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Would anybody in their right mind, put all t by author's photo
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Would anybody in their right mind, put all their stuff in storage, give notice to the landlord in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles thereby becoming homeless, and then go running off to Australia in search of material for their blog?
Obviously using a left-handed shirttail grab to save a fellow's life in Sydney will make for a great page or two for the memoirs, but would people want to read a column online detailing how such a maneuver stopped a fellow who was in the falling down stage of inebriation from attempting to stand on a precipice that was four floor above the street and urinate into the void? When he decided to redirect his efforts to a nearby potted plant and fell face first into the bush, didn't that constitute saving his life? Some of the more immature travelers thought it might have been hilarious to let him try his face-plant efforts from on top of the fence that would have provided a more majestic visual than the crass spectacle of the "watering" of the shrubbery did
A large number of books and several magazines find eager audiences willing to spend money to read about far away places with strange sounding names so why is it that the Internets hasn't spawned a digital Kerouac? Can crossposting columns on Digihitch lead to a book deal? Would "No good blog goes unread" be the corollary for "No good deed goes unpunished!"?
What if a fellow traveled extensively and then boldly asserted that the Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco area was more photogenic than the Sydney Bridge? That might stir up one or two posts in the comments section challenging the contention, but (hypothetically) do any potential readers in Concordia Kansas really care about determining which of the two is a better photo op? Wouldn't they be more interested in getting the final score of the Friday night high school football game?
Would it be worth all the time the time, effort, and expense required to get photos of the two contenders, just to push a troll in the King's Cross Section of one of the bridges' home towns into going to all the trouble of posting an "au contraire" message in the comments section?
Isn't that like the moment in "Rebel without a cause" when James Stark (James Dean) asks the other guy: "Why do we do this Buzz?" The answer was "We gotta do something."
Since that first step of walking out of the apartment building in Los Angeles happened on October 1 of 2008, we've been thinking about the way things have changed since then.
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