Doesn't it just burn you.

And it does, really, when other people are better at insights and expressing them and being trendy than you yourself are?

I'm talking about you, you fool. Not me. I'm far trendier than you could possibly imagine.

(It's always about me, really.)

Anyway, I commented on someone else's blog today, and I'm filled with shame because their blog is:

• Far more attractive than mine, despite the IDENTICAL TEMPLATE
• Much wittier. Hands down. When he rants about social injustice, he does it with style.
• Gets a helluva lot more "traffic," which I didn't realize I was supposed to care about until I read this other blog and discovered that yes, in fact I care deeply.
• Based in NYC. Mine's struggling between fifteen different locations and about to be dragged temporarily back to Paris...of course I had to throw that in. I'm struggling here, people. The benefit of being grounded somewhere (NYC, no less) is the span it gives you for really developing a cast of characters and establishing the legitimacy of "no really, I have a life outside of this blog/MySpace/my email account/aim/porn." No Locus, No Legitimacy.

I could probably think of more. On the flip side, however, there are certain similarities. He appears to share the love for the ellipse (ellipses?). I like the parallel that his profile picture and mine both feature alcoholic beverages and a public setting. Mine you can't really tell, but I assure you, I am holding a vodka and soda that's been cropped out of the pic, some guy's shoulder is behind me, and I am absolutely at a bar. I swear it. I am, however, too tired to list all the things that make TAN so much the better blogger (I don't think I even count as a blogger, though).

Yeah, cause, see, if I were a real blogger, I'd probably know for certain whether I'm allowed to link to his blog. I don't really know. I'm probably violating fifteen unspoken yet universally followed blogging codes RIGHT NOW. Too bad I'll be in bed when the Blog Police arrive.

Really, if anyone else feels like developing an addiction to the internet, check the links out. I am seriously giving up the 'Net for Lent.

But not until Lent.