Hello Progbloggers… again
So, not that it’s my intention to exclude anyone here, I have to write up a quick article specifically for the Progressive Bloggers community. So if you’re a prog blog reader or member, I’m your Frank Sinatra and you’re my obscure audience to whom I say: “This one’s for you.”
Many Some A bunch A couple of you may remember coming to this place with a slightly different URL and a wholly different title. A little something called “Tasteful Future.” Ring a bell? If not, just keep scrolling down and move on, soldier.
Tasteful Future was a subsite to Gluemeat; it was my blog, actually, where I waxed political about all sorts of really great and magnificent things, while Gluemeat was the outlet with which I put my comic venture into existence. I kept both separate and found it exhausting, especially maintaining a purely politically-minded blog. I had stopped updating TF for a while too. It had all become very tedious.
So I came to a decision: shut down Tasteful Future and merge the blog with the main Gluemeat site. Keep doing silly creative stuff. Blog about whatever you want. And that’s been the course for the past few weeks since I went through with the change. I’ve even blogged about the changes here and here. So that left my inclusion in the Progressive Bloggers camp. How would the moderators enjoy having a website which isn’t 100% politics on their doorstep?
Well, after many, many negotiations between my handsome, astute, and denominationally universal agent, Algernon Nickerbottom, and Scott Tribe’s “people” (if you ever saw them, you’d know why I put people between quotation marks), it has been accepted that my presence on Progressive Bloggers be maintained for the sake of the country. I love my country. My country loves me. Gift baskets.
There will be political and social commentary but it will not be the bread and butter of this site. I will strive to maintain a level of quirkiness which will punctuate the postings as it currently does, especially since there are many other blogs who do the politico thing ever so better than I could. So, please, join me on this ride which will sinew and twist down avenues of culture, life, and derision. That is, IF YOU HAVE A SET.
Beh, even if you don’t; hop on. Everyone likes a eunuch.
Here’s looking at you.
Do I get a gift basket? If so I would like it to include a monkapotamus. Or a goaticorn. Or are those not politically correct?
And thus ends another chapter of pointless commenting. Goodnight and good luck.
I remember…I really liked Tasteful Future. Of course, now that you’ve drawn attention to this issue of political blogs versus those with a political slant, some of us might have to negotiate our place with Progressive Bloggers too. And, I have already tested Scott’s patience with my out-of-control feminism…and I don’t write a successful comic…so, I guess that’s it for me…
I only write political about 60% of the time, and haven’t been kicked out of a political blogroll yet, so I wouldn’t worry. One thing you could possibly do, is create a politics category, and so anything posted with that tag would show on the progblogs if you gave them that URL for your blog instead. I did that with one roll I’m on to weed out things not at all related to their roll.
Saying you’ve tested my patience is a bit of a stretch, Polly.
As for “my people”… I am going to state for the umpteenth time for Mike’s sake to clarify this once again - I am not the actual head of the site or its chief administrator. That honour goes to Wayne Chu. I’m just one of 4 people who have the title “moderator” that helps Wayne manage the site. Since I have been primarily doing the blog approvals/disapprovals anyhow, and since Wayne and Bart have been both away, and Dr Dawg is on a leave of absence while his partner is fighting cancer, that leaves myself and James Bowie to make sure the site doesnt self-destruct til Wayne gets back and/or Bart returns from vacation
James is still a fairly new moderator, so blog maintenance and so on is more or less left to me.
We’ve never had a litmus test really on blogs and how much political content they need to have. We all like a change of pace from that occasionally. There are quite frankly at least 2 blogs on now (not Polly’s!) that I’m lucky to see 1 political writing every 2-3 weeks. But, since they were some of the first original members of the place before things got really big really fast, they’ve been left alone - as have any other blogs that deal a fair deal in personal blogs.
Its the “new” blogs applying to us for membership that we carefully check for both what they say politically and also how much politics they post.
RP: Right back atcha…!
Salena: You’re going to get more than a fruit basket. Can you say “floral arrangement?” Good, I’m glad you can. You’ll be getting bacon. Also, you need a gravatar.
Polly: It’s nice to hear from you again! I just don’t know where you got this “successful comic” thing from, but I’ll just smile politely and say “Yeah.” Also, you mentioned “out-of-control feminism.” I didn’t know there such a thing as “controlled feminism.”
Saksboy: That’s not a bad tip, actually. But I prefer to bombard the progblog space with my upcoming 73-part series: Pictures of Kitties In Diapers.
Scott: Wait… if you don’t have “people,” who were those hirsute people I traded campfire songs with the other night?
That succesful comic-comment by Polly is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen on Gluemeat for months…
You didn\’t need to put even more emphasis on it, Jan.
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