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June 11, 2005
The QBlog Curse
By QBlog in Miscellaneous
Beware the QBlog Curse!
Or maybe I should say Beware the QBlog Jinx! Beware!
Scary stuff ain't it? Have you ever been hesitant to publicize your sporting predictions for fear that you'd somehow jinx your favorite team and cause them to lose? I know I have. Or how about that whole "knock on wood" thing? You've done that right? You say something definitive like, "I've never been in a car wreck, knock on wood." That's the fear of the jinx. Knocking on wood is some sort of superstitious jinx antidote.
So, where was I going with all this? Oh yeah, Quixtatic. There once was a wonderful blog run by a Quixtar employee named Kathleen. The blog was young, still finding its place in the world but had tremendous potential. After holding my breath for a few months I decided the blog wasn't just some blessed accident and lauded its departure from the fare other Quixtar sanctioned blogs produced. My post, titled "Thumbs Up Quixtatic" pointed out why the blog was worth reading and for a brief moment I felt a glimmer of hope for Quixtar's blogging future.
Alas, last month David Robison reported that Kathleen, the Quixtatic blogger, had shuttered her blog for good.
I contacted Kathleen, author of Quixtatic and expressed my dissapointment over the demise of her Quixtar-related blog. I told her that as an IBO, I had grown to rely on her insight and thoughtful posts as they relate to MY OWN Independent Quixtar Business.
She expressed some remorse over closing Quixtatic, but has decided to pursue blogging on a more personal scale. For those readers that enjoy her style of writing, even if it doesn't relate to Quixtar, you can still enjoy Kathleen's thoughts at "Things I Have Seen."
And the curse... or jinx. Well, I posted my Quixtatic kudos at the beginning of April and about a month later the blog was gone. And when I say gone, I mean gone. Deleted. Vanished. Coincidence? I sure hope so but the circumstances sure do have the old gears in my head spinning — all three of them.
Why did the entire Quixtatic blog get deleted? Why not leave the content up but just end the updates and even disable comments? Or why not move the posts to draft state, instead of deleting the whole blog? This whole thing has me suspicious but of what, I'm not sure. It just reminds of the Memory Hole from 1984 and I really don't like Memory Holes. Doughnut Holes I like. Memory Holes I don't like so much.
So, good-bye Quixtatic blog. Wish there were more like it. And if my "thumbs up" post jinxed anything, I'm truly sorry. Now, this year the Cubs will win the World Series for sure!
Comments
And WTF, this word 'Laud' is now been used by us like every time!
Damn you google bombers. You revived that word.
I laud the word "laud"....I use it a lot...also the word, "denigrate" has slipped into my vocabulary lately.
I always like new words.
They say when you hear a new word, you'll hear it again in the next 24 hours. It's not that it suddenly becomes popular, it's the fact your "hearing" becomes aware of it, when it used to ignore it.
Kathleen Vandervelde (aka "The Tasmanian Devil") vs The Dark Side
http://tinyurl.com/a6acu
Never underestimate the power of dark side
Re: The Cubs.....Fron your mouth to 's ear. GO CUBS,
Sorry....here's what I meant to post:
Qblog, for your mouth (keypad?) to God's ear. GO CUBS!
"Now, this year the Cubs will win the World Series for sure!"
Hey, if the Cubs win, more power to them. But it looks like the other team from Chicago is poised to break their own curse this year. (White Sox 42 20 .677)
Never write about my blog :o You lauded Qrush as well.
http://tinyurl.com/b8srq
Posted by: Imran Aziz | June 11, 2005 4:52 AM