I just stepped in a big pile of sassy!

*apologies in advance for “excessive/abundant” use of quotations/slash marks-hyphenates and parenthesis (in this “post”)

I was at a party last night and someone brought up that they felt blogs were/are “on the(ir) way out.”
Does anyone agree with this statement?
From what I read, most often, people are writing about newspapers being “on their way out”

With big name bloggers from the beginnings of blog time (see kottke and megnut) shacking up and blogging less often, I could see fuel for that fire.
One wonders, however, if they are simply “growing up” and see blogs as something from their youth? It’s interesting to ponder.
I don’t know if marriage/adulthood/turning 30/40 is really a viable reason for quitting blogging, as I read many top notch married bloggers.

The bottom line, as someone pointed out last night, is that blogs or the “blogosphere” are/is changing.

I think the good/quality/enjoyable bloggers will stick around for the long haul and the fad bloggers will eventually give up and fade away.
Blogs are here to stay, but not stay the same.

What do you think?

Oh the Minneapolis Snow Emergency website, it says:
What’s happening today:

Thu, Feb 9, 2006 - Currently there is not a Snow Emergency in effect in the City of Minneapolis. Normal parking rules apply. If this should change, the web site will be updated.

Should’t it be “If this changes, the web site will be updated?”
Or is the way it’s written now just fine?

I’ve been studying grammar (obviously my blog writing doesn’t reflect that), and just about everything makes me wonder these days.

I must say I’m pretty amused by the response to this MN Speak post.

Not really sure what else to say to that, aside from mentioning that the comments are dripping with golly-gee-good-fun racial bias, and colossal amounts of classism.
It’s more amusing because a lot of the commenters seem to think they’re being “oh so PC” in their response, when in reality they look like giant idiots.

One reader comments:
I really fear the days when suburbs like Apple Valley (loaded with cheap and quickly constructed housing packed tightly together) become the new home to lower income people as the rest of us are pushed further and further out.

Let’s all run from the scary poor folk!

And another responds:
Whenever I drive through the suburbs, this is exactly what I think of. “Building the slums of tomorrow today.” Even the worst parts of Minneapolis have some great things going for them: adjacency to downtown, the river and lakes, historically interesting buildings. We’ve seen just these advantages at work in the revival of large sections of Phillips.

Thank you! - I’ll take history and community over sprawl and SUVs any day.

Laughing at all of the comments is even more amusing to me because I got beef with MNSpeak/Rex, who I believe is no longer in charge, for not letting me register on the site without publishing my last name in my profile. (Holy run-on-sentence, Batman!) Hello privacy! I’m full willing to let the folks who run the site know my last name, but I’d rather not have it posted on my MNSpeak profile. I was deleted for not including my last name when MANY others registered on the site either don’t have their last name posted or use a fake last name in their profile.
Oh, it’s all about who you know. And I’m not in with the in crowd.
Furthermore, I’m fine with Jason Derusha and his blog but I don’t feel the need to fawn all over him on the internet. Seriously, folks. Calm down. He’s a news person. In Minnesota. Who has a blog. He is not, I repeat not Prince - though I have often wondered how he’d look in platform heels… Pretty, pretty.

Link to me all you like (and, hell, I like it), I’m still going to be bitter because I got booted. You’re missing out kids, that’s all I’m saying. Your loss, my whine.

BEEF!

Edited to add: I did not comment on the MNSpeak post. There are some commenters with my same first name. None of them are me. I always link to myself.

“I’m here for my prescription, and 6,000 cookies”

Sadly the article is far less interesting than its title.

Dude’s got a mad case of the munchies!

via Boing Boing

This guy fixes computers in exchange for sex.
Now, I wouldn’t do so for strangers, but a couple of weeks ago I did help someone out with virus and spyware problems on their compy…
hah.
Really, though - the computer that I “fix” most often is my mom’s.
In case there was any doubt, Sassy don’t play that.

I think I’m in love.
With Tom Green’s blog.
What’s that you say?
Yes, it’s mind-numbingly good.

He posts long, monotonous video clips.
He’s a jackass with a heart of gold - AND - he posted his phone number on his blog - what’s not to love?

Have you ever wondered if there’s anything original on the internet?
Anything factual?
Well I can’t speak for facts, but as for originality…

I was about to make a post and the post that I was about to make would have gone something like… this.

Oh my goodness.
Not only did my brother discover my best friend (from 1992) on myspace earlier tonight…
I FOUND MY JR. HIGH BOYFRIEND!
Insanity!
Anyhow, his profile says he only likes blondes and redheads with long hair, so I’m out of the running.
Damn the luck!
I was *this close* to “friending” him, too.
heh.

Well well well.
Randy Constan (”Peter Pan”) has become a Jesus-freak.
Can’t say I’m surprised.
Also, he has released a CD at the young age of 51.
The music is AWFUL (you can listen to clips on his site). I wish it was good, for “element of surprise’s” sake.

I wonder if he’ll still be doing the pixy theatrics in the nursing home…

Oh, Randy.

What I love most? His website (layout) is so outdated, yet… he updates it.
He’s never growing up, never improving his site.
nanny nanny boo boo.

Some call it “Netiquette,” I do not.

1) Nobody really wants to read your boring mundane every day thoughts and musings. They aren’t original, you’re boring (no, really!).
Honestly - just get over yourself. I’m sure some people care, but don’t get a big head.

2) Don’t EVER end a friendship by “de-friending” (great verbiage, I know) someone on LiveJournal. Have the sense to talk to them before it gets to that level (this happened to me once, a big part of the reason that I am not a huge fan of the old L J).

3) Sending an E-MAIL does not give you the right to be rude. The same common courtesies of every day conversation DO apply. Grow up and have a backbone. If you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, don’t say it over e-mail.

4) STOP YELLING AT ME! Caps lock makes the baby Jesus cry.

5) Snarky comments are in poor taste and are rarely appreciated. Keep them to yourselves and know your audience. More often than not, your comment isn’t funny and neither are you.

6) SpEl cheQ iz ur fr3nd. ‘Nuff said.

7) Get over yourself. Awesomesupercool (wow4337haX0r) people on the internet can be jackasses in real life. And they often are.

I’ve got more coming later.

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Respect.