Venusberg | That's not your heart, it's a piece of helicopter casing

Friday, January 31, 2003

Before we return to my New Year's resolution to fill the pages of Venusberg with light whimsy and the occasional insanely graphic description of parts of my body you may only previously have encountered through Wil Wheaton (no, quite literally through Wil Wheaton), I have to pause briefly to award the You Have Absolutely No Idea You're Naked, once again, to lovely naked Gerard. From a blogpost on blogging:

For me, a blog serves two purposes. The first is that I
wanted to write a diary but felt a normal one to be far
too insular. Second, it allows my many friends across
the globe to keep up with what is going on with me. If
it wasn't for my blog I think I'd get even more than the
300 or so emails I get a day and I'd struggle to
read/answer them all.

Moments later:

This level of honestly (sic) is one of the reason why
I think the site gets the number of visitors it does and
people do come back. Not that it makes much difference.
I started on day one with 1 visitor (me) and now get
2,500 a day. Nothing's changed in the way I write over the
18 months the blog has been running.

And, hard on the heels:

You are right though, the blogging community as a whole
is very cliquey and I've frequently dismissed many
bloggers as 'self obsessed assholes'. A blog is just a
blog is a blog. If you need one to gain proof of being
liked or other such nonsense then you need help.

god, I love this man. I want to rub his head and keep his toes warm. Tune in tomorrow when he tells us that the Lexus is the Japanese Mercedes, and that technically speaking, since he had decided to break up with his last girlfriend before she dumped him, he dumped her. Love it loud.

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