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The Blog A Day Tour

(That's right... it's the 2003 Blog A Day Tour by Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support! This is not a post by Kymberlie - she is not this neurotic.)

I like the name of Kymberlie's site. "Neurotic Fishbowl" has a ring to it, don't you think?

There's something relaxing and healing about watching fish for a while. Sure, the tank can be a royal pain to maintain, but not if you're watching somebody else's fishbowl. It's kind of like visiting someone to get all the benefits of cat or dog therapy without having to have your own cat or dog.

Is it just as soothing for people to look at a weblog fishbowl and stare at the author-fish within? Will a screen-saver fishbowl do just as well, or a DVD with fishy goings-on work on an HDTV receiver? Will every cable system eventually show a fishbowl channel like that one station in New York does the Yule Log?

Anyway, the thought that came to my mind about this site had to do with some other sites out there and titles. Every now and then, a site gets really big, and all sorts of other sites pop up that play on that site's name.

For instance, Glenn Reynolds' InstaPundit. With his success, all sorts of people jumped on the *pundit bandwagon, like VodkaPundit and DailyPundit, and QuasiPundit and IsraPundit and Isntapundit and so forth. I'm sure that many of these folks were *pundit before the pundit-to-end-all-pundits" (or is that pundit-to-link-all-pundits) came about, but quite a few popped up.

Unlike the pundit-clique, there's also a lot of people just happily swimming in their fishbowls. It made me wonder why there aren't any plays on this site's name, seeing as how neat I think is it. I mean, imagine if there were a Psychotic Fishbowl or an Erotic Fishbowl or a Despotic Fishbowl out there. What would those sites be about?

How about playing on the Neurotic part with a Neurotic Soupbowl or a Neurotic Toiletbowl or Neurotic Manute Bol? An Oklahoma author could call his site the "Neurotic Dustbowl" even.

(Once again, this was not Kymberlie. This was the Amish Tech Support Blog A Day Tour stop for today. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled fishbowling.)

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Comments

*tee hee* "Normal fishbowling..."

good worker, can't wait to see you 'round these parts!

.: amancay said on January 29, 2003 04:26 PM :: link it :.

Sheesh -- never can shake that Dusbowl crap, can we?

.: robyn said on January 29, 2003 04:54 PM :: link it :.

I should have put a winky after that... ;-)

.: robyn said on January 29, 2003 04:57 PM :: link it :.

Hi. Come visit my site, A Small Neurotic Victorybowl.

Doesn't have quite the same ring as Amish Fishbowl Support.

.: michele said on January 29, 2003 06:46 PM :: link it :.

You're too early! Come back at January 29, 2003 04:00 PM to see this post.

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