For those in C-Ville (does anyone live here during these 6 months of living hell/heat/humidity?) that know what the web is you can stop by the informal gathering of bloggers this weekend.
It is of course being held at a location that will have at least two dozen screaming kids at it (aka the nursery school coffee house – with indoor playground), but think of how much fun you could have talking about how blogging first got started here in C-Ville in 2000 before it spread to the rest of the world. Regressive pseudo-progressive flip-floppers will have a ball saying how perfect all the kids are. So very Virginia.
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*Title comes from a movie, but I’m sure if I went to the gathering I’m sure I would say that at some point.
No one claims blogging started in Cville. For someone whose site surely benefits from being listed as a Charlottesville Blog, you sure do hate a lot on the concept of being a Charlottesville blog. I don’t know why you have the impression that local people sharing something in common is a BAD thing to celebrate, but it’s a dreadfully anti-community sentiment. And, btw, wanting to foster community doesn’t make one an evil self-absorbed “pseudo-progressive” or an elitist, which seems to be what you think all other local bloggers are.
A pity I’m not a C-Ville lovin’ clone. Unlike other blogs that are included on C-Ville blog aggregators, this blog does primarily focus on the village. I ain’t no Joe.
No one directly states that blogging started here, but you will hear people implicating that it did, and that nothing significant in this commonwealth has ever happened outside of this village. Just another day in the backwoods.
Hmm…how exactly does this blog “benefit” from being listed as a Charlottesville Blog?
I guess that’s yet another example of de rigueur C’ville smugness in assuming everyone gives a flying fug whether they are listed there.
Kind of funny…
If you’d like to be removed from the aggregator, just e-mail me. I’d hate to be including anybody who doesn’t want to be listed. If, on the other hand, you thrill at the attention from the community you so despise, there’s no need to change a thing.
1. The blog benefits from being listed by getting readers – at least one or two, surely. Not as in it’s some kind of credential that makes people WANT to read it, but simply because it’s another link to it, another publicization of it. Or is the point of a blog not to have people read it (especially people who live in the area it’s about, if it’s about an area)?
2. Hasn’t it been made clear by now that Cville Blogs doesn’t mean to list blogs that are necessarily ABOUT Cville, but rather blogs by people who live in Cville? It’s handy, it’s not exclusive, and no one thinks they’re the bee’s knee’s to be on it.
3. If you are a reader/enjoyer of or contributor to this blog, I am shocked that you would accuse OTHER bloggers of “smugness.”
Funny that bee’s knees and flying were mentioned in this thread…since I dug up an exclusive about bees
I love my fame here in the village, a wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Who wouldn’t enjoy the fame of the Village? This is the best effin’ city in America, after all.
w00t!