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Jim Schembri: blogger

Wednesday 25 July 2007, 3:21 pm

Remember Jim Schembri — The Age’s film critic and senior writer (of turgid snobbery) — writing his unique brand of cutting satire on the topic of blogging last year?

Hi there! And welcome one and all to my brand-new blog! Isn’t it great? How do you like it so far? Is this cool, or what? You bet!!!

Well, you’ll never guess, but Schembri has started blogging for Fairfax’s network of try-hard blogs.

But let’s have another look at his 2006 piece of blog-bashing.

The first thing I should do is come up with a really coolsounding name for my blog. Can you think of any? I was thinking of Blogsworld or Blogospace or Blogsmire, something with blog in it. Or Hunk O’Blog. Ha ha! I love that last one!!! If you’ve got any suggestions, post them to me. I’d love to hear them.

Um, how about Schembri or CineTopia? Oh, too late.

Blogging is where you basically just pour all your thoughts out on the internet and tell the world what’s on your mind, and you just write about it and anything you feel! Isn’t that cool?! And the great thing about blogging is that anyone can do it!! You don’t have to be a writer or anything. You don’t even have to know how to write. You just go ahead and comment on anything you like. You just do it! And you know what that is? It’s the democratisation of the internet!

Sounds like a good old-fashioned mainstream journalist having a demarcation tantrum over a non-journalist daring to, you know, write.

And the best thing of all, you don’t have anybody looking over your shoulder or interfering or making suggestions or reading over anything that you write. And you sure as hell don’t have to double-check anything before you send it out to the world.

I bet the manager of The Age Blogs won’t mind being told that.

Anyway, that’s all from me for now. I’ll be updating this blog regularly, so when I check in next time I expect to see a whole lot of comments! So blog me! About anything. I’d love to hear from you. From anybody. Please.

Compare that piss-taking to how Schembri signed off his first ever blog post for Fairfax?

Your valued thoughts are hereby sought.

(Read: Validate me by commenting, please!)

What a goose.

12 Comments

Tim Sterne (Wednesday 25 July 2007, 9:17 pm) #

Truly bizarre. Does he think nobody will point out the hypocrisy?
GrodsCorp » MIFF '07 (Thursday 26 July 2007, 10:19 am) #

[…] convert to blogging, Jim Schembri, on the other hand, is too lazy to blog about his MIFF experiences so he […]
Mikey (Thursday 26 July 2007, 8:52 pm) #

The great thing about the internet is its ability for people like us to find hypocritical or reverse statements then promptly link to them. Often to a hilarious you tube soundtrack.
Tony T. (Thursday 26 July 2007, 9:39 pm) #

Schembri: a blogging star on the way up. It can’t be long until he’s writing about his pet and ferociously cross-linking his mates.
Bruce (Friday 27 July 2007, 12:54 pm) #

Oh geez. I thought that the quotes were sarcastic paraphrases, I didn’t realise that they were verbatim. I’ve never read this guy’s stuff before.

“It’s like, cool guys! I’ve got a blog! Cool! Hey guys! Guys? C’mon it’s way cool! Guys? Please be my friend…. Guys… :-( *sulk* “*

Cripes…

* Sarcastic paraphrase
Andrew Landeryou (Saturday 28 July 2007, 4:00 am) #

Keep flaming The Age and I will consider putting you slightly higher than the Greens when it comes to casting my vote this year.

Kudos to you,

The Great Satan
Amy (Saturday 28 July 2007, 7:56 pm) #

The 3D glasses are clearly a shout-out to Lewis from the party scene of LCI.
GrodsCorp » One humble celebrity’s informed view on politics (Wednesday 7 November 2007, 8:05 am) #

[…] Age’s pretentious blog-hating blogger, Jim Schembri, has written a fawning piece about the Australian-born, Hollywood actress Radha […]
Krypto (Wednesday 7 November 2007, 11:15 am) #

sniff sniff, what’s that stench? it smells like…sniff sniff…landeryou, eeeeewwwww.
Wah (Tuesday 15 January 2008, 12:01 pm) #

I am often confused between what is a comment piece or a blog on a newspaper website.
The Age blogs are generally elitist clap trap by people who don’t realise that Melbourne actually goes beyond the tram tracks and that some people in Melbourne actually reckon there are more important things in life than where to get a good coffee in Northcote or the fucking Melbourne Fringe Festival.
The only decent blogger Fairfax had was Jack Marx, and look what happened to him.
John Surname (Tuesday 15 January 2008, 12:09 pm) #

Wah, I am so elitist I don’t even go as far out as Northcote.
The Editor (Tuesday 15 January 2008, 12:26 pm) #

The Age is so provincial and cliched that it hurts my head.