Mundane??

Congrats to Jess – for having her blog mentioned in Glamour – even though the chick who wrote the thing seemed to pick out the most mundane quote possible to show how “mundane” blogs are. Jess? Mundane? Are you out of your mind?? The Glamour writer chose to pull out a grocery list quote – but if you read the post in question – you see that it’s not mundane at all. This is akin to pulling out-of-context quotes from movie critics and putting them onto the poster for some movie that is TANKING at the box office. So the critic actually said, “I have seen many a terrific film in 2005, but this film isn’t one of them” – and suddenly on the poster you see the words: “A terrific film!” with the critic’s name underneath. Dirty pool!!

Oh, and Jess – I blog because I’m a self-absorbed exhibitionist too. Doesn’t everybody?

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4 Responses to Mundane??

  1. jess says:

    Ha! Thanks, Sheila. The whole article had this, “Golly gee, look at this newfangled blog thing…” tone to it, too. Way to go, Glamour! You sound like my grandma.

  2. Lisa says:

    When I first flipped to that article, I thought, “Dang, that girl looks like Heather Armstrong” before I realized IT WAS. It was weird, reading it, like all of a sudden all my friends were in Glamour.

    But it was written, I agree, that she had just woke up from 1997.

  3. John says:

    I love the irony when print journalists take that tone. Isn’t a bit of “exhibitionism” – or whatever you call it when someone wants to write for a large audience – why they became journalists in the first place? So the barriers to entry in blogdom are low – anyone can start a blog – so what. The level of prose in print (especially in stuff like glamour) tells me that writing well isn’t exactly a valued trait in the magazine world. But a blogger who writes as bad as this twit does not have the momentum of all the teenyboppers who buy Glamour for the other stuff to prop up his or her readership. Bloggers like Sheila get their audience the hard way – with good writing. Plus the comments add a way for people to instantly fact-check your butt, which print jounralists could use a bit more of, it seems.

  4. Emily says:

    Whereas, staff writers for Glamour magazine are philosophers of the age in a profound search for truth and the deeper meanings of life.

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