1. The same reason most I guess: to see their thoughts on a webpage somewhere.

2. Well, seeing as how your visit to Dallas finally got me to get a blog, I think that would be you.

3. No effect.

4. Nope, they don't know.

5. Nope.

1) For the sex and drugs.
2) Mother, Kashei
3) No affect.
4) Only the ones I like.
5) Ohhh yeah, Dawn Summers. Bom chicka bom bom.

I started a blog because I was using far too much of everybody else's comment bandwidth.

The first blog I posted on was James Joyner's, the one I've posted on most consistently is Reverend Donald Sensing's, and the one I've raised the most Cain on is Michele Catalano's.

All three of them have shaped what I'm trying to accomplish over on my blog, and I value and respect them highly. They have been excellent teachers by example of what blogging, particularly political and religious blogging, can accomplish.

Since I am gainfully underemployed, I have plenty of time to blog, and, other than wasting time that could be more productive spiritually, I as yet see no ill effects.

I don't have that many real world friends. I am, unfortunately, of an age where the people that were my friends have lost touch, and the people I might make friends with are all too busy, too married, or too elsewhere.

The only crushes that I know of are on several ladies of the Conservative persuasion who have been pleased to give me a virtual kick right where it hurts the worst, and, to all appearances, would love to do the same in the real world should they ever encounter me there.

Columbus, Ohio, however, is far too dull for any of them to ever show up and do it, I suspect.

Don't know Columbus? We are the city that the meteorologist on the Weather Channel is always standing in front of.

Because in a perfect world I'm a writer but before I knock myself out trying to accomplish that I thought I'd try to see if at least 4 people on the internet thought I was moderately interesting.

Yourself, m'love, because no matter what you write, it's stellar and so well done. And for sure, Ms. C because she waves her little mouse and turns my pumpkins into carriages. She's a fairy blogmother for sure.

No effect whatsoever.

Most do, a few don't.

Uhm... what? Huh? Who? I know nothing. And shut up, you read him for the articles too :-P

~Ari~

1. Because every underpublished writer needs a forum (or two) to call her own.
2. Fairy blogmother: Deblog
3. It's helped, I've sold two pieces and gotten a few dates...
4. Most of my friends know. The rest of them don't even know what a weblog is.
5. I've definitely had a few blogcrushes in my time, but most of them are on women. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

1. Because my friend James who blogged always knew the news faster; because I love to write and this was easier than asking people to listen to my journal entries; because one night, after a friend had particularly hurt me, I visited Blogger and got a free bitching pass.
2. The aforementioned James.
3. It hasn't hurt anything yet.
4. Yes, which probably means that "3" won't last forever. Also, my dad/mom/uncles/little sis read occasionally, which can be a little too much accountability sometimes.
5. His name is Ivan Lenin and he's soooooooooooooo cute. ;)

1. To quench my thirst for typing
2. Sullivan, Reynolds, Welch, Layne.
3. No effect.
4. Some do. I've had hits from Classmates.com in my referrer log, which is pretty creepy. I hate the idea that somebody I used to beat up on in gym class knows what I'm up to.
5. No people. But there are a few fonts I've discovered that I wouldn't mind getting freaky with.

1. In order to start discussion on topics i am interested in that have not found on other blogs.

2. don't think so.

3. I am a student so no.

4. some of em do.

5. er no.

probably not supposed to do this but i am going to plug my fledgling blog. between iraq and a hardplace. http://theoilwars.blogspot.com. when i can figure out how i will include this blog on the page.

1. Why did you start a blog?

I started last year but have only kicked it into high gear as of late. I guess the main reason I started blogging is that I wanted to comment on articles that I read, or news accounts I see. But I have started to also include anecdodts from my personal life.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

Not really, but I adjusted my Blogging style after reading Karol, LGF and others.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

There has beeen no effect

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

Yes, some of them do. Plus since I am a momma's boy I get a email from my mother on days I do not blog.

5. Do you have a blog crush?

I would love to meet Karol and show her some true Southern Hospitality down here in Georgia, but my wife would need to come along to keep things on the up and up.

1. Why did you start a blog?
Because I need to vent and this is the easiest way to vent to as many people as once. Because some of my random thoughts need to be shared with complete strangers for some odd reason. Because I have questions. Because I felt left out.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?
I have many many blogparents.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?
I'm less productive at work but I hide it well.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?
My friends either have a blog of their own, or think it's the most ridiculous thing on earth.

5. Do you have a blog crush?
Maybe. I just got over Dawn Summers.

1. Why did you start a blog?
as of three to four years ago, i could not know the difference beteen democrats and republicans. Once 9/11 and the goverment taking 18 percent off the top of my paycheck starting happing, i started getting an opionion.

I started reading the news a lot, a blog was natural outgroup of me getting an opinion

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?
yes, the frist blog that i ever read, i read one funny post and was hooked.
http://www.tiltedfish.com/blog/
(he has moved from his orginal location but is related to Asparagirl )

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?
has not hurt, though i am a programmer and i really don't get graded on how much work i do but on how good it is.

though i have noticed that i am doing less work, so hurt.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?
yes but no one reads it

5. Do you have a blog crush? And ladies, you know who you are, please don't everyone call Ken Wheaton at once.
no

1. Why did you start a blog?

Two and a half years ago I was an out-of-work journalist looking for an excuse to be writing every day, and it seemed like the best method of doing so.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

Andrew Sullivan more than anyone else, but also Mickey Kaus, Bill Simmons, and others.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

It's helped me get two different jobs, so I'd say it's been positive, reduced productivity notwithstanding.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

Most do. But it's always a question of how soon to tell people I'm dating about the blog. I have made lots of friends in the blogworld.

5. Do you have a blog crush?

Oh, I have lots. For such a supposedly nerdish enterprise, there certainly are quite a lot of attractive ladies with blogs, in New York especially.

1. I was pressured by my sister and then decided to do blogspot to keep in touch with friends and make it easier to communicate and read other blogs. Also as i find that as my views (mostly political) are changing - it's easier to explore in the blogsphere.

2. My blogmother would be the very entertaining and overall wonderful Jessica - of the New Vintage!

3. Decreases my productivity - we will see what will happen when i get job that actually pays me.

4. Some of my friends do - specifically people i want to keep in touch with. However i want a forum to bitch about people that i'm not that close with - so i don't tell many people about it.

5. Yes and it's not who was implied...thank you very much! Although Ken will always hold a special place in my heart as my first (blog crush that is).

1. Mostly because I'm an egotistical jerk and I feel that everyone should know what I'm thinking

2. If I remember correctly, Moxie and Lileks, which is how I met Ginger of Candied Ginger, cuz she's technically a blog sister of mine, but with the way we've flirted sometimes, it sort of brings up incest issues that we really shouldn't talk about

3. It's probably kept me away from my fiction writing and it's kept me sane enough at work.

4. I tell EVERYONE about my blog. Even my mother. But then I have to deal with the fact that my mom can't even be bothered to read my blog.

5. I've had quite a few. But alas I'm fickle and currently a little bitter. But just for the record, some of the blog crushes have been Moxie, Annika, Ginger, Candace, Karol, Jessica, Ari and, sometimes when she's not being completely insane (which is rare), Dawn Summers. Oh, yeah, that Oschisms guy is kinda cute, too. (sorry, too lazy to be linking today)

yeah, the Oschisms guy is a cutie

1. Why did you start a blog?

To keep me from emailing/chatting/iming/telling the same info over and over to everyone I know.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

Huh? I'm not even sure what that means.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

Professional life? No effect that I've noticed.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

Of course. Why wouldn't they?

5. Do you have a blog crush? And ladies, you know who you are, please don't everyone call Ken Wheaton at once.

Meaning someone I'm crushing? Or someone who's crushing me? In either case, nope, not that I know of. Though my wife does read my blog...

1. Why blog? - Because what I wanted to talk about didn't always correspond to what my friends/co-workers/long-suffering wife necessarily wanted to listen to.

2. Reynolds and Sullivan first got me hooked on reading blogs, but the person who made we want to write one was Rachel Lucas.

3. It's a nonfactor.

4. A couple of them have a vague awareness of it. Nobody I knew personally pre-blog reads it so far as I know. Given how cruddy I am at keeping in touch with friends, I will probably one day soon let a bunch of them know.

5. Ah...to be young and single again...

1. Why did you start a blog?

We all blog because we think our thoughts are worth reading.

2. Do you have blogmother/blogfather?

Not really. Maybe Instapundit.

3. Has it helped/hurt your professional life?

It definitely hasn't helped. Has it hurt? Not tangibly -- yet -- but I suspect it will.

4. Do you "real world" friends know that you blog?

Those that would understand -- and some who do not.

5. Do you have a blog crush?

How could I not?

1) I like to rant. Alot.
2) Yes, BigDog
3) effect? Your talking to someone whose highlight of the day is an elderly man saying "hi and welcome to Walmart."
4) Yes. I make them read me.
5) Yes, but I'm not telling. Maybe I'll tell you in gym class later.

Well I wanted to meet new and interesting people, sleep in gutters, experience psychotic episodes, and sell my ass outside the Lincoln Tunnel for a pittance...wait...you were asking why I started smoking crack, right?

1. Friends, family, and people I met through my City Council campaign and other civic involvement were interested in my opinion on local, state, and national politics, but I was reluctant to invade their e-mail in-boxes on a regular basis. Then, via National Review's the Corner, I discovered InstaPundit and Little Green Footballs, and it was obvious that a blog was the perfect medium for what I wanted to do -- a place to comment on the news, link to interesting articles, and touch on any topic that interested me. My involvement in the opposition to a local sales tax increase turned my blog into an unofficial opposition website and ultimately made coverage of local politics a central theme of the blog. I still try to mix in entries on travel, urban design, faith, family, and national and world news, but I know that a lot of readers come to batesline.com looking for news and perspective they won't get from Tulsa's monopoly daily paper.

2. They don't know it, but I guess my blog is the offspring of Glenn Reynolds and Charles Johnson, for the reasons stated above.

3. No effect on my paying gig. In the realm of local politics, it's raised my profile, won me some ardent admirers and some fervent enemies. I have a weekly guest spot on Tulsa's top-rated morning talk radio show because of the blog, and I'm told that local decision-makers keep tabs on what I write.

4. All my friends and family know, and most of them tell me they read the blog from time to time. I have a few readers among my coworkers, but mostly I don't talk about blogging at work.

5. A blogcrush? Is that when you know her usual posting schedule and plan your surfing when she's likely to have posted something new? When you reread her archives over and over again, and remember what she's written better than she does? When you get self-conscious about how often you link to her or e-mail her with appreciative comments? (Too soon? Too gushy?) When you're thrilled when she links to you and depressed when she hasn't for a while? When you feel sheepish when your wife notices you reading her blog? Is that a blogcrush? Well, then -- I wouldn't know anything about that.

I will, however, second Steve Silver's comment.

1. I needed something to help motivate and inspire me to keep practicing guitar and writing music.

2. thisfish.com. It was the first blog whose whole archives I read. There was something about emotional honesty coupled with daily miniutia that I found compelling. Good writing didn't hurt either

3. No permanent effect as of yet. I had to make myself stop blogging at work. It was taking up too much time.

4. All of my "real world" friends who live out of town know. The local ones don't, with the exception of my girlfriend. The reason is that most of my local friends are in the band with me, or know someone in the band. I need to be able to bitch about them. I know it'll end badly, secret blogs always seem to get found out.

5. See #2. But then I seem to get a blogcrush on any female writer who knows the difference between their and they're. Does that make me a blogslut?

1. I initially started blogging to work through a devastating break-up (it was the most uplifting blog out there, let me tell you). Then my friends got me my very own domain name, and I've been blogging ever since (minus the heartbreak and devastation).

2. I'd have to say that the two friends who secured the domain name for me are my "blogger parents." They have their own blogs as well, and help me out during my technically-challenged-I'm-a-writer-not-a-programmer moments.

3. No effect on my professional life (yet; knock on wood).

4. I think my real world friends are pretty much the only people who read (and comment) on my blog, with a few exceptions.

5. No true blog crushes (where are the men, anyway?); but I definitely have a few girl crushes--on women who seem cool and neurotic and can write like nobody's business.

1. Why did you start a blog?
To bullshit about politics. Make myself heard. Meet chicks and stuff.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?
Nah

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?
It has kept me from doing my work at my job. Actually, no, it has prevented me from feeling guilty about not doing my work (I was never into this "working" thing), by creating an illusion that by blogging I am producing some sort of value.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?
Yes.

5. Do you have a blog crush?
"Crush" would be an understatement. I met this superchick (on Spot On, no less!), and she keeps rocking my world and kicking my butt all over the planet.

1) I didn't. Rick did, and I joined in just for shits and giggles.

2) Stephen Elliott's Poker Report mailing list was the inspiration for my Poker Grovel.

3) No effect at all in law; hopefully some effect some day in comedy.

4) Yes.

5) Heather Havrilesky (http://rabbitblog.com/)

1. I wanted to get into the habit of writing more, and I liked the idea of having people comment on my writing - but only because I'm using a pseudonym. I don't think I'd be brave enough to blog under my real name.

2. Esther "My Urban Kvetch" Kustanowitz was the one who inspired me.

3. No effect on my professional life. I have a full-time job that's as unrelated to writing/blogging as possible. And I've only blogged on company time a couple of times.

4. A couple know that I have an anonymous blog, but they don't know what it's called. One RL friend reads and comments, but I don't know if that person knows who's behind the moniker of "annabel lee." And my Mom knows about it, and reads, and comments occasionally.

5. Nope. But I do have a crush on a boy who used to write a blog...does that count?

1. I read a bunch of newspaper and magazine articles about blogs and blogging and it seemed like an interesting thing to do and a way to possibly further whatever vague writerly ambitions I might have. Then, I got an incredibly boring job with a huge amount of downtime, so I had at it.

2. Roger L. Simon gave me a lot of encouragement when I was just starting and was the first, and most high-profile person to give me a prominent spot on this blogroll. I'm not sure exactly what a "blogfather" is, but if I have one, then he's it.

3. It had a severely negative effect on the boring day job. Boring and easy as it was, blogging/reading blogs/commenting on blogs became such an obsession it started interfering with my ability to do even that job. In fact, blogging was a big factor in my deciding to quit. OTOH, I've met some editors and stuff through it so it's had a positive effect in terms of the vague writing ambitions.

4. Some know. Some don't know. Most people out there still have no idea what a "blog" is and it's tedious trying to explain it. My mom knows and I'd kill her if she didn't read it.

5. Blog crushes too numerous to mention. I also generally like reading women's blogs more than men's.

1. Why did you start a blog?

My friend Jerry Kindall said I should have one, and set me up with my own domain and an MT installation as a gift.

I love to write. Once I had this toy, it was like heroin. I couldn't get enough.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

Jerry Kindall.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

It has had no effect so far. I kind of wish it would develop into something that would help my career, but so far no.

Although it did lead to my finally starting to write a novel, which I've always wanted to do. Blogging found me a co-author and we've got something pretty damned good so far, and nearing completion. If it's published, it might lead to something bigger.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

Real world friends? What are those?

No, seriously: I don't mention it to most of them, but over time most of them have learned of it. Surprisingly few are even curious about it.

5. Do you have a blog crush?

The Queen of course. Beyond that, there are probably a half-dozen female bloggers I'm in love with. But most of my favorite bloggers are women, as it happens!

1. Why did you start a blog?
To replace an e-mailed newsletter

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?
Nope

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?
Helped! Far beyond anything that could've happed without blogs. (I have 8)

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?
Sure they do -- they don't all get it, tho.

5. Do you have a blog crush? And ladies, you know who you are, please don't everyone call Ken Wheaton at once.
Nope.

1. Because posting one a day on Samizdata was not enough to satisfy by writing needs.

2. Yep, Samizdata

3. it has significantly helping my writing career: I found a publisher for a collection of short stories (a blogger who has a publishing company) to be released next month, I am contributing to several sites, been asked to do two online radio shows. It allows me to make people aware of my writing, musical and other endeavors. I have press getting in toucn because of my writings on the blog. And last but not least, the blog allows me to write non-fiction every single day.

4. Yes.

5. I did, but no longer.

1. Like Joseph Marshall I was using too much of somebody else's bandwidth (mostly Winds of Change and Tacitus). I wanted to express myself. And I wanted to be heard.
2. Joe Katzman of Winds of Change.
3. It has absolutely helped my work. I am much more focused and interested in my work than I was before I started blogging.
4. I promote my blog with everybody—friends, family, clients, you name it.
5. Nah.

1. Like Joseph Marshall I was using too much of somebody else's bandwidth (mostly Winds of Change and Tacitus). I wanted to express myself. And I wanted to be heard.
2. Joe Katzman of Winds of Change.
3. It has absolutely helped my work. I am much more focused and interested in my work than I was before I started blogging.
4. I promote my blog with everybody—friends, family, clients, you name it.
5. Nah.

1. To rant.

2. Not really.

3. No effect other than the work I blow off blogging. If some of my clients read it, it might!

4. Yep

5. I have a serious crush on the woman who shares my blog, and I happen to be married to her, even is she is a Republican.

1. Because it was the easiest way to self-publish on the net, and I wanted to write something that people could see.

2. James Lileks got me started writing on the web and pointed me to Instapundit, who introduced me to actual blogging.

3. Helps me get the writing demons out and think about work (I'm an electrical engineer) without as many interruptions; reading blogs leads me to stay at work longer than I otherwise might.

4. Yep.

5. Married to my only current crush. Lots of bloggers I'd love to meet, though.

1. Why did you start a blog?

It started out, in June of 2001, before I even knew what a blog was, as an online journal and a place to keep my mediocre poetry. Eventually I started doing more journaling than poetry. Then when I went to war, it wassomething to keep me in touch with the world outside, and more importantly, the world inside.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

My hostess, Goodsnake, who got me off of Angelfire. I have been inspired by a lot of others, though, including you and Dean.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

It has given me a place to vent, which has helped me keep my career (Saving the World) from turning me into a raving madman.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

Outside of Mrs. E., and more recently the Poetlings, only two people that I have met face-to-face know my secret.

5. Do you have a blog crush?

None, though most of my favourite bloggers are women.

1. Why did you start a blog?

-- I wanted to post publishing information, talk about books, and get feedback for my friends' short stories.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

-- Glenn, Sully. Oh, and Protein Wisdom.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

-- I'm a hulldiver. So, no. I find it quite easy to segregate work from writing.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

-- I think they know that I'm a nerd, and they just sort of assume that as a nerd, I blog.

5. Do you have a blog crush? And ladies, you know who you are, please don't everyone call Ken Wheaton at once

-- Not really. I'm sure there are some eminently porkable blogger chicks out there, but for some reason they don't put their photos up, and I'm very visual. So if you want me to have a crush on you, send me a picture, and I'll try to fall in love with your mind.

1. Same reason as every other blogger: I have way to high an opinion of my own opinions.

2. Not really.

3. Hasn't made much difference at work.

4. Some of them form my core readership. Others don't seem to have a clue.

5. Nope.

Karol:

Answer the questions yourself! :)

1. To write about colors, spectrums of ideologies, and my characters, to articulate my ideology, and to vent my spleen. Over the past year, so much has made me angry that I've spent most of my time doing the last thing, writing angry screeds. I'm going to quit that, at least for a while, and write about colors, spectrums, and my characters. I need to do much more blogging, period.

2. I give all the credit to my brother, David Matthew Anderson, a professional programmer, for the very existence of my blog and all the technology behind it. I only supply the ideology. As for inspiration, I admire above all Eric Scheie of Classical Values and urge all and each of you to read him and dig through his archives. I also admire Dean Esmay and the Queen of All Evil. And Jeff Soyer of Alphecca. I also admire that triad of freedom-lovers: Timothy Sandefur (Freespace), Jonathan Rowe, and Ed Brayton (Dispatches from the Culture Wars).

3. No effect.

4. Some do, some don't. Many of my "real-world" friends and relatives don't even know what a blog is.

5. Jeanine Ring of Salon Total Freedom above all. I would say the Queen of All Evil, too, but she's already married to Dean. I admire the Queen for marrying Dean, and I admire Dean for marrying the Queen. I also find Venomous Kate, Michelle Catalano, Michelle Malkin, and La Shawn Barber to be sexy. Trudy W. Schuett sounds very interesting, too. She wrote a very sexy comment in the Queen's blog once.

1. Because I was reading other blogs (and blog-like sites) thinking "I could do this...Why the Hell haven't I just done this?" and then there was a banner ad at the top that said "start your own."

So I did.

2. I...um...What? I feel personally responsible for pushing two people in my life to blog which, eventually, resulted in their getting together romantically. Also, my mom has a blog now and she's weird.

3. Helped. Well, it's helped me to have an outlet where I can be unchecked. Especially with my audio entries re: curse words. I feel happy when I post.

4. Most of them do and some check it regularly. It doesn't change their opinions of me, they still consider me insane. Now, though, they have visible proof.

5. Never gave that any thought.

1. Evolved from a daily email that contained mostly jokes and links to oddball stories to a mixed bag of things that interest me, piss me off, leave me shaking my head or make me laugh. My mom was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer this year, so it's a way of giving updates to friends and family without having to say the words over and over again. Sometimes I spin a yarn. Hence, the "Omnibus" title.

2. Fairyblogmother - Rebecca Blood; Fairyblogfather - Glenn Reynolds; Blogmom - Blonde Justice; Blogdaddy - Kevin Barkes. Loads of others have provided inspiration.

3. Anything that sharpens my writing skills benefits my job.

4. Yup.

5. Nah. But I could probably be persuaded.

1. Why did you start a blog?

Because I'm an advocate, and one of my skills is an ability to write well. I'd written essays, I'd done a lot of message board postings, etc. and blogging was the logical next step.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?

Not really, though the final deciding factor was a post at Gut Rumbles that drew some commentary from across the pond, so if I do have a blogfather, it would be Rob Smith.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?

It's interfered with my professional life. I spend far too much time reading and blogging when I should be working. (Like right now.)

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?

Some of them.

5. Do you have a blog crush?

No. Envy, yes.

1. Why did you start a blog?
I'm a former journo/now educator and this was a way to keep my writing skills and current events knowledge up to date. Also, it is a thing of the future for journalists.

2. Do you have a blogmother/blogfather?
Not really, although I guess Sullivan or Instapundit if I had to name one.

3. Has it helped/hurt/had no effect on your professional life?
No effect YET. I remain semi-anonymous because some of the things I say on my blog wouldn't fit with the work environment I work in.

4. Do your 'real world' friends know that you blog?
A few. Not many. My father knows, which is weird, because no one else in my family knows.

5. Do you have a blog crush? And ladies, you know who you are, please don't everyone call Ken Wheaton at once.
Probably Michele of ASV. I wish I could write like she does, and she has a neat New Yawk accent.

1. I've always had this fantasy that other people are interested in what I think.

2. Not really. I suppose the closest would be Kevin Aylward at Wizbang!, because although I had had a blog for a couple of years, I posted very rarely until I stumbled across his blog, which started the chain reaction that caused me to post more frequently on my own blog.

3. I'm very meticulous about my posts, getting the links right, even including the "title" attribute in my links (where feasible) to get the popup of the title of the linked article or post. Plus, I have to keep up on what the rest of you are saying all day, right? So in the end, blogging has had a negative impact on my productivity at work. Added to that, I no longer participate in the many online forums that used to occupy my online time. Which is a damn shame, but there are only so many hours in a day. And a grunch of them are spent at work.

4. I tell 'em, but I don't think very many of them care. But that's okay. I'm sufficiently geeky-weird that the cyberfriends I've gained through blogging has more than compensated for the cybersnubbing from my "real world" friends.

5. Well, don't tell her, 'kay? But I positively adore Kate McMillan. She's got her head screwed on straight, and she's sufficiently weird to make life interesting. Plus, she's a very attractive woman. If we can believe the pictures she's posted.

1. Because my husband gets really bored when I won't shut up about politics, religion, or current events, my kids are too little to have a good argument (they always degenerate to "I know you are, but what am I" ;)...), and my father lives in the States so my phone can't handle the heat (and bill...) from calling Texas constantly.

2. Dean, and Smash if there are any, though it's arguable I was a loudmouth before I found their sites.

3. Not a bit, as my kids don't give a bloody damn, and my husband thinks anything that prevents me from discussing these things with him is good.

4. I sent the link to my family and friends, most have visited at least once (though I'm not sure most have come back again), does that count?

5. Well, I'd have to say Dean and Smash again. (Let's not even discuss that little can of Freudian worms...) I like Dean because he's funny and smart, two great traits. Smash, well, I'm a sucker for a man in MOP gear. ;)

1. as an outlet for my "commentary", and because I like cartoons and hate doonsbury!

2. no, i didn't read any blogs until I started writing my cartoons.

3. Helped, my girl says I bug her less with my screed's on polotics

4. Only the one's who are into polotics

5. nope

1. People in the real world ask me questions all the time, and I wanted to have a centralized location to capture my thoughts and make them available.

2. James Lileks. He's the blogger I enjoy the most.

3. No effect so far.

4. Yes, without my real world friends, I'd have no traffic.

5. Not Really, although there is a girl blogger (can't find it) with an illustration of a leggy redhead with a pistol on her thigh. That's kinda hot. My wife won't keep a pistol in a garter. She says it chafes (the garter, not the pistol).

Tim McNabb
fivehundredwords.com

Karol:

Where are your answers?