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December 28, 2006
R.I.P., R.I.P.: If you want to do your part to bolster the claims of blog critics that bloggers waste lots of time and bandwidth making idle comments about subjects they're not well versed in, do the obligatory R.I.P. post the next time a celebrity dies.
As in "R.I.P., James Brown" or "R.I.P., Gerald Ford."
 It's amazing how quickly my RSS reader filled up with "R.I.P., James Brown" posts on Christmas morning. There was no escape from it: in addition to bloggers I usually respect throwing up the post, I got five MySpace bulletins and even a damn email with the hackneyed subject line.
If you had sex, did drugs or performed with James Brown, then your post was probably worth reading (although it got lost in all the dull R.I.P. posts and you would have been better off getting to the point by bluntly titling it "I got busy/got high/performed with the Godfather of Soul"). Still, you have every right to write a post wishing Brown peaceful eternal rest. If you're a suburban white kid who heard a couple of James Brown standards at a frat party, you're not breaking news. You're cliché.
(Apologies to any friends or enemies reading this who may have done an R.I.P. post in the past few days, but c'mon: no one is really interested in your half-baked thoughts on Brown's influence on modern pop music. Follow the old "write what you know" axiom and tell us something interesting).
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Posted at 5:43 AM
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