Weekly Zeitgeist

By: Steve - March 6, 2005

Hrm, hrm hrm. Folks, it’s been a weird week. It’s my great pleasure to report that the ugly bitterness that epitomizes the Bloggernacle has returned in some measure, and I’d like to think that I’ve played no small role. Once again, however, our ‘Nacularity remains a moving target, that not even the prophetic posts of yours truly could devine. Let’s recap, shall we?

  • The Mormon Archipelago puts out an extremely useful, novel aggregator that gathers all the best of the Bloggernacle in one searchable spot. The ‘Nacle emits a collective yawn.
  • William Morris tries his hand at an interview. A cynic would encourage him to stick with his usual editorializing, instead of the softballs lobbed at his target, an interesting author/poet. But not Yours Truly!
  • Pris posts a series of cool journals about joining the Church. Journal entries from my own baptismal year largely relate to Han Solo and Wonder Woman.
  • Jordan Fowles ponders the best way to get his neighbors drunk. Some advice: try boilermakers. Cheap, but effective.
  • Wilfied Decoo posts a moving story on Alessia, which spawns a flurry of semi-activist responses and a slough of bloggernacle spam.
  • Oh, and yeah, Feminist Mormon Housewives becomes the first ‘Nacle site to receive a writeup in the other Times. Backhanded congratulations come from all over. Lisa, come back when you get Slashdotted, like other blogs we like — then we’ll be impressed.

Kids, what lessons can we learn from this past week? We’ve learned that no good deed or great acheivement is appreciated or welcomed. We’ve learned that really, our own navels are pretty cool. And we’ve learned that the best way to help out strangers is to bug other Mormons. Future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades. This week’s zeitgeist winner: Times and Seasons, which bests all others at navel-gazing, scornful reproach, and spam. Alas, BCC was not the winner, as I predicted, as it merely put out the most engaging, thoughtful posts in the Bloggernacle….again. Top five themes this week were:

  1. Alessia
  2. Navel-gazing
  3. Special acheivements
  4. Polygamy, polyandry, and other variants
  5. Women in the Church

This week, my crystal ball sees yet more silliness, pop culture references and supercilious efforts at deep philosophy. This would naturally lead me to predict next week’s winner as T&S, but just to mix it up I’ll throw my weight behind Splendid Sun.

13 Comments

  1. Steve, you aren’t related to Sibyl Trelawney by chance, are you?

    Comment by Bryce I — March 7, 2005 @ 7:52 am

  2. LOL Bryce, it’s tough to foresee the weavings of our dark Bloggernacle ways.

    Comment by Steve Evans — March 7, 2005 @ 8:17 am

  3. You know BCC has become a monolith when one of its founders users one of tis posts as a link to the Mormon Archipelago rather than pointing the link to the Mormon Archipelago itself.

    Comment by Kim Siever — March 7, 2005 @ 8:52 am

  4. “…uses one of its posts…”

    Sorry.

    Comment by Kim Siever — March 7, 2005 @ 8:52 am

  5. You’re right Kim, yet another example of how those BCC jerks operate. Something should be done!!

    Comment by Steve Evans — March 7, 2005 @ 10:22 am

  6. Steve:
    are you the pot or the kettle?

    Comment by William Morris — March 7, 2005 @ 11:13 am

  7. Hey, man, I’m all kinds of black, no question! LOL. But that doesn’t prevent me from being a big snark, now, does it?

    Comment by Steve Evans — March 7, 2005 @ 11:26 am

  8. Oh, big snark is the preferred term, is it? I was thinking of something else.
    :-P

    Comment by William Morris — March 7, 2005 @ 11:29 am

  9. “Something should be done!”

    I agree. I think someone should make up a batch of fried chicken.

    Comment by Kim Siever — March 7, 2005 @ 1:05 pm

  10. I hope this isn’t obnoxious, but I just stumbled upon a site selling T-shirts and stuff that say “nobody knows I’m a liberal mormon”. It cracked me up. http://www.cafepress.com/loveliberal

    I guess there are plenty of us out there.

    Comment by Christy — March 10, 2005 @ 11:16 am

  11. Alas, Christy, it is indeed obnoxious, especially when you’re doing comment spam across the Bloggernacle.

    Comment by Steve Evans — March 10, 2005 @ 11:39 am

  12. Huh. So her name is Christy. She posted as Anonymous on my blog. My wife thought I should’ve given her the benefit of the doubt. Looks like I was right. I booted her off immediately. I think she’s trying to profit of the FMH and the NYT event.

    Comment by Kim Siever — March 11, 2005 @ 8:49 am

  13. Whew, I am just happy that the “journal” or “personal” bloggers like me don’t have to undergo the Weekly Zeitgeist! :) It is somewhat of a relief not to be considered part of the bloggernizzle.

    I do enjoy reading about all the bloggernacle though! LOL!

    Comment by Aimee Roo — March 12, 2005 @ 10:26 am