Comments on: Blogging mechanics http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam Richardson http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html/comment-page-1#comment-4101 Adam Richardson Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:29:57 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=635#comment-4101 My bete noir of this type of thing are the people who have to write the monthly editorial columns in car magazines. Jeez, they run out of interesting subjects to talk about in about 6 months, and then have to spend the next 15 years coming up with tortured variations and meta articles about how hard it is to come up with an article theme each month. Popular fall-backs include: - My first car - Remember when we broke down on the side of the road in (fill in blank)? - Buying my first car - My first car show - Selling my first car (sob), buying my second car - My dad and his cars - A great car engineer/designer/mechanic/inventor/crack-pot/race car driver I once met - How cool of a guy one of my fellow writers is - Those lamo politicians trying to stop me from a) driving too fast; b) consuming too many natural resources; c) complaining about lamo politicians Alternately, pick 3 and blend at random. My bete noir of this type of thing are the people who have to write the monthly editorial columns in car magazines. Jeez, they run out of interesting subjects to talk about in about 6 months, and then have to spend the next 15 years coming up with tortured variations and meta articles about how hard it is to come up with an article theme each month. Popular fall-backs include:
- My first car
- Remember when we broke down on the side of the road in (fill in blank)?
- Buying my first car
- My first car show
- Selling my first car (sob), buying my second car
- My dad and his cars
- A great car engineer/designer/mechanic/inventor/crack-pot/race car driver I once met
- How cool of a guy one of my fellow writers is
- Those lamo politicians trying to stop me from a) driving too fast; b) consuming too many natural resources; c) complaining about lamo politicians

Alternately, pick 3 and blend at random.

]]> By: Peter http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html/comment-page-1#comment-4100 Peter Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:20:40 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=635#comment-4100 It's not only you, Grant, who has trouble blogging and ends up meta-blogging. We commenters also suffer from this problem. Like now, for instance. I have nothing meaningful to say about kittens, or even the broader subject of Friday-cat-blogging, but I'm commenting anyway! Shame on me for wasting your disc space! It’s not only you, Grant, who has trouble blogging and ends up meta-blogging. We commenters also suffer from this problem. Like now, for instance. I have nothing meaningful to say about kittens, or even the broader subject of Friday-cat-blogging, but I’m commenting anyway! Shame on me for wasting your disc space!

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html/comment-page-1#comment-4099 Grant Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:50:22 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=635#comment-4099 Austen, thanks, I think this is one of those weird things were opposites mean the same. Shameful, shameless. It's like that weird phrase, I couldn't care less. I could care less. Something to do with the effect of the colloquial on the literal. Thanks, Grant Austen, thanks, I think this is one of those weird things were opposites mean the same. Shameful, shameless. It’s like that weird phrase, I couldn’t care less. I could care less. Something to do with the effect of the colloquial on the literal. Thanks, Grant

]]> By: Austen http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html/comment-page-1#comment-4098 Austen Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:41:50 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=635#comment-4098 ShameFUL. Not shameless. ShameFUL. Not shameless.

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html/comment-page-1#comment-4097 Grant Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:49:41 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=635#comment-4097 Chas., Thank you, sir, I couldn't be more proud. Grant Chas., Thank you, sir, I couldn’t be more proud. Grant

]]> By: Chas. Porter http://cultureby.com/2006/09/blogging_mechan.html/comment-page-1#comment-4096 Chas. Porter Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:50:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=635#comment-4096 Kittens! Possibly your best post yet. Kittens! Possibly your best post yet.

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