I miss my early blogging days—not so much the writing, since only my laziness and other distractions prevent me from that, but more the camaraderie of the mini-blogosphere that was around when we early birds started out in the early years of this century.
I recently revisited two bloggers I have always had a close affinity for, frisco dude and caffeine sparks. I dunno why I stopped visiting them, just general overload coupled with my return to books over the past few years. Anyway, I am going to try to keep up with frisco and caffeine as their sites always make think and smile.
Frisco dude is such a varied site covering the whole of Asia that it is hard to describe any post as typical, yet his latest is indeed pure frisco dude. The Korean version of YMCA.
Caffeine’s current page includes this extraordinary exchange between Mareng Winnie Monsod and presidential son Congressmen Mikey Arroyo. As for Mareng Winnie, if there is a jugular why not go for it? Apart from anything else you gotta love her disbelieving uh-huh..? I don’t know what you can say about Mikey’s disastrous performance, except that his forced salesman’s smile, his pitiful explanations (many public officials do this also … the lawyers, when he comes back from abroad I am sure he can explain that ... .. if you are in doubt sue me for it), his patronizing smirks and revealing pauses, are exactly what you would expect. The only mystery is why his parents allowed him to enter such a mismatched contest.
:-)
Posted by: sparks | December 07, 2009 at 07:30 PM
"I dunno why I stopped visiting them"
I don't know about frisko but I reckon you got put off by sparks pseudo-intellectual bullshit from the last year or so. Am I right?
Posted by: trolly | December 15, 2009 at 05:20 AM
No, you’re not. I have always liked the fact that Sparks splices her regular posts with offshoots from her academic work, in fact that’s the main reason I go to her site. Her posts always make me think, even when I don’t necessarily agree with them. It’s depressing to see a blogger who has never underestimated her readers being called “pseudo intellectual”—she IS an intellectual and that’s not a dirty word in my book.
Posted by: torn | January 14, 2010 at 05:20 AM
I miss the early blog days too. With my old blog, I knew so many fellow bloggers and these days they either no longer post or no longer comment, etc. Your blog is interesting!
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