The End of Cool

At a certain point, the dissemination of a "cool" thing kills it — the edgy becomes the bland, the fringe becomes the establishment. Now, I'm not sure that blogging was ever really that cool, but I can now tell you for certain that it's not now:

A Wife’s Observations

There is too much misinformation floating around out there about my husband. When I read newspaper profiles about him, I hardly recognize the person I've been married to for the past 20 years. So here is the Gray Davis I know.

Like most guys, my husband loves sports. It is probably because he played every sport he could when he was growing up. He still plays golf and we try to play together whenever possible. He is actually pretty good, averaging about a 15 handicap - not bad for someone who only gets to play about 6 times a year (I should add he played golf for two years on the Stanford Golf Team and had a much lower handicap.). He watches a lot more ESPN than CNN, FOX or MSNBC.

Blogs work best when they are open, honest, and personal — they don't work at all when they sound like they were written by your press shop. I'm not sure what the Davis campaign is trying to do here, but I imagine someone at a senior staff meeting said, "Dean's got a blog, so maybe we should get one, too". Right idea, but definitely the wrong execution. Try again.