Exceptional
I hate blogging about blogs and I hate blogging about things in the news rather than, oh I don’t know, making observations about litter or dog-shit.
On this one occasion though, I’m prepared to make an exception. Sitting in front of the idiot box last night and watching the news, I saw a report from Edinburgh that there were a nimber of ‘plays’ based on blogs. Indeed, the ‘plays’ featured actors reading out blog entries.
And what was featured…some woman in Bagdad whose blog was about what she witness during the war. Bloody hell, if I want interesting and informative reportage from an eyewitness to an event like that, I’ll watch the news like everyone else.
No, if you want to do a play about blogs what you have is a mish-mash of adolescent ramblings against a backdrop of people who blog about their pets and round off with a poem. In fact if you can get a poem about pets written by an adolescent in at the start, you can wrap the whole thing up in time to head to the bar. Cats, poetry and unrestrained madness - that’s blogging!
On this one occasion though, I’m prepared to make an exception. Sitting in front of the idiot box last night and watching the news, I saw a report from Edinburgh that there were a nimber of ‘plays’ based on blogs. Indeed, the ‘plays’ featured actors reading out blog entries.
And what was featured…some woman in Bagdad whose blog was about what she witness during the war. Bloody hell, if I want interesting and informative reportage from an eyewitness to an event like that, I’ll watch the news like everyone else.
No, if you want to do a play about blogs what you have is a mish-mash of adolescent ramblings against a backdrop of people who blog about their pets and round off with a poem. In fact if you can get a poem about pets written by an adolescent in at the start, you can wrap the whole thing up in time to head to the bar. Cats, poetry and unrestrained madness - that’s blogging!
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