My lovely and brilliant best friend Quinn once theorized that the giving and receiving of blog comments is like a Kula Ring, where one achieves status through engaging in reciprocal exchanges of goods (comments) with an ever-expanding group of people.
The goods themselves do not have any inherent monetary value, it is the number of exchanges one engages in that raises you to a higher status in the community. She's a clever one, eh?
Ah Blogger, how I love you/hate you. You give me an exciting new autosave feature, but you disable comments randomly on new posts. The Blogger he giveth and the Blogger he taketh away.
So it's not that I don't want to hear from you...We just seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties...
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Doing My Part to Make You Feel Better about Your Knitting
About Me
- Ariel
- Bay Area knitter, writer, and trained (though not practicing) librarian.
What I'm Reading
Recently Finished
- Adulthood Rites
- Dawn
- Birthmarked
- The Woodcutter
- The Calling
- The Gathering
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- The Beekeepers' Apprentice
- The Trinity Game
- Ashen Winter
- Garment of Shadows
- Telegraph Avenue
- Kill the Dead
- Delirium
- A Game of Thrones (again)
- Stardust
- Sandman Slim
- The Reckoning
- The Awakening
- The Summoning
- The Wordy Shipmates
- The Sisters Brothers
- Fire Study
- Magic Study
- Poison Study
- The Scourge
- Outpost
- Girl of Nightmares
- Under the Never Sky
- Crimson Joy
- Pale Kings and Princes
- Enclave
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- Unfamiliar Fishes
- Taming a Seahorse
- Early Autumn
- My Horizontal LIfe
- Ashfall
- A Catskill Eagle
- Chaotic: A Novella
- Valediction
- The Widening Gyre
- Ceremony
- A Savage Place
- Looking for Rachel Wallace
- The Judas Goat
- Spell Bound
- Promised Land
- Eve
- Mortal Stakes
- Waking the Witch
- God Save the Child
- Shadow and Bone
- The Alchemyst
- The Declaration
- Ready Player One
- The Godwulf Manuscript
- Blood, Bones, and Butter
- Pirate King
- The Name of the Star
- The Grimm Legacy
- Chew Volume 3: Just Desserts
- Horns
- Heart-Shaped Box
- The City and the City
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns)
- Anna Dressed in Blood
- Fables: Homelands
- Chew: Taster's Choice
- Fables: The Mean Seasons
- Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
- Beautiful Creatures
- A Discovery of Witches
- The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Knife of Never Letting Go
- River Marked
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
- The Replacement
- Ship Breaker
- The Night Circus
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- The Sapphire Rose
6 comments:
Yeah - what's up with that! Bad Blogger, Bad!
Reading the Ramayana, Bhagavad Gitta, Norse Myths, Gilgamesh by the time you were ten? Dude. I am seriously impressed.
Thanks for the warning about blogger....I hate to think how long it might have been before I'd have noticed otherwise. ><
Oooh, I hadn't noticed that. Actually, I did notice it on one blog, but I thought she turned her comments off on purpose. Thanks for the heads up. Here's hoping they fix that glitch soon!
That's an interesting (and accurate, I think) way of thinking about comments :)
What I meant to say on the last post: Thanks for playing! A single sleeve liberation movement-- ha! THAT sounds like it would be difficult to recover from :)
Thanks for tagging me! I desperately need an excuse to post. It's ridiculous. I am a very negligent blogger of late.
While I am ever grateful for the props, I feel it is necessary to point out that I did not say anything nearly that coherent. What I did was confuse the gift exchange with some kind of yam-based ceremony. Or yam-based currency. I'm not sure which. But I'm pretty sure that you will figure out the whole yam thing way before me. That makes you the brilliant one, sweetie.
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