Like I would know. I can’t even get this one to stop having technical difficulties and refusing to delete duplicate posts. (Tech guy! Help! Where are you?)

But the website 43 Folders, created by San Francisco writer Merlin Mann, has a nice list of six nine things that help make a good blog. Or a blog good, whichever you prefer.

Among his criteria: Good blogs have a voice, they have obsessions, they have…paragraphs.

Blog posts are written, not defecated.

I couldn’t agree more! And, as a matter of general principle, I try not to defecate my blog posts.

Here’s number six:

Good blogs are weird. Blogs make fart noises and occasionally vex readers with the degree to which the blogger’s obsession will inevitably diverge from the reader’s. If this isn’t happening every few weeks, the blogger is either bored, half-assing, or taking new medication.

This blog does not make fart noises. Technically, we’re just not there yet.

However, I do have obsessions.

Perhaps it is time to talk about the finale of Battlestar Galactica, the fact that I just bought Depeche Mode tickets for August, or today’s Fuck You Penguin.

Did you know that the UN is hosting a panel discussion about Battlestar Galactica? No, it’s true. Not that any of my friends who work for the UN (you know who you are) invited me….