This week voting continues for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and I am proud and humbled to be a finalist in the category Best Culture Blog. With a tremendous number of new visitors coming through and wondering just what this mess of language is all about, this is a good time to explain myself. What is my point, after all? As usual, I’ll answer that by questioning the value of blogging in the first place, and then point you to a few other nominated sites that I hope you’ll consider alongside Barataria. Hopefully it’ll all work out.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Ad Value
During a recent marathon of “The Twilight Zone”, my daughter and I saw the classic figure many times over. Not Rod Serling and his smoldering cigarette, but the figure of a driven, successful young man from the black and white world of fifty years ago. Every time a character was given the Zonal treatment for his exhaustion, tension or ennui it was a man who had made it to the top of the leading occupation of the day: Advertising. Clearly, this was what the industrial machine of the USofA’s Baroque Era saw as the pinnacle of success.
On the Margin: Making It
If you’re living on the margin, or may be soon, the amount of income you have may be a fixed number you just have to deal with. It also might be an income much lower than you’re used to if you’re one of the newly unemployed. In this, the fourth installment of the “On the Margin” series, I’ll tell you what I’ve learned when it comes to living without a lot of money. If you have ideas of your own, please share them in the comments.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 