Recovered Post: 20 Blogging Metaphors - Rock Throwing and the Universal Monkey

Recovered Posts: So I switched blogging software and haven’t managed to get the old posts back. While I may have the time to figure it out one day, I figured I would take the opportunity to reprint some of my favorite old posts. I apologize for those who have been around since the beginning. Ignore if you like. 

Liz Strauss has put out a request on her Successful-Blog for blogging metaphors or metaphors that explain blogging. Since I am occasionally known to dabble in flowery language, I thought I would have a go at it, or, actually . . .  20 gos at it.

Some of these sound cynical and some sound overly romantic but there are many types of bloggers and blogs. There are also many types of me that appear and disappear according to mood. Sometimes blogging can be frustrating and lonely. Other times I am amazed by the concept and the ways in which it can allow us to connect. So, twenty different metaphors for twenty different moods.

Blogging is a hundred tiny lectures to a class that might just be there to pass notes or nap.

Blogging is writing 10 books at the same time.

Blogging is standing on a crowded street yelling out the ten best methods for crosswalk usage.

Blogging is throwing rocks at thousands of windows and trying to wake the sleeping beauty inside.

Blogging is a long car ride as a child where every few minutes you reach over and pinch your sister.

Blogging is a bar where a surprisingly large number of people are intelligent (and sober) enough to say something worth listening to.

Blogging is a polygamous marriage.

Blogging is potluck dinner only without the Rice Krispies treats.

Blogging is an infinite refrigerator with a never ending supply of magnets.

Blogging is a commercial that sells itself.

Blogging is a song where you only know half the words, and, hoping no one will notice, you make up the rest as the melody continues.

Blogging is picking lice off the universal monkey.

Blogging is open mike night at the worlds biggest coffee house.

Blogging is stepping into traffic.

Blogging is the manufacture of ghosts.

Blogging is memoir serialized.

Blogging is a box of chocolates. You do know what you’re going to get if you bother reading the explanatory literature Mr. Gump.

Blogging is a comprehensive stamp collection.

Blogging is bad joke told over and over until it is finally good.

Blogging is a junior high dance with enough slow songs to go around.

Anyone who wants to take one of these metaphors and spin it their own way is welcome to it. Thanks for the inspiration Liz.