Just so there's no mistakes: FLOG is no longer a "blog." Once it may have threatened to be one, and people may have raised up their hopes -- Tim keeps demanding posts -- but I'm sick of pretending.
FLOG originated in my brain hole as a way of providing more frequent content updates than my photo website could provide. Even at the rate of a post per month, it will continue to fulfill this goal. Consider it a quiet little random thought generator, something to check every week or four. You probably already do so, but it's good to get these things in writing.
Worry not, though, FLOG will never die. It smolders.
Just don't consider it a member of any "-osphere."
In total contradiction of the above, FLOGette and I are considering maintaining a EuroBlog! while we are in England, France, Germany, Bavaria, and Wales during this month and the next. (I like to recognize as many quasi-sovereign states as possible, in hopes of discouraging anti-balkanization. After all, ridiculous, ancient quibbling rivalries among various tribes of pasty white people are what keep Europe interesting. So sure! Bavaria and Wales are free states! Why not?)
Posted by FLOG at June 3, 2005 1:48 AMFlogosphere, perhaps?
Enjoy Europe (or, as I like to think of it, "A place that used to matter on the world stage). And I'm glad you recognize Bavaria, those of us with Bavarian ancestry know we're WAY cooler than those other lame-ass Germans.
Posted by: Timothy at June 3, 2005 1:20 PMHave you been talking with Craig?
Posted by: Kenny at June 3, 2005 11:15 PMTim, I am totally unsurprised by your love for Bavaria. It's the Texas of Germany, after all. But come on: "a place that used to matter on the world stage"? China or India it ain't, but I think that old dog (of immense wealth and economic power) might have a few tricks left in her.
Or if not, at least there are a lot of old buildings. I like old buildings.
Kenny, no, why? Should I? Milles Borne?
Posted by: FLOG at June 4, 2005 6:47 PMYour "Well, duh!" is a class Craigism.
Posted by: Kenny at June 4, 2005 10:40 PMSounds like a good plan to me, although I would quibble about just how much anyone can declare themselves outside the blogosphere. There are different parts of the blog universe, and if there's a center, FLOG™ may well be one of the blogs furthest from. But it's still connected, even if it sits out all of the tedious debates.
That said, I love the EuroBlog idea. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: WWB at June 5, 2005 3:59 PM"Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society."
Thoreau may have been an insufferable twit, but he had his moments. Not that I consider the blogosphere a dirty institution. (Desperate oddfellow society, on the other hand...) But this idea that I'm inescapably part of some group is base collectivism, good sir, and I don't like being pawed with it!
Instead, I declare myself the center of the FLOGosphere. Others are free to join me.
Posted by: FLOG at June 5, 2005 7:34 PMYes, you guys should start a EuroBlog, especially given all the weird and wacky food items they have in the UK. If you thought eating horse meat was weird...
Posted by: Brandon at June 6, 2005 9:06 PMThat's a much better quote than I'm about to deploy, and desperate as those oddfellows might be, it's kinda like GWB and "the Internets." You can't have "Internets," there's only one Internet! You might have a FLOGosphere -- and for what it's worth, count me in -- but the FLOGosphere is most definitely part of the larger 'sphere. Nothing collectivist about it -- just inescapable technological facct. Do I have to draw a Venn diagram?
Posted by: WWB at June 9, 2005 4:50 AMActually, Bush is technically correct. There is Internet I (the one we all use and is cluttered with porn) and Internet II, a highspeed network that only researchers have access to, is not open to the public and, hence, is not cluttered with porn.
Posted by: Kenny at June 10, 2005 9:19 AMK: What, the "researchers" no like the porn? Color me dubious. (You'll need burnt sienna, cornflower, and sky blue.)
WW: Yes, you do have to draw a Venn diagram. Everyone should do one a day, far as I'm concerned. (You'll need maize, periwinkle, and raw umber.)
Posted by: FLOG at June 10, 2005 10:19 PM