Wednesday, December 3, 2008
For my Reference only
http://tyrannydistance.blogspot.com/2008/09/chat-with-old-man-dan.html
http://tyrannydistance.blogspot.com/2008/09/911-cash-cow.html
http://tyrannydistance.blogspot.com/2008/09/sunday-was-probably-one-of-greatest.html
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/
BLOG!BLOG!BLOG!BLOG!BLOG!BLOG!BLOG!
Blogging has somewhat been a fear of mine early on. I really hadn’t had too much experiences with blogs aside from reading a few here and there, mostly music blogs, like Pitchforkmedia.com, Joystiq (the videogame equivalent to Pitchfork), Kevin’s other blog “Eating the Document” and my friend Mike’s blog “Defenestrating Kittens” which consisted of faux AIM conversations between politicians and broken up bands like Pavement (sadly he took it down). I spent my time reading them but never contributing, I had thought about it in the past, but never ever got around to setting them up.
Bloggers tend to have their own communities (while writing this, I realized that Microsoft Word didn’t mark the word “blog” or “Bloggers” as incorrectly spelled), it has become a staple of our society, a new outlet. There was one blog in particular that caught my attention before I had started to take this class.
Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com is a blog devoted to well, stuff white people like. I looked at it and realized that it was a parody on itself. Blogs have become an important part of the internet, youth and music culture; these online journals have come a long way from Xanga and Livejournal. Heck I even checked my Xanga from late Jr high and mid high school to see how I was writing my posts then and not much has changed, so maybe I had been blogging longer than I had thought.
I looked at Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com and checked off a good majority of the things on the list from Wes Anderson movies to Music Piracy to The Wire and even Threatening to Move to Canada as well as Irony. I always saw blogging as part of the hipster movement; I know it may be a bit misinformed, or some pre-conceived notion, but when I visit blogs like Brooklyn Vegan I feel that it’s just the outlet of a younger, hipper generation. Luckily I’m just at the tail end of that generation and found myself enjoying blogging.
My blog URL came from Ted Leo’s first album name “The Tyranny of Distance,” besides being an avid Ted Leo fan, I found great significance in the phrase as well. More times than not distance, whether it was physical or culturally tends to be very oppressive on view points and understanding. Then I changed it to “One Last Thing,” a phrase uttered by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, so it was quickly changed.
My first real blogging experience occurred the day after our class. I really wanted to exposed the blind display of patriotism that occurred after 9/11 and felt 100% free to write everything I wanted, I really enjoyed having the internet as an open forum, and I enjoyed the anticipation of incoming comments. I wasn’t exactly sure how to work the blogger dashboard, so just sat down and learned all the ins and outs, that’s probably why I didn’t have any links in my first post. I feel content and analysis wise; it is one of my better posts where I didn’t lose focus.
As the semester progressed I started to see potential for my blog to become a regular outlet for myself. There are plenty of posts on my blog that have nothing to do with the class; many involve the 2008 Presidential Election. I actually posted while watching the debates as well as during Election Day. I have every attention of continuing my blog even after the class is over.
There is one post in particular that I really like. After reading Shooting War I immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was absolutely great. At this point I actually regret making that decision. I remember sitting in class and saying its in my top 5 favorite graphic novels, and then hearing towards the end of class all the problems with it. I agreed with 100% of what was said, which is odd because I usually criticize literature I don’t know. I really regret jumping to conclusions. Oddly enough in that same post, an outside blogger who wasn’t from our class, who I didn’t know commented on my blog; I thought that was really cool.
I also really enjoyed how raw the blogs were. I for one didn’t edit what I wrote; I just wrote and wrote, never ever made any corrections. I wanted it to be just a stream of consciousness with analysis, nothing more. I think proof-reading would have taken away from the mystique of the blog.
In terms of following blogs, I originally just followed a few blogs, Kevin’s, Tom’s, but I found myself following more and more people’s blogs, like Jessica and it became a weekly tradition to read Barry’s novels uhhh I mean posts. For those who updated on a constant basis, it kept me informed of outside opinions and really kept the class connected.
Bloggers tend to have their own communities (while writing this, I realized that Microsoft Word didn’t mark the word “blog” or “Bloggers” as incorrectly spelled), it has become a staple of our society, a new outlet. There was one blog in particular that caught my attention before I had started to take this class.
Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com is a blog devoted to well, stuff white people like. I looked at it and realized that it was a parody on itself. Blogs have become an important part of the internet, youth and music culture; these online journals have come a long way from Xanga and Livejournal. Heck I even checked my Xanga from late Jr high and mid high school to see how I was writing my posts then and not much has changed, so maybe I had been blogging longer than I had thought.
I looked at Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com and checked off a good majority of the things on the list from Wes Anderson movies to Music Piracy to The Wire and even Threatening to Move to Canada as well as Irony. I always saw blogging as part of the hipster movement; I know it may be a bit misinformed, or some pre-conceived notion, but when I visit blogs like Brooklyn Vegan I feel that it’s just the outlet of a younger, hipper generation. Luckily I’m just at the tail end of that generation and found myself enjoying blogging.
My blog URL came from Ted Leo’s first album name “The Tyranny of Distance,” besides being an avid Ted Leo fan, I found great significance in the phrase as well. More times than not distance, whether it was physical or culturally tends to be very oppressive on view points and understanding. Then I changed it to “One Last Thing,” a phrase uttered by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, so it was quickly changed.
My first real blogging experience occurred the day after our class. I really wanted to exposed the blind display of patriotism that occurred after 9/11 and felt 100% free to write everything I wanted, I really enjoyed having the internet as an open forum, and I enjoyed the anticipation of incoming comments. I wasn’t exactly sure how to work the blogger dashboard, so just sat down and learned all the ins and outs, that’s probably why I didn’t have any links in my first post. I feel content and analysis wise; it is one of my better posts where I didn’t lose focus.
As the semester progressed I started to see potential for my blog to become a regular outlet for myself. There are plenty of posts on my blog that have nothing to do with the class; many involve the 2008 Presidential Election. I actually posted while watching the debates as well as during Election Day. I have every attention of continuing my blog even after the class is over.
There is one post in particular that I really like. After reading Shooting War I immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was absolutely great. At this point I actually regret making that decision. I remember sitting in class and saying its in my top 5 favorite graphic novels, and then hearing towards the end of class all the problems with it. I agreed with 100% of what was said, which is odd because I usually criticize literature I don’t know. I really regret jumping to conclusions. Oddly enough in that same post, an outside blogger who wasn’t from our class, who I didn’t know commented on my blog; I thought that was really cool.
I also really enjoyed how raw the blogs were. I for one didn’t edit what I wrote; I just wrote and wrote, never ever made any corrections. I wanted it to be just a stream of consciousness with analysis, nothing more. I think proof-reading would have taken away from the mystique of the blog.
In terms of following blogs, I originally just followed a few blogs, Kevin’s, Tom’s, but I found myself following more and more people’s blogs, like Jessica and it became a weekly tradition to read Barry’s novels uhhh I mean posts. For those who updated on a constant basis, it kept me informed of outside opinions and really kept the class connected.