"The first comment is El-Oh-El-exclamation mark-exclamation mark-one-exclamation mark."

December 22, 2006 3:33 AM

Blogs by Phone - for when your family and friends have trouble keeping up with your blog posts. (YouTube video from SixApart)
posted by divabat (23 comments total)

[this is good] first rule etc.
posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 3:35 AM on December 22, 2006

Owls don't talk.
posted by ktrey at 4:04 AM on December 22, 2006

I'd like to think that over the busy holiday season my friends and family would have something better to do than "keep up with my blog".
posted by rhymer at 4:22 AM on December 22, 2006

I used to do a handwritten blog years ago (2000?) where the posts were actually done in my own handwriting, using a wacom tablet. But then I was like, 'what about blind people?' So I had a phone number you could call at the time where I had recordings of all my latest posts and comments. It was an awful lot like this.
posted by premiumpolar at 4:47 AM on December 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

(except not live, of course)
posted by premiumpolar at 4:48 AM on December 22, 2006

For perkiness and old-fashioned simplicity, nothing beats fashioning a note from letters pasted from a magazine, tying it to a brick, and throwing it around a window.

It's always meme-worthy, and few people rarely say "meh" to it.
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:48 AM on December 22, 2006

Okay, through a window. How's your egg-nog?
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:49 AM on December 22, 2006

Owls don't talk.

You've obviously never found yourself at the center of a Tootsie-Pop.
posted by loquacious at 5:02 AM on December 22, 2006 [1 favorite]

divabat, mad props for the title of this post. The "1" at the end of a lengthy batch of exclamation marks is a meme that will never get old.
posted by smashingstars at 5:40 AM on December 22, 2006

For perkiness and old-fashioned simplicity, nothing beats fashioning a note from letters pasted from a magazine, tying it to a brick, and throwing it around a window.

You and your modern conveniences, nancy boy. I'm partial to smoke signals and hoof taps myself.
posted by jonmc at 5:55 AM on December 22, 2006

"There's another comment that says 'This is good.' No, that's all it says."
posted by kirkaracha at 5:59 AM on December 22, 2006

jonmc - you had horses? When I grew up, some old guy said he saw a horse, except it was part of something called a "cave painting". Of course, everyone knew caves and paintings were science fiction, so we didn't believe him...
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:31 AM on December 22, 2006

jonmc - you had horses?

No, I had hooves. My mom's part centaur. I try to keep quiet about it around here, since some of you sity folk don't approve of mixed marraiges.

When I grew up

you got to grow up? We had to stay the same size our entire lives other wise we'd use to much oxygen. Oxygen was scarce in those days. It's tough sending smoke signals as a toddler sixed 36-year-old, lemme tell ya.
posted by jonmc at 7:03 AM on December 22, 2006

loquacious: That was perfect.

jonmc: Hoofs? Luxury. Oh, we used to DREAM of having hoofs. We used to have floppy webbed feet, that could barely support us on solid land. And at least you got to BREATHE your oxygen. We had to suck it out of the water with gill slits in our neck.
posted by Ynoxas at 7:22 AM on December 22, 2006

I am reminded of a recent New Yorker cartoon where one dog is saying to another something to the effect of, "I think I'll give up blogging and go back to incessant pointless barking."
posted by trip and a half at 7:29 AM on December 22, 2006

Yeah, I know: dogs can't talk.
posted by trip and a half at 7:31 AM on December 22, 2006

Yeah, I know: dogs can't talk.
posted by trip and a half at 9:31 AM CST on December 22

Holy shit, a talking dog!
posted by Ynoxas at 7:56 AM on December 22, 2006

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posted by ZenMasterThis at 10:08 AM on December 22, 2006

That guy talking about Evanescence (sp?) is my brother-in-law.
posted by ambient2 at 10:59 AM on December 22, 2006

Ynoxas:

Ya'all had feet? Back in my day, we had flagella we waved around aimlessly. And oxygen? We wish we had oxygen. We had to be anaerobic! But WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!

You young pups nowadays with your spinal columns and your binocular vision and your mouths...
posted by Samizdata at 11:01 AM on December 22, 2006

Hey, I took a lot of heat when I was the first on my block to crawl up on the shore and breathe air. Now, not only is everybody doing it, but they've got all these fancy hooves and wings and shells and horns and some of them are even walking on two legs! I think they're calling it Walk 2.0.
posted by wendell at 11:28 AM on December 22, 2006

Hey, I took a lot of heat when I was the first on my block to crawl up on the shore and breathe air.

Oh just shut up and get off my tidal-flat you whippersnapper!
posted by loquacious at 7:04 PM on December 22, 2006

Great...

YOU get a tidal flat - Something with somewhere to stand...
posted by Samizdata at 11:23 PM on December 22, 2006