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(Re:Â Yesterday’s post titled “The Three Year Old Dinner Party Meme”)
I kept reading your headline in my feed reader as a dinner party for three year olds. And at first I thought, three year olds? Who wants them over for dinner?
But then I realized that since we were talking about bloggers, the kids might be preferable.
(ba da bum. here all week, folks! etc.)
Gwen from Not Really
(by the way, what are these cats DOING on this book cover?)
I’d like to take a moment to talk about some blogging lessons learned:
1) I need to better "signal" to my readers when I say something that isn’t exactly true. It was nice of some of you to ask how my "date" went, but it was just a joke from the last post. I also didn’t receive an Amazon.com package from Anna Kournikova. I was especially surprised that someone thought I actually slept with Tom Cruise. I have an overactive imagination and to me — all these things are true, but not in what some may call "reality." I don’t want to become a "boy who cried wolf." Sometimes, I do write about real things. There is an actual Sophia — I think. My mother did say "bolo" instead of "blog." Should I put a little "kosher" sign next to each true statement in order to avoid confusion?
2) I need to be careful when writing comments. A very nice blogger deleted my comment and sent me a stern email after I wrote a joke about Japanese men. Now, I know for a fact that Japanese men would be the ones who would find this joke the funniest, but I understand the sensitivity. And by the way, some of my best friends are Japanese men — at least those that aren’t perverts.
3) I need to be more careful when choosing names of fake characters. In my post about the Coney Island hot-dog eating contest, I made up a Norwegian contestant named Holm Andresen. I knew someone in college named Andresen and "Lord of the Rings" was on the television at the time, which stars Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins — so I used the name "Holm."
A few days later, I get an email from — B. Holm Andresen.
He wants to know, "Who am I and why did I say he was in Coney Island eating hotdogs?"
Fortunately, everything turned out OK. B. Holm is a really cool artist living in London, and we emailed each other back and forth a couple of times. He even helped me create a new fake Norwegian name. If you’re going to London, check out his exhibit.
Are there any other blogging rules I need to learn, like not going to your site ten times a day so I look like a stalker in your stats?
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