the blogging caste system

This was originally written by Whitney Pastorek for the Voice, and now it's been reprinted by my old employers—those dear, sweet optimists at the Utne Reader.

In order of fabulosity, the Blogging Caste System:

1. Bloggers who live in Williamsburg and work at Condé Nast/ are in a band

2. Bloggers who live in Williamsburg and know someone who works at Condé Nast/date someone in a band

3. Bloggers who live elsewhere in Brooklyn but can get to Williamsburg easily, ideally by bicycle

4. Bloggers in general (residents of other parts of the country are fine, so long as those parts are Chicago, L.A., Seattle, or Manhattan)

5. Non-bloggers who work at Condé Nast/are in a band

6. Non-bloggers who went to high school with someone who runs a top-tier blog

7. Non-bloggers who live in Queens and operate barely solvent literary magazines, the literary magazine being, as we all know, the blog of 2000, the old black, so over, etc.

If only I could date someone in a band, I could jump up a rung, dammit. Of course, then I'd be stuck dating someone in a band.

The whole article is pretty hilarious, so let's just go ahead and link it: Blogging Off by Whitney Pastorek