Sock It to Me!

This article in yesterday’s NY Times, identifying Walt Whitman as a pioneering sock puppeteer, has prompted me to shout out to all you CultureGrrl fans who want to do my self-aggrandizing for me. (After all, wasn’t it Whitman who wrote: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself/And what I assume you shall assume”?)
Just think what this bloviating blogger would say about herself in “BlogBacks,” if only she could get away with it, without changing her name to Whitman or Siegel. Here are some helpful suggestions: incisively insightful; winsomely witty; electrically eloquent, master of punning punditry…you get the idea.
Here’s an even better example, from an e-mail I recently received, labeled “Uninvited Praise,” from someone who won’t let me use his name because his partner is a major artworld player:
A quick note to say that I really like your coverage of the art world—and other overlapping fields. I receive a daily e-mail with a range of arts-related blogs and have switched to reading yours on a daily basis….You really manage to stay on top of breaking arts-related news.
And I didn’t even have to write that one myself. (Or did I?)