Hear Me Meow
i just had lunch with a ballerina, so it all makes sense, right?
today i sent an email to lifehacker's gina, cc:ing the folks who run boingboing (see my earlier post). gina responded to my snark, commented on my blog, and changed her lifehacker post.
at the same time, xeni from boingboing posted about the letter i wrote, linking to Troublonia.
uh, what? in one internets instant i'm referenced on Lifehacker and BoingBoing?
i am blogger. hear me meow.
then i get an email from this guy Xopl who's posted on his site about how we're dopplegangers and he's been devoured by mice.
naturally, in these circumstances, what one does is have lunch with a ballerina.
i was sitting at nadi's yammering excitedly about my new found internets fame. my brother in NY says, 'dude. guess the pressure is on now. if you're on boingboing, better be blogworthy.' i hang up the cell just as the woman at the next table hangs up her cell.
i say, 'it's hard to eat and talk, huh?'
she says, 'want to keep trying?'
nicole is a ballerina. she's been a pro for ten years and she's twenty-seven.
what do we talk about? the order in chaos, of course. she starts by telling me that structure is masculine, but eventually we agree that there can be patterns without structure. that things happen the way that they do, not because they're intended to (structure), but because they have no choice (chaos/pattern).
so today, after blogging last month about blog popularity and electronic freedom and corporate sponsorship, i feel like i've rubbed off on all three in a small way. just like that.
sent an email, got heard by thousands.
and worked out the whys of it with a ballerina.
Ahh, sounds like you met Nicole Starbuck. When I met her, we were talking masculinity/femininity of things as well. Must be a trend. I'm actually going to see her dance tonight. I'll tell you if she dances masculinely or femininely or perhaps with/without structure. "The Structure of Chaos" ... that's a ballet I'd like to see.
okay. i am now officially going to pass out.
her name REALLY is nicole starbuck. i just googled her. and that's obscenely weird because to add on to all the other convergences of the day, i was just blogging yesterday about how i had a crush on Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica.
the strange-o-meter is red-lining here folks!
stay tuned! tomorrow i'm certain to be cast as Carrie Kelly in the fanboy remake of Dark Knight and splashed all over the breasts of strippers.
i sent an email to bartlebee about this and she responds:
"what the FUCK???"
yes.
it's the FUCK.
'cause it certainly wasn't structured, miss starbuck, but it may be part of a pattern and it definitely has been a weird-ass day.
i will say, i've had 'worlds collide' days like this and they are extremely unnerving, yet mythic at the same time, and can leave one wondering if he is dreaming or truly awake. it can make one feel a little like amelie, is my experience. but i am a girl and speak french and have short dark hair, none of which is true for you xz, so maybe you did not feel like amelie at all? but i can tell from your writing that you liked it :)
what i really want to know is how all this blog cross-pollination is affecting your implicit (or i suppose it is explicit now that another commenter has outed you about it) goal of driving up your site traffic? a tip: if it's not boosting your readership as much as you'd like, just write about spongebob and your hits from google will go through the roof! now there's an unintended consequence for you...
it's strange, because i certainly didn't plan on doing anything to get a link from boingboing. i thought boingboing might pick up what i'd noticed about lifehacker, but not that they'd quote me, or link to me.
according to webstats, i've only had about 100 click throughs from BB so far (although the (h)ack post has seen 200 hits, so...). not earth shattering or anything.
it has made me think more about whether i want to be widely read or not. i think what i'm zeroing in on is that i would, but not to the point where i'm going to pander or change my format to seek readership. i'd be happy if people liked reading what i want to write. i could write stuff more people would want to read, but then that would make this a business.
i want to blog. not to go into business.
i don't feel like amilie. i feel like rod serling.
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