Blog Writing

Sarah Boxer on blog writ­ing as id writ­ing:

…I think I get the super­hero fix­a­tion. It’s the fly­ing. It’s the sus­pen­sion of punc­tu­a­tion and good man­ners and even iden­tity. Blog­gers at their com­put­ers are Super­men in flight. They break the rules. They go into their vir­tual phone booths, put on their cos­tumes, bring down their per­sonal vil­lains, and save the world. Anony­mous or not, they inhabit that source of power and hope. Then they come back to their jobs, their dogs, and their lives, and it’s like, ‘Dude, the ball.’