NvB: Bored in Brno?: Is the Medium the Message?

Is the Medium the Message?

I was searching around on the Blogger resource pages today for some technical advice when I found this interesting snippet from an NPR All Things Considered story. Julie Zickefoose relates how blogging fits into her and her husband's lives:

Bill and I now judge events in our lives as to whether they are blog-worthy. When we’re together, we have an unspoken agreement as to who gets to blog about whatever cool thing we encounter. … And he’s crestfallen if I haven’t read his entry before we go to bed. A remarkably specific ettiquette is emerging in this uncharted land. (Source)

I was busy trying to think up a witty academicism about McLuhan and the message and the medium and me...and the magic [Cue drumroll and disco ball.]....the music.....the footlights.......fame....... But neither inspiration nor inscrutable and dense academic prose struck. Anyway, I'm sure it would have been a bit too much blargon.

I also noticed that in order to have a cool blog [Cue music again.] you have to be either famous - MC Hammer, the creator of Ren and Stimpy, or related to Jane Goodall - or homeless. I'm afraid that the Czechs are not well-represented. Does Mr. Havel have a blog? Nohavica? Polívka?

(Actually, Nohavica does have a "song" blog, but it's not very active.)

Posted 01 March 2006 at 18:54.

The Blog

What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn. Here's your chance to experience Czech vicariously and to become your new self, now conveniently available in English translation. (Or at least something reasonably close to English.)

If you have questions, suggestions, like what you see, or you're just plain bored, don't hesitate to leave a comment or e-mail me.

The Blogger

A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.

More about Brno, Me, Euro-Czech

Comments:

Karla said . . .

Well, personally I think our (and our friends'/our favorite) blogs are sufficiently cool. But I can expound on that when your phone finishes charging.

9:53 PM, March 01, 2006

Anonymous said . . .

Yeah, I tried to come up with a witty remark about M.M., too. But then I am afraid I would have a Woody Allen moment and someone would bring M.M. online (even if he is dead) to tell me that I am completely full of shit.
And your blog is cool Jesse.

3:08 AM, March 02, 2006

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