Every Time I Come Around Your City Blinq Blinq

Stunning news from blogworld! Daniel Rubin’s seminal Inquirer blog, Blinq, is being shuttered.

Rubin has been promoted to metro columnist. No longer will he summarize what people on the Internet think of a Snickers commercial or Barbaro. No, Daniel Rubin is going to fight! for! us! as a columnist in the metro section.

Lots of people are saying RIP, Blinq — or some sort of “Blinq or you’ll miss it” pun — and wondering why the Inquirer decided to close the blog instead of just have Rubin post occasionally or hire a new writer. A Summary: Community! STUPID STUPID STUPID! The shuttering of the URL, of the community that rose around Dan’s engagement at Blinq, is self-inflicted wound. Conversation! Interweb Four Point Oh! and so forth. I suppose I agree, but I can’t get riled up enough about it to post in all caps.

But anyway. Most importantly, I’ve learned that Philadelphia Will Do “just lost its only local competitor btw.” By the way indeed! Hot diggity. With Blinq gone and Philebrity’s server being down, there will be nobody to stop my reign of terror! Take that, Will Bunch! Take a kick in the knees, Jason Weitzel!

Now somebody go get me 20-odd Dyson vacuum cleaners. (I roll top-of-the-line here, none of that Oreck shit like Fumo.)

Forward, Into The Past [Blinq]
The Inquirer Closes Dan Rubin’s Blinq [Philly Future]