This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Him Blogs
May
12
2009
I was wandering around some blogs the other day and discovered that I was lost. I had been reading my sister’s blog and followed a link to MckMama’s blog. I had participated in one of MckMama’s Not Me Monday events, and so I was looking at the other participants. Well, not them, but their screen names. I noticed that they were all female. I felt very out-of-place.
Ah-ha. I saw a guy among the women at MckBlog. “Lazy Phil” it was. So I clicked on the link and it took me to the blog of the “Lazy Philosopher“. Entertaining, but that philosopher happened to be female. I couldn’t find any sort of biography on Lazy Phil, but since Lazy Phil attends a Ladies’ Bible Study, I am assuming she is female.
I saw that a lot of these blogs belonged to a group/website at blogher.com. I wondered “Maybe there’s a bloghim.com too.” Of course the domain is taken, but it is just a landing page that has ads and is of no use to anyone. It’s a shame all the good names are taken and not put to good use. That’s why I have someblogsite.com – the dozens of other names I tried were taken.
Then I followed a link from my sister’s blog to BooMama’s blog. I flipped through and saw a recap of American Idol and there were some other blogs that linked to that post. I saw one belonging to “Scott”, so I followed that one because, having learned from “Phil”, I could not think of any other word whose abbreviation is “Scott”.
It was like being a kid when your parents had company over for dinner, and you are sitting there while they make polite conversation but you’re wondering “Where’s the stuff that I like?” And you’re wearing nice clothes, not your comfortable clothes. It was like someone had come into the room and told you that all the other kids are having fun in the other room and you should go there. Note to self: get a better analogy, one that doesn’t equate women with adults and men with kids. That tired sitcom formula of man-bad/woman-good needs to end. Not that this analogy does that explicitly, but someone could incorrectly infer that. Mine’s just an out-of-placey analogy that doesn’t also involve males and females.
Honey, I Fed The Kids was different, refreshingly so, from those female blogs. That’s blogs by females, not female blogs. I think blogs themselves are neutral. Like Christian blogs. No, the blogs are not going to heaven, so they’re not Christian blogs (thanks Justin). But they are blogs by Christians.
If you’ve watched American Idol this season, then you’ll appreciate this post by Scott. If you’ve ever watched the Muppets, and are aware of the American Idol judges, then you’ll appreciate this post by Scott’s wife. And I followed a comment from Scott’s blog to the Big Doofus blog, and it was equally entertaining.
There’s really not much of a point to this post, so thanks for reading to the end.
“but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.”
– Acts 10:35
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 10:42 pm and has been carefully placed in the Fun category.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:16 am
The word “Christian” is a wretched creature these days, much abused as an adjective and — sadly — too often schmaltzy and second-rate as a genre of music or as a subsection of art. When someone asks me if a band is a “Christian band,” I’m careful to make the distinction between Christian as a description of faith and Christian as a genre of music, mainly because several of the bands I enjoy are comprised of Christians but do not confine themselves to the Christian genre.
In conclusion, we need a new term devoted specifically to describing actual human followers of Jesus Christ.
May 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am
I am always amazed how many “female blogs” are out there. There is a never-ending supply. I think nowadays when you have a baby they must send you home from the hospital with instructions on feeding, bathing, diaper changing and mom blogging. Which is why I wonder sometimes why I keep it up.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
All blogs go to heaven.