Comments on: Matters bloggy http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:37:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Helen http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179179 Helen Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:57:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179179 I'll have to speak up for Pam's House Blend in that category. There are a few real dogs in that competition though, I have to say. I’ll have to speak up for Pam’s House Blend in that category. There are a few real dogs in that competition though, I have to say.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179178 Mark Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:20:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179178 Agreed, Rob. A friend of mine referred earlier over drinks to the nominations in the "best midsized lesbian blog" category - but I now see she was being a tad facetious. But if anyone is thinking of voting in the "Best LGBT Blog" stakes, I recommend "This Girl Called Automatic Win": http://marielynbernard.blogspot.com/ Also, the author is one of my Facebook friends. Expession of solidarity, etc. Agreed, Rob.

A friend of mine referred earlier over drinks to the nominations in the “best midsized lesbian blog” category – but I now see she was being a tad facetious.

But if anyone is thinking of voting in the “Best LGBT Blog” stakes, I recommend “This Girl Called Automatic Win”:

http://marielynbernard.blogspot.com/

Also, the author is one of my Facebook friends. Expession of solidarity, etc.

]]> By: Robert http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179177 Robert Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:09:53 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179177 The nominations in almost all of the categories are... weird. The nominations in almost all of the categories are… weird.

]]> By: Idiot/Savant http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179176 Idiot/Savant Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:42:47 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179176 <I>What does it say about me that I only recognised one blog in “Best Aus & NZ”?</I> Meanwhile, I'm wondering why they called it "Best Aus & NZ" when all finalists come from only one of the countries listed. What does it say about me that I only recognised one blog in “Best Aus & NZ”?

Meanwhile, I’m wondering why they called it “Best Aus & NZ” when all finalists come from only one of the countries listed.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179175 Mark Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:45:01 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179175 I recognised two! I recognised two!

]]> By: Jacques Chester http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179174 Jacques Chester Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:45:20 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179174 What does it say about me that I only recognised one blog in "Best Aus & NZ"? What does it say about me that I only recognised one blog in “Best Aus & NZ”?

]]> By: Jack R http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179173 Jack R Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:12:28 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179173 ...was a blog. Geez. Wot price that goddamned preview button, Leppy? …was a blog.

Geez. Wot price that goddamned preview button, Leppy?

]]> By: Jack Robertson http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179172 Jack Robertson Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:10:34 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179172 "...when I was still operating Hot Buttered Death..." Ah, now <em>there</em. was blog... “…when I was still operating Hot Buttered Death…”

Ah, now there</em. was blog…

]]> By: Nabakov http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179171 Nabakov Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:50:32 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179171 True. I used the term louchely loosely but even though the map is not the territory I personally still see all this online blogstuff as a shapeless, protoplasmic and often Lovecraftian biomass. "My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing ..." Opps ,that was my neighbours complaining about me playing R L Burnside loudly at this hour. True. I used the term louchely loosely but even though the map is not the territory I personally still see all this online blogstuff as a shapeless, protoplasmic and often Lovecraftian biomass.

“My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing …”

Opps ,that was my neighbours complaining about me playing R L Burnside loudly at this hour.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179170 Mark Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:30:19 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/01/08/matters-bloggy/#comment-179170 Well, Nabs, I think the other thing going on here is that "the blogosphere" as such doesn't exist in the same form it used to. Perhaps it doesn't exist at all - as an entity with a unity and a sense of unity, that is. Well, Nabs, I think the other thing going on here is that “the blogosphere” as such doesn’t exist in the same form it used to. Perhaps it doesn’t exist at all – as an entity with a unity and a sense of unity, that is.

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