1.22.03 – from the slithy tove inbox
To: brillig@slithy-tove.net
Subject: Something to write about…
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:26:23 -0500I happened upon your page today due to the “tiny tove” search you dislike so much. You shouldn’t let it bother you, though. The world is a strange place with many different interests, including your public journal, which I have oddly enjoyed reading…You and the other Tove share something in common – a need to, or simply the basic enjoyment of, sharing yourself with others…
TTL
the comparison is not unreasonable, given that there’s something kind of exhibitionist about blogging, although i think that’s probably where the similarity between myself and porn stars ends. i could wax poetic on this, i guess, but i think the point was made nicely already. it seems like movie stars (of all types) have more, shall i say, polish? when it comes to their presentation of themselves to the world. this is the raw, ugly, always-changing me, all my musings and my insecurities, the pictures of my cat and the books i’ve been reading, the freaks i meet on the street and the freaks i call my own. i won’t say that bloggers (such as myself) never make pretenses or edit themselves for the public forum, but i love the blog for its confessional-like format. i mean, where else can you read about lauren’s magical knickers?
i think this is what qualifies as meta-blogging. perhaps meta-paul can give us more insight on such things. i have a picture around here somewhere of paul posting to my blog, which, at the time i took it, made some sort of mind-bending cosmic sense, that i could post pictures on my blog of paul creating the blog. like photographs of yourself taking photographs or something. whatever, i’d been drinking steadily for hours at that point in time.