{"id":9868,"date":"2008-09-03T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:21","slug":"taking-the-me-out-of-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/09\/03\/taking-the-me-out-of-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"taking the me out of meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> T<\/em><\/strong>hat’s my Mea Culpa Mug (circa 1952).\u00a0 It’s there because I’m planning to be grouchy and feel a little bad about it.\u00a0 Not bad enough to stifle this post, of course.<\/p>\n

at daybreak
\nwhat grouchy faces…
\nMr. and Mrs. Cat<\/p>\n

\n

…. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> …\u00a0 I<\/em><\/strong>‘m beginning to understand why Ed<\/em> the Ed<\/em>itor of Blawg Review<\/em><\/a> fame tries so hard to remain anonymous and hard to find (see our prior post<\/a>).\u00a0 He keeps coming up with annoying “memes” in which one weblogger performs some sort of self-revelation and then “tags” other bloggers, asking them to so the same.\u00a0 The latest, to commemorate Blog Day 2008 (which was August 31st), is “5 Blogs and 5 Blawgers<\/a>” (Sept. 2, 2008).\u00a0 As Ed explains:<\/p>\n

The idea is to post links to five great blogs (other than law blogs) on your blawg and tag five of your favorite blawgers to do the same under the post title “5 Blogs & 5 Blawgers<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Well — despite being tagged today<\/a> by one of my very favorite blawgers, Anne Reed<\/a> of the jury-oriented Deliberations<\/em><\/a> weblog — I make this plaintive plea: keep me out of this meme<\/em>.\u00a0 Here’s what I said the last time<\/a> I was tagged (for the “simply the best blawg” meme):<\/p>\n

Like Bob Ambrogi (who<\/a> \u201ctruly hate[s] these things\u201d), and most humans with taste and politesse, I find being tagged to join in a self-revelatory blogisphere \u201cmeme\u201d event highly annoying, painful, and intrusive. . . . Thus, I let my crabby but attention-starved alter ego Prof. Yabut handle our weird tag duties<\/a> last year, and procrastinated even more than usual with the Book shtick Stick<\/a> back in 2005.<\/p>\n

This time, I can’t even cajole lonely old Prof. Yabut<\/a> (who is usually quite a sucker for a pretty face) into pulling meme duty.\u00a0 As he rather sarcastically reminded me: “The whole f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang combined doesn’t read 5 “blogs other than law blogs” in the typical month.\u00a0 We don’t even land on 5 different blawgs most weeks.”\u00a0 So, let’s hope this voir dire<\/em> convinces the judge to strike me from Meme Jury Duty.\u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em><\/strong> As I often find myself asking: “How do these adult people, who have jobs and families, find the time to read lots of weblogs?”\u00a0 Since I won’t be tagging anyone with this Meme, five of you will have a little extra time to play with the kids, empty that In Box, or surf da web.<\/p>\n

lazy cat– \"\"
\nhe cocks his ears
\nthen back to sleep<\/p>\n

…. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s my Mea Culpa Mug (circa 1952).\u00a0 It’s there because I’m planning to be grouchy and feel a little bad about it.\u00a0 Not bad enough to stifle this post, of course. at daybreak what grouchy faces… Mr. and Mrs. Cat …. by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue …\u00a0 I‘m beginning to understand why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1414,900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qs-quickies","category-viewpoint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2za","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12189,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/12189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}