There’s something obviously circular about The New York Review of Books running a round-up of books on blogs, a review I read online mind you. Sarah Boxer, who wrote one of her own despite finding the idea “dreadful” at first, makes some interesting observations about the last ten years or so in blogification. I’m impressed simply that she managed to describe bloggers’ free-wheeling spirit without deploying the word “anarchy”, something I don’t think I would’ve been able to do. She also notes the “porous” nature of blogs vs. books, their pesky links seducing readers to wander further astray and an inordinate fascination with super heroes. Also introduced early on is the big O.B. (original blogger) himself, Jorn Barger, who I, after spotting his dwarfish bearded visage, should have guessed was a paranoid Ohioan, from Yellow Springs no less.

Barger may believe The Jews run the world, but everyone knows it’s really the Ohioans, who are in essence forged by the nefarious ideologies of the Freemasons, Drew Carey and Jerry Springer.

Next: what, pray tell, does Grayson Currin mean by a Cincinnatian attitude?

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