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2blowhards com in which a group of graying eternal amateurs discuss their passions interests and obsessions among them movies art politics evolutionary biology taxes writing computers these kids these days and lousy educations e mail donald demographer recovering sociologist and arts buff e mail fenster college administrator and arts buff e mail francis architectural historian and arts buff e mail friedrich entrepreneur and arts buff e mail michael media flunky and arts buff we assume it s ok to quote emailers by name try advanced search an announcement what salinger read a disappearing book genre recession snows tahoe under forever young opening soon psychic bye bye la mighty kingdom far far away the harder they fall maazel tov mark israel on the harder they fall dearieme on what salinger read dearieme on what salinger read rick darby on forever young spike gomes on what salinger read jv on forever young ted craig on a disappearing book genre rick darby on forever young r p y on forever young rich rostrom on forever young links our last 50 referrers monday july 26 2010 an announcement michael blowhard writes dear friends you imagine it can t happen to you and then it does here s why 2blowhards disappeared our webhost who d given us impeccable service for eight years made a wee goof he put the backup disk on the same machine as the disk this blog and various other websites were on it was only to be for a few weeks while he prepared to move the backup to a super secure offsite location what were the chances of anything untoward happening during those mere few weeks then the motherboard fried and it partially overwrote all of the disks on the machine originals and backups alike poof went the blog as well as its backup the damage was so severe that it looked like there d be no recovering any of our work whatsoever we had a few anxious days believe me about that a lot of heroic work from specialists though finally turned up most of our content enabling us to put 2blowhards back online even if minus several months worth of recent postings our webhost swears on a stack of o reilly computer books that he ll never do anything so foolish as to put a backup disk on the same machine as the original ever again but our unexpected hiatus gave donald friedrich and me a chance to evaluate where we stand vis a vis blogging for a few weeks we wanted nothing more than for everything to return to normal then as more time passed our feelings started to change we compared notes we ve been running 2blowhards for a long time how much did we really want to continue what we finally decided is that 2blowhards has reached the end of its natural lifetime and that because of this we re retiring the blog we ll be keeping 2blowhards online for a while maybe even several years as an archive of our work but we won t be putting up any more new postings i ll leave comments open for a few weeks but i ll be closing them down soon after to keep the blog from turning into a spam magnet friedrich and i first started posting here back in 2002 2blowhards was one of the very first of the cultureblogs donald has been blogging with us since 2005 several other writers have contributed as well our shared conviction was that the public conversation about culture was way too restricted and was in dire need of being bashed around the choke hold that the official class the pros the profs the critics the editors the journalists often the artists themselves had on how the arts were talked about and thought about drove us crazy the opinion making class would have you believe that there s only one or at most only a few ways to be a respectable informed and legit culturefan baloney to that we felt as we knew from experience there are innumerable ways to enjoy an interest in the arts as well as uncountable worthwhile ways to take part in the general culture conversation as bloggers we wanted to emphasize that point and we also wanted to give examples of what a more open and freewheeling approach to thinking and yakking about the arts might be like urge wise those are the two impulses that that have driven this blog point 1 it seems to us has been sufficiently made if in 2001 the official culture class still had a choke hold on how the arts were discussed and thought about in 2010 many of the old purveyors of respectable opinion are on the defensive if not actually crumbling the freewheeling new era that we looked forward to and that we did our modest best to champion and herald is here as for point 2 well in my more grandiose moments i like to think that we blowhards did a bit of pioneering work so far as developing an amusing helpful and web appropriate way of discussing the arts goes the trad approach to artsyak is to metaphorically speaking stand on a stage face an audience wag a finger argue debate and rail we set out to do something very different to create postings that wouldn t be traditional essays but that would be open ended conversation starters instead we wanted to offer an alternative to the prof lectures his students model of artsyak we wanted to throw a party instead so far as the minor art of criticism goes that s a pretty radical program by the way it took us a year or so to find our footing but once we did we were off and running and to be honest we were often having to work pretty damned hard to keep up with our brainy informed and enthusiastic visitors so that s our announcement 2blowhards is now officially frozen in amber donald will continue doing his most excellent posting at art contrarian his own blog bookmark it please and visit regularly and often friedrich is treating himself to a vacation from writing as for me i m in a self indulgent whimsical and scattered mood check out my lazily updated personal website friend me on facebook where i share scads of links or ask me a question and read my maunderings at formspring formspring s great btw or at least it s what all the cool seventh graders are doing heartfelt thanks from all of us to everyone who has dropped by this blog and especially to regular visitors and commenters many of you have come to feel like good friends you ve given us far more in the way of pleasure instruction and fun than you ll ever know all the best ray sawhill aka michael blowhard posted by michael at july 26 2010 perma link 0