We may have started something here - Blogging Big Brother - miss p. has now thrown down the gauntlet. Who will pick it up? Should anyone pick it up? To paraphrase Liam, should we use our technology for good or evil? And who’s paying for all the grog?
Elsewhere: In blogging news about the inferior non blogging Southern Star Endemol version, Gianna has well and truly caught the BB blogging bug, inspired by her eponymous housemate alter ego, and Ms Fits is hooked too. Ms Fits comments, “Sweet Jesus Lord I am going to hate myself for the next three months.” - no, I say, embrace your desire for trash tv! At least it gave us something more uplifting to watch tonight than the Federal budget. And those of us in the sociology game can always find a work related reason to watch. Are tickets to an eviction tax-deductible for the purposes of anthropological academic observation, do you think?
Update: The love spreads at The 52nd State and Beam Slogger.
And in other news: I’m sick of thinking about the evils of the budget, so I’m off to watch BB uplate. Don’t forget, for your fill of BB goss and commentary, go visit Ausculture Jess. Oh, and reassure her that she’s not going to hell. Bless, Jess!
I’ll gladly host the site. Can’t think of a way to upload grog, though.
Ok, miss p., yr on. Does that make you BBB?
There must be a technological solution for uploading grog somewhere!
Re: …other news - I’m going to watch the new (in Alice) DVD pack of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Pure bliss (or Erin Gray - same thing).
BBBO5? It’ll just end up as a sprawling, bitchy, gaudy and hilarious mess, riddled with accusations of gaming the system and bad faith - just like blogs as we have come to know and love them.
Also it’s already been done. Mark, there are better ways to set up rubbing elbows than copy moves from a clumsy and decaying medium like broadcast TV that only exists to sell eyeballs to advertisers - and where we can be much more inventive about playing games with eachother than Sam Chisholm and his ilk ever could.
Nabs, you haven’t been reading your cult-studies - we’re transforming this tired cultural artefact into an anarchistic celebration of our own…
lol, it was my idea, I just roped her into providing webspace
An “anarchistic celebration” by it’s very nature, cannot be defined as such.
Mimicing BB is still sucking on a tired old tit. Surely we’re smart enough to make a clean breast of things.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
Eerr, Nic, your idea? Hello?
Wasnt that for a real life thing? (which would of course be much, much more amusing). The 12 person group blog thing was my idea, first mentioned in comments on your other post, as Miss P quoted in her post, unless someone mentioned it before and I didnt notice?
Whatever! Lets not bicker and argue over who killed who!
Actually, Nic, I came up with that idea earlier in the same thread, and my name (”Blog Brother”) was cooler. But, you know, like, whatever.
*hands-offs*
The bickering is very much in the spirit of the thing!
I preemptively nominate Nabakov, Fyodor and Yellowvinyl Kim as housemates. Though two of them remain, so far, sans blog.
Cool, I can be the token lesbian-identified bisexual amputee!
Furthermore I nominate the universally respected Miss Piss herself as Gretel Killeen, and Nic White as Big Brother—after all, if there’s somebody who can annoy everyone with totally arbitrary rules and statements, who better?
Liam, Nic seems to have nominated himself already.
“if there‚Äôs somebody who can annoy everyone with totally arbitrary rules and statements, who better?”
hahahahahahahahhaha
Liam, “after all, if there‚Äôs somebody who can annoy everyone with totally arbitrary rules and statements, who better?”
Wouldn’t that be Tim Blair? or his post mistress Andrea?