Bumper sticker
Greg at Daddy Types wrote last week about the silly NY Times article about parental bragging. He noted that they cite Unequal Childhoods and was kind enough to point out my book review from last year.
But the part that made me spit-take was "Her car probably has an "I SO blogged this before you" bumper sticker on it."
It doesn’t, but I think I might need to order one. Anyone else want one? It’s probably cheaper if we do a bulk order.
It is true that sometimes I don’t have the energy for real life conversations on topics that I’ve blogged heavily about. I want to say "look, read these three posts, and then we’ll talk." I don’t, of course, but it’s tempting.
(By the way, is it supposed to take Technorati four days to find a new link?)
January 9th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
I find Technorati worse than useless… it takes up my precious surfing time and gives little info in return. I find links to my blogs in my referrer logs long before Technorati figures it out.
January 9th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
I almost emailed you to give you the heads-up, but then I had to clean up cat pee, so you know.
Sorry.
January 9th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
I’d love that bumper sticker!
The article was just plain silly, which is exactly what I expect from the Style section.
January 9th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
I want that bumper sticker. Or something like “Get out of my way or I’ll blog you.” The old ladies would have no clue. They might think it’s something horrible. I have thought about getting a vanity plate that says Geeky Mom. I think I need a new car first. Either way, it’s totally geeky. 🙂
January 10th, 2006 at 9:58 am
I know what you mean! There have been a couple of huge things happen to me this fall that I blogged extensively about, and when people in “real life” wanted to know about them, I could only summon the energy to tell them “Go read my blog if you want to know more!”
Which kind of leads to another discussion, actually, and that is – why are most of the people I know in real life not bloggers? My friends, for the most part, don’t even know what blogs are. I find I live a very dual life, really – sharing so much with people on the Internet, and not so much with people in my real life, all because of the blog.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:02 am
I think Technorati has some serious issues about indexing Typepad blogs. It picks up Blogger stuff almost immediately, but doesn’t seem to have a handle on Typepad at all.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:12 am
LOL, great bumper sticker idea.
However, to go back to the original NYT article, I think it’s evidence (yet again) about how the Times is sooo focused on the weird lives of the upper middle class in a few major urban areas. It’s their readership, so that shouldn’t be shocking, but I think it’s inappropriate to extrapolate the experiences of NYC private school students to public school students elsewhere…
Having grown up in a rural area, where a preschool entrance exam consists of “Had her shots? Is she three yet?”, I always interpreted the “My student is an honor roll student” bumper stickers as an attempt to validate academic achievement in an environment where academic success is considered somewhat dorky and lame.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:23 am
I definitely want one. And I soooo find myself saying, “well, I was just talking about this the other day” when I actually mean, I just blogged about it.
And I’ve had similar problems with Technorati.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Yes, to comment on the NYTimes piece, it reminded me once again of how hostile the NYT is to parents. Every few weeks they do it again: look at these rude children! Look at these rude parents! I’m not exactly holding my breath waiting for the NYT to say anything even child-neutral. I agree with Mrs. Coulter. In the midwest at least often these honor roll bumper stickers are competing with football team bumper stickers, trying to put academic achievement on the map, as it were.
January 10th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
With TimesSelect, you can e-mail the columnists. Last Sunday, I sent David Brooks all the links to the blog posts on Hirshman with a comment like “been there, blogged that”.
January 10th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Laura, no you didn’t.
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
January 10th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Oh, Laura, you rock…