The 250 Post Blog Evaluation

(just a tree on my street that I like: bluebells too!) Happy 250 Posts! I’ve decided to celebrate two types of Bloggiversaries on this blog. First, I will celebrate my annual blog-birthday, coming up in May. The other will be an honorable mention every 250 posts, of which is a pretty significant amount of posting, [...]

Mystery Solved: the case of a rhino with great hair

There was a reason for my post on my hair style links. First, I find it amazing that somewhere around 2/5 of web surfers per day land on my blog because of this picture. Second, I think I have found an interesting relationship between a canned hairstyle photo, and that of a rhinoceros. The other [...]

Bloggy McBloggerton xi

Today’s blogger introspective theme: What makes for a popular post? Is it the comments? Comments generated by a post is most obvious marker of popularity. I was just looking through my New Blogger tools to see what post, out of all 191 (gasp) before this one, had the most comments. Funny, it was a Bloggy [...]

Back to Blogging

Well I’m back in Chicago, and my first order of blog business is to change my description of this blog in the sidebar. I was thrown into blogger introspection by Jeremy Freese (rhymes with niece, not knees), in his interview with the sociology newsletter Footnotes. He responded to questions on blogging as a sociologist, and [...]

of manatees, snakes, and Theodore Adorno

Maybe it’s because I miss taking theory classes, but when something like this happens, I return to the question that made me study sociology in the first place: How can so many people all think the same thing at the same time? Initially, I wondered this in regards to patriotism and the collective ferver to [...]