Friday, August 27, 2004
(7:28 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Monica Appreciation Day
[Before I begin today, I'd like to note that yesterday, there were posts from seven out of eight of The Weblog's contributors. The "recent posts" column reflects this unprecedented productivity and diversity of voices. We are truly becoming multiple: a group-blogging force to be reckoned with. (In fact, since everyone is so eager to post now, I might just take a vacation and let them handle things for a while -- oh, wait, I forgot about my crippling Internet addiction. Never mind.)]Due to the fortunate proximity of Monica's return to the blogging world yesterday and the feast of St. Monica, mother of Augustine, today, I felt it would be appropriate to take some time out to commemorate the bearer of the greatest tanline ever (googlebomb, anyone?). It's even more appropriate, given that St. Monica's name, being Latin in origin, is pronounced with a long O, just as Ms. Bennett's is. Hopefully if Monica ever bears a son, he will not turn out to be as big a pervert as St. Monica's was.
Further reinforcing the coincidence, Monica begins her tour with the Tingle Showcase tonight in Chicago, at the Ice Factory at 526 N. Ashland. She has advised people to arrive around 9:30. I encourage everyone to attend.
In an effort to economize on posts, I am also going to use this post as an opportunity to continue everyone's favorite Friday ritual:
My confession is that I momentarily gave into the sophistry of despair while beginning the process of application for graduate study. I also took it disproportionately personally when my paper was turned down by Theology Today, even though that resulted primarily from their practice of normally soliciting papers for theme issues (a policy I was unaware of when submitting my paper -- I doubt they even read it). I harbored feelings of ill-will toward co-workers this week, for crimes no more serious than conforming to their normal behavioral patterns. I confess that it's kind of unfair that Monica gets an appreciation day before Anthony, given that Robb has had like three and even Adam Robinson has had one, but the coincidence with the liturgical calendar and her tour calendar was simply so overwhelming that I couldn't help myself.
Blog-related confessions: I'll confess that Friday is my favorite blog-day. That means that I have noticed blogosphere-wide patterns that make Friday a more relaxed day -- without being for all that an especially slow day, like Saturday and Sunday. I'll also confess that there are certain blogs I only read during slow times at work, because they're informative enough that I don't feel like my work time is wasted, but they're too deep for me to want to use them as a momentary distraction during my home time, which is normally taken up with academic work (at least it's always potentially taken up with academic work, even if the only concrete result is a looming cloud of guilt as I talk on Instant Messenger).
To conclude my confessions, I confess that I woke up this morning with the theme music for "Days of Our Lives" running through my head. I have no explanation.
In any case, happy Monica Appreciation Day to all -- and what better way, aside from attending Tingle Showcase, to celebrate it than by being washed whiter than snow in the cleansing waters of HaloScan?
