The Daily Huff II, Freed from both immediate motive and the insecurities of status that led many first-time bloggers to adopt a tone at once combative, hyperbolic, and self-consciously folksy ("just bloggin'"), Crain simply sets out, in stately middle-style prose, to explore and record those efflorescences of cultural life that catch his eye, a life that rapidly comes to include the act of blogging.

Freed from both immediate motive and the insecurities of status that led many first-time bloggers to adopt a tone at once combative, hyperbolic, and self-consciously folksy ("just bloggin'"), Crain simply sets out, in stately middle-style prose, to explore and record those efflorescences of cultural life that catch his eye, a life that rapidly comes to include the act of blogging. »

misterhippity:

youngmanhattanite:

Do you remember your pre-combative/hyperbolic/self-consciously folksy days? I don’t.

Is the phrase “efflorescences of cultural life” an example of “stately middle-style prose”? If so, God save me from the stately middle!

If I ever start to write that way, please, somebody, just find me and shoot me before I can type another word.

I think it’s worth noting that Caleb Crain, the blogger being referenced in the n+1 piece, doesn’t seem like the type of writer who self-consciously tosses out $10 words like “efflorescences.”