Sweet Vishnu, make it stop!
If I have to see another blog by another set of newly-minted parents doing nothing but posting picture after picture of their baby eating, their baby cooing, their baby smiling, their baby frowning, their baby in clothes, their baby in a diaper, their baby in a bonnet, their baby reading the Belgic Confession, their baby in the forest, their baby in the living room, their baby in the bath, their baby near a stream, their baby in a jumper, their baby with a rattle, their baby with other babies, their baby with other babies and other babies’ parents, their baby with other babies and small animals, their baby waterskiing, their baby lighting Rome on fire, their baby farting, their baby crying, their baby lying down, their baby being held up, their baby being cradled, their baby being entertained by pictures of war-torn Kosovo, their baby having its diaper changed, their baby being outclassed by others’ genetic material, their baby burping, their baby gassily smiling, their baby sleeping, their baby holding on to a finger, their baby wrapped in a “bundle of joy blanket” or any of a seeming million other precious moments that simply must be kept on a the internet for all to see as if the web is a pageant for every infant without a deformed face, I’m going to jump off a cliff. A very high cliff.
My mother had 11 of them, bless her soul. Babies are special, sure. To you personally, sure. And I’m not entirely serious about this post, but certainly one or two of you fresh-out-of-the-box parents can think about something (anything!) interesting other than your poopy progeny?
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Not to be a bitch, but you could just not look at blogs.
November 27th, 2006 at 11:42 amI am restrained in my posting of baby pictures. That being said, once you have children, you will understand.
November 27th, 2006 at 11:59 amThey get to post nonstop pictures of children; I get to complain about it. That’s how the internet works. Someone does something. Someone else complains. Yet someone tells someone else to stop complaining. Someone else defends his right to complain by explaining how yet someone else’s comments are just as much complaining as someone’s else’s original complaint. Someone, in the meantime, goes merrily on his way still doing the something that someone else and yet someone else started talking about, engendering yet further discussion.
THAT is how the internet works.
d
November 27th, 2006 at 12:09 pmWill I, though? Once upon a time I hung around people who could only talk about their significant others, and they told me, “Once you get a girlfriend, you’ll understand.”
Five girlfriends later, I still rarely talk about them except to them and in words so crouched in metaphor it’s hard to tell.
So it’s doubtful I will understand that manic desire to plaster the internet with baby paraphernalia.
d
November 27th, 2006 at 12:11 pmYou just love to rant about somet ;)
November 27th, 2006 at 12:25 pmI’ll grant that some folks are just more restrained on certain blogging topics. I will note, though, that you do post pictures of your sisters on a fairly regular basis.
I have come to appreciate those folks who set up separate blogs (usually using a free site that shall remain nameless) for special topics; that way if both Grandmas want to read about the kids, they can read the Kiddo blog; if the rest of us don’t want to, we don’t have to.
November 27th, 2006 at 1:00 pmYou know it.
d
November 27th, 2006 at 1:01 pmI’m guessing there’s truth to this comment as well. :-)
November 27th, 2006 at 1:01 pmWait… which comment?
d
November 27th, 2006 at 1:40 pmRANDOM COMMENT
YOUR MOM !
November 27th, 2006 at 1:59 pmNote: I am an idiot who cannot discern how comments are nested :)
November 27th, 2006 at 2:04 pmWatch what you say on the internet, Gus; if someone hears you making a “your mom” joke, they’ll probably think you’re a godless heathen.
d
November 27th, 2006 at 2:05 pmAt least you said it before I did. :-)
November 27th, 2006 at 2:14 pmI’m dumber than a sack of Republicans, man!
d
November 27th, 2006 at 2:38 pmsome of us thought that before he made that stupid ‘your mom’ comment… :P
November 27th, 2006 at 3:39 pmthis rant is directed at PARENTS and not AUNTS right?
November 27th, 2006 at 3:39 pmOh no, you haven’t started this with your nieces and nephews, have you?
d
November 27th, 2006 at 3:47 pmI’d say OH SNAP, but then they’d think me a godless, black heathen, which would probably make it worse for them.
d
November 27th, 2006 at 3:48 pmas someone who claims to read my blog.. you should know :) also see here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparklingjewel)for more.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:54 pmand its niece. just one, for now.
If people don’t realize that I was damned to hell by now.. then nothing can save their perceptions of me.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:10 amOh you just had to bring up my sisters :)
But can you imagine if I had a SisterBlog? That’d be rather… freaky.
d
November 28th, 2006 at 8:46 amOy vey. And there’re more on the way, right?
d
November 28th, 2006 at 8:46 amNone that I know of, but its not impossible either…
November 28th, 2006 at 8:58 ambetter never be checking out my blog there danny my friend :)
December 1st, 2006 at 10:24 pmTo be honest, I’ve forgotten where you blog is.
d
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:19 pmwhat a relief. here i was worried that i had been the cause of that little tirade. obiously though, i still check up on you. cheers!
December 5th, 2006 at 10:09 pm