Blogstorm publishes a table of the top 100 UK blogs. Belle De Jour is number 76. The author has a publishing contract and they’ve turned the blog into a TV series starring Billie Piper.
I am number 79. Where’s my TV series? Where’s my publishing contract? I used to be jealous when “leading” bloggers (except me) were given free laptops by Microsoft but now I’m just cheesed off.
I mentioned this to some actor friends of mine last night. They asked me what my blog was about. I thought I would try to sex it up a little. “Writing. You know: grammar, Latin, how to write a press release, that sort of thing” I replied. They weren’t impressed.
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I feel your pain.
I write a top fly fishing blog, and Robert Redford has yet to contact me to play in the sequel to “A River Runs Through It.”
I’m gutted. I mean, where are millions? Where are the groupies? Where are the invitations to swank parties?
Hey, don’t dash my dreams! I just started up a blog celebrating the best of writing (WordHappy at http://toddiedowns.wordpress.com) two weeks ago (averaging a WHOPPING 30 views a day), and still have my visions of free swag being thrown at me in hopes of a good review. And of course, when the blog is optioned as a movie, Julia Roberts will be cast as me. And then I shall move onto world domination.
I’m not being unrealistic, am I?
Oh but is it a GOOD television series?
The celebrity gossip blog TMZ got a TV series and it’s bad. I saw it and thought “Go back to the internet.”
Better to be a great blog than a bad TV show!
At least you made it on to the list. Congratulations!!!
Hey, thanks for the pointer. I made #64!
Actually, I had a much higher technorati rank at the start of the year, which could have made me top ten, but I guess people have got bored with the the old Geordie boffin…
Hey, David, does that mean we can expect to see Kevin Whately playing you in some TV series soon?
Hmm, sex and scandal eh? Are there no fiesty pilotinas that you could start a torrid affair with? No third-world drug barons to bomb from your fibreglass air fort?
I’d like to see David Duchovny playing you in the movie adaptation. Don’t worry about the TV small fry, Matthew – go for gold and head straight for Hollywood!
Evangeline – I like the way you think!