{"id":829,"date":"2004-09-23T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/09\/is_blogging_over\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T16:12:46","slug":"is_blogging_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/09\/is_blogging_over.html","title":{"rendered":"IS BLOGGING OVER?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The brothel creeper<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is just as good as
\nBelle de Jour<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> ever was, maybe better. (Not to be confused
\nwith Robert Crumb’s grammatically correct Belle d’un jour<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.) But creeper is a one-time shot. Belle was
\nthere for us every day of the year. Sad, sad that she’s gone<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. (The Pentagon must
\nhave been reading her. It’s taken the romance out of joining up. See the clamp down<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> on prostitution.) Also gone<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>: The Minor Fall, the Major Lift. Or was it The
\nMinor Lift, the Major Fall. Uh, The Major Fall, the Minor Lift? I’ve forgotten already. Whatever,
\nmore sadness.<\/P>
\n

Yeah, yeah<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, the Guardian in
\nLondon and the Washington Post now have “Best Blog” competitions. “There’s hardly a major
\nnewspaper — from the Observer and the Evening Standard [also in London] to the New York
\nTimes and USA Today — that hasn’t published at least one lengthy feature on the growing
\ninfluence of blogs,” Paul Carr writes in an article on “Why bloggers are good for profits.” <\/P>
\n

Professors love blogging, too. It’s caught on in academe, the Chicago Tribune reports in a
\nrecent article that rolled out the usual suspects: Law professors Eugene
\nVolokh<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, Glenn Reynolds<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, Lawrence
\nLessig<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, and some others (Russell
\nArben Fox<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, Tim Burke<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, Brad DeLong<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>). The Trib hasn’t put that article online,
\nso no link. Funny, huh? And we’ve heard The Wall Street Journal loves bloggers, too (some more
\nthan others). Yeah, yeah, blogging has reached sea level.<\/P>
\n

Postscript:<\/B> Some have claimed the mysterious Belle is Martin Amis in drag. But
\naccording to the poet Leon Freilich<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, Belle is really
\nBella:

Bella, Bella,
Charged a fella;
He wanted gash,
Hadda pay
\ncash.
And really, why not?
She’s hot, he’s hot;
When ya gotta get in,
It ain’t
\nno sin.
Guy knows virtue
Can really hurt you.
Suffer no more —
Hire a
\nwhore.<\/I>

That’s what St. Augustine used to say before he took the gloomy
\npledge.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The brothel creeper is just as good as Belle de Jour ever was, maybe better. (Not to be confused with Robert Crumb’s grammatically correct Belle d’un jour.) But creeper is a one-time shot. Belle was there for us every day of the year. Sad, sad that she’s gone. (The Pentagon must have been reading her. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}