My wife now has a blog. Does saying "my wife" automatically resign me to the world of "lame blogs". Or is that a REDUNDANCY? When will all of this madness end? I'm serious.

I actually encouraged my wife to create a blog. It turns out she already had one, but never used it. I encouraged her to use it for creative writing and social interaction. I'm not going to look for her blog though. I don't know the link or name or anything. I want to read what she writes. I don't know if it's personal or what, but I don't want to be upset, and I don't her to feel like she has to censor. So, there you have it. She says she doesn't read this crap. I think I believe her.

While perusing another site (a blog!), I found out about The 2004 Weblog Awards. Awards, eh? Something about this doesn't sit right with me. On the one hand, I wish that my humble little sink hole would win an award. I suppose if it happened (which it won't), I'd tell people, and I'd post a little banner announcing the news: "Winner - Unfunniest Blog".

But that won't happen. So what do people usually do when they want something they can't have? That's right, they kill people. No, I mean they try to invalidate it. So, thats what I'm going to have to do. Honestly, I think that while this invalidation strategy has its obvious problems, there may also be merits too. For instance, when I decided to hate the popular kids in school, I might have been angry at them. I might have been pissed that they cruelly rejected me. However, did that change the fact that they were rich, slavish, fashion snobs that wore stupid clothes and listened to stupid music? No, of course not! Most of them were mean pricks that deserved to die. (Oops).

So on with my point.... There are something like a million or so blogs. Most of them are bullshit with one post, or some diary junk, or spam, etc... Then there is what I'd assume to be a minority of blogs, where the person (writer) updates at least semi-regularly, considers what to write, and makes an attempt to produce something halfway decent. Then out of that crowd is the super-minority that is really popular. The blogs everyone has a link to. These would be the equivalent of the "cool people" in high school. Then there is a super-duper-minority of blogs, made up of already famous people like Andrew Sullivan, or Michael Moore, or god knows who else. These people don't even need links or blogrolls. They shouldn't even count. Its like if Hilary Duff went to your high school. Of course, she'd be popular. But she's a fucking celebrity. That doesn't count!

Yes, I know. Of course, sometimes the "cool people" were nice, as well as being popular (but usually not).

So, if I won some kind of award (I won't), would I be cool? What if one of my blog friends like Glampers or Mr. Head won? Would they be cool? And thus, would I be cool due to the transitive property? And if any of us actually became cool, would that automatically make us lame? Y'know? Like after R.E.M got too popular? Or would we be the blog equivalent of The Beatles: really good and really popular?

I think its probably better not to dwell on these complicated matters for very long. I'm not cool. I'm not popular. Certainly not in real life, and not in blog life either. So, if I were to win an award (won't happen), I would still be lame ol' me, an ant in a hailstorm of blogs and bullshit.

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