If you’ve reached this blog via Shouts & Murmurs at newyorker.com, where my piece “Ask Curiosity” appeared today, thanks for reading. If, on the other hand, you’re reading this blog and haven’t yet visited The New Yorker site today, you and I seriously need to have a talk about your priorities.
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News, pop culture and frosty chocolate milkshakes... every day* since 2001.
*not every day**
**I should explain. I used to write a blog called Blather, which was a name I thought was really sharp in 2001, when I started the thing. Later, of course, and by "later" I mean like a month later, when everybody and their sister started blogging about their goddamn cats or whatever, you couldn't swing a dead... well, a dead cat without hitting a blog called THOTS or YE OLD WHIMSEY or, for that matter, BLATHER. But I had the name first and thought of it when it still seemed sort of kooky and clever and cool. I maintained Blather until 2004, when it started to feel dangerously like work. Later I did other Web-based things. Anyway, Blather's slogan, which some people were generous enough to remember, was "News, pop culture and frosty chocolate milkshakes." I tell you all this now because I find that nothing enhances a joke like when you explain it for a really, really long time.
*not every day**
**I should explain. I used to write a blog called Blather, which was a name I thought was really sharp in 2001, when I started the thing. Later, of course, and by "later" I mean like a month later, when everybody and their sister started blogging about their goddamn cats or whatever, you couldn't swing a dead... well, a dead cat without hitting a blog called THOTS or YE OLD WHIMSEY or, for that matter, BLATHER. But I had the name first and thought of it when it still seemed sort of kooky and clever and cool. I maintained Blather until 2004, when it started to feel dangerously like work. Later I did other Web-based things. Anyway, Blather's slogan, which some people were generous enough to remember, was "News, pop culture and frosty chocolate milkshakes." I tell you all this now because I find that nothing enhances a joke like when you explain it for a really, really long time.
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