Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

So, have you noticed that dog rhymes with blog?

I wonder about this whole internet thing. It’s like, you can get out of jail or a mental institution, and within an hour have a new screen persona, blog, and personal ad — just like that.

I mean, I KNOW that my friend Melissa, who wrote the review of Grace on Grays Ferry, is a real person. She has not recently been in jail, nor has she recently been institutionalized.

She does, however, have a dog. And dog still rhymes with blog.

Melissa makes no mention of dogs in her review (save for use as a food — “hot dogs”) but she does mention how pleased she is to have rights to post on a blog.

I can’t help but wonder — what if I started a blog, and everyday posted the same thing?

“The Blog.”

“The Blog.”

Or should I not capitalize the “B”?

Maybe I should buy blog.com and do this. I mean, that would be pretty minimalist, wouldn’t it?

Or would it be post-modern minimalism?

Something else, perhaps?

“The Blog.”

Are there any great (or not so great, but even mildly good) intellectual/artist movements going on right now?

This sorta illuminates one of the challenges of the modern age — none of us know where we fit in any more. Without the challenge of a great movement, what good is a minimalist, post-modern minimalist, or even retro-type blog?

“The Blog.”

“The Blog.”

The thought has occurred to me that using “The Dog” as a metaphor for “The Blog” might constitute a new movement, similar to dada-ism, but do I really want it written on my tombstone that my greatest contribution to this life was that I came up with post-modern minimalist dada-ism?

There would be no life at the end of the vine for that (how does nonsense evolve further? Into more nonsense? Less?) So I would be stuck out there, a footnote in textbooks about post-modern minimalism.

“The Blog.”

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