Clayton’s Post #7
A Clayton’s Post (The post you have when you aren’t having a post).
Scratching together stuff I have seen during the week… purely for Larisa’s benefit… why have a feedreader when you have a Gnome?
But… here’s the thing Larisa, this week I have decided to take a different tack, I am going to provide my readers with a collection of worthwhile posts that you have at your fingertips, and most likely on your hard drive.
A tribute post
Yes, rather than trawling the Twisted Nether for a miscellany of posts, I am going to trawl the smoke blackened corners of the Pink Pigtail Inn and highlight those posts (past and present) that drew me to blogs (and blogging) in the first instance, and continue to provide a bar that I struggle daily to reach, let along clear.
I am going back a fair way… I think most readers tend to find a blog and read forward, rarely going back into the past. I was lucky enough to come across your blog as you started translating your posts into English… so I have been around since your 1st English posts, and was privileged enough to get that opportunity to read from the new-beginning.
Remember, this is only a sample of her Awesome Bloggyness… find yourself a few hours, a warm cuppa (or ice cold brew), throw another log on the fire, and read her from beginning to… well not the end, hopefully the Pink Pigtail goodness will go on for a long time to come.
February (Originally Swedish)
- Friday, February 8, 2008: Does your character reflect yourself?
- Sunday, February 3, 2008: To level quickly or with pleasure?
- Friday, February 8, 2008: Does your character reflect yourself?
- Wednesday, February 20, 2008: Measuring yourself
- Thursday, February 21, 2008: Divorce
- Wednesday, February 27, 2008: Secrets
- Friday, February 29, 2008: Questology
March
- Friday, March 21, 2008: The daily bad conscience
- Thursday, March 20, 2008: A small step for mankind – a giant leap for Larísa
- Sunday, March 9, 2008: Waiting for resurrection
- Tuesday, March 4, 2008: The pros and cons of being mage
April
- Monday, April 7, 2008: OK, here’s the big moment… Where Larisa jumps from Swedish obscurity, to front page English readers.
Larísa’s Corner – now in English! - Saturday, April 26, 2008: Arrggh Larisa turns to the bright side…
Fire mage is a way of life
May
- Tuesday, May 13, 2008: I bet she’s spewing now….
I killed my mount - This is about when I started reading… thanks to a post from Matticus.
May 18, 2008 by Matticus: 6 Upcoming Blogs to Add to Your Reader - Monday, May 26, 2008: The advantage of being cute
- Monday, May 26, 2008: Do you dare to ask for innervates?
June
- Tuesday, June 17, 2008: WoW, Blessing of Kings is one of my best referers too… thank you for just pressing the links to our sites all day
A few words about you - Thursday, June 19, 2008: Focus – where do you find it?
- Saturday, June 21, 2008:Larísa’s Corner becomes the The Pink Pigtail Inn: This could be my new home
- Monday, June 23, 2008: Roleplaying in the closet
- Thursday, June 26, 2008: Hard to resist the title… and it’s one of her favorite trinkets.
Gnomes, gnomes, gnomes - Thursday, June 26, 2008: The big move: I’m moving into this place
- Monday, June 30, 2008:
The post, that snowballed… I was lucky enough to jump on right at the beginning, and I think most of my readers will have discovered my blog due to my response
My last five hours in WoW
OK, from here on, it is all current history. There is a good chance that most Mage Blog readers have read everything since June 30 (if not before). If not, add her to your feed reader and keep an eye on the excellent stuff that she commits to the bits and bytes on the Twisted Nether.
Gnomer and Out!
“Gnomer and Out!”
That’s… actually pretty catchy!
Although I’m not a mage, I do try to make some kind of an effort to catch up on them every now and again. The ones that keep me coming back, ironically, are the non-mage columns.
Larisa’s a she right? Or is a he? Hmm…
I’ve always thought you were a bit nuts having me as one of your three recommended blogs on your front page. And I feel a bit worried about – what if you really don’t like me that much any more, maybe you just feel obliged to keep it once you’ve put it there? You’ve put yourself into a trap, my friend.
But now you’re coming up with a tribute post…. What an idea! It isn’t anything I’ve even heard of before.
Are you just out of your mind? You wonderful lovely stupid little burning gnome on the opposite side of the planet…
What can I possibly say? I get tears in my eyes and it’s in
the middle of the night – or rather looong after, and I really should be going to bed – I will as soon as I’ve finished this comment – but how do you expect me to sleep after this?
I’m not dying (what I know of). I’m not planning to stop blogging. And it’s not my birthday. I can’t figure out what gave you this idea but all I can say is, with all my heart: thank you. Thank you.
(I just hope I won’t get hate letters for killing my mount. It seemed to upset some people….)
@ Matticus: Yeah Larisa is a “she”. I think one of the things I love about the Pink Pigtail in, is that it is a Mage blog, but with much broader and insightful content. There are only rare days where you need to be a Mage to enjoy the content, although on those days you need to be an Arcane Mage
@ Larisa: Yep, your very own stalker… No I jest.
Your post the other day on what makes you love blogs inspired my tribute… and no you don’t need to be dead for a tribute post, but I guess I just saved myself some time if you ever do disappear off the blogsphere.
I guess that I just wanted to highlight, particularly for those that may have come across your blog late, that it is worth going through your blog history, as you didn’t just start writing quality posts yesterday.
It is the one problem with blogs.. lots of content, and from experience high quality content, but in a sequential manner. Usually when one starts to read a specific blog, one normally only has time to “read forward”, not take the time to review the back issues.
Ironically, the 2 people that have commented are the 2 that inspired me to be involved in blogging.
Matticus: Inspired me to read (and search out more) blogs.
Larisa: Inspired me to create my own.
And, I guess on top of that, Matticus is the inspiration for the Clayton’s posts. It was his post (noted above) that drew my attention to your blog, and if I can do a little bit of that on a weekly basis for others, then it is worth me reading those 400 odd posts that await me in my feedreader on a Monday morning.