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cronenburg & warhol & devilla
I really should try and become more popular in this blogging world again. That is, if I ever find the energy to do so. It's not that I want to be popular, I could attain that just by filling the cat bowls with milk every day. It's more about the schwag and the invites to cool events. It seems Joey DeVilla, our illustrious accordion playing local internet celebrity, was invited to a blogger-invite-only Q&A with David Cronenburg about the Andy Warhol / Supernova exhibit. I saw a poster of that on the TTC the other day and said to Marmy, "Now that is something I need to see." Joey hasn't actually blogged it yet but he mentioned it in the post where he discusses a Hollywood-style gossip-mongering falling-out between a popular video blog host and her partner/producer. Joey doesn't do it gossip-mongering style but you know that his post will be up there on the Google ranking and me, well I had never heard of the RocketBoom.

So, why am I out of the loop when I was there at the beginning of this blogging world, having beer with HChamp, trading emails with Jason Kottke and being yelled at by Dave Winer. Yes, I know that the fact that I haven't worked in the industry for over 5 years factors into it but it's also a bit of bitterness as to that fact, I guess. If I cannot play on the playground then I don't want to be part of the playgroup. But I do imagine that if I had persevered in my attention to said Blogging World, I could at least be back to working in the area. Blogging does make some of the best networking. I am still trying to remember if I actually want to do that.

That said, I don't think I am capable of becoming a popular blogger in this world of too-many-blogs. I am not focused enough, I don't read RSS feeds for the juiciest meme, I don't post (many) videos nor do I have an interest in trolling in controversy. And I complain far too much about my life. Oh well, obscurity and envy make great drinking buddies.

Yes, this was just a braindump.

Update: He's blogged about it now. July 09 06

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