Jumping the blogging shark
Jan. 26th, 2009 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgI think my toenails are very interesting.
The toes to which they are attached are kind of curly and twisty, except the one I broke, which is nice and straight now. This means that I have to keep my toenails constantly trimmed short. Since the motivation for doing so involves bloodshed, I'm pretty good at remembering to do that.
This morning as I trimmed my toenails I thought to myself "That's interesting. I think my toenails are growing a bit faster these days. I wonder if it's a sign of my generally improved health, or perhaps better circulation in the warmer weather. Perhaps the two are related."
But then I realised I was using my compose-a-blog-entry internal voice, and another thought intruded:
"Dude. You're thinking about blogging about your toenails. Is there room on the Internet (sorry, 'teh intarwebs') for that? Really? Hmmm?"
Eventually the argument that this observation is indeed of personal clinical interest won out, so here we are, with a proper tag and all. But for a while there I wondered if I was contemplating an online jump-the-shark moment.
So, folks, have you faced that moment at the keyboard? Did you stop yourself out of shame? Did you justify the importance of you entry to your future self, if no-one else? Did you post away because damnit, a person's blog is their castle (and probably with better plumbing)? Tell me, and please be honest; it's for science.
The toes to which they are attached are kind of curly and twisty, except the one I broke, which is nice and straight now. This means that I have to keep my toenails constantly trimmed short. Since the motivation for doing so involves bloodshed, I'm pretty good at remembering to do that.
This morning as I trimmed my toenails I thought to myself "That's interesting. I think my toenails are growing a bit faster these days. I wonder if it's a sign of my generally improved health, or perhaps better circulation in the warmer weather. Perhaps the two are related."
But then I realised I was using my compose-a-blog-entry internal voice, and another thought intruded:
"Dude. You're thinking about blogging about your toenails. Is there room on the Internet (sorry, 'teh intarwebs') for that? Really? Hmmm?"
Eventually the argument that this observation is indeed of personal clinical interest won out, so here we are, with a proper tag and all. But for a while there I wondered if I was contemplating an online jump-the-shark moment.
So, folks, have you faced that moment at the keyboard? Did you stop yourself out of shame? Did you justify the importance of you entry to your future self, if no-one else? Did you post away because damnit, a person's blog is their castle (and probably with better plumbing)? Tell me, and please be honest; it's for science.
