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Cheese Month Continues at MetaGrrrl Dot Com 2005
I think if I was to start over today, I might just do a LiveJournal instead of a blog. I know many of you may be shocked to hear me say it, but reading a couple years of one has given me a clear sense of how good they are for making a community. The regular commenters, the interplay of conversations and memes, I like it all a lot.
It helps, of course, that Gordonzola's a really good writer and has a fantastic group of regulars in his comment threads. Plus with material like memories of childhood, thoughtful analyses of 20th century political theory, stories of retail hell, punk this & that, and YES! cheese, it's hard to go wrong.
Plus these comment threads. Too fun! This is from a discussion of Asiago cheese:
"Wake up, people!" says Anarqueso, "Gordonzola said 'It’s sharp, salty and has that slight vomit aftertaste of an Italian provolone. Oh, I’m not supposed to say vomit… is that what piquant means?' God, is anyone even reading this? Yes, he said vomit, and yes, it does taste like it, and, hello?! that's a bad thing. Bad, not good.
Spoonfeeding replies "yes, but so does blue cheese, and does that gross me out? no, I fucking love it. if you encase a cat in it, I'll eat it. I don't care."
These are my kind of people. Cheese freaks.
Posted on December 9, 2005 at 09:00 PM in Food and Drink | Permalink
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Another fabulous conversation:
Ilipodscrill: thanks for covering that shift. the whole trip would've been kind of a waste if i'd had to leave sunday afternoon.
Gordonzola: I saw the pics, it looked great. Just because I'm nice I won't put the one of someone grabbing your crotch as wallpaper on the cheese computer. ;)
Loolica: you have a computer made of cheese?
SO jealous.
Lapsed: Emmentaler Inside (tm)
Posted by: Dinah at Dec 13, 2005 8:04:52 PM
So do you have an LJ account for the purposes of reading?
Posted by: Lee at Dec 14, 2005 11:30:44 AM
But of course. And the profile page for it points back here. It's "metagrrrl" (surprise, surprise) if you want to friend me.
Posted by: Dinah at Dec 14, 2005 8:13:18 PM
Done. Now you can figure out who I am. :)
Posted by: Lee at Dec 15, 2005 1:24:25 AM
Of course, you would probably start a live journal now that several other popular bloggers have mentioned having private livejournals and other switching to live journals already.
Honestly, do you ever do anything other than follow? I use to enjoy your site. But you seem to just tag along with everyone else. GTD? You started writing about it months after it broke, like it was some new deal. Now this live journal rant when it's already been passed around the web.
I'm disappointed, really. Thanks for the previous years, though. I'm sad you changed.
Posted by: danf at Dec 15, 2005 9:12:58 PM
*snork* Even almost a year later this Dan F. comment cracks me up & befuddles me. I wonder if he ever got that t-shirt that says "I have nothing to do but read blogs and therefore only consider acceptable topics those which haven't been talked about by other people over 24 hours ago". Dude, if I finally got around to reading Madame Bovary and posted on that would I be a "follower"?
Sigh. It's amazing that even after all these years people still get confused about this being a personal site not a news site. If ya don't like what I say, quit standin' on my front steps complaining about the conversation on the porch!
Posted by: Dinah at Oct 22, 2006 12:01:59 PM
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