And now for something completely different…
I will be guest-blogging at the Daily Dish for the next week. That’s right, I’m stepping up from Playful Primate to Higher Being, baby!! [I’m moving up too?–ed. Not so much.] Does that mean no new content on this blog until 2004? Not exactly. Inspired by Slate’s Diary series, ESPN’s “This is Sportscenter” documentary from ...
I will be guest-blogging at the Daily Dish for the next week. That's right, I'm stepping up from Playful Primate to Higher Being, baby!! [I'm moving up too?--ed. Not so much.] Does that mean no new content on this blog until 2004? Not exactly. Inspired by Slate's Diary series, ESPN's "This is Sportscenter" documentary from the summer, and the stereotype of bloggers as "self-important," I'll be posting here on the behind-the-scenes thinking that go into guest-blogging. Why did I post on this topic but not that topic? What's it like to have the big megaphone? And other sorts of flotsam and jetsam that run through my brain when I'm blogging. Think of it as if VH1 did a Behind the Blog episode -- it would be just like Behind the Music without the groupies, bimbos, boy toys, massive drug use, fisticuffs, arrests, and downward arc to the narrative (I hope). In other words, more like C-SPAN's Booknotes. Be warned -- musings like these can be scary to the naked eye. But it's all worth it -- to the ten or so of you who care about such things.
I will be guest-blogging at the Daily Dish for the next week. That’s right, I’m stepping up from Playful Primate to Higher Being, baby!! [I’m moving up too?–ed. Not so much.] Does that mean no new content on this blog until 2004? Not exactly. Inspired by Slate’s Diary series, ESPN’s “This is Sportscenter” documentary from the summer, and the stereotype of bloggers as “self-important,” I’ll be posting here on the behind-the-scenes thinking that go into guest-blogging. Why did I post on this topic but not that topic? What’s it like to have the big megaphone? And other sorts of flotsam and jetsam that run through my brain when I’m blogging. Think of it as if VH1 did a Behind the Blog episode — it would be just like Behind the Music without the groupies, bimbos, boy toys, massive drug use, fisticuffs, arrests, and downward arc to the narrative (I hope). In other words, more like C-SPAN’s Booknotes. Be warned — musings like these can be scary to the naked eye. But it’s all worth it — to the ten or so of you who care about such things.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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