Bourgeois Blogging… now with more Respectability and Legitimacy! (TM)

Oh, look what I found on DailyKos while I was procrastinating writing my paper about the challenges to the authenticity and authority of museums posed by the Internet! (That’s not really the thesis or anything, just a Big Simplification. I am all “up with the Internet!” so such a paper would hardly be my style.)

Incidentally, I am currently writing the section about blogs.

Are Blogs Becoming Respectable and Legitimate?  I’m going to go ahead and be contrarian and posit no. Rest assured, Internet, there will always be at least one completely disrespectable and illegitimate blog out there. That is my pledge to you.

Hark Upon the Gale

He may have crushed my computer in a freak body-slam accident, but there’s no way that Nichol deserved this.

Freaking Lucius Malfoy and the school governors, pushing out the beloved Albus Dumbledore… (Isn’t it a shame that this is where my mind goes? Like, directly?)

Go Gene, Hark upon the Gale. 

A 5 Year Old on Christmas Eve

I’m posting this here because, let’s face it, it’s pretty nerdy.

It’s a pain in the ass trying to follow US politics from a different time zone. Yesterday’s Super Tuesday polls didn’t even start closing until 7pm EST. That’s 1am GMT! And of course they’re nothing appreciable by that time. I had to force myself to go to bed around 3am. I dreamt about 7 different outcomes to the primaries, and then was wide awake at 6:30 am. I really wanted to check the results, but I knew once I did that I wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep. I had to force myself to stay in bed until 9am, and then I made tea before looking at my computer.

I almost fell asleep in class today, but oh man I had forgotten what a thrill it is to be so excited about something that you lose sleep over it. In the good (not the anxious) way.

Yes, I am cross-posting drivel again

For the 2008 election I have (another) new blog. I’ve finally kind of got the feel for the content of each of my blogs, so hopefully that will lead to me posting more in all of them.

Absentee Ballot: 2008 From the Expat Perspective is pretty much exactly as it sounds. Following the 2008 election is something of a challenge when you are relying entirely on the internet to keep you informed, and it comes with its own set of pitfalls such as an over-reliance on alternative media that could leave you completely out of touch with the opinion of average Americans. Or so thinks this DailyKos reader… It’s a group blog that is ideally supposed to cover a variety of locations, situations, ages and political perspectives, but so far it is just my friend Jenna and I. We’re studying the same thing at the same university and we both like (to different degrees) the same 2 candidates. Hopefully we’ll expand our writers over time.

Flying (By the Seat of My Pants) is the study abroad, pretty pictures and travel and non-political musings on being away from the homeland blog. Clearly it is not what I originally intended in terms of recounting my every breath, but sheesh people, I can’t handle that!

Nerdgasms is the general interest blog; it’s much like my LJ except it’s for public consumption. It’s definitely my fave.