THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL HE PUTS WORDS IN THEIR MOUTHS.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH We blog because we can. Even if a lot of us don't even understand what the heck the word means. (A Google search reveals ``blog'' is from an ancient Geek language of the Silicon Valley, a combination of indecipherable symbols that mean ``a complete waste of time'' and ``I can type 85 words a minute.'') We have the technology. And presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. the time. And definitely the ego. In our ``American Idol''-sense of self worth, there's a need to gather other people's misinformation mis·in·form tr.v. mis·in·formed, mis·in·form·ing, mis·in·forms To provide with incorrect information. mis , put a new spin on it, add a few hyperlinks and smiley icons, then throw it out there as a way to tap into other people's insecurities so that we can feel as if what we've been doing for the past 17 hours has some purpose. But I digress di·gress intr.v. di·gressed, di·gress·ing, di·gress·es To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray. See Synonyms at swerve. . As does Paul Davidson. The 44-year-old Sherman Oaks-based screenwriter, TV producer and author for nearly the past three years of the aptly named ``Words For My Enjoyment'' weblog at the Web site named after himself, doesn't claim to be any kind of expert in this obsessive compulsive disorder Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) Disorder characterized by persistent, intrusive, and senseless thoughts (obsessions) or compulsions to perform repetitive behaviors that interfere with normal functioning. Mentioned in: Tourette Syndrome activity. Except he does admit that, to some extent now, he's just making things up. The proof is in his new book, ``The Lost Blogs From Jesus To Jim Morrison: The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing Everyone Worth Knowing is Lauren Weisberger's second novel. Published in 2005, it tells the story of Bette Robinson, a single woman in New York City caught up in the city's party circuit through a new job in public relations. ,'' (Warner Books, 275 pages, $13.95). Davidson's theory is that if Vince Lombardi were alive today and cyberactive, he'd be running a fantasy football league Fantasy Football League was a British television programme hosted by Frank Skinner and David Baddiel. It began on BBC Radio 5 which was hosted by Dominik Diamond before transferring to BBC 2, with three series being broadcast from January 1994 to May 1996. . James Naismith would be soliciting rule ideas for his new wintertime sport of throwing a ball into a peach basket, posting comments as they came in from the YMCA's official site. His counterpart, Abner Doubleday, would be complaining about how boring baseball is. Every day, Babe Ruth would rubbing it into Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. owner Harry Frazee's face about what a horrible mistake he made trading him to the New York Yankees  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. . Wilt Chamberlain would be trolling for his next close encounters and posting picture galaries of his previous conquests. That's just the nature of the beasts. ``There is a lot of fun to be had with sports figures, because these are the modern-day gladiators, these superhuman people and celebrities who perform these feats that we look up to because we could never do them, but then to humanize hu·man·ize tr.v. hu·man·ized, hu·man·iz·ing, hu·man·iz·es 1. To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human: humanized the puppets with great skill. 2. them and look at their flaws is more fun,'' says Davidson, who has mixed the faux filings from those sports figures above into his book, along with hunger-strike tips from Gandhi, the ``explo-rants'' of Ferdinand Magellan and Malcolm X's frustration that mistyped pornography URLs keep forwarding people to his site. As subject fodder, sports figures are no different than other celebrities, Davidson surmises. Their mere existence fuel many of today's weblog entries. With 36million bloggers in existence, and 75,000 new each day, and the fact that the experts at Technorati.com (which tracks 41 million sites and 2.4 billion links a day) predict that the blogosphere The total universe of blogs. See blog. doubles in size every six months, then it's apparent new material is needed by the nanosecond. The traffic alone generated from David Stern's office to www.blogmaverick.com to see the latest, even remotely opinionated rant by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is probably what has kept the league financially solvent lately. Cuban is the Internet prophet (and profiteer) who years ago understood that the survival of the fittest would determine which websites lived long enough to see the 21st century. With today's bloggers, it's survival of the most driven and creative, says Davidson, one of the producers of Cuban's short-lived ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. reality series, ``The Benefactor.'' ``There will come to a point where we have to do real work, and we'll have to wean ourselves off these things, with 12-step programs on how to stop the addiction,'' Davidson predicts. Sounds like that could be the next entry from Wilt the Shocklogger. CAPTION(S): 4 photos, 3 boxes Photo: (1) no caption (book: "The Lost Blogs From Jesus To Jim Morrison") (2) JEB BUSH (3) REGGIE BUSH (4) KYLE BUSCH Box: (1) FANTASY BASEBALL - Bryan Fowler (2) sunday punch (3) THE (REALLY) LOST BLOG |
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