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Sunday, August 26, 2007
The great awakening of my blog About a year ago, I came up with a cool new idea. I noticed that every blogger worth his/her salt posts once a week, twice a week, maybe even every day. So I wondered, how to separate myself from the pack? How can I cut through the clutter? My brilliant strategy was this: Write a blog post ONCE A YEAR. That way, I'll be unique. I can claim the title of the least frequent blogger in America. Mine will be a delightfully leisurely alternative in this fast-paced cyberworld. It would increase my allure and mystery. And another added bonus: If you leave up a single blog post for 12 months, you really begin to accumulate comments. I mean, look at that. Twenty one comments. That makes me look really popular (as long as you don't scrutinize the date of the post). Twenty one! I'm like the Huffington Post here. Okay, maybe my slow blogging wasn't quite that premeditated. Maybe it's just that my life overwhelmed me. I've now decided the once-a-year-thing wasn't the best idea. Especially since, well, I have a book coming out in two months and I want to remind people to check it out of the library or buy it. Preferably buy it. Or check it out then buy it. So for the foreseeable future, I'll be blogging at least once a week, probably twice. So what have I done during the last year when I was studiously not-blogging? --I wrote an Esquire article about playing Cyrano to my babysitter. It's called My Life as a Hot Woman. --I wrote another article called I Think You're Fat about a movement known as Radical Honesty, where you’re supposed to say whatever is on your mind. It's as terrifying as it sounds. --I appeared on Oprah with my crazy Biblical beard (which at the time wasn't too Moses-like yet). --I started to use more exclamation points and even the occasional emoticon. --I was fruitful and multiplied. --I wondered, along with millions of others, whether there was something wrong with my TV because The Sopranos suddenly went black in the middle of the final episode. --I finished my book The Year of Living Biblically. I know that pride is a sin, so I won't say that I'm proud of the book. But I will say, the year I spent living biblically was an amazing one. Life-changing, even. And I hope I was able to convey the wonder, the surprises and, well, the strangeness, of my journey in my book. --I decided to try networking socially by joining myspace and facebook. Though I resisted joining something called doostang. A man has to have his standards. Also, I'm going to start a Bible Question of the Week feature on the blog. So if you have a question about the Bible, please email it to me. It can be anything even vaguely related to the Bible. It doesn't have to be a profound theological question. It could be something like: "Why does the number 40 pop up in the Bible all the time? (40 days of rain, 40 years of wandering, etc.)" I'll do my best to answer. And if I can't, I'll outsource it to one of the Bible experts I met during my year. So feel free to email them to me at aj@ajjacobs.com Thank thou AJ
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7 Comments:
Great to have you back, A.J. I enjoyed The Know-It-All immensely, and I look forward to your next book. Now you must walk the tenuous tightrope of revealing enough salient details about the book to make sure that I, and the thousands of potential readers that I must statistically represent, place a pre-order, without going so far as to divulge so much of the plot as to deprive the book—and The Book—of its suspense.
I don't know how the Bible ends, and frankly, I don't want to know until I've read every volume of it (or, at least, the Cliff's Notes). Does Noah's Ark make it through the flood? Does Goliath ever get back at David? And what about Voldemort? Please, please be careful about such spoilers! But do tell us all about your book.
Great job A.J. on the Dr. Brad Blanton article!!! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Alan Roger Currie
Author, "Mode One: Let The Women Know What You're REALLY Thinking"
I am very excited to have you back. My husband and I have been checking weekly to find out the status of your Bible book. He would be a great reference for you if YOU have questions about the Bible. He may even be smarter than you... although you are his idol since you read the entire encyclopedia in one year (and yes, I know, having an idol is a sin... I meant it figuratively).
Thank you for blogging again and for finishing your book. We can't wait to read it!
kf
I can't wait for this new book. It would be my birthday present to myself.
I first read The Know-It-All in high school and I convinced the whole It's Academic team to read it. Living in this area, I'm sure you know of the show. MY teammates loved it.
Anywho. You are an inspiration and genius. I look forward to your new book.
Love your new book. I left Commnets on BN.com about it.
Thanks all for the comments!
I won't tell you how the Bible book ends, Trevor. Just as I won't reveal the meaning of Zywiec to those who haven't read The Know-It-All. I wouldn't want to spoil that surprise.
And thanks for the kind words about the new book.
I thoroughly enjoyed the brad blanton article -- i laughed my ass off, and thought it was also quite appropriate -- i appreciate that you wrote it in fact.
Jesse
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