2003-11-23 - 9:23 p.m.
This sentence contains a bombastic claim full of comic exaggeration about something a) I received in my email; b) I stumbled upon at random on the web; c) I was told my someone I saw today. These sentences comment on the claim in such a way as to display self-mocking hyperbole. They underscore a handful of key elements of the claim and give the rest short shrift for rhetorical effect.This is a horizontal rule.
This is the beginning of a short story about something that happened today. It was something that I wasn’t expecting, or something inspired by a random thought I had during some idle moment, such as driving to work, or it was something so absurd that its comic potential requires little help from me and I just have to tell you about it. These sentences serve as a description of the event, heaped with sticky sarcasm and references I evaluate before typing, searching for the correct level of humourous obscurity. And this is where I punctuate the tale with something pithy and brief. Like so.
Yep, another horizontal rule.
This is a sentence that only gets funnier when you check out the footnote attached to it.* This is another witty remark, and it likely even contains a wry callback to something I’ve already mentioned above or elsewhere in a previous entry. These are sentences and brief examples that are only here to offer the chance for further uses of the word "Mary-Annely." Viz., Mary-Annely.
Yep.
This is a link to another website. These clauses contain either my childish mockery of the site’s contents, or my earnest praise -- perhaps even both. Way to go, site. Shame on you.
And finally, here is a feeble promise of regular postings in future. I promise (feebly) to post regularly in future. That? That was a feeble promise of regular future postings.
That’s the entry. This is the part where you gape in awe, thinking just how brilliant, erudite, clever, charming, and (oooohhh...) sexy I must be, being a blogger and all. And this is where you click 'Back,' read on, and make a mental note to mail me some money.
See how this thing works?
* See?
