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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Holy crap, I made the big time.

As a little blogger it's always your hope that your ideas might be picked up by someone larger. Normally, these fantasies involve the big blogs we know and like that largely share our viewpoint, Atrios, Firedoglake, Josh Marshall, etc.

So, how do I feel about making The Hotline's Blogometer? Way down the page, but I'm bracketed between Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Democratic Daily, and Talkleft. That's some pretty big company, eh?

Big ups to blog friend Reality Based Educator who got a whole paragraph of exerpt.

posted by mikevotes at 2:25 PM

9 Comments:

  • I thank you effusively for the compliments, but I don't think I can with a clear conscience accept the compliment of concision.

    You see, I have this habit, that is annoying to some, of extending my sentences with useless parenthetical expressions, much like this one, that I use to establish the timing of my sentences.

    It does tend to force phrasing and emphasis on the reader, but doesn't particularly lend itself to concision. Also, it occasionally creates ridiculously complicated structures.

    I had a girlfriend who used to blast me over my fiction, "That should be three sentences! Not one!"

    She's gone, the writing style remains. Ah, to live the ego driven life.

    My question really is how in the hell they found me. I'm definitely not on the mainstreet of the blogworld.

    Thanks again, though. I didn't intend to fish for compliments, but I always accept them.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:05 PM  

  • Way to go Mike, well deserved attention!

    They will soon need to put some extra sideboards up on the server, to hold in all of the extra traffic.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:12 PM  

  • Heartly congratulations. Well done!

    By Blogger Cartledge, at 3:19 PM  

  • Dude! Well deserved. Blog on.

    By Blogger QuakerDave, at 3:32 PM  

  • I am not worthy, Mike. Congrats on hitting the big time!

    By Blogger Reality-Based Educator, at 4:21 PM  

  • Thanks everybody, I really should've created this post without comments. Again, I wasn't fishing, I was just surprised, and figured that maybe, Like when I got nominated for the Koufax, somebody might step forward and say they put me on the hotline's radar.

    Thanks. Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:10 PM  

  • Very cool! I'm in awe.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:40 PM  

  • well deserved too.

    By Blogger Yukkione, at 9:00 PM  

  • Good deal Mike. Keep up the good work.

    By Blogger zen, at 10:42 PM  

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