a level of unexpected complexity. Any chance Dionysius was related to Hephaistos?
As for the contest, talent is superfluous (my hard-to-spell word of the week). I'm only asking for one little blog-god, my blog-followers. Just one.
Dionysos: son of Zeus (weren't they all). Hephaestos: son of daughter of Zeus. So yes, that would make Dionysos Hephaistos's half-uncle, right?. I do see the point - Dionysos is also all about ambiguity and crossing of boundaries, and we're all agreed that the boundaries are the first thing to go, aren't they. (Real life? Blog life? There's a difference?)
FINALLY...that semester I majored in mythology has become useful. Vindication! It's MINE!
Glad the tsunami didn't happen...I kept seeing that online but didn't know the details.
Sorry this is so late!
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