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30 Blogs in 30 Days [Jun. 1st, 2004|12:56 pm]
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As someone once said, there's a reason God didn't make three day weekends. Man simply wasn't designed to party that hard. At one of my lower points during memorial day weekend I did something I now seriously regret: I swore a blood oath with a few of my comrades to post 30 blog entries in 30 days.

What the hell was I thinking? Today I am plaqued by self-loathing and doubt. Am I really the mega-blogger I claim to be? Or am I just a farce. Any two-bit miniblogger can crank out one or two above-water posts a week. But faking excellence on the blogosphere, day-in, day-out, for 30 days: Impossible.

I'm not sure what kind of blog you'll see crawling across the finish line 30 days from now. Perhaps a twisted, hollowed out shell of the megablogger you once knew. Perhaps, 30 days hence, I will collapse at my keyboard, expired, never to blog again. But this I swear to you: finish I will. Even if I have to blog from inside the gates of Hell itself, on a shitty 36 baud modem, with the 'b' and the 'n' missing from the keyboard, in Chicago font.

The true test begins now.
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[User Picture]From: [info]lerani
2004-06-01 10:22 am (UTC)

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"Any two-bit miniblogger can crank out one or two above-water posts a week."

Hi.
[User Picture]From: [info]stephenl
2004-06-01 10:28 am (UTC)

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it's not too late to join the pact, my friend. Are you a mouse or are you a man? Or, more to the point, do you have five free minutes and internet access every day for the next month?
[User Picture]From: [info]lerani
2004-06-01 10:38 am (UTC)

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I dunno, I wouldn't want to dilute the unsettlingly high quality of my entries, which are posted ONLY after they have been matured to perfection.

I can't imagine daily entries not turning into a parody of a blog cliche. I took a shower this morning. It sucked. I went to my job, which sucks. I came home and had fishsticks, which sucked.

That sort of thing.

Plus, I'm angry you don't invite me to these little holiday parties, even though I've spent the last 10 years honing my personal black hole of fun, which is more effective on parties that roach motel is on, well, roaches.
[User Picture]From: [info]stephenl
2004-06-01 10:51 am (UTC)

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parody of a blog? Oh shit, man, you already called me out. Now I'm going to have to find a second joke to fill out this month.

And that "holiday party" was just going to the bar across the street and drinking a lot. But if you'd like an invitation, I'm sure we'll be going again on Thursday. And Friday. Possibly Sunday. Oh, and Saturday. Drop on by.
[User Picture]From: [info]lerani
2004-06-01 12:42 pm (UTC)

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Alright hell, I'll do it too. You are forewarned, however, that when my Watched By lists drops in half because of the inferior quality of the entries, I will cry, and you'll have to feel about it. Then I start punching.
From: [info]shekb
2004-06-01 10:32 am (UTC)

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Oh, shit. Can I get in on this blood oath? You can't send blood through the mail, but I can get a Rabbi to sign a card or something that's just as good, right?
[User Picture]From: [info]stephenl
2004-06-01 10:39 am (UTC)

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you're in, you fool.
[User Picture]From: [info]erinth
2004-06-01 11:42 am (UTC)

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does this mean we'll be reading a post from you every day or just a total of thirty in thirty days? just curious about the parameters established in your blood oath, if any.
[User Picture]From: [info]stephenl
2004-06-01 09:00 pm (UTC)

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at least one post a day for 30 days. No extra credit for multiple posts per day.
Are you blogger enough to take the challenge?
[User Picture]From: [info]erinth
2004-06-02 06:34 am (UTC)

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I can predict with absolute certainty that i wouldn't be able to keep a consistent level of quality and would, by the first saturday in the 30 days, dissolve into posts about how my job sucks.

i know my own limits. but good luck and godspeed thee to day 30, brave blogger.
[User Picture]From: [info]apoplecticfittz
2004-06-01 12:01 pm (UTC)

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Good luck man. I tried this for a week once and at the end I was found in the desert surviving on craisins and cacti water screaming "MUST BLOG FOR OUR NATION'S FUTURE! POST ENTRY!"
[User Picture]From: [info]incomple
2004-06-01 12:06 pm (UTC)

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Count me in for 30 Blogs in 30 Days!
[User Picture]From: [info]tawdryjones
2004-06-01 12:27 pm (UTC)

I'll be counting on you two

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ENTERTAIN MOUSE!!11
[User Picture]From: [info]stephenl
2004-06-01 09:01 pm (UTC)

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oh man, NO ONE remembers entertainmous.
[User Picture]From: [info]tawdryjones
2004-06-02 06:04 am (UTC)

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You did, right?

THEY CAN NEVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US! HEAR THAT, BUSH! HEAR THAT CHENEY!
[User Picture]From: [info]rabidglow
2004-06-01 08:20 pm (UTC)

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I commend you brave brave souls.

I will shed a tear each night as I ponder the benefits I am reaping and the heavy costs. Be strong!
[User Picture]From: [info]stephenl
2004-06-01 09:02 pm (UTC)

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huh?
[User Picture]From: [info]oystercracker
2004-06-01 11:43 pm (UTC)

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[info]fragglerocker84 and i are going to do our best to keep up.