Category: Blogs & Blogging

I know, I know

NewMexiKen will get off the basketball kick here soon. Nothing else much caught my imagination today — and the item below confirmed my own thinking about the last play of the Arizona season — but I will move along here shortly.

If you want, you can read about The Biggest F***ing Bastard on the Face of the Earth at The American Street.

That would be Tom DeLay, of course, but you knew that.

Oh, Dianne Wiest is 57 and Reba McEntire is 50.

Things

The sun is out, the snow is melting. Jerry Lewis is 79. James Madison was born on this date in 1751. The Grizzlies beat the Bulldogs. The URL newmexiken.com is one-year-old today. There have been just over 200,000 visits here during the year.

Update

There’s actually been a lot going on in NewMexiKen’s life this week. Furthermore, it all coincided with one of my periodic “why am I doing this moods.”

I think all should return to a more normal blogging routine soon.

Not that my normal blogging is anything worth holding your breath waiting for.

NewMexiKen

In February there were 33,781 visits to 107,740 NewMexiKen pages from 22,881 different IP addresses in more than 100 countries.

But who’s counting?

Update

Three-fourths of the Sweeties were visiting for the past several days to help Grandpa celebrate his birthday. (They brought their moms, official NewMexiKen daughters Jill and Emily.) They’re all off for home today, but the new carpet is being installed this week, so blogging may remain light while I empty the house, then refill it.

Round up

At the Daily Howler, Bob Somerby complains about the media’s inability (and the Democrats inability, too) to frame an understanding of Social Security so there can be an informed discourse.

In an op-ed piece entitled The Washington Post:

David W. Anderson is resigning as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs after one year on the job, saying he can do more to help Indians by working in the private sector.

Anderson is the Dave of Famous Dave’s barbeque restaurants. Guess he found the BIA a little tougher than the restaurant business.

At Beats Per Minute there’s a quick review of Tony Hillerman’s Skeleton Man by someone who grew up on the Navajo Reservation.

Christopher Reynolds gives up the Wild West column at the Los Angeles Times and tells us Six truths from the wild before packing it in.

Letterman did a salute to Johnny Carson last night (he was away last week). The monologue consisted entirely of jokes Carson had sent him. “Getting a call from Carson with jokes was ‘like Christmas morning, for God’s sake,’ Letterman said.” CNN.com has the story.

And there’s this from Dwight Perry’s Sideline Chatter:

Dan Daly of the Washington Times, noting broadcaster Dick Vitale will be 72 by the time his new contract with ESPN and ABC expires in 2012: “Here’s hoping he isn’t a Diaper Dandy by then.”

Blahs

NewMexiKen is trying — really — to find something worth linking to or writing about, but inspiration is lacking.

If you’ve seen Million Dollar Baby, there’s an article in today’s New York Times about the controvesy emerging over it. (DON’T go there is you haven’t seen the movie. Major plot revelation!).

Today in History (from the Library of Congress) has some stuff about John C. Frémont — he was “court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders” on this date in 1848. Frémont was ahead of his times — all style and public relations and very little true ability.

Charles Pierce, writing at Altercation, tries to put some perspective on the Iraqi election yesterday, but it’s too soon to see what it all meant, and NewMexiKen would just as soon celebrate the accomplishment until we know more.

Josh Marshall continues on Social Security, doing good work I suppose, but is there really only one issue meriting analysis these days?

The Albuquerque Tribune has an nice article on Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Cuarac, the Quarai mission church.

And Sideline Chatter has some trash talk about Spiro Agnew’s golf game. Always glad to see negative stuff on Agnew, without a doubt the most venal man ever in America’s two top offices.

Busy Busy Busy

Thanks mostly to a lot of people Googling to find Ron Howard’s little brother (that would be Clint Howard) and lots of other esoterica, this is already NewMexiKen’s busiest month ever — with a couple of days left.

As of this morning, 21,777 visits in January.

Mommy (and Me)

From the www.myperfectchild.com, had the Internet arrived half a century earlier, it is hard to imagine her going head to head with Ben MacNeil, who has chronicled his year-and-a-half-old daughter’s every nap, bottle feeding and diaper change (3,379, at last check) on the Trixie Update (trixieupdate.com).

Today’s parents – older, more established and socialized to voicing their emotions – may be uniquely equipped to document their children’s’ lives, but what they seem most likely to complain and marvel about is their own. The baby blog in many cases is an online shrine to parental self-absorption.

All blogging is a shrine to self-absorption. Interesting article nonetheless, with a great photo of Leta sitting next to her mother Heather Armstrong (www.dooce.com)