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Monday, August 24, 2009

Teh Internets It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:20 PM

Steven Blum has a great blog post up that mocks the idea of neighborhood blogs by envisioning an average Ravennablog post.

12:00am:
A very self-assured man just walked by wearing a tie-die t-shirt that was clearly too large for his frame. Asked him why he felt so confident wearing something so hideous, but he waved his hands and said "no comment." Could tie into recession-era clothing story. Come back to this later.

It's a very funny piece of writing (and the comment thread, which is kicked off with a comment from West Seattle Blog, is pretty funny, too). Go check it out.

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Did the former public intern find a job finally?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on August 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM

The comment "thread" has only two comments in it. Or am I missing something? Is this a setup by some local version of /4chan/ ?

Posted by Beetlecat on August 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM

Yeah, I feel like I'm missing the joke and the comments' relevance here. Are you sure this is the right link?!?

Posted by Say what? on August 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM

This must be some new definition of "very funny" that I have never encountered before.

Posted by Gus on August 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM

I live in Roosevelt, so I find it amusing. What kind of kills the funny for me, however, is the lack of realization that there is indeed a Ravenna neighborhood blog:

http://www.ravennanation.com/

Posted by lbd on August 25, 2009 at 7:07 AM