Meow of the Day...
...goes to Stuart Elliot of the New York Times for this little bit:
And Quaker Oatmeal will host house parties on Tuesday morning in 11 cities -- Washington included -- where women who write so-called mommy blogs will serve breakfast to friends and other guests before they watch coverage of the ceremonies.
Be careful with the thinly-veiled disdain, dude, before I bludgeon you with my Master's degree from Northwestern and my prybar.
The last time I felt that kind of chill from the mainstream media, I was attending a dinner with an editor from This Old House who sniffed, "Nice work if you can get it" upon hearing that I was a houseblogger. (She sat there in her carefully tailored NYC designer jacket and her high heels while I wondered if she talked to Norm Abram with that mouth. I believe I had just given birth two weeks prior and parts of my house were still boarded up.)
For Pete's sake, Stuart! We're women who have brains and opinions and street cred and experience and careers...who also write blogs. Well, the other so-called mommy bloggers have those. I just have an awful house story that unfolded in the early days like a slow moving car wreck.
What I guess I'm trying to say, Stuart, is that you can just call us "bloggers".
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Comments
I think you should write to him as a so-called journalist.
Posted by: Amy | January 15, 2009 4:28 PM
I think you should write to him as a so-called journalist.
Posted by: Amy | January 15, 2009 4:31 PM
Completely agreed. Have you ever read "Are Women Human?" GOOD BOOK! Nice and short and to the point. I'll bring it for you on Sunday.
Posted by: Sarah | January 15, 2009 4:33 PM
I like that as a blog title. "My So Called Blog" I'm totally stealing that as a tag line. And it got me thinking of that teen angst sitcom. I loved that one for the short time it was on. Remember with Claire Danes?
Btw Oatmeal post was hilarious. You are so funny. Glad you are back to so called blogging.
Posted by: mischris | January 16, 2009 3:06 AM
I think you should challenge this A-Hole to clean his house & host an oatmeal party by Tuesday, AND to restore a house worth of windows while he's at it.
I'm interested - how many housebloggers are women? Almost all of those I read are - and most of us are the ones who are doing the heavy lifting with the renovation, in addition to most of the writing. Can you figure out the demographics from Houseblogs?
Posted by: Sarah | January 16, 2009 8:13 AM