What is the protocol for blogging about other blogs? I've just recently started reading BoingBoing, which really is the new Memepool. If you're not reading it, then you're missing out on a whole lot of porn jokes.

But the point of this is not BoingBoing, except to say that BoingBoing had an article about Rance's Blog, which I have started reading. The deal with Rance's blog is that he won't say who he is, but he claims to be someone famous in Hollywood, and he can't reveal his identity because then he couldn't tell you any of the juicy stuff about Hollywood that he's telling you without getting into a lot of trouble.

But of course, he can't tell you juicy stuff about Hollywood anyway, because almost anything he says will give away who he is, and so he just makes up supposedly equivalent but false details for all of his entries. The result is relatively witty, but irritatingly unsatisfying because of all of the identity-protecting vagueness and detail eliding. So far it seems to be an inventory of what it's like to be rich and famous.

I guess my annoyance highlights what I like most about blogs: they at least try to be real while still maintaining some self-respect, so that puts them half way between reality TV and sit-coms in my book. So what does Rance offer? A contrived fiction originating in Hollywood... Hmmm, where else can I obtain such a rare thing?