Fame . . . what's your name. . . .

[shalanna]

Sometimes it can be distressing to be "famous" for your blog, they tell me.

I just read a diary entry by a woman whose blog has been "discovered" by several co-workers and friends, and now she's being recognized in local bars as a blogger. Wow! That would thrill me shtless! Or so I, in my anonymity, believe.

I don't have a job outside of whatever-it-is-I-do, so I don't have to worry that my students or boss or HR dept. will discover it and find out I call them "dimbulbs" in my journal. So that's good.

Some journalers, I've discovered, maintain "decoy blogs" so that their friends and family can read the stuff they don't mind everyone knowing. My life is SO pathetically boring that I didn't think of that. What could I post on the decoy? I mean, seriously. "The sun came up today . . . air swirls around our heads."

All I know is, I couldn't find any suitable bribe or payment that would lure my family and so-called circle of acquaintances to my LiveJournal. They find me boring in person and find my journal (mostly about writing and philosophy, never about partying because, well, we never do anything but sit around the house or go to Drynxnyrd's to admire the pets he has rescued and then watch whatever he has TiVoed off cable TV) resoundingly uninteresting. I'd like to be famous for my LiveJournal, but alas, it won't happen.

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again, and frame some feeling line
That may discover such integrity.--Shakespeare

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I don't think my blog is famous, but I have found certain entries linked to the weirdest places. The best one was an independent Italian news site that linked to my analysis of the Nick Berg beheading video! (How they found me, I have no clue.)

[spherissa.livejournal.com]

My blog is deifnitely Not famous, but there are some people i know on it quite well in rl, and vaguely in rl now and it's a little odd, i found it a bit more restricting in what i can / will write and leaves me considering filters