Day: May 26, 2004

For Some, the Blogging Never Stops [NYT]

Indeed, if a blog is likened to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers like Mr. Wiggins are having conversations largely with themselves. [emphasis added]

Me: What do you think?
I: Ignore them… they’re not part of this.
(insert awful comedy routine here)

Mr. Jarvis characterizes the blogging way of life as a routine rather than an obsession. “It’s a habit,” he said. “What you’re really doing is telling people about something that they might find interesting. When that becomes part of your life, when you start thinking in blog, it becomes part of you.”

Thinking in blog. I like that.

Wondering if this NYT article will be linked to by every blogger in the world… what do you think? (Oh, wait, I’m talking to myself.)

Shrek 2 was a collection of amusing outtakes, with references galore to other movies and pop culture icons/brands. But it wasn’t as much fun as the first one. I will say that the trailer for Spiderman 2 looked pretty good.

Intolerable Cruelty is a somewhat funny blend of the Coen brothers, George Clooney, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I thought Clooney and Zeta-Jones did a great ‘arch’ and the black comedy about divorce and divorce lawyers almost works throughout. But I thought Down with Love was better. Still, George Clooney continues to make a good impression in comedies, from Ocean’s Eleven to Out of Sight to Three Kings. (Footnote: I didn’t know they were making Ocean’s Twelve. But I guess I’m not surprised.)