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Isn't that the fearless Mr. Olson tirelessly poondin'
away upon his trusty Smith Corolla typewriter in order to meet another
Deadline? (Image source:
shutterstock.com)
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Who was that Masked Man behind The Keyboard in his Mum's Basement?
Although I continuously mention how I'm Drowning
in The Sea 'O Synchronicity, I find some strange bit of Serendipity in a fellow
Card Carrying member of the IndyCar Blogger Brigade spouting off 'bout the Non deplume
Blogger.
As ironically on the day I'd originally intended
to publish my previous post about one certain IndyCar Announcer, or is that
Sportscaster?
Instead, I sat upon posting my opinion on
said Sportscaster a 'lil while longer, asking for somebody's opinion on whether
or not I was too critical?
Meanwhile, someone else in thou Blogosphere was
scribbling 'bout the term Bloggers in general, and the apparent ruckus one fine
ex-ESPN Motorsports Journalist named John Oreovicz was stirring up in
Toronto, by having the audacity to mock his apparent plight upon having been
sacked by ESPN earlier this year.
Yet this phenomenon, or topic isn't new,
since it immediately made me Flashback to another Disjointed, put out-of-shape
Journalist named Jeff Olson, then working for Racer Magazine, who took a meat
cleaver to the then burgeoning ranks of us Vurd' Butchers Ja Volt! For which I
penned my reply in the following No Fenders tome.
Hence after initially reading of Messer Olson's
attack upon us Bloggers festering on Zed Internetz' via Jeff Iannucci's first
IndyCar Blog, the long ago, now defunct My Name Is IRL, (before his short lived "syndicated" Gig'
at Versus...) along with becoming a Card Carrying member of
the short-lived UOWWBA, aka United Open Wheel Word Butchers Association.
Alas, with my immersion into the world of
blogging, and the countless hours I've devoted to this passion of melding my
love of Open Wheel Racing and Writing,
albeit by NO stretch of Thy imagination do I perceive Thyself as a Professional
Writer or Journalist! I found myself gravitating towards Trackside with Cavin
& Kevin for the first time ever to tune-into Blogger Night Wayback in Twenty-oh-Nine;
CRIKEYS!
Whilst I
subsequently reported on the following 3rd annual year's Blogger Night's
escapades in;
And then I
actually participated on the eve of the fifth anniversary of Blogger Night on
Trackside with Cavin & Kevin some five years ago; Aye Karumba!
Then sometime over a year ago, or was it two?
For reasons unknown, My Confuzer' would no longer let me listen to Trackside
with Kevin and Cavin, for which I've gone without ever since Blindly trying
once again this May and Shuhzamm! It suddenly worked again, although I've
decided to stick to not listening anymore; but I digress...
As I struggle somewhat internally to not take
it personally that I've never garnered a Shout Out from some of the
Bloggeratzi', who don't think I'm worthy, eh? Which I suppose is partly due to
my virtual Cornucopia of subjects ranging from F1, Indy Cars to Sports Cars, Tintops
and in-between, along with a healthy dose 'O non-related racing topics; Hya!
As the Blogging landscape's changed vastly
over the nearly eleven FREAKIN' years I've poured my Heartz' out here in Nofendersville!
As many good Blogs have sadly disappeared over the years.
As I especially
miss the Brassiness 'O Meesh' at So Here's What I'm thinking! Along with
Pressdog's Snarkiness... Whilst at least Jeff Iannucci's returned with his One
Lap Down (O.L.D.) website...
And whilst I still slightly
bristle over Ralph Sheheen's tawdry jab of calling us Keyboard Warriors, and
Jeff Olson's swipe at us Word Botcherers. Along with the apparent Blogger stigma
good 'Ol Oreo's (John Oreovicz)
reinvigorated.
Nonetheless, I still stick firmly to my
longstanding belief I typed over nine bloody years ago. That seriously! IndyCar
needs every single bit of press coverage
it can muster up, be that Journalists, Reporters or Egads! Us lowly Bloggers!
At least the types that do NOT masquerade as anythingy' else!
While this phenomenon isn't exclusive to Indy
Cars either, since my favourite journalist, thou Grizzled Journo' Joe Saward
has lamented plenty about the very same
subject on his side of thee puddle, nee Formula 1, constantly lamenting over
the cadre of Cut 'N Paste Reporters.
Whilst that colossus Amazon has done the same
thing to the world of writers and traditional publishing houses with the advent
of "on Demand" Book publishing!
Thus, while I suppose I'm rambling once again, and definitely
have exceeded the typical number 'O words, i.e.; word count Here! Whils my sentence structure's probably not corect,
not to mention my grammar et al; Hya!
My point is that surely Thars' room for A-L-L of us
in Open Wheel Racing land and the World Wide Web thingy'.
As hopefully we'll all continue supporting the
Blogosphere, along with checking out any of the new endeavours, as you can look
for them at: The IndyCar Blogs
And lastly, don't know if it still exists? But as
Jeffy' once wrote; Err posted, Uhm blogged: "Have You Hugged a Blogger
Today?"
