Blogs, smlogs. I want one of these: Hey it’s cool and everything that a story about blogging is featured on the cover of the NYT magazine today, but the “changes everything” thing I’ve been waiting for since I was a kid is the subject of another story in the magazine.

rexblog bumper music: Outbound Plane (Nanci Griffith)

The primal urge to regulate: Ken Sorensen of River Heights, Utah, is gaining support from city officials for his proposal to require the town’s stores to cover “lewd” magazine covers (like WalMart does). The regulation may be a bit overkill as there are no stores in River Heights.

rexblog bumper music: Peek-a-Boo (Devo)

Unanticipated benefit of blogging: On a day like today when your team loses (for the second week in a row) a game it is leading in the fourth quarter, if you’ve maintained a blog for a few years, you can remind yourself that almost exactly two years ago, your team was 1-3 but you still blogged your belief that they could regroup and make a run for the Superbowl…and then, you can remind yourself that they did regroup and made it to within one disappointing game of the Superbowl. Since I have maintained a blog long enough to do that, I know it could happen again. However, I’m not as confident this year. McNair looked a bit in pain today and those around him looked overwhelmed. But I won’t give up.

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Don’t Give Up (Peter Gabriel)

Hurricanes suck: Or, technically, I guess, they blow. But as my family, including in-laws (who, after this long, are my family) have been in the path of each of the four hurricanes these past few weeks, I can only join in the chorus saying, enough already. Fortunately, no major problems for any of my kin, especially in comparison to their neighbors and friends…but still a continuous grinding on nerves and emotions. I have through church and friends, contacts in both Grenada and Haiti. Later in the day, I will be posting links to ways one can contribute funds directly to efforts in both those countries as well as in Florida and Alabama.

What? Me point out irony? Look, just because I’m a blogger who happens to blog a lot about magazines produced with ink and paper and just because I have a difficult time understanding the much debated paradigm in which blogging and old media are positioned as an “us” vs. “them” thing, doesn’t mean that I would be the kind of blogger who would observe some irony in my blogging brethren observing today that “the single biggest blog PR moment to date” is when a bloggerette (with, I might add, really attractive shoulders) appears on the cover of a magazine produced with ink and paper (and distributed in another big, old media produced with ink and paper) Oh, wait. I would be that kind of blogger.

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rexblog bumper music:Cover of the Rolling Stone (Dr. Hook)