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Top. Five. Bloggers. Ever.
[jackdied]
Apr 27 2005, 02:35 EDT [updated Apr 27 2005, 13:22 EDT]
A new what-if Top Five list was started over at SRWU. The question is - who would you pick of any five people dead or alive to write a blog. My top 5 are:
  1. Mark Twain. The mind reels.
  2. Ambrose Bierce. Ditto.
  3. George Orwell
  4. Rod Serling
  5. Benjamin Franklin. The man who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac could manage a few blog posts.
SRWU stands for "Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane" and is a touch lefty (the author also runs the "Babs Boxer for President" blog). But hey, a good idea is a good idea no matter the source. There have only been a half dozen other people posting lists so far, and I'm the only rightly. I do have two observations. One, Arse Poetica included Lewis Carrol. Damn, I should have thought of that. Two, all the not me people (lefties) posted people that are either alive or still warm in the ground. Different strokes and all, not every dead guy would be an entertaining blogger (Augustine? Not so much). It might also be the particular circle of friends that read SWRU - maybe they are younger or just talk about different things. On the other hand - WTF? A couple thousand years of written history (and a couple hundred with people that have tastes familiar enough to be bloggers) and you can only come up with people younger than your parents? [see update, Dylan explains it]
Edit: I also approve of the Will Rogers pick, but it wouldn't have displaced any of my five.
Aside: The only concurrence of my list that I know of: Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was made into a Twilight Zone episode.

Boys, got any toppers?
[teddied] If I could see anyone blog though, I think I would go for someone more controversal and therefore something everyone would look at and flame. Atila the Hun? Robert E Lee (thrown in because of VA residency). Marx ? (naw too many people would still agree with him) or...

Utopia...Auldous Huxley and Sir Thomas Moore do battle. Both very good at ranting and poking at society.

or this is better!!!!!

The Babs McKinley Blog! 101 years of opinions to spout! women's lib with a grandma flare! [aka Aunt Babs. Still alive and well at 102? I think she was born in odd-three -jackdied]

Update: Dylan of SWRU explains it, "When I first started thinking about it, I was considering people that I would like to see Arianna Huffington invite to blog... Those people would all be contemporary... I kinda threw in the "Living or Dead" clause on a whim... The people that have been responding are kinda giving it a life of it's own." [ellipses in original]

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