Why Does Medium Hate Blogging?
The Above is a Standard Clickbait Headline (the author does not believe Medium hates blogging). Please see chapter 12 of “Gutbloom’s Encyclopedia of Blogging” entitled “The Boilerplate of Clickbait”**.
This is the off season. I’m supposed to be working on the long dreck, but yesterday Meg’s discussion of Medium served as an emetic for a surfeit of black bile I had built up. Luckily, I was able to vomit up this post, and ever since my humors have been balanced!
Since the world is beset by tribalism, I want to raise the standard of my tribe, the soul bloggers. If you thought that last line sounded like a plug, you thought right.
What Is Blogging vs. The Personal Essay, Memoir, The Overly Personal Hot Take, or a Facebook Entry?
I’m not going to answer that. What is this, English class? Let’s just say, when a young blogger came into the Mill and asked me, “Mr. Gutbloom, what is blogging?” I answered:
Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.
I didn’t attribute that quote to Louis Armstrong. First because, thanks to the Internet, it’s impossible to know who said anything and the fact that the above gets attributed to Louis Armstrong is suspicious. Great people like Louis Armstrong are like massive cultural objects, which is why we call them “stars”, and they pull all the goodness to them. My guess is some guy who played with Louis Armstrong said something like that, but who gives a fuck about that guy?
Except us, the bloggers. Huh? Well, I had to get back on track somehow. The only thing worse than a bad transition is no transition at all.
I was supposed to have a second reason for not attributing that quote to Armstrong. I do. Bloggers are like sixteenth century poets; we take what words we want.
Anyway, If you want to see some blogging, take a look below. There is goodness in the Medium slush pile. It’s just not making it to the surface:
My New Favorite Millennial, Sarah E. Miller
A Hot Take on the Death of Malcolm Young That is Kind of a Takedown, but Kind of Not
The author, Barney Quick, is no slouch. He is also a Ben Shapiro quoting conservative, so don’t go over there picking fights and say, “Gutbloom sent me.”
Is This For Real? I’m Not Sure. It May Be the Background Post of a Very Funny Sockpuppet
Simple Parenting Advice
Not a Blog Post, but Funny.
I found this by looking at the “claps” tab on Caleb Ramsby’s profile. Some people find good things on Medium all the time.
Happy Reading!
** You’d actually do better to read Lisa Renee’s:
