Blog Genealogy. (Updated)
I confess to being somewhat mystified by the whole blog genealogy thing.
I get that if A inspires B to blog, then A is B’s Blogfather (or Blogmother, but let’s stick with males for the sake of simplicity), and if B inspires C to start a blog then B is C’s Blogfather, making person A, person C’s grand blogfather. I take then, if A also inspires D to start a blog, then B and D are Blogsiblings, and person D becomes person C’s Bloguncle. If D inspires E to start a blog, then C and E are blogcousins.
Frankly, it makes my hair hurt.**
Anyway, I did note that Rube, of You Bitch (a Jekyll Island Blogmeet survivor), spawned a blogdaughter. What makes this a rather curious blogbirth is that Rube’s blogdaughter is his mom!! Ewwww That really makes my hair hurt.
My aching hair notwithstanding, you might want to pop over to Rube’s mom’s blog, and tell her what a nice boy her son/blogfather-ewww is.
** I’ll be damned if I know how Harvey keeps track of his Blog Family, which apparently is equal in size to the population of Vermont.
Update: This seems particularly approriate.
Lurking…
Comment by Dax Montana — January 19, 2006 @ 9:09 pm
Kind of takes the fun out of West Virginia kin jokes, eh? Or is there some mysterious link between all you bloggers? Hmmmmm…..
Comment by JCK — January 20, 2006 @ 8:55 am
Well, Jim, you know how us hillbillies are. The Family Tree is sorta pole-shaped.
Comment by Rube — January 20, 2006 @ 8:57 am
You know, Jim, there’s actually one more thing you shoulda known: Rube’s actually my blogfather… Did he already mention the hillbilly thing?
Comment by Ann — January 20, 2006 @ 9:04 am
I’m not going over there until I cue up my “Deliverance” soundtrack…
Comment by Jack Bog — January 20, 2006 @ 9:19 am
As one Jekyll survivor to another, lots of strange things happened after that blogmeet!
Comment by Michele — January 20, 2006 @ 11:43 am
Wow. Even the Bad Example Family doesn’t have a son fathering his own mother. You people are so sick!
Although, come to think of it, I’ve actually seen this sort of thing before:
http://ajsneurons.blogspot.com/2005/12/file-under-what-took-you-so-long.html
Comment by Harvey — January 22, 2006 @ 10:03 am