Legal Commentary

taking the me out of meme

By David A. Giacalone

That’s my Mea Culpa Mug (circa 1952).  It’s there because I’m planning to be grouchy and feel a little bad about it.  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

…  I‘m beginning to understand why Ed the Editor of Blawg Review fame tries so hard to remain anonymous and hard to find (see our prior post).  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.  The latest, to commemorate Blog Day 2008 (which was August 31st), is “5 Blogs and 5 Blawgers” (Sept. 2, 2008).  As Ed explains:

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“.

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

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

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

p.s. As I often find myself asking: “How do these adult people, who have jobs and families, find the time to read lots of weblogs?”  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.

lazy cat–
he cocks his ears
then back to sleep

…. by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue

Full post as published by f/k/a . . . on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).