July 17, 2004
BLOGCHILDREN CLARIFIED
Far be it from me to ever disagree with Frank J. of IMAO, but he got it wrong on one of his Frank Answers:
Q3: I need a pair of blogparents. SarahK has volunteered to be my Blogmother and has given me great advice on my Blog site. She was saying that it would be great if you were my Blogfather. I would like that. You could SMITE anybody who messed with the poor [Right Wing Duck]. Would having a blogchild ignite further rumors about you and SarahK? I also hate the French and hippies.Blogchildren are bastard children, not chosen by their parents. Whoever inspired you to make a blog is your blogfather or blogmother. Thus, the puppy blender, whether he likes it or not, is my blogfather, and, to a lesser extent, Eugene Volokh who I also read before starting my own blog.
Not exactly.
If you start a blog because you admire someone else's blog, then that person is your BLOG HERO or BLOG IDOL.
Blogfather means that that person actually said to you at some point "I think you should start a blog" or words to that effect.
Not all blogfathers are alike, though.
There are "sperm donor" blogfathers, who tell you to start, but then, outside of maybe a token link on their blogroll, never pay attention to you again.
Then there are the good blogfathers, who link and visit and comment and e-mail and encourage and help you find tech support and let you drink beer when mommy's not looking.
As in the real world, you can only adopt blogchildren if you're willing to give them a loving home and be a good blogfather to them. There's no such thing as a "sperm donor" adoptive blogfather.
SarahK would be a good adoptive blogmother. She's got that caring, sensitive touch; the firearms to protect you; and the hot body to give you an Oedipus Complex that will require decades of therapy to correct.
Frank J... Great guy, and one of the blog heroes that inspired me to start, but he's still into that swingin' bachelor life. I don't think he's ready to take on the ongoing responsibility of blog parenting, adoptive or otherwise.
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I'd be dyin' out here without you, Harv. I'm serious. It's a huge learning curve. It's always scary to think you may write and nobody will read it. I don't know why, I do it for me, but I talk to myself most of the day anyway, so the thought of this being an extension of the life I already live is unsettling.
I'd put you way up past Good Blogfather. Up there past Great Blogfather too. It's hugely appreciated!
"Blogchildren are bastard children..."
That's only the 2nd time in my life I've been called a bastard. I think I prefer bitch, thank you very much.
Seriously Harvey, as always your advise is spot on.
BTW - we're so lucky to have YOU!!!
Hmmm... There should be graphics for this kind of thing... LOL!!
What about us loners out here who started blogging just for ourselves and later found others? [sigh] Guess I'm just a bastard....
Unless Harvey adopts me... :D
and i'm bossy. that helps in blogmotherdom.
Yes! My blogfather speaks the truth!
Command me, oh dark daddy of the Sith...
... er something
Pam - although I'm flattered at the notion of becoming your blogdaddy, I must defer. Mostly because you have plenty of people already who visit, comment and give you mucho love. Adoption is for sad little waifs who get very little traffic or comments and desperately need the attention lest they go postal.
Besides, I'm WAY too hot for your lovely body to think of you as a daughter. It's not like I'm from one of the Appalachian states :-)
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